Hello there Gods Unchained community. So on the back of a weekend ranked with a few issues I thought maybe this was a great time to bring up this subject. Gods Unchained has the look of an amazing game but lets be fair here there are constantly issues. Now I know all you diehard defenders are gonna be like well it is still in beta. The game has been in closed beta since 2018 and open beta since July 2019. These dates were taken from this article which you can find HERE!!!. Now lets be fair and just go back to the open beta date of July 2019. That means this game has been in beta for three years. Yet still is pretty buggy especially on weekend ranked events time. With so many other NFT TCG games coming into the blockchain gaming space my fear is if Gods Unchained doesn't step up their progress on this game it will miss a shot for rapid growth.
My reason of this fear is due to how gamers in the blockchain gaming space will pass over a game that is not feature rich unless it has massive profits. And while you can earn in Gods Unchained if you are coming new to the game you already missed the $IMX airdrop, and the first few weeks of the blessing of the $GODS event. They also missed the genesis card set and the trial of the gods. Not to say you can not play the game if you do not have those cards but flipping those cards or selling then because you had bought packs or earned packs from those sets I feel makes up a majority of the current old school players money earned. Now we do have the Divine Order set and the forge open so profits are being made there. But even with the forge it is players who have been playing a long time who have multiple copies of cards that are able to forge the most. I am in no way against this. They have put in the time, and dealt with bugs that would probably make us new players toes curl. I am only illustrating these points as if a new person is like well I can play with the starter decks and do not really have much money to put in. Or they can go to a game like splinterlands and spend $10 on a spell book and start earning crypto by the third or fourth day of playing. And all while not having to play 60 games like you need to for the blessing of the $GODS event. And splinterlands battles are far quicker then even the fastest GU battles. Again not saying one game is better then others just trying to throw out different view points here.
So lets talk about the compation out there for Gods Unchained. The fairest would be to talk about splinterlands. And the only reason for this is they have been out for about the same amount of time. With splinterlands coming out in 2018. This date was taken form this article that also talks about their funding. You can take a look at that article right HERE!!!. Now while they are fundementally both NFT TCGs. Splinterlands is more of an auto-battler while Gods Unchained is more akin to Magic The Gathering. You also have Skyweaver which is the newest out of these three. It's play to earn is weaker then the beforementioned two games. But there is talk of Skyweaver having their own token and more features being added. There are many other games coming but to save time I just mentioned Skyweaver and Splinterlands.
Just for another comparison of why I am worried about Gods Unchained and that they may be lagging behing is the amount of active users. Again we use Splinterlands since these two games are about the same age. Splinterlands currently set their weekly active players at 500k. Now the more realistic number might be 250k users but wow. That is just insane compared to GU. If you are curious where I got the splinterlands numbers from the article can be found HERE!!!. As compared this past week Gods Unchained only had 61,500 users. And this was during the blessing of the $GODS event. I got that information off of the GU discord. The exact post can be found HERE!!!!!!!. So as you can see there is a giant discrepancy here. Is it because GU in on ETH and to get your ETH onto IMX you still have to pay the extortionate gas fees? Not really sure of that answer.
And the final thing I wanted to tackle in this article is what features do you want to see in the game in the near future? For me hands down I want my weekend ranked progress to show right there on my UI where I que up for games. Also there has been talk of different formats so lets see them!!! And in my previous article which you can check out HERE!!!. I feel like the weekend ranked rewards could use a rework. And one I have not really talked about before how about a user interface where you can sign up and host tournaments right from the game. So if a streamer in the community is running a tournament it can be posted there. I think this would make it streamline for people to enter instead of having to follow 10 different discords to see what was being offered. Now lets here what you want to see in the comments below.
Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to check out my thoughts. I know this was a longer one. But I want to see GU succeed in the best way it can. Both as the game and on Hive. Shoutout to @flauwy for the awesome #OneUp divider and the creation of the #OnUp token and #Cartel token. I used Canva.com to make my thumbnail. And the Gods Unchained cluster of cards from NicePng.
If you do not have splinterlands account but I have peaked your intrest just from the play count you can Join HERE!!!