How different is Splinterlands from the rest of blockchain gaming? If I understand @jfang003 from a comment he made in the previous live blog, Splinterlands has more ways for people to make money. What does Splinterlands offer that other games (even Axie Infinity) don't?
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Splinterlands offers many things right now to earn money: ranked battles, tournaments, rentals, daily quests, season rewards, SPS and blogging rewards. Then you can add on land and other features when they come out.
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Can new things be created by players? Can you create a monster, or a summoner, or a spell, or a potion? Or are those things left to the dev team?
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That is the vision for the future of the game. The ownership of land will be key in being able to create in-game assets. Although not available right now, this is what the future of the game will bring according to @aggroed and @yabapmatt in their posts and ASK ME ANYTHING (AMA) sessions.
I have followed this game since its birth as SteemMonsters and am amazed at its evolution. It has already, as Aggroed once said, minted Millionaires. It literally has!
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It's left to the developers.
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That would be something interesting to have! Maybe in the future we'll be able to breed our own monsters!
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As @jfang003 said, that'sleft to the dev team to do. However, it's possible that if enough players make that request to the dev team that the feature could be added. No one can say for the future, but for now it's up t the dev team.
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I think it's quite possible... that kind of feature is very common to a lot of games of the same style as Splinterlands and eventually most of them end up adding exactly it or something very similar. I guess we'll see
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I don't think it will happen for some reason. I think they want scarcity for the cards.
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Scarcity of cards is a major consideration. It could be done the normal way, or it could be done using some other innovation in the game. We shall see.
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That makes sense
I believe you can have both things though... I've seen it before but maybe its not healthy for the current state of the game
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Only time will tell. It's also possible the dev team could come up with a twist on something no one here had considered. Tag teams, battle royales, new formats-- I have no idea as I spit out these ideas.
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A lot depends on the game mechanics, more open the more chances of monetization. Limited flow of gameplay the limits on what can be turned to NFT or asset to monetize.
Good points. Rising Star is the same way, now that I think about it.
If Bleach anime was ever turned into a blockchain game, players would be dead and buried before they ever finished the game. 15 seasons of content; hundreds of characters, with different versions of each character; thousands of weapons, items, accessories. Start playing today, finish playing in 2142.
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It would be a nightmare to be a collector. I hope I never run into that issue
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If that anime ever hit blockchain, I know who would get into it. Not me, not anyone else here. He was a big Bleach fan, and it's because of him I know about the anime.
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Well anime is nice but I haven't watched much of it lately. My backlog just keeps getting bigger.
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I used to watch anime regularly for a while, but the last time I saw any was 2014. By that time, Bleach had ended around Episode 366. It was a different time back then.
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I'm not really an anime person and I don't know much about that universe but a friend recommended me one that I really enjoyed. O believe it's called Goblin Slayer or something like that.
I'm a big fan of the Dungeons and Dragons universe and that anime has that kind of vibe so I enjoyed it
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Yea it was. Most of the animes tend to be cliché lately. A lot of Isekai (Other world animes) came out recently.
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Hahaha I don't know that anime but I wouldn't oppose to a game that would be that long! I kinda like the concept, actually. Maybe one day we'll see something like that
Exode is one that might be quite complex and large so maybe it will be something like what you described (not that it would take a 100 years to get to the "end-game" but you get the point :P)
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In an earlier comment in this topic I linked to the Bleach Wiki, so that's a good place to start if you want more info. It's easier to learn about Bleach than it it to learn about Splinterlands, that I can tell you-- and Bleach had a cast of hundreds.
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Cool! I'll take a look
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I think the fact they keep building new layers in, all of which can enable people to have more profit.
Since I am not an expert I cant say for sure. But there are potions, DEC, and then the cards, all of which can have value. Then we also have SPT which is of benefit and now SPS.
Add all that together and there is the potential for even the novice user to make a couple grand from it over time.
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That's good to know. It looks as if Splinterlands is taking gaming-- not just blockchain gaming-- to a higher level. Other games may get the buzz and attention, but without the features Splinterlands offers (and will offer) they will fall in the rankings. Eventually people will speak of Splinterlands the way they speak of {Magick: The Gathering} and {World of Warcarft}: as the undisputed leader of the genre in its format.
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That would be very interesting to see!
I'm a huge Magic: The Gathering fan so I'm quite biased when I say that I have never seen a game that is as good but I hope Splinterlands get to that level one day.
I can only imagine how valuable the game will be if it ever gets to that point!
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We'll know how valuable Splinterlands can be when it gets made into a feature-length movie.
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That would be nice! A feature-lenght movie streamed on a Dapp built on Hive, fully financed by the community through tokenization!
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Do everything on Hive! Imagine if Hive served as an alternative to Netflix or Amazon Prime television programmimg....
Add to what you said "Now at a movie theater near you!"
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I don't know much about Axie because I don't play it, but one thing I like about Splinterlands which, despite not being unique to it, it's different from most blockchain games is that there is actually a gaming aspect present.
Some other blockchain games are mostly DeFi platforms with a different UI to make it look more like a game. Splinterlands is different in the fact that it is actually a game
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Gamified DeFi isn't the same as a blockchain game. The requirements of DeFi constrain whatever gamification is placed on top of the DeFi. A blockchain game can be designed as such from scratch, and it can be as simple or as complex as needed or desired.
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I agree and yet a lot of gamified DeFi platforms are market as and referred to as games. They lack actual gaming experience though...
I don't mind it as much because it still helps to spread the word around but it's very important to know and understand the difference before one decides to jump in
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I don't care if people are playing blockchain games or gamified DeFi. What matters is that people realize what they are playing so that they don't waste time with the wrong sort of game or "game."
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