The Play2Earn Report - Quo Vadis?

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I had another great week in the blockchain world. With the current bull run, it's pretty hard not to have a great week, though. I've tried out several new games in the last days and also released articles on several of them which can be found here and here. I've also managed to write an article every day now for almost 2 weeks.

That said, I'm not exactly sure what to do with my weekly Play2Earn report. I enjoy doing it, but it has warped a bit over time. In the beginning, it was a way to keep track of the 3-4 games that I've been playing. By now, there's a dozen of games I could theoretically write about and I'm not really sure if that makes terribly much sense - who's going to read all that after all? Engagement has been rather low with the last Play2Earn reports as well, whereas I got sometimes a dozen comments or more with my other articles.

So to all of you who are actually reading this - do you enjoy the Play2Earn report as it is right now? Would you like it to be shorter, maybe only doing some highlights each week instead of going through all games every time? Please let me know in the comments what you'd like to see. There's no point in doing this if nobody is interested in reading it after all.

Alright, with that out of the way, let's take a look at my different tokens:

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Hive6,25060
LEO6,9121,657
LBI2,000-
SPT43,2447,857
XTM3,7761,355

Wow, this has been a crazy weeks in terms of gains. Did you look at the LEO price these days? These tokens I hold are worth about 3,300$ right now and this is most likely only the beginning. There's so much coming to LeoFinance this year, LEO might eventually turn into one of my biggest crypto holdings! XTM has progressed really well, too. These 1,355 equal 67.75$ if you follow their conversion rate. Torum has been all kinds of amazing for me and I predict a huge success for the platform in the coming months and years. I know, I know, we are all milking noise.cash right now but I predict Torum to be way more successful in the long run!

Now let's have a look at all of my games. To give you some ideas about what the Play2Earn report could look like, I'll go over all games I'm active in but only give more detail when I have worthwhile stuff to share. Again, please let me know if that's more interesting to you or if you'd prefer me to do less games but get into more detail on each.

Cryptobrewmaster

Let's start with a bang! Cryptobrewmaster just announced the introduction of its own rewards pool starting as soon as next week. Now if you follow anything I write, you might be aware that I'm quite the fan of rewards pools and so I'm really pumped to see another one coming to one of my most favorite games!

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There will be a total of 1,100 Hive in it in total which is quite a lot! On the other hand, the rewards only go to the top 10 players each week. That's a bit too top heavy for my taste, but then again things might work out just fine. The guys around Cryptobrewmaster already proved that they have a great understanding of how to craft a working economy. If you want to know all the details, here's the article announcing it all.

This move should certainly help to increase the value of CBM as well. Being one of the top 10 holders of that coin, I couldn't be more happy about that development. Way to go!

Rising Star

Speaking of big announcements! Rising Star had their share of amazing news as well today. In this article they announced the next big feature coming to the game: Instrument Crafting! Much as with Cryptobrewmaster, this is really huge for the game and another much appreciated addition.

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If you are looking for more information, head over to the article first, but in short, Rising Star is introducing a way to mint your own instrument NFTs on Hive. To do so, you'll have to complete brand new missions. Instead of paying out Starbits, they will actually require you to pay Starbits in order to complete them. In turn, you'll earn instrument parts that can be assembled into brand new instruments. There will be different levels of rarities and even gold parts (foil).

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This is a brilliant move as it will help the game's economy twice. It's a much needed Starbits sink but at the same time, it will reduce the amount of Starbits introduced to the economy. Instead of just farming more Starbits, now you have to decide whether to earn Starbits or spend them on missions like the above. Thanks to the way the rewards pool works, owning as many unique cards as possible is super important, so these new cards are bound to be sought after a lot. That said, the prices per mission are going to be changed before release and I don't think they'll stay as high as in the screenshot above.

Speaking of the rewards pool, I've bought 24 more packs since my last article and I've been a bit more lucky and got several Epics from them. I'm now sitting at #39 and I won't stop there, it's Top 10 or bust!

Splinterlands

I've been doing pretty good at Splinterlands this week, winning about 8,000 DEC from tournaments these weeks. As I had noted in my Season Report Card, I realized that my win rate and overall play quality had deteriorated a bit because I tended to grind a bit too much some times. So I tried to play the game a bit less but more focused when I do. This move certainly payed off, as I've found myself moving through the ranks a lot more smoothly, sitting in #47 of the leaderboard right now.

eXode

No news on eXode yet, but @elindos announced a blog post for this weekend that should contain some juicy information about the upcoming release of colonization. I for one am certainly ready to finally sink my teeth into eXode full blast. Despite all the games I'm playing and all the stuff I'm trying, this is still the game I'm most looking forward to among all the titles out there!

dCity

I'm not too happy with the way things are going in dCity at the moment. For a while it seemed like I could slowly advance towards rank 300 simply by reinvesting all my SIM. This brought me to #350 within a few weeks but ever since December, I'm slowly bleeding ranks, sitting at #362 right now.

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I'm not really feeling like investing more Hive into the game right now, though. There are just too many interesting projects going on. But alas, it's an investment game so if you don't invest, you'll fall behind eventually. If I get too close to #400 I might go ahead and calculate how much I'd have to spend in order to get to the Top 300 right away. Until then, I'll just reinvest my SIM and try to not fall behind too far.

Rabona

I've cashed out of Rabona, making slighty more in return than what I payed in the first place. I really love football managers and I still think their concept is awesome. That said, ever since I forgot to renew my contracts at season's end, I couldn't get back into the game. Without any indication of why my players are winning or loosing, it just got frustrating and I eventually stopped playing it. I've sold all my RBN for now but I'll watch the game, down the line I might get back in if some more features are added.

Alien Worlds

Damn, Alien Worlds is one of these games that I never expected to grow on me so far. There's literally nothing to do in the game other than mining every few minutes and for what ever reason, I still enjoy it. Not only me, though, it seems they found a lot of players in these last weeks and they are growing fast. I've invested some WAX into a better mining gear (of still the lowest level) and I now can mine once every 10 minutes.

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This new tact feels a lot better than the 2.5 minutes it was before and I remember to mine a lot more regularly now. In the 3 days of mining I've made ~720 TLM which equals about 28 WAX. Not bad, not amazing. I've also found about a dozen of NFTs by now and I'll just keep accumulating everything for now. Chances are I might be able to brute force my way into this, if I get lucky and find a rare NFT some time this could really take off for me.

Ocean Planet

The recent new release I was most excited about. I just yesterday did an article on the game so I won't repeat myself here. The game is still in a pre-alpha state and there's not much to do there right now. That said, I think it has huge potential plus I really love the art style. Give it some more months to mature, but this might become one of my favorites!

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Guild of Guardians

And then there's Guild of Guardians. I basically have nothing on that game yet because they don't give away much. It seems to be a Diablo style ARPG played on mobile with full blockchain and Play2Earn support. You can pre-register with your mail on their site, but there's nothing else there yet. As soon as there's more information available I'll get it to you right away.

Conclusion

And that's all from me for today. Please remember to let me know whether you want to read more Play2Earn reports of that style or if you'd prefer me to mix things up a bit. Either way, thank you all for reading and see you next time!

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about alien worlds, its possible to play without investing? and do you have any guide for it? even im a blockchain gaming lover i havent used WAX for a while so im just like a newbie

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No need to invest anything, really. You have to power up a couple of WAX if you mine excessively but I have 20 WAX staked myself (~0.6$) and never ran out of steam. If you want to, you can just mine until you run out of resource credits for the first time, trade what you mined for TLM here and power that up - this cycle should keep you going indefinitely.

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thanks for the link!! ill study the game now, also i found their discord and seems very active.

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It certainly is, there's a lot of hype surrounding the game... even without much to actually do as of now :D

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I like your p2e reports. I wouldn't mind if they were slightly longer either. You're a great source of news and tips. I'm still looking for a way to get wax without confirming my identity since my documents don't work. I tried Ocean planet. Did you sell all the stuff you found? I kept some thinking they might have use in the game later, especially the seeds. I was very happy to find those. It seemed like I found everything you found except for something that looked like a brick. The only thing I did sell was the junk. If there's anything I've learned it's that If a game says something is junk, you'd better believe it has no other uses.

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Thank you for your feedback!

I don't think I ever confirmed my identity for Wax, I just signed up with Google and that was good enough for them supposedly.

On Ocean Planet - I think that it's still going to be a while until anything in the game does anything, so for now I'm selling everything I get so I have all the space to fill again in my next run.

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I've certainly already gotten a feel for some items being rarer than others. Unless it's just randomness. Of course my hoarder instincts come into play even in a game. I think I'll sell mostly everything and stock up on some things. Still plenty of room in the inventory to go out and farm certain items!

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I guess the best thing to stock up are seeds, that seems like the obvious move.

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Along with maybe cardboard and iron plates? And rubber

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Probably depends on what get's implemented first :-)

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Did you trade the WAX for TLM and then stake it in the game? How do you buy these extra things, I can't see anything to do besides mine.

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That's exactly what I did - you can trade TLM for Wax here. NFTs are traded on Atomichub. Ingame you indeed can't do anything but mine...

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Ah, didn't know about the Atomichub before now. Is it worthwhile getting a drill bit?

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I'd think so, yes - I got a drill and a Capacitor to match my shovel - mining every 10 minutes feels like a good rhythm matching with the other things I do.

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Wait.. so you need a drill and a capacitor? I mine every 3 mins... hope you do better than me.. as that's less mining at 10 mins..

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It takes longer until I can mine again, but I get a bigger return in TLM - I think it's around 7-8 TLM on average every 10 minutes.
The number in the top left corner shows how much you'll be able in one go. These numbers add up across all NFTs as well, so you could specialize in different things if you wanted to.

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If I could only figure out how to transfer WAXP to this exchange. I am familiar with exchanges, but they don't make it easy. WAXP is the correct token right?

https://wax.alcor.exchange/wallet/tokens

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To tell the truth I've never tried it that way - only sold TLM there and moved my WAX out.
Other than that, I'm a total WAX noob myself.

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Excellent overview. The games are getting more, more and more. It cannot but rejoice.

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Eventually I might have to stop playing some like I did with Rabona, but for now growth is king :-)

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I'm a fan of the p2e =) You could consider splitting it up by groups of games? I don't mind a longer read either.

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Thank you for your feedback :-)

Splitting it up would mean more days for P2E and less days for other articles, though. Not sure if I'd be happy with that.

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I just logged into splinterlands for the first time ever. I have a bunch of cards from packs but I don't know what to do. Do you have a day 1 tutorial?

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I don't have one right away, sadly. Your best bet is probably to join their Discord and ask around there - lot's of friendly and helpful people around usually.

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On the other hand, the rewards only go to the top 10 players each week.

So, basically the players already getting the most packs will also get the Hive. Seems like a big disincentive to me unless you're one of the top players.

I'd already decided to keep going until I got to 1000 CBM so I can cash out and this latest announcement makes me more keen to do so.

With regard your Play2Earn reports I'd just like to see the stats in them. Maybe some sort of table with a comparison between games and month to month increases. That sort of thing.

Information about updates I would prefer to see in individual posts about specific games. That way I can read about the games I'm interested in and not the others.

I'm interested in what you're earning whether or not I play the game but I'm not interested in information about the games I don't play.

That said, I very much appreciate all the effort you put in to keep us updated!

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Thank you for your feedback!

I tried tracking all the gains initially and slowly stopped doing so. With all the micro gains and flow of tokens between games it has been hard to keep track of everything. I could try to to a monthly sheet, though. I'll see if I can set that up for February!

Ya, I feel like only giving to the top 10 is not ideal, either. I prefer what dCity and Rising Star do - giving more to the top but also rewarding a lot more ranks. We'll see how it goes ;-)

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I think it is all right to skip the games where nothing happened, let them compete forthe exposure slot, lol.

What I would love to read next is the first edition of "Was It Worth My Time?" series. The Rabona paragraph painted a clear picture of what seems to be rather common event to me. Together with Survivor Bias effect, this would make any deeper feedback on the game invaluable.

I'll be happy help you out with optimizing your dCity in return, if you are interested.

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That's a great idea, thank you very much!
I'll schedule that for some time within next week and there are several other games that could serve as great examples of where things went wrong as well.
I'd obviously be happy about any advise on my dCity ;-)

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You should stick to your weekly report. It helps you also in tracking things.

Interesting that you've quit Ramona. I play it still and focus on an income generating club rather than on place in the league. I finish somewhere in the top middle section of it.

On DCity I focus on different cities on different things. First city is SIM production and second is tech mining. I might build another for immigrants&homeless mining.

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Thank you for your feedback!

Rabona really was a downwards spiral for me. My team performed worse than it should have given its stats and there was just no indication about why that's happening. Then I forgot to renew my contracts at season's end because I was hiking. After that, I reinvested all my RBN to get a team going again but again, it performed worse than what it should have and so I lost interest.
I might get back in eventually, but I'm not ready for that yet.

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