Back to collectionA Game Players Can Download, a Key Holder Still Questioning
The trading card game announced at the start of the month had reached its public beta. The game entered public beta on the Epic store. That same afternoon, node operators sounded less relieved.
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The trading card game announced at the start of the month had reached its public beta. Until then, conversations about games on the chain often pointed to previews and store pages. The narrator wanted to know whether an ordinary player with no key and no knowledge of wallets could actually start playing today.
The game entered public beta on the Epic store. It was the first thing on this chain that an ordinary person could play without a barrier: no key to buy, no wallet to connect, just an account to register, a download, and a match to start. The developer also offered registered users in the United States a chance to win a game console or a complete PC. Officials attached task points to the game; playing enough to meet the requirements could earn 30,000 points. The narrator stayed in the group late. Some people had installed the game, some asked how to build a deck, and others merely posted a screenshot of the store page, pleased that there was finally something to click into. He wanted to hear from people who had actually played. Already, the group's question had changed from “When can we play?” to “How do we build a deck?”
That same afternoon, node operators sounded less relieved. One key holder said he had wanted to run his own node but had been pushed toward staking in a pool at every turn. To him, that differed from what he had first been told and felt more like a trap. He suspected it might explain why key sales had stopped at the eighteenth tier and gone no further. The narrator recorded that as the holder's judgment, not an established cause. The beta now let players enter a game directly, while the purpose and expectations attached to keys remained disputed. Both stories landed on the same day, and the market reacted to neither. Next, he intended to hear both what players experienced and what, specifically, operators wanted to know about their keys.