The blockchain world is changing rapidly. As consumer cryptocurrency becomes a hotly watched track, games remain a bright spot for future growth in this track, driving the popularization of cryptocurrency. According to research reports, the Web3 gaming industry is expected to grow to more than $305 billion by 2030. In the past few years, many games have been under development, all striving to become the next hit game.
Although these game companies have extensive experience in game development and planning in Web2, they still cannot attract the diverse consumers in the cryptocurrency industry and operate for a long time after many attempts. Many people attribute this problem to the flaws in the design of the game system, especially the reward system in the game. When the economic benefits generated by a reward system continue to decrease, players will gradually quit the game, resulting in low retention.
The future of Web3 will require developers to have a deeper understanding of their users, and Asian companies have a great advantage in this regard. With developers' many years of game development and operation experience, new Web3 game operation ideas will emerge, thereby promoting the long-term sustainable operation of Web3 games.
Community-driven growth and operations
Legend of Arcadia (LoA) is a card-based role-playing game built in a vast story universe inspired by Kingdom Hearts. It has a strong vision for real-time operations in Web3, called "community-driven operations". This formula combines building an active and vocal community, while building a mechanism for short feedback loops and fast execution on top of it. This operational formula makes LoA stand out from other games.
The team has perfected this formula over the past two years based on their experience of more than a decade at top game companies such as Tencent, Hero Entertainment, and Xishanju, and has improved overall DAU and user retention in the process. At the same time, LoA has built a strong community of more than 60,000 people in the process, allowing users to actively interact with the team and listen to user feedback, quickly iterating games and operating strategies.
The positive feedback loop between the community and developers has led to innovative operational ideas and strategies to encourage active participation from community members. For example, in past game tests, the team combined the idea of e-sports, inviting players to form teams with different guilds to participate in the test and compete with each other, driving different guilds and community members to pay attention to the game. In this process, a new guild called Alter Ego Guild was also established in the community. They became the biggest supporter of the game, helping new players get started and gain a deeper understanding of LoA.
Another example is the launch of a series of gaming experiences during a three-month event in 2024 with almost no marketing spend. During this period, LoA registered more than 100,000 users, and the next-day retention rate and 7-day retention rate were as high as 75% and 56% respectively, which is much higher than the 50% and 20% of many traditional games. As we move towards TGE and the official release of the game, the community continues to provide feedback and support the team.
With the support of more than 10 investors, including Animoca Brands and OKX Ventures, LoA is able to further develop the breadth of the game, ensuring that the community is always engaged with new content and the utility of the native token $ARCA. This includes endless possibilities for various NFT heroes, as well as multiple ways to earn $ARCA tokens.
Five Trillion Unique Combinations to Increase $ARCA Holder Benefits
In LoA, each NFT hero is unique, with randomly generated genetic characteristics, such as appearance and abilities, from a large gene pool of more than five trillion combinations, including more than 48 basic attributes, more than 40,000 skill combinations, and more than 28 million gene combinations. This ensures that no two NFT heroes are the same.
With the support of AI, the game team has also created countless words and storylines, shaped different toy characters, and enriched the story of LoA. By implementing seasonal demand generated by game mechanics, this also enhances player retention and ultimately increases trading volume, which benefits $ARCA holders.
Mining, fighting and staking Enriching and sustainable token models
In LoA, players can earn tokens by leveraging their NFT heroes through a variety of activities and strategies. Inspired by the system commonly used in Web2 games, players can combine white ore obtained from mining with black ore obtained from combat to produce $ARCA tokens. Heroes can also be customized through special events and features that not only change their appearance, but also provide in-game advantages, such as enhanced mining capabilities when using event-specific skins.
Players can also participate in PvE content by clearing dungeons and defeating bosses to obtain valuable loot, or participate in PvP battles to compete with other players for rewards and hit seasonal leaderboards for greater gains. To further enhance their earnings, players can stake $ARCA tokens to unlock additional rewards such as free NFTs or profit sharing from NFT sales, adding another layer of value to their in-game investment.
In addition to earning tokens through the in-game monetization factors mentioned above, LoA further promotes the development of sustainable games by separating in-game and external economic factors. Players can also obtain special privileges and rewards by staking with $ARCA tokens, or earn revenue sharing from NFT assets, creating long-term value rather than short-term speculative gains.
40 million tokens allocated
LoA is also about to short 40 million $ARCA tokens. These tokens will be distributed in seven pools, and each pool will further short a corresponding number of tokens based on the different rankings of players.
Future Roadmap
The world of LoA is full of countless opportunities and activities, and the game continues to inject new excitement into the community and players, ensuring its long-term sustainability. The game also plans to launch rich PVE and PVP modes, where players can team up and challenge others in real-time battles. "Legend of Arcadia" is currently scheduled to be launched on November 7, 2024.
About Legend of Arcadia
Legend of Arcadia (LOA) is a card-based role-playing game set in a vast story universe inspired by Kingdom Hearts. LOA uses the latest technology and is built for modern players, based on blockchain technology. Players can enjoy this game for free, play it anytime, anywhere on their mobile devices, and socialize with players from all over the world in real time through immersive PvP game modes and trading highly composable NFTs.
