For those who actively earns $EOS by playing games on Womplay, they probably already knew Womplay has entered NFT business not too long ago. Players participate specific games and view their newly gathered NFTs on WAX.
For the people who do not know anything about Womplay, it is a game website that allow players to earn crypto while playing web/mobile games. The website also offers challenge, which encourage players to play certain games at specific time by completing specific actions.
Well, the point of this post is not about how to earn NFTs since there’s nothing more complex than just stay in the games for five hours cumulatively, players would get one. Easy and simple. And the rarest item's (gold) drop rate seems like about 10%.
I want to talk about how Womplay combines their newly designed challenges and NFT related games and gave us multiple way to earn rewards.
First, let me summarize previous challenges of Womplay. There can be categorized into two groups: 1) time staying in the game, or 2) the speed of leveling up within a set of time.
However, a new challenge mechanism was built to accommodate with NFTs. There are so far three different challenges since the new change.
The first one was getting the most NFTs within a period of time. OK, this is not new. It is basically just to make players stay in the game. There will be a NFT dropped every five hours. The longer players stay in the game, the more NFTs; there is no different than the old challenge.
Since players need to hold their NFTs in their accounts, I highly doubted any one tried to put any of them into marker; at least I did not.
One thing I want to mention, the top 1 player had almost 100 NFTs. That’s almost 500 hours of game play. However, computers, mobile phones did he/she use to all that?
Did the reward cover all the electricity bill?
The second challenge right after was to destroy NFTs. The more NFTs were destroyed, the high rank player had in the challenge.
This is interesting. We know the total number of each NFT in finite. Nobody will get any more once all minted NFTs are dropped. Soon or later, people will lose interests once they collect all the NFTs.
At that point, I thought that I should try to sell some of my NFTs since I did not have much; there was no way I could win this challenge. The challenge wants players to destroy their NFTs. They need more to compete. Maybe I could make some $EOS out of it.
Unfortunately, my plan was not successful. There were players, who had almost 100 NFTs from last challenge.
Then the third challenge started. This time, they wanted us to buy NFTs. Has anybody thought about Womplay encouraging us to buy after we destroy all of our NFTs?
All my NFTs, which was not sold during last challenge were gone within a day. I put up more to sell until my RAM could no longer support any more transactions.
These challenges just gave us multiple ways to earn rewards from the same NFTs. Whales can compete the challenges, none-pro players like me, can just sell our NFTs to the whales so that they can further their ranks in the challenge.
This gives everybody a chance to earn some $EOS. I had to stop some crypto games because I could never sell any of my items because I was late to the game, or too casual to heavily invest into the game at the beginning.
This series of challenges opens a new door to allow everybody to win. Pretty awesome, isn’t it?
