Night Crows is an MMORPG game that is approaching its 1st year of operation, with events taking place this week to celebrate its anniversary. One question that may arise for players of Night Crows and other web3 games in general is how much revenue did this game generate for the company that created the game, Wemade, in this 1-year period? Let's look for answers, so if you are also curious to know this information, come and find out!
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Wemade X Night Crows
The company that developed Night Crows was Wemade, which has its own Wemix blockchain that, according to them, has more than 500 thousand simultaneous users. The game Night Crows was released in March 2024 and in its first 3 days generated $10 million in sales, as many players believed that it could be the replacement for MIR4. However, for many this did not happen because the game's PVP fights took a long time to be implemented and the combat system itself was not very engaging.
But even so, between February and September 2024, the game accumulated more than $140 million, and some believe it could reach $200 million, becoming one of the most successful NFT game launches. However, even though it is geared towards Web3 games, there are many micro-transactions within the game, which use other forms of payment, meaning that only a small part of its revenue comes from transactions carried out via the blockchain, of which only $700,000 came from this method. Therefore, a Web3 gaming industry analyst said that Wemade games only provide an option to monetize earnings, but that they are not fundamentally Web3. ---
Night Crows Sustainability
In the Wemade MMORPGs model, many players end up spending to win, especially the big players known as “whales”, who invest heavily in their characters by buying packages in the Night Crows cash store. Another problem is the numerous bots, which farm almost 24 hours in the game to constantly withdraw, taking liquidity from the system. These two issues raise doubts about the game's long-term sustainability, as players may reduce their investments and the number of bots may increase, causing an imbalance.
However, as much as the model raises these doubts, Night Crows and Wemade have achieved something that other projects have struggled to achieve, which is to generate profit from the games, since we often see projects spending a lot to maintain operations, without generating a positive result, which in the long term will represent the bankruptcy of the developer company and ultimately the end of the game. Generating revenue as Night Crows has done allows the development of the game to continue and new events and news to be added to the game.
If it were possible to reach a middle ground where players were incentivized to use the game's token, in this case $CROW, instead of making transactions in the cash store in other ways, these values would end up going to the game's ecosystem and not all to the company itself. An example of this was the addition of the Crow store, but it has not been used much by players since the Cash offers are better. If this model were implemented, the company's revenue could come from transaction fees when tokens are converted to acquire Crow.
