Peter Molyneux hops on the NFT train: the idiosyncratic game developer icon wants to develop a business simulation in which you can earn real money. “Legacy” is the name of the title, which was introduced in 2017 as an industrial simulator without any blockchain ulterior motives.
Together with the blockchain platform Gala Games, Molyneux has now announced the NFT future of “Legacy”. In the virtual world of the game, players can purchase land, set up businesses and thus, according to the idea, bring in real money.
In “Legacy” one should design and decorate factories, hire workers and develop products, it says in the blog entry. If you do well, you will earn so-called LegacyCoins, a crypto currency based on ethereum. You can use it to buy more space in the game, for example, in order to expand your factories even further. You can also trade with other players using LegayCoins, write Gala Games and Molyneux ‘development studio 22cans in a blog post.
It is still unclear when “Legacy” will come onto the market – and whether the result will really go as it is currently promised. Peter Molyneux is one of the best-known developer personalities in the world, but has burned his name through grandiose and regularly broken promises. Molyneux was responsible for the development of “Populous” and is considered the creator of the genre “God Game”. He later developed “Black & White” and worked as a designer at Lionhead Studios on the “Fable” games.
Molyneux’s Visions
In 2012, Molyneux left Lionhead to do his own thing. He founded the development studio 22cans, with which he largely unsuccessfully developed mobile games and PC titles. “Godus”, launched in 2013, is still listed as Early Access on Steam and, based on the user reviews, only convinced 25 percent of the players.
Molyneux is seen by many as a visionary with hopelessly over-ambitious ideas, others as a charlatan – one way or another he seems predestined for the world of NFT video games, which is slowly beginning to take shape. Just a few days ago, the French publisher Ubisoft started offering the first NFT items in its online shooter “Ghost Recon Breakpoint”. Electronic Arts also wants to get into the NFT business.
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are a type of digital title deed. The hash of a data package that is signed by the author of the original file on a blockchain infrastructure with a private key can be managed in a publicly traceable manner with such tokens. Such items are unique and can have an equivalent value. The industry calls the concept “play-to-earn”. The gaming community is not yet convinced of NFTs: The reactions to Ubisoft’s announcement were mostly negative.
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