As one of the entertainment activities of human beings since ancient times, the content covered by the concept has been developing with the development of the times. Video games are also one of them. Since the release of the video game "Space Wars!" in 1962, video games have developed from simple to complex. From genre to gameplay, video games have been greatly enriched. Along with it is the upgrade of the game carrier and the influx of capital.
When we are thinking about how GameFi will develop, we might as well substitute the development history of video games into the scenario of GameFi, and look for the future development path of GameFi together.
From less to more, from simple to complex
About the story of the rise of Axie Infinity in our previous article "Will the metaverse be the development direction of GameFi?" " has already been mentioned, and we will not repeat it below. However, it should be noted that although Axie Infinity has achieved success in the sense of the blockchain industry, the game content it presents to players is still very shallow-the gameplay is only breeding and fighting. But this is also one of the reasons for the success of Axie Infinity. The simple game mechanism lowers the threshold for making gold in the game.
As the DeFi and GameFi space continues to grow, more GameFi protocols are launched. In order to distinguish it from the pioneer Axie Infinity, these GameFi protocols have made different degrees of "innovation" in terms of the world view, gameplay and genre of the game. These "innovations" are often derived from the experience of the traditional game world.
Of course, this also raises a question: Will the gradual move towards complex GameFi deter some players?
If we take it for granted, the answer is yes. A gradually growing game system will make GameFi, which already has a certain threshold, more complicated. Some community members also believe that only a simple and feasible GameFi will have the possibility of long-term survival, and complex game systems can only make players lose interest.
But we might as well think about it from another angle. The fact that the gameplay and mechanics become complicated is also screening game players. In fact, we can see their tendency from the specific operations of some GameFi protocols. GameFi follows the model of the first pool and the second pool of DeFi liquidity mining, and uses gameplay and mechanisms to "entertain" it, but GameFi protocols such as Mobox and Copuppy have begun to gradually close the first pool. Its purpose is likely to eliminate the influence of speculators on the GameFi protocol itself.
Where there is information gap and profit, there will be speculators, and the GameFi protocol is no exception. Moreover, thanks to a certain wealth effect, speculators have become a force that cannot be ignored, affecting the direction of the agreement itself. The method of canceling a pool not only reduces the number of speculators, but also encourages players to play from the side.
Complex and deep game systems also have this effect to a large extent. And, if done well enough and with a good guide for beginners, GameFi games can still attract a lot of gamers. What is exciting is that these players can also obtain certain economic benefits while enjoying the fun of the game.
Therefore, we can assume that the complex and deep GameFi protocol will eventually become mainstream. Before this can become a reality, however, three prerequisites are required:
l High-performance GameFi carrier;
l Mature game industry technology;
l Rich player base.
How does the public chain contribute to GameFi?
Mature game industry technology and player groups are gradually realizing the charm of GameFi and flocking to it. Star Atlas on Solana is a good example. Its price in Raydium IDO is 0.00138 USDC, and the highest value of Token in history is 0.26 US dollars, an increase of 18800%, which shows the enthusiasm of the market for it.
Star Atlas is a space-themed massive AAA MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) game that combines a lot of game elements, including exploration, colonization, combat, and more. However, due to the huge content, the development and launch of the game itself still takes about a year.
This is also one of the factors restricting the development of GameFi - the birth of high-quality games requires a long cycle. The GameFi protocol, which has been launched rapidly now, is basically a concise version of traditional games. It has strong financial attributes but lacks gameplay, and has lost the original intention of blockchain games - allowing players to enjoy the game while also controlling themselves in the game. All assets in .
The second is the limitation of the game carrier. Blockchain games need to be built on the public chain, so they are extremely dependent on the performance of the public chain.
Just like the sixty years of development of electronic game equipment, from simple Atrai home game consoles to Nintendo FC game consoles, to today's PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch game consoles and computers, mobile phones and other devices with complex functions, video games The device has gradually evolved from a thin game carrier to a game carrier with rich types, rich functions and high performance.
The development pace of the public chain is faster. Due to the performance limitations of Ethereum, many large-scale games cannot be built on the public chain. Axie Infinity built an Ethereum sidechain to solve the performance problem. In order to achieve such goals, Rangers Protocol has built a random Proof of Stake (PoS) underlying public chain with verification and proposal nodes.
Therefore, after the explosion of public chains, more GameFi protocols were built on various public chains. However, it is worth mentioning that the current performance of public chains like BSC is still unable to support the operation of large-scale games. For example, the MMORPG mentioned earlier, we can imagine, can this public chain support the smooth operation of games like "World of Warcraft"?
Solana's high performance seems to be one of the important references for GameFi's future construction. However, Solana's 17-hour downtime caused by "network resource exhaustion" is still vivid in my mind. The phenomenon-level GameFi protocol will always bring unexpected pressure to the public chain network. A stable and high-performance public chain is the key to running large-scale blockchain games.
Fortunately, the launch of the large-scale GameFi protocol still takes years, so it leaves plenty of time for the development of the public chain, and the emerging blockchain also needs time to verify its technology itself. The development of the two is complementary. Solutions are pushed out only when pressure arises. After a solution is released, game developers often come up with new ideas.
Recently, a new idea that game developers have come up with is to "make the game a Metaverse game". People's curiosity about new things is always greater than their sense of awe, and a misunderstanding has arisen.
The metaverse is a concept that has been frantically mentioned recently, including Meta (formerly known as Facebook) and Microsoft, which have launched related metaverse products. Many GameFi protocols have also begun to work under the name of "metaverse", but the emergence of each metaverse will cause new problems-the lack of interoperability. The metaverses launched by GameFi will become new isolated islands, just like blockchains. Is this really what we want?
The Rangers Protocol mentioned above implements the compatibility of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) in order to solve the interoperability problem. Its purpose is to help more DApp developers migrate their projects and smart contracts to the Rangers Protocol . This is also the core of Rangers Protocol as the "metaverse blockchain infrastructure".
Problems arising from development can only be solved through development, and the development of the public chain will have a direct impact on GameFi and Metaverse.
How the future story of GameFi should be written depends on the development and evolution of the public chain and the integration of the Metaverse. The emergence and popularity of large-scale blockchain games will directly contribute to the prosperity of the GameFi market. Only then can the GameFi story continue to be told.
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