Recently, the explosive popularity of "Black Myth: Wukong" has not only brought AAA games back into the spotlight but also sparked heated discussions among players and developers. The continued success of Web2 games has led some Web3 players to switch sides. In contrast, Web3 games face issues such as short lifecycles and unclear business models, especially in the current cryptocurrency market environment, raising questions about their significance.
In fact, blockchain games have not achieved breakthroughs since the last market cycle, remaining far behind Web2 games in terms of game content and experience, still in a primitive stage. The root cause of this predicament lies in the lack of underlying infrastructure.
Since last year, various game infrastructure solutions have gradually entered the market, with notable examples like MUD and Dojo. However, MUD's logical partition relies on the "World" framework, which increases development flexibility but may also be limited by the performance and scalability of EVM. Dojo's advantage lies in its basis on ZKP, but it is constrained by its language dependency on Cairo, and the underlying stack lacks certain flexibility.
In this market cycle, with the launch of the MetaArena engine, its series of solutions based on cryptography, ZKP, modularity, and Layer3 have brought more comprehensive solutions to the blockchain gaming sector and have become key to driving the blockchain gaming market towards a new paradigm.
Currently, the first game launched based on the MetaArena stack, "Final Glory," is also receiving significant market attention, having surpassed 100,000 users in less than two months since its launch, with user numbers still rapidly increasing and players spread across the globe. "Final Glory" has become a phenomenon in the blockchain gaming sector, and its launch marks the beginning of a new chapter in this field.
Why is "Final Glory" successful?
"Final Glory" is an AAA MMORPG running on the MetaArena Realm game engine. The game continues the concept of MetaArena's self-developed world and features top-notch graphics and an immersive gaming experience. The game offers a high degree of freedom, allowing players to choose different professions (heavy swordsman, sword fighter, priest, archer) based on their gaming habits, engage in adventure battles, and gather resources for growth. Different branches of each profession possess unique abilities, determining the user's role in the game society.
Players can also form powerful guilds to participate in guild tasks and competitions, occupying core resource outputs. The game does not provide task prompts, allowing players to explore freely. In the future, the game is expected to enable players to further create assets and build a bottom-up world system. Meanwhile, with guilds as a bond, players can capture social scenarios and better establish game collaboration through social interactions, creating a more cohesive gaming community.
- Well-crafted with huge development costs
Compared to the vast majority of poorly made Web3 games, "Final Glory" can be considered a conscientious masterpiece. On one hand, it deploys extremely complex game logic on-chain through the MetaArena game engine, while the game development team has migrated some game logic from previously developed Web2 AAA games. On the other hand, "Final Glory" has invested heavily in game rendering and adopted top-tier solutions, such as industry-leading HDR lighting pipelines, self-developed PBR shaders, and the use of HyperShader, among others. "Final Glory" is currently one of the highest development cost games in Web3, and the high costs have resulted in excellent game effects.
- High-quality underlying engine support, experience comparable to Web2 AAA games
Beyond the development phase, "Final Glory" is built on the MetaArena foundation. When the game runs, the action logs generated by players' continuous gaming behaviors are aggregated over a certain period and zero-knowledge proofs are generated by an off-chain computing network (each computing node is capable of generating zero-knowledge proofs and communication, providing strong computational support for the game, driven by token economics). These proofs are ultimately verified on-chain (within the Realm engine), significantly enhancing the game's smoothness and greatly improving the PvE gaming experience.
In some PvP game scenarios, players can enter game rooms through online matchmaking. These rooms are established in a stateless manner and driven by nodes. In these rooms, nodes do not store game data; they are only responsible for packaging and sorting players' actions in a ZKP manner, uploading them to the on-chain Realm engine for verification and executing results. Thus, from the perspective of the nodes, they do not need to broadcast global state on the source chain, only requiring local state changes, allowing PvP gameplay to achieve extremely low latency and 0 Gas experience without relying on centralized servers.
Therefore, MetaArena provides strong support for the operation of "Final Glory," allowing players to enjoy an experience comparable to Web2 AAA games while retaining Web3 characteristics.
- Engaging game content
"Final Glory" features a rich variety of gameplay, including:
- Large world exploration/monster hunting/gathering
- Moon Gate otherworld gameplay, solo Moon Gate exploration/multi-player team Moon Gate battles
- High-difficulty team dungeon - Blood Feast Torture
In each existing gameplay mode, players can gain an ultimate gaming experience from battles, continuously generating gaming enthusiasm under AAA graphics. With the support of the MetaArena engine, players can engage in real-time PvP battles with players worldwide, which is groundbreaking in the GameFi sector.
Future gameplay will include hunting otherworldly demons/dragon lady invasions/Rockman arenas/Iron Islands melee/guild gameplay/trading markets, etc. This means that players with different gaming preferences can find satisfaction within the game.
- The blockchain gaming market urgently needs quality games, and "Final Glory" occupies users' minds
Before "Final Glory," there were very few Web3 games that could provide such a high-quality experience for players. Coupled with the overall poor state of the cryptocurrency market and the lack of innovation in the sector, this field has remained stagnant, with no games able to maintain user engagement. During this gap, "Final Glory," as one of the few excellent AAA titles in the current Web3 market, is rapidly occupying users' minds and is becoming an emerging unicorn and traffic entry point in this market.
Valuation of "Final Glory"
In the early days, whether it was the complex logic of AAA games, whether deployed on-chain or fully based on the Web3 stack, was considered a fantasy. Therefore, early on, it was difficult for technology, investment, timelines, or existing industry resources (including infrastructure) to provide support.
"Final Glory" has achieved a breakthrough from a technical standpoint, becoming one of the few MMORPG AAA games in the GameFi sector that genuinely targets Web3. It is further opening up the market based on a complete game ecosystem and high-quality gaming experience, and is becoming a leading game in the GameFi sector.
Currently, the user base of "Final Glory" is still growing, and data such as user online duration and activity levels are on the rise, reflecting the market's recognition of "Final Glory." Backed by a large number of active users, it not only represents strong consumer power and value growth potential but also captures significant attention value for the game ecosystem, continuously exploring new business models in various fields. At the same time, this also represents the potential income expectations for "Final Glory," which is expected to empower players and the ecosystem based on strong profitability.
In the new market cycle, the imagination and potential of new narratives will always surpass old narratives, which may mean that "Final Glory's" valuation is likely to exceed that of established GameFi leaders like Axie and Raca in the previous market cycle.
Newly issued assets, a new wealth code
Currently, with the comprehensive launch of the "Final Glory" game ecosystem, it has further introduced the game asset Glory Medal - Divine Dragon. This asset is an extremely rare collectible mount in the "Final Glory" game, symbolizing supreme combat glory and power. As an important part of the Final Glory ecosystem, the "Glory Medal - Divine Dragon" brings extraordinary benefits and experiences to its holders. Players who possess this medal will receive significant combat value bonuses, further enhancing their strength and competitive advantage in the game. Meanwhile, in addition to providing a reward of 900 $TIMI (10% TGE, with the remaining portion released linearly over 12 months), holding the Glory Medal - Divine Dragon mount also means income benefits, including priority access to new asset releases, priority unlocking of new gameplay, and game revenue bonuses.
In addition to the rights within the "Final Glory" game, holding the "Glory Medal - Divine Dragon" also allows capturing rights from the MetaArena ecosystem. It can continuously earn governance token rewards through the computational power contribution of the MetaArena distributed computing network. As more games in the MetaArena ecosystem are launched, holders can also gain potential airdrop opportunities from these games.
Furthermore, becoming a staker in the MetaArena network not only allows for higher staking income weight but also enables serving as a service node, providing customized support for developers and game operations, and earning long-term benefits and income.
Whether in the "Final Glory" game, which has high valuation and income expectations, or in the MetaArena network, the "Divine Dragon" mount will become a means for users to enjoy top-tier resources. The benefits brought by the "Divine Dragon" mount are ongoing, so holders will continue to benefit from the growth of game value, making it a win-win situation. This asset will also become one of the few opportunities to capture the development dividends of the MetaArena system.