Mir4’s headline achievements over 5 years — 24 million accounts, 40 million in-game characters created and greater than 15,000 fortress wars — exhibit the success of South Korean developer Wemade’s signature MMORPG franchise.
In that context, the information that gamers have traded its character NFTs greater than 40,000 occasions, which could possibly be something from 40,000 characters traded as soon as or one character traded 40,000 occasions, seems to be comparatively small fry.
Nonetheless, blockchain has supplied the sport with concrete utility, permitting hundreds of gamers to monetize their characters’ gathered progress. If nothing else, it gives one of many clearer purposes of digital possession in conventional gaming.
And, extra considerably, Wemade remains to be launching new blockchain components. In July, it launched EXDRA4, the fourth season of MIR4’s EXDRA utility token. EXDRA4 might be traded for WEMIX via PNIX DEX, transferred between WEMIX PLAY wallets and used as a recreation merchandise.
Wemade can also be distributing it as a reward for purchases made with WEMIX Coin, connecting blockchain funds, recreation spending and in-game utility. The launch promotion runs effectively into 2027.
So whereas it’s troublesome to level to blockchain play a big half in MIR4’s success, it has supplied a sturdy financial layer, giving a subset of gamers further methods to commerce characters, convert assets and obtain spending rewards.
And in contrast to the token techniques connected to many blockchain video games launched throughout and because the 2021 growth, it stays operational and supported.
