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Background: Yesterday’s goal of a complete match put gas costs at the center of prototype design. Today: ETH set a new all-time high, breaking USD 1,500. Impact and next: The new high turned a budget discussion into an immediate design conflict: if on-chain features pushed up costs, could players get into the game at all?
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Background: Yesterday’s goal of a complete match put gas costs at the center of prototype design. A-Zhen was assessing the chain path and had to translate cost pressure into development choices. Prices kept climbing, but the studio could not let that obscure the burden players might face.
Today: ETH set a new all-time high, breaking USD 1,500. Looking at the test budget, A-Zhen gave a wry smile and said that the more expensive the chain became, the less affordable the game was. She circled the planned on-chain actions and asked the team to explain, one by one, why players would have to wait or pay for each. The designer worried that removing too much would strip the battle of its intended rhythm.
Impact and next: The new high turned a budget discussion into an immediate design conflict: if on-chain features pushed up costs, could players get into the game at all? The team had not decided to remove any steps. Next, it would weigh necessity and experience together, item by item.