> Axie Infinity is a trading and battling game that allows players to collect, breed, raise, battle, and trade creatures known as "axies" (characters based on axolotl), which are digitized as NFTs.
That just sounds like CryptoKittens
> Axie Infinity uses NFTs for the rights to each pet that is purchased. To grow these pets, you purchase or farm SLPs, or small-love potions. You can sell these pets or SLPs for cryptocurrency, then swap into your respective currency.
I don't see what's novel here, the game was intentionally designed to store inventory/assets with NFTs. It sounds like these people are farming in-game items and selling them to other players (whales). It's literally just gold farming in wow except allowed by the developers. Any other game that lets users trade their inventory for crypto (to prevent charge backs if you were using paypal etc) could also do this without NFTs.
I wouldn't want to play a game that allows gold farming, because then the metric of your progress isn't how much time you've spent playing, but just how much money you've spent on it.
That just sounds like CryptoKittens
> Axie Infinity uses NFTs for the rights to each pet that is purchased. To grow these pets, you purchase or farm SLPs, or small-love potions. You can sell these pets or SLPs for cryptocurrency, then swap into your respective currency.
I don't see what's novel here, the game was intentionally designed to store inventory/assets with NFTs. It sounds like these people are farming in-game items and selling them to other players (whales). It's literally just gold farming in wow except allowed by the developers. Any other game that lets users trade their inventory for crypto (to prevent charge backs if you were using paypal etc) could also do this without NFTs.
I wouldn't want to play a game that allows gold farming, because then the metric of your progress isn't how much time you've spent playing, but just how much money you've spent on it.