Axie Infinity Was Losing Gamers Even Before Record Crypto Hack

The popular play-to-earn Axie Infinity game had been losing users even before the record cryptocurrency hack disclosed last week restricted the ability of players to move digital money out of the virtual world. From a report: The number of daily active users, or DAUs, has fallen 45% to 1.48 million from a peak in November, according to data compiled by Axie Infinity owner Sky Mavis. The latest tally is for the week ended March 28, or a day before the roughly $600 million hack was discovered. The decrease has been particularly noteworthy since December, when updates to the game were announced, and on March 23, when hackers stole the Ether and USD Coin cryptocurrencies from Axie's Ronin bridge, a sidechain built to facilitate faster and cheaper transactions for the game.

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[Bahbus]

Bad game concept. Bad game design. Bad game play. Only complete morons would think this game has any kind of value to it.

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[drinkypoo]

If people were getting paid enough to be worth it then it was valuable in two ways, it was making those people money, and it was serving as a proof of concept for whoever developed it, who now know how to do it with a better game. Too bad for the people who wasted their time, though.

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[Bahbus]

False. Anything NFT based is always an absolute waste of time, effort, and resources. There is no such thing as doing it better, because NFTs will never belong in a game. Ever. There is no game design that anyone can come up with that will make NFTs a good idea, because NFTs are such a stupid concept to begin with. NFTs are almost as lame as collecting stamps or coins, but at least those are real and actually mean something. NFTs mean absolutely nothing to everyone.

Looking for the hustle...

[Petersko]

The summary gives me "suspicion of unknown hanky-panky." Like somewhere in this story is folks saying, "Uh-oh... they're onto us... better find a way to exit on the plus side..."

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[NagrothAgain]

1.48 million? That's a lot of "gold farming" bots.

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[MarkUltraBlack]

I agree that the concept of NFT is stupid from the beginning, but not crypto. If we're not talking about this game, crypto is a secure way of payment, and for some people, it's quite profitable to trade it with tools like Bitcode AI [bitcodeai.net] , so I don't think it was a bad idea to implement this technology in a game.

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[MarkUltraBlack]

I agree that the concept of NFT is stupid from the beginning, but not crypto. If we're not talking about this game, crypto is a secure way of payment, and for some people, it's quite profitable to trade it with tools like Bitcode AI [bitcodeai.net], so I don't think it was a bad idea to implement this technology in a game.