Hi Everyone !
Yodark from SOG here.
Also a pity that Apple would get such a huge share of their earnings. {About 30% of all game packs sold}
Yes Google and Apple take 30% it's an important part but largely covered by the payment convenience and the large amount of user driven by these plateform. This is the reason many game publisher are going on mobile because they are generating large amount of revenue. In our case if we are not allowing people to buy with the store system
1. We won't be able to publish the game on AppStore and Google play.
2. We will cut out large amount of revenue from people who will not use another mean of payment. Ultimately it's less beneficial for us and bitcrystal owners.
It's a start, but I would have preferred them using only Bitcoin, not some other weird derivative.
As The Bitcoin Co-op mentioned players who own digital assets will use bitcoin in other to exchange their game assets. The reason we are using Counterparty and not making our own minable currency it's because we want to use bitcoin. Counterparty works on the top of bitcoin blockchain. If you have for example the "red dragon" as a digital asset in fact we are tagging some satoshi saying this satoshi represents "red dragon". Then you can use the bitcoin protocol to trade the red dragon among the players. In order to make a transaction with the counterparty asset you need to pay the miner fee in bitcoin.
This way it will be very simple for bitcoin owner to to acquire game assets and players will have to understand (or at least) use bitcoin to play trade in game. They are going to learn more about BTC.
For bitcrystal it's our asset for the crowdsale on counterparty. It's not a bitcoin competitor since it's also on bitcoin blockchain. It the required asset to get premium in game. If a player wants to use the AppStore or PlayStore we are going to burn their value that we buy back from bakers. But of course they will be on sale for BTC. Any bitcoin owner will be able to buy them for BTC and bypass the stores. This way it will be more advantageous to buy with bitcoin. Player will be then incentivised to understand bitcoin and to get some in order to get cheaper stuff.
Since bitcrystal asset are limited their value will reflect the games popularity. The more player will be willing to buy game asset the higher will be the value of bitcrystal and to lower will be the price (in bitcrystal but same in USD) of stuff.
This way, bakers and early fan are part of the project success and incentivised to talk about the game. Because the more player will play the more stuff they are going to get in game.
To summarise in few words. If spells of Genesis is a success the benefit will be
1. Project bakers will be rewarded
2. Bitcoin will be more accessible to mainstream users since user will be willing to have some to be able to trade
3. Bitcoin and counterparty trading activity will rise
for now only trading game will work with this system like, they don't mentions games like fps or rts or rpg, just card games
Yes we are among the first one doing this. The long term vision is if SOG experiment is sucessfull to use our technology to create a platform that allows game devellopers to make their decentralised assets games
Once in-game assets are on the blockchain, they will be readily convertible to Bitcoin. Spells of Genesis (an upcoming game to be reviewed) will do something like that with BitCrystals.
