Future of play to earn games

[LogitechMouse]

Play to Earn games has emerged all over the crypto space when it was at it's peak in terms of hype. Now you can't even see any new P2E games online, or if there are, they aren't becoming that popular.

The most popular P2E that I know is Axie Infinity, and until now, it's been running and still has a player-base of around 6-digits. The game is still sustainable, but the question is until when. It's a good thing that they are still developing new games under Sky Mavis even though their player-base went down significantly.

The problem that I'm seeing with P2E games is the sustainability of it. Let's face it. People are playing these P2E games not for enjoyment, but for the profit. After they got huge money, they will abandon the game and find another. How will the company sustain that thing and will just give money to their players just by playing their game?

Overall, still there are some P2E games running, and I can't say the future of P2E games TBH, but who knows. We might see a bunch of new P2E games when the bull run happens again.

[Ketesnuko]

That's going to be a big challenge, and it's not going to be easy, many gamers like IP games from SONY lab, that's why some gamers stayed with PlayStation, they call them First Party Titles, games like God of War can only be found PlayStation, so how will blockchain games challenge this? Play to earn games still have some problem, the early players are always the one making money, and the more people that get in, the lesser the reward gets, something still needs to be fixed with play to earn tokenomics.

[Xal0lex]

What do you think about play to earn blockchain games? Do you think that video game players will one day abandon Sony and Microsoft companies for play to earn games or Microsoft and Sony will one day be forced to allow play to earn games to run on their gaming devices?

The future is hazy and unpromising if players will again come to the project for earnings rather than for entertainment and the opportunity to be part of a community that will constantly evolve. Current Play-2-Earn players look like freelancers who came to the project during its hype, quickly did some routine work, collected some liquidity and ran away to another project. What kind of development can we talk about with this approach to gaming?

[Wexnident]

What do you think about play to earn blockchain games? Do you think that video game players will one day abandon Sony and Microsoft companies for play to earn games or Microsoft and Sony will one day be forced to allow play to earn games to run on their gaming devices?

I've always said it before, play to earn will only become relevant if they were able to somehow manage the economy properly, to the point where sudden situations like an influx of players wouldn't faze the market. And that they're able to handle bots, simple as that.

I don't think p2e will ever replace standard games really, story based games for one would always have an avid fanbase. eSports types of games as well would only grow, heck, tournaments inside the game itself are already a thing for most of them ( not competitive marches).

[Kalchef]

Then play to earn games developers have a lot of work to do, it's not going to be a easy thing to attract console players into play to earn games, right now it looks like many of them don't care about the earning side of things, the major reason why they prefer to play on console is because they are having great fun with console titles, if play to earn games can focus more on the fun side they will surely attract loads of gamers.

[inthelongrun]

I believe that the future of gaming is shifting toward the P2E system. Although we better expect that the rewards are not comparable to having a regular salary. In order for P2E economies to strive, there is a need to balance their rewards. Maybe decent amounts are awarded weekly or monthly to the top players to make it enticing for their players.

In the last few weeks, I was looking for potential P2E games to play. I wonder if there are players of Five Stars and Karuta here? I also heard that the popular Summoners War: Chronicles will turn into a P2E soon.

Earlier, I have an investment in the card game Synergy of Serra because it is on Steam. I also invested at League of Ancients but it seems like it was a failure as the team never delivered according to its Roadmap.

[abel1337]

We have saw the first wave of play to earn games that were abandoned. Most of the games that were launched during the trend where half assed games that are solely created just for the devs to get money from the community and has no actual value in the future, Though there are some outstanding games that loved by the masses such as Axie infinity. Also the players of the recent play to earn games where just there for the easy profit and not by the game itself. I believe that competitiveness can be the next focus of play to earn games if they earned another hype, The competitiveness makes them sustainable and makes players want to play the game itself and earning is just an added feature to it. Over all, Play to earn concept for me has a future and I see that players of traditional games can actually switch into play to earn games.

[OpenCEX]

If blockchain games can establish a following and demonstrate that they can retain clients, they have a bright future. People participate in P2E games mostly because they are free to play and provide opportunities to earn cryptocurrency. P2E games also need cool visuals, without which they can be uninteresting. 
Blockchain gaming is becoming increasingly popular, and it has the potential to become the next big thing in the gaming industry. This is due to the growing popularity of mobile gaming, as well as the acceptance of cryptocurrencies and the advent of blockchain technology.

[xCryptoManiaX]

I don't see that happening soon with the big companies. Steam doesn't like blockchain stuff, they see it as a gateway to money laudering and scams. They prefer to control their in-game items and the marketplace.
Sony and Microsoft - not so sure.
Epic is set to launch like 10+ blockchain games this year, we'll see how that goes but Epic alone cannot make a change, they don;t have that many users using their platform for games other than Fortnite.

[molsewid]

I don't see that happening soon with the big companies. Steam doesn't like blockchain stuff, they see it as a gateway to money laudering and scams. They prefer to control their in-game items and the marketplace.
Sony and Microsoft - not so sure.
Epic is set to launch like 10+ blockchain games this year, we'll see how that goes but Epic alone cannot make a change, they don;t have that many users using their platform for games other than Fortnite.

I agree, I remember last time I have a client in my freelance work they already have a game om steam but I asked why do people need to buy the royalties, tokens  in another website or platform they said that steam is not yet open for that. I just hope that steam can finally accept cryptocurrency so that they can cater more and more people and also they can  go with the flow of web3.

[Pelana vreo]

I am a fan of Sony and PS5 games, but I don't expect P2E games to enter the game industry because there is a lot of business competition there, console games are in demand by many people because they are easy to play and don't require an internet network, unlike P2E games, which requires an internet network for each game.

[pgbit]

What do you think about play to earn blockchain games? Do you think that video game players will one day abandon Sony and Microsoft companies for play to earn games or Microsoft and Sony will one day be forced to allow play to earn games to run on their gaming devices?

It's difficult to predict whether video game players will abandon traditional gaming companies like Sony and Microsoft for play-to-earn blockchain games. While these games offer financial rewards, they may not necessarily provide the same level of gaming experience and quality that players expect from established gaming companies.
As for whether Microsoft and Sony will be forced to allow play-to-earn games on their gaming devices, it's possible that they may choose to support these games if they see significant demand from players.

[Yamifoud]

We have saw the first wave of play to earn games that were abandoned. Most of the games that were launched during the trend where half assed games that are solely created just for the devs to get money from the community and has no actual value in the future, Though there are some outstanding games that loved by the masses such as Axie infinity. Also the players of the recent play to earn games where just there for the easy profit and not by the game itself. I believe that competitiveness can be the next focus of play to earn games if they earned another hype, The competitiveness makes them sustainable and makes players want to play the game itself and earning is just an added feature to it. Over all, Play to earn concept for me has a future and I see that players of traditional games can actually switch into play to earn games.

Many of those projects are no longer to see this time. Devs are just taking advantage of the hype and making these players enjoy the moment while investors are in regret their losses. I'm not sure if there is another hype with them but if that will happen, we can still expect players to come and join the hype again as the usual thing they do in the past.
It was beneficial to the player's side but for the investors, what happened in the past hopefully will give them a lesson to learn.
We have to be more careful dealing with this kind of project, they are not for long-term investment and if ever we bought them we have to sell them right away while the hyped isn't over yet.

[blockman]

I'd like to see these gaming companies start to make a virtual world where gaming is the actual economy of it and we're living there. We earn to play and we play to earn. That's the dream of many gamers even up to now. There have been esports and gaming professionals that have been making a living out of these games and that's why if huge companies start this concept and they invest largely in it where everyone can earn inside their games, it's the motivating factor that they'll give to everyone who's wanting to live like this. We've seen how hype the P2E games were but it's not just sustainable at all, they just need to make out of something that benefits both, them and as well as their users. It's like utopia world.

[GreenStox]

I don't think at this point the case will go that far, but if play to earn still exists and is popular, maybe other game developers will see this and emulate a system like this, I also had time to play axie when play to earn was trending.

[KiaKia]

Only Axie infinity looks successful to me, because people are really into this project and they play the game to earn some money, it was well adopted and till this day, upon all the hates this project still does better than many play to earn in crypto world today, Gods Unchained as another well adopted play to earn game.

[Mozzart]

What can be said for certain is that their time has passed.Now the metaverse is taking over the market because it is a more interesting product with much more features and tools.I personally like this trend and it's interesting to see more and more interesting projects appear every day.

[Bollexz1]

I think a day will come that the global gaming companies like Sony and Microsoft will adapt to the blockchain era. I strongly want to believe that these two companies must have been conducting their research on how to fit-in into the crypto system.

[b3j0]

It seems that interest in playing games for income or crypto is currently on the decline, now I see many new projects with game concepts that fail due to lack of interest from investors. I think there are several factors that cause this to happen, namely the rewards given are too small and the concept of the game is boring.

[nara1892]

To be honest, there really isn't anything wrong with the P2E concept because in any case, it was just as good at its time as it has been before. But that was only a moment and now even many have left this thing and it's the same because of the hype that exists.
We know how crazy this was before especially with the Metaverse out there but things like that fade easily and admittedly it's not that great now.