There are those who say E-Sports are not real Sports or using social media isn't a real job. There are those who look down on short form video short vertically. There are misguided people who scoff on short form blogging. Time and time again, these people have been blindsided by the success of individuals and projects that opted to embrace these areas. HIVE originally was not friendly towards microblogging. First came @dbuzz and later we saw Threads developed by @leofinance team. Even @ecency released Waves for microblogging content. Threads was switched to the forefront of LEO due to its massive potential.

Idles Games Can be Addictive

Addiction is not a good thing. I am not a fan of Skinner boxes and all the similar things that get built into games with the goal of keeping players playing longer or investing more. A completely non addictive game on the other hand will fail to create engagement. Some players will get addicted to games or some other habit. Some individuals are easily addicted to various forms of fun or escapism. We cannot do much about their brain chemistry or psychology.

What we can do is find out the fun and engaging parts of "addictive games" and use them to build better games. Having better games on HIVE is great to the future development + price of $HIVE.

I have been playing @risingstargame for ~3 years almost everyday and even become one of the few players who have a STARBITS Millionaire Card. I had to sell some of the STARBITS to reach Country Tour Missions. What you see above is another part of my attempt to reach that 1 million STARBITS goal for my account. Most of what I own in game are earned; not bought. IIRC I started playing @risingstargame after winning a Booster Pack from a giveaway. Then I worked enough to reach one of 1698 very special Cards.

There are Fanatics in Niches

These niches do not have the same level of competition games like @splinterlands have. Most developers are focusing on building blockchain games that have a strong time commitment. Web 3 is more interested in getting players to invest and have a good economy than getting players to spend the most amount of time in the game. But I do not see much attention on games that specifically ask for a tiny time of the players life.

Yet the few players who embrace these games can get very obsessed and engage with these games well. These videos can get millions of views. These idle games may even have higher conversion rates i onboarding new players because they do not have a strong time commitment or a significant skill ceiling. You cannot simply pickup a game like @splinterlands and start winning.

Every User Logged in is Important

Think of all the games, apps and services you have abandoned after signing up. User retention is very important. "I will log and do this small thing today" is valuable. That is why there are millions of apps offering people rewards for having daily login streaks. In our case, the cryptocurrency earnings and the occasional NFT are rewards on their own. We don't even have to do anything special for that.

Some of these daily logins will eventually pick up other DAPPs just as how some microblogging users will start writing long form articles or make @threespeak videos. Having more games with light gameplay will not make a miracle. It will be a piece of the larger puzzle and we will be better off with such DAPPs than without them.

Happy Gaming!

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