Well, first of all you should get ready for a wall of text to read. Those are my thought about HYPER atm , but please not criticize my opinions. But you are free to prove me wrong, because I might be. But here we go! : So first, is it just me or is there something missing for the HYPER community atm? For example, we need players on our game servers. Because everytime I watch the awesome hypergg site I see no one playing on the servers, which is sad. I feel people are just playing a little just to stay in the lead of making a few bucks in the monthly competitions. We need a network of gamers that can play games together and have tons of fun, not just on the servers. We need something that can hit in this awesome cryptocurrency in gaming world and making them enjoy it. I think Hyper is a way to protect gamer's privacy and not let your money be stuck in steam where they can control your funds and you are not able to withdraw any of it into money you can use else where. Steam own all your games too, they are within their control. They can close your account and make your games unavailable for you. Of course you can always sell a steam item for paypal cash with a "trusted" user. but that isn't secure at all. You never know when a "trusted" community member will turn around and chargeback your well-earned money. So we need something that can make trades irreversible. A deal is a deal. HYPER! o/
And, In my opinions we don't need ways to use the currency on the game servers really. Ingame cash imo will always just have a value in the game itself. It will always be ingame cash. But you should still be able to buy ingame cash you can use ingame for game items and such, using our currency HYPER. I agree, you should be able to earn HYPER playing games. but If we keep trying to put HYPER inside the game itself, I feel people will only use this as a way earning grinding money, that isn't fun, playing alone on servers collecting HYPER you can sell for BTC? Personally I don't play games to earn money, I do it because I love it and it's fun! But earning something for your play hours is really a nice experience, its like unlocking achievements! And, the idea of monthly competitions is really nice, you are not just winning steam money (like 100$ steam wallet cash) that you ONLY can use on steam no where else,but money you can use for whatever you want. But we should have more LIVE competitions, like HYPER tournaments. It's alot more social and it will be less lonely playing on the game servers in weekends. and the money you win feels much more real right? You own it, not steam etc. The money is within your control. we should also start communicate more with each other via IRC and voicechat. We should start building a real gaming community we love! But please guys, HYPER isn't all about making easy money. It's about using it inside the gaming world. Look at this page etc:http://backpack.tf/as you can see they use Keys, metal and earbuds as currency for buying and selling tf2 items. Also The community itself decide what the value of the items is. And here:http://dispenser.tf/There is also a page where you can buy and sell steam stuff using csgo keys, tf2 keys, tf2 earbuds and bitcoin as payment method . You can also trade game for game.We also need something like this. HYPER is perfect for this. We need a currency that gamers see value in, the best thing about cryptocurrencies is that we ourself can decide what the value of it is! You decide what and how much you are willing to pay for it! We need a simple and secure way to pay for our games and game items without giving out your entire address and name.
I must say, HYPER has come a long way and will continue his journey. There is ALOT of stuff coming to this currency which is great. I feel the potential! I also wanna say that HyperFurture is a great dev and deserves a vouch. Also the people working and supporting HYPER! GO HYPER! Edit: I hope when I get my new computer and a better internet connection I can start streaming on twitch.tv, doing HYPER giveaways and playing games with the community! Play on the game servers etc. alsoi games like CS:GO, LoL, The Crew. Idk, there is many games to play!
(Sorry if my english is not flawless but hope you understand!)
Falcon I love your ideas! Thank you for the kind words.
My vision for the HYPER game servers was that they are also a place to SPEND HYPER as well as EARN it. So they are not just a place for earning HYPER but a place for spending HYPER too as a part of the HYPER ecosystem
For sure people are welcome to make game servers and launch games that integrate HYPER in any way they like. Imagination is the only limit here and no idea is stupid which is partly why I think we have achieved so much in such a relatively short time frame.
You said a few times that we need a site where people can trade all kinds of things for HYPER. As you know I have a bounty available for this. Do you want to make a site like this and claim the bounty?
That would be awesome! As the HYPERGG nears its proper launch it will definitely help in making the HYPER game servers more populated, as more and more people will start using the
http://hypergg.com and learning about HYPER that way. Meowball and his team are building a rock solid website / online gaming service revolving around HYPER from the ground up with a 100% original code base. It is an amazing project. We have to remember we are pretty much still at the beginning of HYPER as the gaming cryptocurrency (although HYPER is used in more online games than ANY other cryptocurrency to my knowledge). We have an amazing community and many amazing projects but we will look back on these days as the earliest of days. Think of Bitcoin in 2010 and this is kind of where HYPER is now. As long as we all keep working towards our goals HYPER will get there.
Thank you everyone for being a part of this.
Falcon let me know if you want to make a HYPER trading site like eBay for HYPER. This is desperately needed and I think you would be perfect to manage this project.
I am also happy to hear ideas about how HYPER can sponsor more game servers that use the currency in different ways. Also we do need to have HYPER trading for other in-game tokens and assets. We can do this on a HYPER for eBay that you might set up Falcon. We could also do this on a decentralized exchange like Counterparty so there are lots of options! EDIT: for now people can also trade ANYTHING for HYPER on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/HyperTrades So if anyone has anything they want to sell for HYPER they should post it there! Also ANY steam game can be bought 15% off at Falcon's awesome
http://hyperbundle.com site.
Also streaming on twitch.tv would be amazing. We do need someone to set up a HYPER twitch.tv channel too