Back to collectionCollecting and Playing May Follow Different Paths
Background: The new Discord still felt like a living room shared by friends, with game talk mingling with personal collections. Today: On Sunday, someone shared their CryptoPunks in the server. Consequences and next steps: The exchange did not establish a direction for the game, but it made A-Zhen notice that showing a collection and wanting to join a battle were different interests.
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Background: The new Discord still felt like a living room shared by friends, with game talk mingling with personal collections. The studio wanted to hear members' real interests, but also needed to decide which conversations belonged in design discussions rather than put everything into the cards.
Today: On Sunday, someone shared their CryptoPunks in the server. Nobody thought much of it at the time, and the conversation soon moved elsewhere. A-Zhen did not treat the post as a requirement. She simply asked whether people enjoyed collecting for its own sake or wanted their collections to be useful in a game. The answers differed.
Consequences and next steps: The exchange did not establish a direction for the game, but it made A-Zhen notice that showing a collection and wanting to join a battle were different interests. She planned to ask about collecting and gameplay separately in later conversations, keeping them apart for now. Whether a natural connection could emerge remained unanswered.