Recently, the explosive popularity of "Black Myth: Wukong" has not only brought AAA games back into the spotlight but has also sparked heated discussions among players and developers. The continued success of Web2 games has led some Web3 players to switch sides. In contrast, Web3 games face issues such as short lifecycles and unclear business models, especially under the current cryptocurrency market conditions, which raises questions about their significance.
In fact, blockchain games have not achieved breakthroughs since the last market cycle, remaining far behind Web2 games in terms of game content and experience, still in a primitive stage. The root cause of this predicament lies in the lack of underlying infrastructure.
Since last year, various game infrastructure solutions have gradually entered the market, with representatives like MUD and Dojo. However, MUD's logical partitioning relies on the "World" framework, which increases development flexibility but may also be limited by the performance and scalability of the EVM. On the other hand, Dojo's advantage lies in its foundation on ZKP, but it is constrained by its language dependency on Cairo and lacks certain flexibility at the stack level.
In this market cycle, with the launch of the MetaArena engine, its series of solutions based on cryptography, ZKP, modularity, and Layer3 have brought more comprehensive solutions to the blockchain gaming sector and have become key to driving the blockchain gaming market toward a new paradigm.
Currently, the first game launched based on the MetaArena stack, "Final Glory," is also receiving significant market attention. In less than two months since its launch, it has surpassed 100,000 users, and the number of users is still rapidly increasing, with players spread across the globe. "Final Glory" has become a phenomenon in the blockchain gaming sector, and its release has opened a new chapter for this field.
Why has "Final Glory" been successful?
"Final Glory" is an AAA MMORPG running on the MetaArena Realm game engine. The game itself continues the concept of MetaArena's autonomous world and is characterized by top-notch graphics and an immersive gaming experience. The game offers a high degree of freedom, allowing players to choose different professions (heavy swordsman, sword fighter, priest, archer) based on their gaming habits, engage in adventure battles, and acquire resources for growth. Different branches of each profession possess unique abilities, determining the user's role in the game society.
Players can also form powerful guilds, participate in guild tasks and competitions, and occupy core resource outputs. The game does not provide task prompts, allowing players to explore freely. In the future, the game is expected to enable players to further create assets and build a bottom-up world system. Meanwhile, with guilds as a bond, players can further capture social scenarios and better establish game cooperation through social interactions, creating a more cohesive gaming community.
- Well-crafted with huge development costs
Compared to the vast majority of shoddily made Web3 games, "Final Glory" can be considered a conscientious masterpiece. On one hand, it deploys extremely complex game logic on-chain through the MetaArena game engine, while the game development team has migrated some game logic from previously developed Web2 AAA games. On the other hand, "Final Glory" has invested heavily in game rendering and adopted top-tier solutions, such as industry-leading HDR lighting pipelines, self-developed PBR shaders, and HyperShader, among others. "Final Glory" is currently one of the highest development cost games in Web3, and the high costs have resulted in excellent game effects.
- High-quality underlying engine support, experience comparable to Web2 AAA games
Apart from the development phase, "Final Glory" is built on the MetaArena underlying framework. When the game runs, the action logs generated by players' continuous gaming behaviors are aggregated over a certain period and generate zero-knowledge proofs through an off-chain computing network (each computing node has the capability to generate zero-knowledge proofs and communicate, providing strong computational support for the game, driven by token economics). These proofs are ultimately verified on-chain (in the Realm engine), significantly enhancing the game's smoothness and greatly improving the PvE gaming experience.
In some PvP game scenarios, players can enter game rooms through online matchmaking. These rooms are established in a stateless manner and driven by nodes. In these rooms, the nodes themselves do not store game data; they only package and sort players' actions in a ZKP manner and upload them to the on-chain Realm engine for verification and execution of results. Therefore, from the perspective of the nodes themselves, they do not need to broadcast global state changes on the source chain, only requiring local state changes, allowing PvP gameplay to achieve extremely low latency and 0 Gas experience without relying on centralized servers.
Thus, MetaArena provides strong support for the operation of "Final Glory," allowing players to enjoy an experience comparable to Web2 AAA games while retaining Web3 characteristics.
- Engaging game content
"Final Glory" features a rich variety of gameplay, including:
- Open world exploration/monster hunting/resource gathering
- Moon Gate otherworld gameplay, single-player Moon Gate exploration/multi-player team Moon Gate battles
- High-difficulty team dungeon - Blood Feast Torture
In each existing gameplay mode, players can gain an ultimate gaming experience from battles, continuously fueling their gaming enthusiasm under AAA graphics. With the support of the MetaArena engine, players can engage in real-time PvP battles with players worldwide, which is groundbreaking in the GameFi field.
Future gameplay will include hunting otherworldly demons/dragon lady invasions/Rockman arenas/Iron Islands melee/guild gameplay/trading markets, etc. This means that players with different gaming preferences can find satisfaction within the game.
- The blockchain gaming market urgently needs quality games, and "Final Glory" occupies users' minds
Before "Final Glory," there were very few Web3 games that could provide such a high-quality experience for players. Coupled with the overall poor condition of the cryptocurrency market and the lack of innovation in the sector, this field has remained stagnant, with no game able to maintain user stickiness. During this gap, "Final Glory," as one of the few excellent AAA titles in the current Web3 market, is rapidly capturing users' minds and is becoming an emerging unicorn and traffic entry point in this market.
Valuation of "Final Glory"
In the early stages, whether it was the complex logic of AAA games, whether deployed on-chain or fully based on the Web3 stack, was considered a pipe dream. Thus, in the early days, it was challenging to support it from technical, investment, timeline, or existing industry resources (including infrastructure, etc.).
"Final Glory" has taken the lead in achieving breakthroughs from a technical standpoint and has become one of the few MMORPG AAA games in the GameFi sector that truly targets Web3. It is further opening up the market based on a complete game ecosystem and high-quality gaming experience, becoming a leading game in the GameFi sector.
Currently, the user base of "Final Glory" is still growing, and metrics such as user online duration and activity are on the rise, reflecting the market's recognition of "Final Glory." Backed by a large number of active users, it not only represents strong consumer power and value growth potential but also captures significant attention value for the game ecosystem, continuously exploring new business models in various fields. At the same time, this also represents the potential revenue expectations for "Final Glory," which is expected to empower players and the ecosystem deeply based on its strong profitability.
In the new market cycle, the imaginative power and space of new narratives will always surpass old narratives, which may mean that "Final Glory's" valuation is likely to exceed that of established GameFi leaders like Axie and Raca in the previous market cycle.
Newly issued assets, new wealth codes
Currently, with the comprehensive launch of the "Final Glory" game ecosystem, it has further introduced the game asset Honor Medal - Divine Dragon. Reportedly, this asset is an extremely rare collectible mount in "Final Glory," symbolizing supreme combat glory and power. As an important part of the Final Glory ecosystem, the "Honor Medal - Divine Dragon" brings extraordinary benefits and experiences to its holders. Players possessing this medal will receive significant combat value boosts, further enhancing their strength and competitive advantage in the game. Meanwhile, in addition to a reward of 900 $TIMI (10% TGE, with the remaining portion released linearly over 12 months), holding the Honor Medal - Divine Dragon mount also means benefits in earnings, including priority access to new asset releases, priority unlocking of new gameplay, and game earnings boosts, among others.
In addition to the rights within the "Final Glory" game, holding the "Honor Medal - Divine Dragon" also allows capturing rights from the MetaArena ecosystem. Not only can holders continuously earn governance token rewards through their computational contributions to the MetaArena distributed computing network, but they can also gain potential airdrop opportunities from the series of games launched in the MetaArena ecosystem.
Moreover, becoming a staker in the MetaArena network not only allows for higher staking income weight but also enables customized support for developers and game operations as a service node, yielding long-term benefits and income.
Whether in the highly valued "Final Glory" game or the MetaArena network, through the "Divine Dragon" mount, users will enjoy top-tier resources. The benefits brought by the "Divine Dragon" mount are ongoing, so holders will continuously benefit from the growth of game value, making it a lucrative investment, and this asset will become one of the few opportunities to capture the development dividends of the MetaArena system.