Around the first half of this year, the TON ecosystem, through the Telegram app as a window, showed an explosive rise in active users for over 6 months with the ‘Tap to earn’ trend. According to TON Stat data, the peak monthly active Address on TON (early October this year) exceeded 100 million. However, from mid-October, the active users in the TON ecosystem began to experience a significant decline in scale.

Although Tap to earn is a very easy way to reach users, Airdrop is expected to be the only bond that binds such applications to users. After the top application Airdrop is cashed out, the user retention rate and secondary conversion rate are very low. Public data shows that the retention rate of Catizen is 14%, while that of Hamster is only 7%.

Visible, TON’s Tap to earn brings a brief heat to the GameFi market, but this is by no means the final answer. In fact, the vast majority of Mini-Games on TON attract not loyal Decentralized Finance users and genuine Web3 gamers. In reality, the Mini-Game ecosystem of TON still faces some typical GameFi issues, including insufficient game performance and content innovation, deviating from the core of entertainment, and gradually evolving into financial products. At the same time, the project’s economic model design is unreasonable, leading to imbalance between players’ earnings and inputs. Over time, the motivation for both developers and users to participate significantly declines.

On the other hand, developers, as the source end of the game, face higher barriers when developing games based on the Web3 stack. Due to the relatively niche development languages supported by smart contracts, complex game logic is difficult to implement on-chain. In addition, the high gas and storage costs on-chain, technological fragmentation, and the incomplete development tools and infrastructure further limit the development and deployment of high-quality games. Moreover, the migration of traditional games to on-chain also faces difficulties, making it difficult for the Web3 game ecosystem to achieve breakthroughs.

At this stage when the Web3 gaming field is experiencing a downturn, MetaArena, a 3A game developer, was the first to insightfully address the essence of these issues and has launched a series of facilities. It has significantly dropped the threshold for developers to deploy games and provides perfect support for game operation. Based on captivating Web3 game content, it has established a pipeline for all users to participate in the game ecosystem, aiming to improve the current state of Web3 games and drive the development of blockchain games to the next stage.

MetaArena: Build infrastructure to drive the NEXT flywheel of blockchain games

MetaArena is a company focusing on Web3 entertainment and gaming, dedicated to developing an innovative Realm AI game engine that supports 3A level games. The engine has successfully launched the first 3A standard game, ‘Final Glory,’ and achieved multi-chain compatibility, bringing players an immersive top-level gaming experience. At the same time, MetaArena actively explores the application of cutting-edge technologies such as ray tracing and AI interaction, continuously driving the innovation of game effects and technology.

In the developer’s end, the MetaArena game engine not only provides integrated development tools and engines for training AI, but also provides SDK and middleware, greatly reducing the development threshold for developers, improving efficiency, accelerating and dropping cycles, and establishing a Depth partnership with the world’s fastest Layer1 public chain, jointly building a high-performance, Decentralization, and highly interoperable new generation of Web3 game formats. Whether it is a Web2 or Web3 developer, they can easily get started, thus eliminating technical barriers and smoothly entering the Web3 field.

On the user side, as a user-centric Web3 game ecosystem, based on Block chain technology, the MetaArena engine provides Decentralization, a player-driven fair economic system, and creates a sustainable autonomous world Metaverse core with multiple interconnected games, allowing players to enjoy not only exciting game experiences, but also dynamically allocate rewards based on player contributions (game time, UGC creation, community governance, etc.), transforming players from “consumers” to “beneficiaries”.

Focused on the MetaArena game engine, its infrastructure stack includes three parts: MetaOS, CollabSphere, and GameFun Marketplace.

MetaOS

MetaOS is a key component of the MetaArena engine, serving as the underlying engine that supports game operations. It provides developers with a highly scalable and compatible operating system. MetaOS encapsulates a series of development tools and plug-and-play game modules, offering modular interfaces that are compatible with mainstream Layer1/2. It facilitates seamless implementation of Cross-Chain Interaction operations. Built on the Decentralization architecture of Realm Engine 5.3/4, MetaOS also continuously connects computational resources in the ecosystem in a distributed manner to support game operations.

With the MetaOS system, developers can efficiently create content in a familiar environment and quickly deploy it to the platform. It also provides support for the perfect operation of games and a low barrier for players to participate in the game.

CollabSphere Market

CollabSphere is a coordinated marketplace for game development, allowing multiple developers to collaborate in real time on the same project for games that are either incomplete or still in need of refinement. By sharing resources, code repositories, and development tools, developers can efficiently collaborate in a virtual workspace, which is particularly important for large-scale game development projects.

CollabSphere’s collaborative system transparently records the contributions of each developer through Block chain smart contracts, and automatically allocates profits based on the complexity of different tasks. This system provides developers with a transparent and fair collaborative environment, ensuring that all contributions receive appropriate rewards. Through this Decentralization collaboration mechanism, developers can seamlessly cooperate globally, improve project development efficiency, and significantly enhance game quality.

GameFun Marketplace

GameFun Marketplace is a trading market in the MetaArena game engine, aiming to provide a secure, free, and Decentralization trading environment for game developers and players. GameFun Marketplace supports the management and trading of multi-chain virtual assets, greatly improving the Liquidity and market transparency of virtual assets. Players can freely transfer assets between multiple Blockchains, easily manage virtual items and Non-fungible Tokens in the game. Similarly, players and developers can create, manage and trade their assets on multiple Blockchains, forming a unified virtual economic system. The platform ensures that all transactions are based on blockchain technology, secure, transparent, and without intermediaries, effectively dropping transaction costs.

Currently, MetaArena has launched its first game ‘Final Glory’, which is a Western fantasy-style MMORPG game. The game has received rave reviews since its release, with a player base exceeding 200,000 and active users ranging from 20,000 to 30,000. The player community covers potential regions such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Singapore. The success of ‘Final Glory’ has also paved the way for the expansion of the MetaArena ecosystem.

《Final Glory》: The Benchmark of Web3 AAA Games

“Final Glory” is a large-scale multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with a Western fantasy style. The game is developed based on the Realm AI game engine of MetaArena, providing an immersive gaming experience that allows players to truly enjoy the fun of “play and earn”.

In the game, players can choose different professions, achieve growth through adventurous battles and resource acquisition. Each profession has unique branches and abilities, which determine the player’s role positioning in the game society. Players can form powerful guilds, participate in guild tasks and competitions, and compete for core resources. The game adopts a free exploration mode without task prompts.

The game screen of ‘Final Glory’ is developed using MetaArena’s efficient 3D rendering engine, which achieves top-level visual effects on par with movies, while ensuring smooth gameplay and low latency. At the same time, ‘Final Glory’ offers a rich variety of gameplay modes, including PvP, PvE, exploration, etc. Each mode contains hierarchical game content, allowing players to upgrade and combine different items to create different game effects, as well as possess asset ownership. ‘Final Glory’ itself presents a high degree of freedom, allowing players to engage in free trade within the game, providing them with numerous business opportunities and a foundation for building their own autonomous world.

In fact, Final Glory has been able to compete with traditional large-scale Web2 games in terms of gameplay and game production, and has allowed the game to return to its roots rather than continue to transition into the financial sector. At present, it is not difficult to find from the performance of its active player data that the market has its own judgment on high-quality games.

We see that, AAA game “Final Glory” is becoming a benchmark in the Web3 gaming field, and it is also an important outreach for the MetaArena ecosystem. Similarly, it is the recognition of the development potential of the MetaArena ecosystem and its significance in the Blockchain gaming field that the SEI Foundation extends an olive branch and chooses to become an important partner and investment institution of MetaArena.

Summary

Looking back at the development history of the GameFi market, the short lifespan of games and the lack of blockbuster games are due to the lack of infrastructure, resulting in low game quality. MetaArena is addressing the problem at its root, laying a solid foundation for a qualitative leap in the playability of blockchain games.

By leveraging a series of infrastructure of MetaArena, developers can develop and deploy AAA large-scale games with low entry barriers, and even seamlessly migrate traditional high-quality games to the chain, enabling users to deeply participate in the construction of the game, further enriching game content and expanding the ecological boundaries. It is foreseeable that MetaArena will lead the construction of high-quality Web3 games, allowing players to immerse themselves in the fun of the game, creating intrinsic value in the long term, and being able to significantly lower the entry barriers for players, attracting a wider range of Web2 players, thereby promoting the convergence of the two Webs.

Finally, in the current situation where the narrative of P2E, X2E, TON mini-game, and other short-lived hot topics has quickly declined, MetaArena is taking over the heat of the on-chain gaming market and will become a new solution to promote the long-term prosperity of the Web3 gaming industry.