Com2uS, the cellular recreation developer, desires to create its personal model of Web3, “the place it’s free to play and personal.” That is in line with the corporate’s president Kyu Lee, who spoke at Korea Blockchain Week 2022 in Seoul, revealing the plan to launch a brand new blockchain.
XPLA, which roughly represents the phrases discover and play, can be a blockchain community centered on the wants of the corporate’s gaming neighborhood, together with metaverse experiences.
For Lee, blockchain was the apparent subsequent step for the corporate’s presence within the gaming trade:
“It was virtually a no brainer, [wouldn’t] you prefer to play a recreation that offers digital world possession? I believe every part goes to circulation to video games. And we needed to put every part that we have now to solidify our place on this market.”
The staff behind Com2uS was in a position to transition into Web3 comparatively rapidly and create a blockchain SDK.
Lee defined one of many downfalls of coming into the Web3 gaming house is present gatekeeping. New customers should buy nonfungible tokens (NFTs), arrange a pockets, and contain themselves with a centralized change normally – all earlier than even taking part in the sport.
Within the imaginative and prescient of Com2uS, customers can simply begin taking part in with out the effort of preliminary integration.
“After you hit a sure stage, you’ll earn digital forex that may be transformed into tokens. Then you definately really obtain your pockets, after which it converts your belongings. The buying strategy is de facto completely different from a lot of the Web3 video games on the market out there.”
In response to Lee, the staff noticed a optimistic response to this technique in the course of the improvement course of: “We additionally seen that the retention [rates] elevated considerably too, simply because we omitted the possession paths paid to the belongings. It actually made a distinction.”
Blockchain gaming, notably play-to-earn (P2E), is a significant element of the simple adoption of Web3 applied sciences by non-crypto folks. Furthermore, GameFi was hardly affected by the crypto winter.
“We realized {that a} vital quantity of recent customers got here in to play as a result of it had a play and earn side to it. I believe the free-to-play recreation market is already a revolution.”
Nevertheless, the Com2uS president highlighted some unsustainable traits within the present GameFi trade.
“We seen that a whole lot of firms have been issuing tokens solely connected to 1 recreation. We thought that strategy was merely flawed.”
The corporate created C2X, a Web3 gaming platform, which has “the principle governance token, and you’d have inflatable tokens beneath for each single recreation.”
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Since April, Com2uS launched a complete of 5 video games on the Sequel X platform, with a trajectory of 10 launched by the top of the yr and ten extra by the top of subsequent yr.
As blockchain expertise integrates with main international industries, the underlying foundations “must be invisible,” says Lee. As a substitute, the main target ought to shift in the direction of content material creation, it’s on this space that protocols can set themselves aside.
That is the function that we need to play. We need to fill the precise wants which have pushed Web2 builders emigrate into the Web3 house.”
The testnet for XPLA launches at this time, with the mainnet coming on the finish of the month, in line with Lee. EVM help is already within the testing section.