Paid To Play In The Metaverse – The Future Of Crypto-Based Gaming

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From Pong to PlayStation 5, the story of the game is told through innovations. Sure, the graphics prowess and raw power wows us all, but beneath the sparkling glow of ray tracing at 4K / 120fps, there’s always something more important to every game: how it’s played. Real innovation comes when the medium itself is driven by gameplay mechanics or scenarios that change and inspire the way people think about game design.

When PlayStation 5 was first released, the launch game dominating the news cycle was a free system pack called Astro’s Playroom, a lightweight platformer starring a cute little robot. Why was this software named by many in the gaming community as the first true “next generation” experience? Due to a reinvented controller. Yes, Sony’s DualSense controller was the main technology that let people down at the start of this new generation of consoles, as the controller added features that allowed gamers to immerse themselves more in the gaming world in unique ways. Whether it’s the introduction of the analog stick, on-disk media, or even touch screens, innovative technology that determines how we interact with media is what is driving the industry forward by leaps and bounds.

All of this begs the question: what is the next step? What’s the next big leap? What if we changed the very concept of the gaming world? What if we all got into the metaverse?

In the metaverse

The metaverse can be understood as a persistent and fully realized game world. Part virtual reality, part augmented reality, part social network – it’s practically endless and offers full-fledged savings, job opportunities and, yes, you guessed it, singular game scenarios that you don’t. find nowhere else. The Metaverse is growing every day and has been one of the most significant technological advancements in the gaming industry for decades. Even now, in the days of asynchronous multiplayer and always online MMORPGs, the Metaverse is doing something unique. Not only is the game world persistent, but Metaverse players can do things they can’t in any other video game. It connects real-world commerce and communication to the virtual interfaces of these systems.

What exactly can you do in the Metaverse? You can buy land, form a community, start a business, buy and sell art, and even raise money for real-world charities.

The real estate market is booming in the metaverse, with virtual plots of land regularly selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Houses, towns, villages and communities are founded on this land and a whole new world is being built as we speak. In this world, people get paid jobs. For example, an industrious gamer created a travel agency as part of a game, taking people around to show them the sites. This virtual entrepreneur charges for this service and earns real money.

In fact, players make money in a lot of Metaverse games – just playingg. There are countless other income opportunities and businesses that gamers engage in, and we’ve only scratched the surface of video game ingenuity and what the desire to make money by doing. playing games will surely bring.

However, even actors who are not entrepreneurial have a recourse to join this economy. Art lovers and collectors have created a whole new art market in the Metaverse. You’ve probably heard of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Digital artist Beeple sold one earlier this year for $ 69 million.

NFTs are fundamentally a new way to authenticate digital files and prove ownership. People in the Metaverse mostly use NFTs for decoration at this point, but the market to buy, sell, and trade these NFTs is huge and complex.

People who buy an NFT can keep it as a traditional collector’s item, let it gain value over time, or resell it. To take it one step further, philanthropists use the metaverse to raise money for real-world charities. Most of the Metaverse games have their own custom forms of currency. The popular Metaverse Decentraland game uses something called “MANA”. These in-game currencies have potential real-world value as global cryptocurrencies.

Take advantage of new technologies in the future

The technology underlying all cryptocurrencies is called “blockchain,” which is a cryptographic system that enables trusted exchanges without the need for an intermediary. This means that there are no banks, developers, and credit card companies that take a stake every time you engage in the in-game economy.

The integration of blockchain technology with games is the secret sauce that is redefining what is possible in our virtual worlds and creating a whole new industry within the industry. Imagine the end of overpriced, DRM-laden micro-transactions and downloadable content. Buying in-game items and unequivocally owning them as living liquid assets is revolutionary in today’s gaming economy.

In the metaverse, users are in the driver’s seat – they create the world, interact with it however they want, engage other players in any way they want, and can control the entire economic infrastructure in their corner perfectly. built digital world.

The Metaverse brings more immersion, more complexity, and granular control over almost every aspect of the game world and user experiences – and that’s just the start. We are on the ground floor and the future could hold everything in store for the metaverse: persistent connections, integration of virtual reality and even integration of augmented reality, which merges the real world around us with the virtual world. The Metaverse contains endless possibilities and will likely continue to change the trajectory of the gaming industry in entirely new ways.

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Corey Cottrell, co-founder of Uplift, was born and raised in Canada’s northern backcountry where he discovered early on a talent and appreciation for music that set him on the path to creativity and l self-expression. In addition to working as a professional musician for most of his career, Corey has had a passion for games and blockchain technology. Corey first collaborated with Michael Blu to remix one of his songs and create NFT music videos. The pair clicked, and their chemistry led to bigger projects, such as the full integration of NFTs and a crypto-based economy into the Uplift World game’s metaverse.

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