Play to Earn #5 - Big money flowing into virtual worlds
Decentraland and Cryptovoxels are leading examples, The Sandbox could soon follow
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Robert Hoogendoorn
338 Thousand Dollars for Virtual Land
In the past seven days there’s been 338 thousand dollars invested into virtual land for Cryptovoxels and Decentraland. Over 66 percent of that amount came from some big sales for Cryptovoxels plots on OpenSea. With these numbers both virtual worlds keep other games at a distance. Trading card game Gods Unchained is at the third spot with 64 thousand dollars, followed by MyCryptoHeroes and art marketplace SuperRare.
What does this financial investment into virtual worlds mean? At the bare minimum it means that investors and gamblers believe that virtual worlds like Cryptovoxel, Decentraland, Somnium Space and The Sandbox have a chance of reaching a mainstream audience. Because these virtual worlds aren’t created for just a few gamers and some blockchain enthusiasts. Ultimately everybody needs to be able to enter, ideally from any device.
An ideal virtual world isn’t just a virtual world, but it also transitions into the real world. Currently that’s already happening with ownership and value. Blockchain companies are already claiming land in The Sandbox as well. As soon as these virtual worlds are fully launched, it should be possible for Domino’s Pizza to open a virtual shop so that digital citizens can order an actual pizza. In addition these virtual worlds can become an extension of regular web shops, or clothing designers could sell their actual clothes together with a limited edition digital version, an NFT.
This is the potential. This is the reason why people are investing thousands of dollars into virtual land.
NEWS
This week’s gaming news in a nutshell:
PLAY TO EARN WEBSITE LAUNCHED - We launched the Play to Earn website on www.playtoearn.online. Stored decentralized on IPFS, and still under HEAVY construction. I will update weekly about the progress.
JOHN MCAFEE FOR $2000 - A digital one-of-a-kind version of John McAfee was sold for $2000. To be used in the fighting game Chain Clash. < Read More >
ENJIN PLATFORM ALMOST DONE - Enjin is close to launching its blockchain development kit, making it even easier for game developers to tokenize their in-game assets. < Read More >
10 MILLION FOR LIGHTNING - Lightning Labs got a 10 million dollar investment. This bodes well for upcoming LApps like Lightnite. < Read More >
FUSING IN GODS UNCHAINED - Fusing cards is a new game feature that will come soon to Gods Unchained. The recent marketplace update accidentally revealed the upcoming feature. < Read More >
F1 DELTA TIME CRATE SALES SOON - Alongside the upcoming crate sales F1 Delta Time will be giving away super rare cars with an estimated total market value of 48 thousand dollars! < Read More >
CHAINMONSTERS DELAYED AGAIN - The Kickstarter campaign for Chainmonsters has been delayed again. Game studio B-Side Games wants a perfect launch and therefore needs to do some more bug fixing. < Read More >
ARK LAUNCH - Gaming blockchain project ARK is launching Core v2.6 of their blockchain project On February 20th. It will be the first time that the product is getting a public network. ARK allows game developers to setup their own blockchain, for example. < Read More >
CREATE VOXEL ART - VoxEdit is now out in beta, allowing users to create things using voxels. These can be imported into The Sandbox. < Read More >
SIGN UP FOR THE SIX DRAGONS - A technical alpha test will happen soon for The Six Dragons. You can sign up here. < Sign up >
SPOTIFY IN SPACE - Action space game Dissolution allows users to play their Spotify playlist from inside their virtual cockpit. < Read More >
Thank you for reading this week’s newsletter. If you enjoy what we are doing with Play to Earn, please consider following us on Medium and Twitter as well. In addition, this week I got a copyright fine for 450 EUR. I managed to talk them down to 225 EUR, but still that’s quite a lot. Every bit can help me! Read about that fine here.
Once again, thank you for reading and have an awesome weekend!
kind regards,
Robert