Sky Mavis’ Axie Infinity: Homeland has entered open beta, however the reception has been divided.
No NFTs are actually required, however the PC recreation – which has been dwell in closed beta since late 2022 – has been reset. This implies everybody’s accounts have been wiped together with the sport’s artwork type and UX being revamped.
Nevertheless, the massive information for present gamers is the land staking marketing campaign has stopped.
Land staking was initially launched as a means for land NFT holders to passively earn each day AXS tokens. It was all the time going to be a stopgap measure as a result of at that stage you couldn’t functionally do something with land, which launched as early as 2019.
Nevertheless, over time land staking ended up being the anchor for land’s ground costs as a result of every land rarity earned a unique however mounted quantity of each day AXS, therefore it was a fairly easy calculation to work out the worth of land a minimum of by way of its discounted money movement.
So whereas some may not be 100% glad with its new look, the top of land staking is what has stirred up most anger, rage-quitting and dumping of land from NFT holders who’ve had their passive revenue stopped, in addition to seeing the worth of their precept tanking.
Gaming content material creator and Axie fanatic Aftermath TV sums up his ideas in a publish on X, saying “It is usually inevitable that a few of the Land Working Group members will depart resulting from feelings and disappointments. Individuals will go if they don’t seem to be completely satisfied however for so long as Axie Infinity continues to ship then new bloods will step up.”
Including a extra sober perspective to the warmth he additionally says, “I’m actually okay that the present Land Dump is occurring… A very powerful factor proper now could be that individuals who will purchase plots will probably be right here long-term and they’re going to actually play the sport.”
In response, Sky Mavis CEO Trung Nguyen feedback, “Product releases and even merchandise could be proper or fallacious, however that doesn’t change our dedication to Land.”
