suggests that Metaverse gamers are still losing players despite significant investments and efforts by companies around the world. Among them, the average daily users of "Axie Infinity" dropped to 100,000, a decrease of about 30%, while the average daily users of "The Sandbox" decreased by 29%, with only 1,180 users.
Foreign media also pointed out that the number of daily users of the game in the virtual world is somewhat misleading, because some of them are players and others are "workers who play games to earn income for investors."
blockchain game analyst DeFi Vader wrote when analyzing "Axie Infinity": "Unlike traditional games such as "Fortnite" and "GTA", it does not have the natural stickiness to attract players." From the statistics below As can be seen from the table, these metaverse games are not competitive with mainstream games on Steam.
Practitioners believe that the main reason that hinders the entry of core players is the pay-to-win mechanism of NFT games. This mechanism is what most mainstream games strive to avoid, because a successful game can usually create a fair multiplayer game. experience.
Still, some in the industry say that high-quality games can go hand in hand with the Metaverse, and they believe that cryptocurrency financing models can raise funds for game development and thus break away from financial dependence on big developers.
