Understanding the landscape

 Right now in the world of NFT gaming/P2E games there are a lot of companies that are just out there for the cash grab. Promising players the world and only delivering a broken framework. I talked about Animoca Brands and how a lot of their games seem to be cash grabs and as ways to make money to fuel the next big project and leaving the player base behind in a dead game.

In this post I wanted to highlight some of the bigger games that have a lot of promise. Since they are headed by people who have worked within the gaming industry for a while and have worked on some of the biggest games of the last two decades. 

I will list a few of them along with telling you when they are believed to be coming out or if they have already been released. 

I will start with one game that is based upon a game I have played for the past 15 years or so. 

God's Unchained is a card game similar to and even possibly based upon Magic the Gathering. The lead guy from God's Unchained was one of the leads working on Magic Arena. This game is already out and has a lot of promise. Right now you can't combine cards to make them NFT's but you can get packs from playing and buy packs of cards which you can sell on the market place. 

God's Unchained is built upon the Ethereum blockchain and the reason you can't forge/combine your cards into an NFT right now is due to gas fees. The developers are working with another company called Immutable X to make it easier for players to buy, sell, trade, and even forge cards.  

With a leader from Magic Arena. I can't see this game failing because this team has created a fun and skill based game that brings a lot of people from the Magic world into the new NFT gaming space.

Being on the topic of card games I feel I should throw out the game Splinterlands. I am not a huge fan of this game because the stratagy that is there in God's Unchained is completely missing in this game. You pick your Summoner and go off of the amount of mana avalible in each match. 

To be honest, I feel this game has very little stratagy due to the auto fight feature. The play has no control over what character fights who. It runs itself which has always been one thing in gaming that felt hollow to me. 

I know that people are making money off of this game but I can't bring myself to play it every day. Three is no moments of triumph or pulling a win out of nowhere. It is whoever had the best cards and as a new player it is near impossible to be good unless you rent cards from someone else or buy them. (Now this is all my opininon) I just don't like the game. I played it for over a week and it lost its novelty with me. 

I can't mention card games without mentioning the gigantic elephant in the room. Axie Infinity. I have not played Axie for multiple reasons. Reason one being the price tag. It is rediculas how expensive three Axies are. (Yes I know about Monsta Infinite) But I honestly don't even think I will check that out. Due to being burnt by Animoca Brands and Animoca has funded/ invested in both Axie Infinity and most of the games available right now coming out of Asia. 

Basically to me Animoca is just as EA and Activision combined. Considering that  Animoca seems to be just making games to make money and to fuel their other endevors. Leaving the player base high and dry. Yeah I know I am bias, but after chatting with admin on the CDH discord and being asked if I spent money and watched ads. (Which is them making money off of the player base) I was seen as a valid player who should of gotten their tower tokens. (Literally those questions came from a Developer of the game) 

I understand that this is a new medium better than most but I also understand that video games have been around for a long time now and have come a long way. Yet, here we are having game Developers shit on the gamers again and again over the years. This is just another stepping stone for Developers to understand that you can't just shit on your player base. Doing that will make them not want to play your games. 

I tell you all this so that you don't end up making the same mistakes my partner and I did. 

That is enough of me ranting about Animoca, now back to our regularly scheduled programing.

In this section I will be discussing a few games that aren't out yet but look like they could end up rocking the gaming world to its core and reinventing the way we all play games in the future.

 I will start with the biggest of them all Illuvium. Illuvium looks to be the biggest of all the NFT games with a triple A develpment team and a premise that can back up what they are saying. 

In Illuvium you the player battle and collect Illuvials which are creatures on a planet that has some crazy radiation. These creatures are basically pokemon. If you have ever played pokemon you know how addicting the games can be. (Thinks back to Gold and Silver on the gameboy and dies of exhaustion) Each Illuvial can "evolve" if you have two of the same one (Don't quote me on this one) Which can make them stronger and more rare. Every Illuvial outside of the teir zero area is an NFT and you can sell them for money in game or sell them on the secondary market I do believe (Don't quote me on this either)

To enter other Tiers in the game you have to either pay money or sell an Illuvial for the in game money to enter the higher teirs.

(I will end up doing a deep dive on all of these games)