It has been a minute since I posted something, but today is a sad day and I felt I owed this to IMXtools after all their work.
Today IMXtools closed doors, as I see it, the most undervalued marketplace and analytics resource around for Gods Unchained.
I would like to start saying that I don't have any "skin" in IMXtools, or any other personal interest besides the game itself, was never paid by them to promote their marketplace, always tried to provide the best feedback I could, so they could deliver on some of the community needs regarding trading.
Unfortunately, and I see it now, the mistake of IMXTools was to believe to much in Gods Unchained, the marketplace was built around and for Gods Unchained, only being leveraged recently for GoB.
The lack of support from GU and IMX towards these projects is just sad. Never seen a single reference about it in any social media.
Meanwhile, Aqua.xyz took over as the main marketplace for GU, I admit looks nicer than others, the design is cool, but is so poor technically when compared to IMXtools, lacks metrics, filters and options towards the community needs.
No filters for cards already owned for those that want to grow their collection, you have to know and search for them individually;
No alphabetic order for those that want to see cards side by side showing all qualities;
No PTNQ reference to choose a better quality when price is closer;
No reference to cards listed and how many;
You have to go in each card to see the price in Eth/Gods/IMX;
No shiny ratio tool;
No wallet analysis;
No game stats.....
I could keep going on and on, but this just feels sad to me, since their announcement (closing on the 15th) my motivation has been dropping and dropping, probably listed more than 3.000 cards this last week to take advantage of the marketplace last days.
I am sorry to use Aqua's name as comparison, but is the one GU choose after so long with immutable (the worst of all marketplaces to this day imo), they are doing good marketing, with 8M and tournaments, and that is giving them some returns, they are doing their job to get a better marketshare, is just sad that GU moves from the main marketplace to a 3rd party one, not being impartial about it.
Other games simply build their own marketplace and/or share links to 3rd party marketplace, not redirect to one, even to protect their image, if happens to Aqua will automatically impact GU image.
Even that Immutable one sucks, that felt really bad, I was expecting if there was a change there Token Trove should have been the main option as it was the most used one by the players.
My fun with the game was diminishing and was having fun with micro transactions in the market, now I lost that too...
Please Gods Unchained, take care of your community, they deserve better, I been playing video games since I remember to get my first Atari and Master system, over 30 years ago and never seen a community like this, with everyone so involved and supporting each other.
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Hi, rest in peace "IMXtools".😞
Yea, I'm really not a fan of the aqua marketplace. It's pretty, but also so many little things about it are frustrating to use. They got enough surface-level features, sponsored 8M, and somehow got the official endorsement of the GU team. They no longer sponsor 8M and I haven't seen any new features roll out or be improved (although admittedly I don't check often).
I went there, the only use I can find for it is for the average Joe that knows what he is going to buy and search for it, everything else is either not intuitive, time consuming or just frustrating. I will have to do with Token Trove, but I had a lot of fun with the market this last year, made over 10k transactions, most of them don't worth my time, but I had some fun buying and selling and improving my deck quality and uniqueness.
I will miss that "hide cards owned" button so much, that helped me a lot growing my collection. Every day I went there and bought a playset I didn't had from cheapest to most expensive in GODS. I stopped at the 3 GODS mark. Now I have to figure out how to get prices for all cards and do it myself or mark in TT as favorite every card I don't have to do something similar.
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Indeed, and I strongly agree.