In the past 20 years, the game industry has gone through four eras, which are PC stand-alone, PC terminal games, web games, and mobile games. If the millennium is the boundary, the PC stand-alone is a thing of the past, an outdated thing.
In the memory of old game players, in the early stage of the terminal game, there was a user terminal called "Stone Age" and "Magic Baby". The pictures were rough and very simple. Now the games that are active in people's vision are "Journey" and "Legend". , "World of Warcraft" and so on. In the early days of page games, it also started with monotonous mini-games. In the later stage, a hundred flowers bloomed. Legendary page games (MMOs) and high-end art-based page game MMOs dominated. The development trajectory of mobile games is roughly the same. The early popular games were "Angry Birds", "Fishing Master", "Fruit Ninja", and now the most popular one is "King of Glory", and the next popular game is still on the way.
Today, the popularity of blockchain is no less than that of artificial intelligence. From cleaning aunties to repairmen, from post-00s to post-60s, from individuals to large state-owned enterprises, all they say are blockchain. However, while everyone is scrambling to discuss the future application scenarios of the blockchain, the blockchain game has stood out in many expected application scenarios and has a place in it.
At present, blockchain technology is very popular in the game industry. More than 100 blockchain games have appeared around the world, and various companies are deploying blockchain technology in the game field, such as Baidu, Xiaomi, NetEase and other companies. "Blockchain + games" is a new thing. Those who try new things are technically controlled. They are very receptive and willing to try new things.
In fact, people in the industry have different opinions on the large-scale implementation of blockchain technology in the game industry.
Golden Finance believes that the current blockchain game model can only complete relatively simple buying and selling operations, or can be used as a decentralized recharge method, and there is no highly instant game content yet. The main reason is that the value return time of the blockchain is long, which is difficult to apply in high real-time games, and the underlying technology of the blockchain currently supports the performance, development environment, and different types of products required for game development. Unable to meet the needs of developers, it can be seen that blockchain technology is currently unable to achieve large-scale application in the game field. However, the potential of the combination of blockchain technology and games is endless. The most important thing is that the combination of blockchain technology and games will eventually return the rights of the game to the players. disappearing phenomenon.
Wu Shengwen, the group owner of the "3 o'clock Mars Finance and Economics Game Learning Group", believes that the essence of blockchain games is value reconstruction. The impact of the blockchain on the game is that the development tools or application platform projects based on blockchain technology, or even a single specific application, first take what the Internet or traditional industries that are currently on the ground lack compared to the blockchain. The shortcomings are magnified, and then the technical characteristics and new business logic of the blockchain are added to show that the blockchain can solve the shortcomings and pain points of the Internet or some traditional industries and tap some new values.
As a special guest of the first Cocos Blockchain Game Technology Conference, Li Xiaolai said at the meeting: "I am extremely optimistic about the blockchain in the long term, and extremely conservative in the short term. However, regarding the game category, I have always been optimistic. I'm optimistic, many people may not know the history of the blockchain world. I can tell you that the first application of Bitcoin was a game, and this website still exists today. Why does this happen? The reason is very simple, blockchain It is the technological change in the digital world, which will be the easiest, simplest, and most direct integration with the digital world.”
It is normal to have disputes about blockchain games. "Games" has always been a marginal industry, and blockchain games are a new thing. It has become a hot topic for a while. However, it is undeniable that the development of the "game" industry has always been at the forefront of Internet technology. For example, AR and VR technologies that exploded in 2016, and the earliest P2P technologies developed rapidly in the game industry. "Blockchain" first developed rapidly in the game industry. "Online game" comes with the natural attributes of Token, which is exactly in line with the token technology of "blockchain".
Take the player pet running on Thunderlink that is currently in the hot pre-sale, it is the most innovative blockchain pet development game. Why do you say this? Because the gamers are not like some small game teams who are shoddy, and big companies such as Baidu, Xiaomi, and 360 are not drunk, and the opening progress is extremely slow. They only use games as a marketing method, so There has been a situation where many players cannot find a chain game with good user experience and healthy ecology to play. The game pet is based on its own perfect industrial chain. The Link Points obtained by mining every day are open and transparent, and all of them are put into the game prize pool and provided to pets who are fed treasure hunters, which truly achieves the ecological balance of the game.
As of now, there is no accepted concept for blockchain games. The blockchain game industry is still in its infancy, and it is too early to be called an "industry". But this does not prevent game practitioners and technology enthusiasts from understanding this new thing - blockchain + games. As Zhang Shousheng, a tenured professor at Stanford University, said, "Blockchain is still in its early stages of development, but this is a very exciting opportunity. There are bubbles all over the world, and correct judgment and screening are needed." Isn't it because of the blockchain With the successful application of technology in BTC and games, will everyone look forward to a better blueprint for blockchain development?