The top-up system is hurting the game industry !

The top-up system is a well-designed humanity trap. Few people can maintain their sanity in such a system, and it is hard to imagine how high the cost of addiction is. Although many game companies have made money with this system in recent years, it is like a gillnet that is hurting the entire game market and will eventually make players lose their passion for games.

Top-up games have a typical model:

First, those companies induce purchases with a low price and often intentionally use real time as a standard to make people feel that it is a good deal. For example, it only costs players $39 to get the same results or equipment that require three days of time investment in the game, which easily causes impulsive purchases.

Then, they make players keep investing money with the cumulative VIP consumption system. This system takes perfect advantage of how humans are unwilling to waste the money they have spent, encouraging players to keep paying. For example, after spending $39, players only need an extra $61 to get $100 and unlock some features. After unlocking the features with $100, they want to unlock the features of $200, $500, $1000, and even more. Players unconsciously invest too much in the game, and when they finally find out, they might have fallen too deep to leave, just like a boiled frog.

What these players get from this experience is definitely neither entertainment nor a sense of accomplishment, but consumption pressure and repetitive work. Even after they leave the game, they must go through a painful struggle since transferring the assets they have invested is not easy. This awful experience will continue, which is not a good development direction for the game ecology.

Another serious problem is that top-up games focus on high-speed iteration (short-term flow) and do not pay special attention to the survival time of the game (long-term operation). Hence, the problems of duplicated systems, old wine in a new bottle, and plagiarism are especially severe. They have led to a large number of similar games in the market, which is undoubtedly hurting the variety of gaming experiences and is likely to cause misunderstanding among light players and limit the game's look.

Therefore, when the market is flooded with these types of games, it will enter a vicious cycle where bad money drives out good, which is undoubtedly worrisome. We are apprehensive that the game market will become more and more sluggish. However, we believe that these problems can be solved very well with blockchain technology. For example, we can directly improve the situation of eliminated games by giving assets to players. We can also solve the top-up problem by limiting the number of game items with NFTs.

In fact, it is not the technology that stops the market from moving in the right direction, but the developers' unwillingness to give up quick profits. Karma Ksana thrives to create a new gaming paradigm that raises players' awareness of what an ideal development is like and exert pressure on game developers to contribute to the market transformation!

Written by 賴彤兒 , the co-founder at Karma Ksana.

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The top-up system is hurting the game industry !

The top-up system is a well-designed humanity trap. Few people can maintain their sanity in such a system, and it is hard to imagine how high the cost of addiction is. Although many game companies have made money with this system in recent years, it is like a gillnet that is hurting the entire game market and will eventually make players lose their passion for games.

Top-up games have a typical model:

First, those companies induce purchases with a low price and often intentionally use real time as a standard to make people feel that it is a good deal. For example, it only costs players $39 to get the same results or equipment that require three days of time investment in the game, which easily causes impulsive purchases.

Then, they make players keep investing money with the cumulative VIP consumption system. This system takes perfect advantage of how humans are unwilling to waste the money they have spent, encouraging players to keep paying. For example, after spending $39, players only need an extra $61 to get $100 and unlock some features. After unlocking the features with $100, they want to unlock the features of $200, $500, $1000, and even more. Players unconsciously invest too much in the game, and when they finally find out, they might have fallen too deep to leave, just like a boiled frog.

What these players get from this experience is definitely neither entertainment nor a sense of accomplishment, but consumption pressure and repetitive work. Even after they leave the game, they must go through a painful struggle since transferring the assets they have invested is not easy. This awful experience will continue, which is not a good development direction for the game ecology.

Another serious problem is that top-up games focus on high-speed iteration (short-term flow) and do not pay special attention to the survival time of the game (long-term operation). Hence, the problems of duplicated systems, old wine in a new bottle, and plagiarism are especially severe. They have led to a large number of similar games in the market, which is undoubtedly hurting the variety of gaming experiences and is likely to cause misunderstanding among light players and limit the game's look.

Therefore, when the market is flooded with these types of games, it will enter a vicious cycle where bad money drives out good, which is undoubtedly worrisome. We are apprehensive that the game market will become more and more sluggish. However, we believe that these problems can be solved very well with blockchain technology. For example, we can directly improve the situation of eliminated games by giving assets to players. We can also solve the top-up problem by limiting the number of game items with NFTs.

In fact, it is not the technology that stops the market from moving in the right direction, but the developers' unwillingness to give up quick profits. Karma Ksana thrives to create a new gaming paradigm that raises players' awareness of what an ideal development is like and exert pressure on game developers to contribute to the market transformation!

Join us https://discord.gg/karma-ksana & do things right on chain!

#KarmaKsana #KarmaGenesis #Blockchain #blockchaindevelopment #blockchaintechnology #blockchaingame #NFT #NFTgame #crypto #cryptogame #cryptocurrency #DeFi #Gamefi #DAO #GameDevelopment #Gaming #game #web3

Recently I've participated in several exhibitions and conferences of many famous Taiwanese projects, platforms, and exchanges. It was decent from the professional aspect, but there is a peculiar problem that I think it's worth discussing – I haven't heard of any project emphasizing decentralization.

To put it explicitly, many Taiwanese developers regard Web3 as an entrepreneurship platform rather than a new concept. For instance, I heard a lecturer sharing the Discord community could become a "high-value client," the whole community is just a way to attract customers for him.

This totally violates how I think about Web3!

For me, the main reason for the involution of on-chain development is the developers' self-centered arrogance. Each participant shouldn't be treated as a customer but as a co-participant. (If not, what the heck are we doing in the Web3 market?) Nevertheless, I must apologize to everyone. Because Karma Ksana's product is currently under development, it isn't easy to discuss with the community thoroughly and get everyone to participate considering decision-making efficiency.

However, I’ve also realized that we can and we should place more team discussions in the community to make all of the participants understand the context of development, join the discussion, and provide advice.

We’ve made some plans to correct what we didn't do well and will carry them out in the following two days.

Let's do things right on chain!

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"Sleep well, my dear children. With the infinite power I give you in your hearts, and when the time is right, we will no longer fear under this sky."

Good day everyone. We are more than excited to share with you this NFT character from our blockchain game, Karma Genesis. Please stay tuned for our latest release. Thank you!

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Do things right on chain!

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"I’m curious about where humans came from? Were they stored in a container after being produced? I have to figure out the reason."

Hello everyone, this is the NFT character from our blockchain game, Karma Genesis! Please stay tuned for our latest release to come! Thank you!

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"I’m curious about where humans came from? Were they stored in a container after being produced? I have to figure out the reason."

Hello everyone, this is the NFT character from our blockchain game, Karma Genesis! Please stay tuned for our latest release to come! Thank you!

Follow us https://discord.gg/karma-ksana & Get whitelists!

#KarmaKsana #KarmaGenesis #blockchain #blockchaingame #NFT #NFTgame #crypto #cryptogame #animation #art #NFTart #web3 #DeFi #GameFi 賴彤兒 普洛克拉斯提有限公司

If you're looking for a guide to blockchain games, please take a look at these threads below.

Follow us https://discord.gg/karma-ksana to get the latest info ✨

Karma Genesis: https://twitter.com/Genesis_KMK

Let's do things right on chain🙌🏼

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If you're looking for a guide to blockchain games, please take a look at these threads below.

Follow us https://discord.gg/karma-ksana to get the latest info ✨

Karma Genesis: https://twitter.com/Genesis_KMK

Let's do things right on chain🙌🏼

#KarmaKsana #KarmaGenesis #blockchain #blockchaingame #NFT #NFTgame #crypto #cryptogame #cryptotrading #blockchaindevelopment #blockchaintechnology #web3 #Gamefi #DeFi #DecentralizeWorld #Gaming #nftart

Development Log (Updates)

Community:

1. Releasing more content on social media (Please head over to our Discord channel, "👁｜viewpoint" for details!)

2. Completed calculating Member Points Records on Discord.

3. Redesigning our Discord channel (Stay tuned! )

4. Planning to hold more events on Discord (We value your ideas or advice so please share!)

5. Published our weekly news in Chinese

6. Developing new content for our Youtube channel (set to film and release around mid September)

Core team:

1. Connecting and negotiating with institutions for private placement (So far, we have successfully found some investors!)

2. Welcomed a new Social Media Marketer to our team (Currently, there are 29 members in our core team.)

3. Found our new office location in Taipei City

Game development:

1. Conducting more NFT artworks while fine-tuning character settings

2. Releasing our background music shortly (drumroll please)

Web development:

1. Launching the Karma Genesis website in September

2. Built and tested the API function of the Membership System

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Development Log (Updates)

Community:

1. Releasing more content on social media (Please head over to our Discord channel, "👁｜viewpoint" for details!)

2. Completed calculating Member Points Records on Discord.

3. Redesigning our Discord channel (Stay tuned! )

4. Planning to hold more events on Discord (We value your ideas or advice so please share!)

5. Published our weekly news in Chinese

6. Developing new content for our Youtube channel (set to film and release around mid September)

Core team:

1. Connecting and negotiating with institutions for private placement (So far, we have successfully found some investors!)

2. Welcomed a new Social Media Marketer to our team (Currently, there are 29 members in our core team.)

3. Found our new office location in Taipei City

Game development:

1. Conducting more NFT artworks while fine-tuning character settings

2. Releasing our background music shortly (drumroll please)

Web development:

1. Launching the Karma Genesis website in September

2. Built and tested the API function of the Membership System

Join us https://lnkd.in/gcEEkpZY & Do things right on chain!

#KarmaKsana #KarmaGenesis #KarmaSpace #web3 #blockchain #blockchaingame #blockchaindevelopment #crypto #cryptotrading #cryptogame #gamefi #defi #community #gamedevelopment #blockchaintechnology #metaverse #ethereum #development #followus 普洛克拉斯提有限公司

New perspective article from Karma Ksana.

How do you think the relationsip between Democracy & Decentralization?

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New perspective article from Karma Ksana.

How do you think the relationsip between Democracy & Decentralization?

Join us https://discord.gg/sjkQMnJsuj to get more info and let's do things right on chain!

#KarmaKsana #web3 #crypto #cryptocurrency #cryptotrading #cryptogame #DeFi #Decentralization #democracy #community #Discord #Perspectives #Viewpoints #Blockchain #blockchaindevelopment #BlockchainContent 賴彤兒 普洛克拉斯提有限公司

Hello everyone, this is the drawing process of NFT character design from Karma Genesis. Stay tuned and follow us https://discord.gg/sjkQMnJsuj to get more info! Thank you :)

Let's do things right on chain🔥

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Hello everyone, this is the drawing process of NFT character design from Karma Genesis. Stay tuned and follow us https://discord.gg/sjkQMnJsuj to get more info! Thank you :)

Let's do things right on chain🔥

#KarmaKsana #KarmaGenesis #NFT #nftart #art #Blockchain #blockchaingame #crypto #cryptogame #web3 #DeFi #Metaverse #community #Discord

Good day, everyone. This is Karma Ksana's new NFT character design.

Please stay tuned, we will release more characters. Thank you!

Join our community https://discord.gg/KcPyBJBDrY & Do things right on chain!

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Hello everyone,

this is Karma Ksana's NFT character design.

Please stay tuned, thank you.

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Do things right together on chain.

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