You might have noticed already years ago that a lot of the profits being made in Play to Earn gaming involved "gamer guilds" ?
For example when NFTs were in fashion, "guilds" owning collections of "powerful" (in game terms / abilities / yields) NFTs often did rather well, so much so in fact that often they seemed hard-pressed to find enough skilled, capable players to fully make use of their large numbers of such NFTs.
That of course created a market for "rent out your NFTs" platforms and also led some "guilds" to go so far as to loan out their NFTs to "scholars", which term seemed to mean players, or even wannabe-players, who had it seemed not even proven their capabilities by having already accumulated proven earnings.
If you look at how the major profitable "guilds", "clans", "societies" etc operate nowadays though you will see many of the most successful ones have for a long long time now been pretty much closed-membership; they long ago stopped accepting, let alone trying to recruit, new members.
A lot of that seems to ultimately derive from the actions of a type of "griefers" known as "dumpers".
Dumpers are basically "takers rather than makers"; they trash a currency or asset price by selling to its buy offers instead of simply placing their sell offfers at a price above the current highest buy offer and waiting for the price to rise.
Such players tend to join a group to, in essence, pillage its resources.
This might also partially explain the tendency to want to create the group a coin or token of its own, since other group's or game's tokens might quite likely already be plagued by its own population of "dumpers".
Thus a lot of effort nowadays on the part of gamer groups goes into aspects of games which can be seen as akin to the "moat building" seen in business enterprises in general... Basically trying to get into, or even build from scratch, aspects that random passers-by who might try to happen along are likely to have a lot of difficulty getting into.
Pretty much the same basic idea, of course, as monopolising the most-powerful NFTs in NFT games.
For example in the
Galactic Milieu the big project lately among the big clans, guilds, societies, Corps and such is to try to buy up all the Galactic Repo Corps that still have not managed to pay off their startup loans, or, alternatively, to come up with enough capital to pay off such a loan and buy the loan, usually by convincing the Repo Corp to become a customer of a new finance Corp created by raising capital with which to pay off higher-interest loans to acquire customers by offering lower interest rates. (That of course is a very slow process since the finance Corp currently holding the loan might well simply lower their own interest rate in response to such an attempt.)
-MarkM-
