In its first five days since launching into early access via PS5, Xbox, and Epic Games Store, Off The Grid has sparked more life into the web3 game sector than any other title for years.  

It’s topped the download charts on Epic Games Store and currently sits at #7 in terms of most played games, behind Valorant but ahead of Naraka: Bladepoint and Farming Simulator 22.

One particular enthusiast is Limit Break’s Gabe Leydon, who likened it to the early Axie Infinity boom, commenting on X, “Web3 finally has its new “Axie” moment with Off The Grid. Very inspirational!”

As for Wolves DAO member 1mpal, he estimates that developer Gunzilla is spending at least $1 million per day on marketing. A notable mention has been promotion of the game by top streamers including Ninja, which has encouraged wider adoption.

According to Gunzilla Games’ director of web3 Theodore Agranat the game has been streamed over 1 million hours from 3,200 mainly organic streamers since launch.

Of course, not every industry heavyweight has responded with unconditional praise. Although calling it “interesting to follow” and likely to “bring some fresh eyes into our industry”, Sky Mavis’ co-founder and COO Aleksander Larsen takes a more cautionary stance.

Taking to platform X, he commented that Off The Grid “doesn’t utilize the full advantages of web3. This has in the past proven to be challenging for users as they experience a lot of onboarding issues but not enough benefits.”

He goes on to explain that in terms of Sky Mavis, the company remains more interested in working with web3 games of deeper economies and calibre. In short, he clarifies that “I think we need to build better foundations on the economy side before spending years and hundreds of millions on graphics.”

Which bring us to the game’s GUN token. Not yet live on the Avalanche-based Gunz mainnet, the game doesn’t directly rely on token performance, nor has it played a vital role to building up a strong following pre-launch. As such, it strongly contrasts the way many play-to-earn developers have promoted their games and tokens. Instead, Gunzilla’s main objective has been the actual game.

So although its blockchain elements are not a main feature (yet), metrics like daily onchain transactions are still an indicator of a game’s performance.

On 7th October, daily transactions recorded were around 140,000, increasing to 1.5 million during launch day 9th October, and has since more than doubled to hit 3.6 million. In total, 5.5 million wallets have been created on the blockchain.

You can keep an eye on these via Gunz’s block explorer.

Two years after its original DigiDaigaku NFT mint, web3 gaming company Limit Break has posted an anniversary update including the future of its much anticipated mobile game.

As a reminder, just as the NFT market ended its 2022 boom times, ex-Machine Zone CEO Gabe Leydon’s web3 startup Limit Break announced its $200 million funding round and the launch of its DigiDaigaku NFT collection. 

But what has Limit Break been doing since?

Notably, it claims its on-chain royalty standard ERC721C has been adopted by 75% of new NFT collections, with over 97,000 collections and 110 million NFTs using it. It’s also ensured over $8 million of creator royalties have been paid by traders to creators in the past six months.

The lack of such tech combined with the rise of the Blur marketplace was a big reason why the NFT ecosystem collapsed as creators suddenly stopped being able to generate revenue from trading.

Additionally, the 721C standard has been adopted by 51% of all first time traded NFT collections, spanning across eight EVM chains including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB, Base, Avalanche, and Sei. NFT platforms like Magic Eden and OpenSea have also adopted the protocol.

In terms of the DigiDaigaku game, many would argue that more was promised than what has been delivered. Limit Break states however that it’s got a “small international army of developers working hard to get our first mobile game to beta”. 

As a result of the news, the floor price of DigiDaigaku Genesis NFTs rose to $20,000, up 285%, although at time of writing, none has yet been sold at the new higher floor price.

Lastly, the company says it’s working on upgrading the Payment Processor V3 with ERC20C support and an associated ERC20C token launcher.

“The team’s achievements in such a short time are truly remarkable. While Limit Break’s first mobile game is still in development, many web3-related products are on the horizon, including ERC20C and an updated Payment Processor, which have the potential to revolutionize tokens just as Limit Break has with NFTs,” commented Leydon in a post on X.