Also, P2R games add 'rewards' on the achievement by gamers which is usually quantified as 'Ranking'. P2E games left a salutary lesson that gaming to earn money is no longer gaming.Ĭontrary to P2E games, P2R games allow gamers to focus on the game itself. Second, as soon as a game's focus goes from 'fun' to 'money', the game turns into just sheer labor and the players become miners. Therefore, if new gamers are not joining, existing gamers can no longer earn money. Most gamers soon realized two immutable principles behind P2E games: First, a P2E gamer can earn money only by selling game items to other gamers. Similar to Cryptokitties, gamers also got tired of the repetitive 'grinding' to breed Axies. The craze was succeeded by ' Axie Infinity', a P2E blockchain game with an added showdown element. The first notable P2E game was ' Cryptokitties' in 2017, where players competed to create and breed unique kittens to sell but gamers grew bored with the repetition of trying to create a unique kitty, and Cryptokitties was quickly forgotten. When the wave of blockchain spread to the gaming industry, game developers invented a new genre called Play-to-Earn.

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