In a masterful Twitter thread, a16z partner and video game veteran Jon Lai shared his thoughts on why the crypto play-to-earn gaming model has been successful despite the many failures of traditional games to adopt real-world money trading.
He dives into why real money trading DID NOT work in such games as Diablo 3, Artifact, and Star Wars Battlefront II...why it DID work in games like Counterstrike, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, Genshin Impact...and why it succeeds in play-to-earn crypto games.
Tap the tweet below to read:
Why do play-to-earn games work when real money trading in games has (mostly) not worked? 💸
— Jon Lai (@Tocelot) September 19, 2021
What can @AxieInfinity @Diablo @EveOnline @CSGO learn from each other?
Thread 👇 proposing a framework for what makes play-to-earn work. Stay a while and listen =) pic.twitter.com/JW9WjlNd2L
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