Following the recent announcement that it’s refocusing operations on profitable businesses, Proof of Play has confirmed that the original version of its fully onchain game Pirate Nation will shut down on Thursday 18th September.
Players are able to convert in-game assets into a plunder certificate will be redeemable for an allocation of the PIRATE token in future.
Players have until 18th September to withdraw any crypto tokens from the game’s Arbitrum-based Apex and Boss blockchains. These blockchains will be shut down on Thursday 25th September.
As part of Proof of Play’s migration to new projects, holders of the Pirate Nation PFP characters will also receive a final allocation of PIRATE tokens.
This token will be Proof of Play’s main crypto focus in terms of its future operations.
“We’ve expressed publicly that we value $PIRATE, and these changes help solidify our messaging that the best way to align with the Proof of Play ecosystem is by holding $PIRATE”, the company stated.
The browser-based game launched in the summer 2023, with the PIRATE token launching in June 2024 via a play-to-earn season.
However, with the game’s audience declining from over 100,000 DAUWs during peak periods to around 10,000 when the announcement happened, Proof of Play says that it’s no longer economically viable to run the blockchains and the game, which cost $150,000 a month, hence the decision to shut this version of the game down.
However, a version of Pirate Nation remains live on the Abstract blockchain in the Proof of Play Arcade, in which players pay around $0.50 per credit with ETH to play the endless mode, and are rewarded in terms of their placement on a leaderboard.
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