With Voya Games’ fully onchain idle resource game Craft World now live on the Ronin blockchain, the German developer has revealed a new feature to limit players’ ability to extract value from the nascent economy.
Players wanting to move tokens, notably the new DynoCoin exchange token, from their game account to their wallet will have to spend 15 RON (around $8) in order to get a Pro Account that lasts 30 days.
A Pro Account can also be bought in the mobile version of the game using an equivalently-priced IAP.
It’s a clever move that will stop players constantly cashing out small amounts of value from the game. Instead, it will only make economic sense to accumulate tokens before buying a Pro Account.
Indeed, because of the way the game’s economy works, this restriction may ensure it takes many weeks for low level players to accumulate enough resources to make it worth cashing out.
Of course, in turn, this may impact the number of players Craft World attracts in the short term. However, it’s designed to reward players as they interact together, spending resources to build time-limited collaborative Masterpiece items, not as a play-to-earn game in which players can immediately sell any tokens they get.
Getting the balance right between long term committed players and short term extractive players is one challenge that many blockchain games have to deal with. It’s notable that over time, most are forced to place more restrictions in terms of how they allocate rewards.
Ronin social farming game Pixels is the prime example of this, with its audience dropping from over 1 million wallets a day to its current rate of 30,000 DAUWs as it looked to stop its PIXEL token price dropping from constant selling pressure.
Play Craft World on mobile or on browser here.
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