RE: Gaming On ETH An Expensive Disappointment
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When facing these hard times they should be looking to reduce non-financial yielding actions that are being broadcasted.
I don't get why many games on Eth and on other blockchains are trying to make everything by smart contracts... only things of value should be on the blockchain, mainly the items and trading those items. There are a lot of inefficient smart contracts on Ethereum that over complicate things and end up wasting a lot of gas fees, most protocols aren't using ZKroolups which make tx on Ethereum very cheap... I have no idea what is going through the devs minds, it's like they are not excited anymore for the future of gaming on a blockchain! The only one which I've seen trying to change things around is Dissolution by changing from Enjin to Ethereum to try and make their tokens more effective and less expensive to tx, but who knows how long that will take to be 100% developed...
I have to take a look at Matic, seen some games moving to Matic which is supposedly a sidechain of Ethereum that has checkpoints every now and then that make one single big transaction on the Ethereum mainchain, but not sure how that works, need to research it.
Great post! And really well explained, many people don't understand that some of the tx fees issue come from the fact that many protocols are not adopting new tech, and many smart contracts are inefficient AF because their creators haven't been improving them, it's like going on a highway riding a horse and then complaining it took very long and you had to stop 10 times for the horse to feed and drink water, ofc it did, it's a horse, not a car!
That is one game that has been sitting on my backlog to check out for a while now.
Are they going to stay on ETH or switch back to Enjin at some point? That was something that seemed unclear when I was looking into it a while back as they seemed to be testing on ETH. Enjin for a while looked like they were going be the place to game.
That is what inspired my rant lol. I was informed of a game I was playing until the higher gas fees create a secondary universe in their game where players could go over to Matic and acquire NFTs over there. Just about everything in that game required paying gas and that was not addressing the underlying issues they had. Just seemed like a quick and dirty way to have cheaper fees.
I’ve not looked into Matic myself. At this point, I’m somewhat done with ETH. A lot of games showed up over there for the big money and failed to do much with the piles of ETH they got.
!ENGAGE 25
From what I read, they were quitting Enjin because the fees to use Enjin were high and on top of that they also had to pay the fees on Ethereum, so what they are doing is to create a similar ERC token standard similar to the one Enjin uses on the mainchain Ethereum, customize it for them and make it more efficient. They also talked about the fact that this decision was also because of sharding, it seems that sharding might be great for DeFi but not as great for games for some reason...
So many game devs doing this... moving right and left shouldn't be a tx on the blockchain, or the action of mining, picking up herbs, etc... shouldn't be a tx on the blockchain, or the number of points you scored in a PvP match, that's not something valuable! Game devs need to start thinking what is valuable and what is not that valuable, only valuable things should be on the blockchain and also, game devs need to look into ZKroolups, Multi party computation and plasma. The scaling solutions alrdy exist, they just need to be implemented.
ENGAGEtokens.We're working on a solution for gas prices! I think the best way to go forward is to be completely chain agnostic.