From more gaming companies jumping in to the relevance of popular concepts, various industry pros shared their insights on upcoming NFT gaming trends.
While gamers will bully traditional gaming companies into irreplaceable tokens (NFT), executives working in the field of NFT games expect more and more traditional gaming companies to enter this field this year.
From the blessing of popular game companies to the relevance of NFT gaming methods such as easy play (P2e) and moving to earn (M2E), different types of field professionals share their views on NFT gaming trends in 2023.
Alexandra Larson, founder of Sky Mavis, the team behind Axie Infinity, the most popular P2P game, told Cointelegraph that it was only a matter of time before more big player games entered the field. But Larson also believes the company will extend until they see a game generate billions of dollars in revenue.
In addition to working on the game studio, Larson stressed that giants such as Google search were also involved, and mentioned that Google Cloud also runs a Luoning Internet verifier. "I'm very happy to see Internet giants like Google and Microsoft go deeper into blockchain technology games," he added.
When asked about P2P relevance in 2023, the Sky Mavis executive agreed that this approach has shortcomings at this stage. He explained:
As the first forerunner to play 2 to earn money, I can proudly say that he is unrealistic in his current state. First of all, the game should be interesting, with solid economic development, so that some gamers can make money.
Zoe Wei, BNB Chain's most senior business director, mirrors Larson's ideas. The executive said that in order to make most games representative of the concept of sustainable economic development, further experiments and analysis must be carried out.
Wei Jianmin said: "the key is too much on the money-making system, and not enough attention to the challenge of the competition." Even so, Wei still thinks that the concepts of P2E and M2E will be relevant in 2023, although more improvements are needed.
In addition to NFT's game entity model, Wei also liked the topic for traditional game manufacturers to enter this field for discussion. Wei feels that blockchain applications and Internet free trade zones have "unquestionable benefits" for game makers and gamers. "in the past year, we have seen countless individual game studios involved in Web3, a trend that will continue until 2023," he added.
In addition, Gomis Dalbert, a partner of Bitkraft Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to games, believes that more gaming business processes will enter this year. He explained:
In 2022, I saw a lot of equity financing related to the separation of traditional American and European game companies from category projects, and you expect this trend to continue, with some high-profile announcements in 2023.
Dalbert also mentioned that although Asian game companies are promoting more disclosure at the level of data encryption, Western companies are still pouring in, but they are more cautious about public relations. Even so, the executive thinks the trend will continue.
When asked about P2E, the executive made up lies and should gradually replace the original iterative update of the concept. He said: "I hope that the first implementation of the 'game for profit' approach will always be buried." According to Dalbert, this definition doesn't make any sense as a business model because he can't attract gamers who want to pay to play games.
With regard to many trends in NFT games in 2023, Alex Altgansen, founder of NFT Game Bank, indicated that group members in 2023 will be more regulated. According to Altgausen, 2021 and 2022 are like filters, exposing these NFT games that only want to use customers. He explained:
"the period when everyone has a super cute website or a game engagement is over."
This means that there will be investors in NFT games that will not be easily spent in 2023, who can check property, product development, and strategic partnership media traces before allocating money to NFT games.