Fun gameplay and strong economics are key to success for play-to-earn games - CropBytes AMA Recap
Regardless of the pessimistic attitude towards the future of P2E games, there are some projects that manage to thrive and find ways to keep an active audience. Farming simulator CropBytes in one such examples.
“We’re not just a farming simulator, we’re a business farming simulator”, pointed out CropBytes co-founder Sheryl Varghese during Cointelegraph’s AMA live session. “We give people real jobs with real income which, for example, supported many users during the pandemic. The in-game exchange allows people to invest and grow their portfolio. And people continue to stay with us — gamers, traders, investors. Some have even been with us since we started, almost 5 years running.”
When asked how they managed to build such a loyal audience and continue to develop the game for the long term, CEO Sandeep Kumar and co-founder Sheryl Varghese touched on a number of points.
“I believe that Cropbytes’ right mix of fungible assets and NFTs has strengthened the game economy along with the player community and helped us weather different market cycles”, said Varghese. “We implemented this balanced mix in 2019. Prior to that we had been just like others, an NFT-only game. But the 2018 bull market made us rethink the project.
Recently, we also listed our game assets as SFTs on Polygon.. To a novice player, SFTs may not make sense and look similar to NFTs, but they certainly bring liquidity to the game exchange. They also make playing easier, especially if a user wants to buy multiple assets at once," said Varghese.
According to Kumar, Cropbytes is easy to play for users of all levels of game experience. "A player is free to explore the game and learn the mechanics, which are not too complicated, during the weekly trial period. You can be a
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