Crypto Raiders is launching on Polygon, and the creators are dubbing it ‘play-to-own’ rather than ‘play-to-earn’. Covered: Games Have the Most DeFi Users Big Players Investing Crypto Raiders Gameplay What’s Next? Games Have the Most DeFi Users Play-to-earn (P2E) games built on-chain are the best of all worlds. NFTs, crypto, and of course, fun. That […] The post Is This The Next Big Play-to-Earn Game? appeared first on CryptosRus.

Is This The Next Big Play-to-Earn Game?

Crypto Raiders is launching on Polygon, and the creators are dubbing it ‘play-to-own’ rather than ‘play-to-earn’.

Covered:

  • Games Have the Most DeFi Users
  • Big Players Investing
  • Crypto Raiders Gameplay
  • What’s Next?

Games Have the Most DeFi Users

Play-to-earn (P2E) games built on-chain are the best of all worlds. NFTs, crypto, and of course, fun. That is why the rise of Axie Infinity, DeFi Kingdoms, and Splinterlands have blown up in the last year. As an example of the type of dominance that games can provide, Splinterlands, built on the WAX chain, is the #1 DeFi dApp in all of crypto according to dApp radar.

Because of the way games can retain daily active users, foster communities, and go viral, it is no surprise that Splinterlands has a total of 377,000 active users, which is defined by “the number of unique wallet addresses interacting with a dApp’s smart contracts.” It surpasses Pancake Swap, the second-highest ranked dApp, by 77,000 users at press time.

Splinterlands Gameplay

Big Players Investing

Crypto Raiders (CMC: RAIDER) is a forthcoming game on the Polygon chain. It was announced today that the game has received a $6 million funding round from two major firms. The two firms are Delphi Digital and DeFiance Capital. Delphi works with some of the largest VCs in the entire industry, such as Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto, and Three Arrows Capital.

The NFT based game will be an RPG (role-playing game) and is working with the team behind Axie Infinity, which is Yield Guild Games. GuildFi is also behind the game. Per the announcement, “the funding will help the company aggressively scale the team.” Nicholas Kneuper, Crypto Raiders CEO told Coindesk that the funding will “let all of the NFTs in our ecosystem be earned or obtained by players without us having to charge for them.”

Crypto Raiders Gameplay

Crypto Raiders came to be when the founders realized that the RPG aspect of crypto and NFT gaming was lacking. The art and aesthetic of the game are meant to mirror classics like Runescape and World of Warcraft. ” Players go into dungeons, fight enemies, search for better loot and work to level up their character. Players can go to battle in player-versus-player (PVP).”

As is unique with NFT and crypto games, players will be able to buy, sell, and trade in-game assets. The company is branding the game as “play-to-own” to emphasize ownership over financial gains. Kneuper elaborated on this saying: “to us, [play-to-earn] really sounds like a job more than a game. We’re trying to build something that true gamers are going to love and enjoy.”

What’s Next?

Kneuper said that the team is porting over their game to Unity, the widely used game engine owned by Epic Games. “In the next two weeks, Crypto Raiders will add features to the game so that players can bring different abilities into battles.” Also, PVP duels are coming in the next update. However, the game has already launched, but updates are coming in terms of gameplay, the marketplace, and the “farming” side of the game.

You can see their full roadmap here. The first thing you need to do if you wish to play is to buy your own Crypto Raider on Opensea, connect your Metamask wallet to the Polygon Network, and then play! The floor price on the Raiders NFTs is only 0.033 ETH, which is only $112.60. The RAIDER token, trading at $6.16 “represents the Crypto Raiders overall economy. Owning it can earn holders a share of all revenue generated through in-game purchases and activities.”

Considering the backers of Crypto Raiders, and the power that the combination of crypto, NFTs, and gaming can create, it may be worth checking out Crypto Raiders.

 

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