Peter Molyneux’s Studio 22cans Sold Around £40 Million NFT For Their “Blockchain Business Simulator” Heritage, before it was released. Of course, the town management game has its own cryptocurrency, and this weekend they sold NFTs of virtual land for real money. The hope for crypto moguls is that they can earn money back from other players through in-game business partnerships.
Molyneux first mentioned Legacy in 2017, but it was mostly unknown until Saturday, when the land sale was announced. announced. Turns out, it’s about business. You design, build, and take care of a corporate town, where its inhabitants will work in its factories to create the products you invent and sell. And because it is built on NFT and cryptocurrency (LegacyCoin, a new cryptocurrency minted on the Ethereum blockchain), you will be able to become a virtual host by buy imaginary land with the hope of making real money.
“Owning Land NFT allows you to start your own in-game blockchain business association in Legacy. You’ll be able to play Legacy, while also earning and owning your game,” said Gala Games, the company. blockchain game,” explained the person who was working on it. with.
“Importantly, as a business association owner, you will have access to Legacy Keys. These items can be given to others who wish to start an in-game business in Legacy. borrow, make them your in-game Business Partner. As part of the link, they will share a portion of their earned LegacyCoins with you.”
And even though none of the games are even available to players, they’ve almost sold out Land NFT. All ‘Land’ lots sold to date add up to the equivalent of over 14,000 Ethereum, or around £40.5 million in real money. The most expensive was a plot in London, a limited edition of a lot of Ancient (artificial) rarity, which sold for the equivalent of around £670,000.
LegacyCoin’s ability to profit depends on the game being released in 2022 as planned and on people actually buying and playing it. Unfortunately, 22cans doesn’t have the legacy of these. Their first game, Godus, kicked off its pre-launch pay-off by raising over £520,000 on Kickstarter. After being poorly received for that and its spin-off, Godus Wars, they abandoned it to create The Trail, a mobile game filled with microtransactions, glitches, and inability to execute tasks. your purchases when you buy a new phone. Godus is still sold as an early access game on Steam and hasn’t received an update for over 5 years.
2022 is likely to be a year many developers try their hand at NFT. This is the latest in a string of disappointments that include Ubisoft puts serial number on Ghost Recon Breakpoint cosmetics and Sims Designer Will Wright Creates an NFT . Game.
To know more about Legacy, The Verge had an interview with Peter Molyneux. He responded to a question about criticisms of corporate towns by giving an anecdote about getting naked in front of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
