The Modern Age – Play2Earn Space is Booming

When commenting on past crashes of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, it’s almost laughable considering the current price that these coins have reached. Now focusing on the modern age, trust in cryptocurrency is at an all-time high, with P2E projects benefiting from the huge audience that now actively buys and trades cryptocurrency.

Another aspect that has become incredibly popular within the cryptocurrency community that has triggered an upsurge within P2E is the rising popularity of NFTs. Platforms like OpenSea and the general rise to popular culture that NFTs have seen have radically boosted the appeal of P2E games.

At their core, not only does P2E gaming mean that you can have fun while playing, but you’re also actively rewarded by playing, with cryptos or NFT rewards ensuring that communities have started flocking to the platform. While many new projects have started operating within this community, many are imitations of more successful projects.

One platform that’s seen incredible success is DEA (Digital Entertainment Asset). This is a game development platform that has constructed a whole ecosystem of games. While they have a range of successful titles, with a player base that comes from all corners of the globe, one of their most popular games is Job Tribes.

Within Job Tribes, users are able to collect NFT artwork from illustrations from all over the world, battling against other players with the profession cards they collect and impressing others with their collections.

Their most recent game, Cookin’ Burger, launched in May of 2022. This game is a multitasking cooking game, where users have to cook food, construct their restaurant, play different roles within the shop, and even serve customers. As users take on more tasks within the restaurant, they will have a harder experience, but one that gives them more experience points and allows them to level. Within this game, users can earn NFTs, which can either help them in-game, or can be sold for a profit on major decentralized platforms.

Community's First Gaming

Further pushing the bounds of what P2E gaming can offer, this gaming system has recently started to turn to more communal ways of playing. Balthazar is an example of this, introducing a Guilds system that emulates traditional clans on centralized gaming platforms. These gaming guilds allow players to lend their NFT in-game upgrades to each other, either renting them out or forming a ‘Scholarship’ pathway.

Within Balthazar, scholars can rent out their NFTs, empowering other players from around the world and giving them much-needed upgrades. With these guilds, users are able to actively discuss with others, educate each other, and have a central location to go whenever they want to chat about the game.

Many P2E games are now including a guild system within their gameplay, seeing the success of platforms like Balthazar as paving the way for this community-first gaming approach.