When will gaming tokens surge? SaruTobi iOS Bitcoin game review: Web3 Gamer

The cryptography market prints green candles at all levels, with 80% of altcoins surpassing Bitcoin this month – but playwests seem to have missed the note.

While the wider market soar alongside Bitcoin and the recent Ethereum rally, the tokens related to the game show signs of life, but always lagging behind. According to the co-founder of MMorpg Game Calamity Seva, this is a problem of credibility.

“Confidence is broken. Too many millions of people have delivered zero,” said Seva about blockchain games in a recent post X.

Due to the lack of confidence, Seva said that players had little confidence in any of the gaming tokens and mainly pursue fast earnings. “The short-term state of mind dominates the early sale,” he said.

“Believers are tired. No victories, just waiting.”

Seva has said that attention and money are now “thin” in too many game projects, and it is “time to change this”.

The figures show a small increase in popular gaming tokens in the last seven days since Bitcoin has reached new peaks of all time on a binance of $ 123,100 on July 14.

Ronin (Ron) increased by 9.09%, the beam (beam) is up 9.85% and Axie Infinity (AXS) is up 6.82% in the last seven days, according to CoinmarketCap data.

However, this pale compared to Tezos (XTZ), which increased by 67.73%; Ethena (ENA), up 47.45%; And Lido Dao (LDO), which has a gain of 42.88% over the same period.

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Some have found humor in the fact that the gaming tokens have still not taken off. The co-founder of Rare Evo, Randcorp, said: “Watching a pile of 30-year-old web 3-year-old playing bros on the chronology because the” game “does not have a bull race.”

“You may have lost a few years because of lost time, Bruv, welcome to learning opportunity costs,” said Randcorp.

But not everyone considers him as misfortune and gloom. The commentator of the Crypto Camol game is always optimistic, saying: “There are so many dynamics in the crypto at the moment, and people are looking for use cases.”

“This cycle, we certainly have more this time, but the digital property + the games is massive,” said Camol.

In the Bull Run 2021, the gaming tokens have not really moved until a while after the rest of the market has already pumped. When Bitcoin reached its first local summit of $ 63,523 in April, the game active ingredients had not yet decorated.

It was not until July, about three months later, that Infinity (AXS), the cycle’s token, began its explosive race. Over the next four months, AXS jumped 15 times, culminating in November, roughly at the same time when Bitcoin reached a new annual summit of $ 69,000.

So if history is repeated, it could be a delayed start, not a dead end.

Easy hack to bring users to new games: improbable CEO

Why build a whole new game from zero when players already like the worlds they watch on television?

It is the thought of Herman Narula, the CEO of Metaverse Developer and Venture Capital Company improbable, who argues that blockchain game developers should stop originally and start to look at familiar and proven franchises to win players.

“IP greatly reduces the cost of acquiring users,” he says. “If you have, you know, I only invent names here, but Bond or Jurassic Park or John Wick or The Avengers, it’s much easier to play people in your game,” he explains.

Narula believes that this strategy could offer a rescue buoy to an industry faced with an “enormous economic crisis”.

“”The cost of making someone like you or I buy a new game for free is 40 dollars, “he says.

“You have to spend 40 dollars in advertisements just to have a bettor tempted to play a free game. It is therefore almost impossible to launch new titles,” he explains.

Improbable is known for its cloud platform, Spatialos, which helps to build and perform large games and online simulations. In 2024, he launched the Somnia blockchain, which is now hosting popular web3 games like the horror game game Night Spawn and the Battle Royale Maelstrom. Narula says it is one of the few companies that still invest in game development.

IP acquisition is a chance for small developers to shine

You no longer need to be a massive studio to acquire rights, according to Narula.

“The owners of intellectual property began to become much more generous with their conditions. They are therefore ready to offer to people, even small teams, to a crack to play games with their IP. ”

“I think that the use of IP actually creates a lot of discipline and gives people much more emphasis on taking good gameplay, rather than, like, inventing a new world, a new story, new characters,” he explains.

The original content always has its place, he admits. But these days, the games supported by IP “feel like a very good deal”.

Animoca Brands is another game company pursuing an IP strategy. In 2024, the ITV television giant teamed up with The Sandbox to bring some of its biggest reality TV shows, such as The Voice, Love Island and I’m in Celebrity, sort me from here, as games in the metarers.

Peaky Blinders, one of the most popular television broadcasts in the world with 80 million viewers, also obtained an Crypto game adaptation in 2026.

Hot Take Game Review: Sarutobi

It may seem surprising that a match with the simple objective of flying a monkey as far as possible was prohibited from the Apple App Store.

But Sarutobi was withdrawn from the App Store in March 2015 because of its Bitcoin integration and payment features – prohibited under Apple’s stricter policies at the time.

It was then restored, the developers opting for “Bitcoin in the game” rather than the real bitcoin to adapt to the anti-Crypto rules of Apple. Even then, Apple finally suspended the game, fearing that users will always confuse the currency in play with real bitcoin.

A decade later, Sarutobi is back on the App Store this month after Apple’s heart change to applications related to cryptocurrency.

Even better, the game has a real integrated bitcoin. Using Bitcoin Lightning technology from ZBD, Sarutobi now offers Bitcoin microtransactions, allowing players to win and spend Sats in the game via the Lightning network.

This is the first game that Apple approved to have Bitcoin microtransactions.

The game itself is intentionally simple and insane; You balance a monkey through the jungle, collecting bananas and other awards, with the main objective of launching the monkey as much as possible.

Bananas can be used to improve the capacity of your monkey with power-ups like rockets, increasing your chances of earning more SAT.

These SATs can be spent on articles at stake such as skins or withdrawn from a ZBD portfolio. Fortunately, as it uses the Lightning network, it is not necessary to wait for a big balance before retiring, players can withdraw even for a few cents of Bitcoin instantly.

You are not going to become rich by playing Sarutobi, but being able to win and remove the real bitcoin just by throwing a monkey in the air is a pretty cool victory for the Bitcoin community.

Other news:

– The South Korean game studio Delab Games joins forces with the AI Verse8 game manufacturer to “create flagship experiences which prove the value of development assisted by large scale”.

– Ronin Network launched Ronin Creator Rumble, rewarding creators on Ronin with USDC for the best content contributed to the network.

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Ciaran Lyons

Ciaran Lyons is an Australian journalist Crypto. He is also a standing actor and was presenter of radio and television on Triple J, SBS and the project.