Will Fully Onchain Gaming (FOCG) Become the Next Trend in the Market?

Fully Onchain Gaming (FOCG) is being mentioned a lot recently as a new segment in the Gamefi market. In this article, let’s join Weakhand to learn about what Fully Onchain Gaming is and whether it will become the next trend in the market.

Before jumping into the article, everyone can refer to some of the following articles to understand better.

• What is Gamefi? Gamefi’s operating mechanism
• What is Game Onchains? Gamefi’s next trend
• What is Pirate Nation? Overview of the game Pirate Nation

What is Fully Onchain Gaming (FOCG)?

Fully Onchain Gaming is a game where all elements from assets, logic and game state are deployed on Blockchain. Specifically, each Fully Onchain Gaming game has the following 3 characteristics:

• Logic in the game: All player actions, assets, scores and achievements in the game are recorded on Blockchain and implemented using Smart Contract.
• Shared status: Game data is stored on Blockchain and can be accessed by any player.
• Create Custom Mods: Because all data and logic in the game are stored on the Blockchain, anyone can view and create their own Mods that suit their wishes. For example: With a game A where a group of players feel that the logic in the game is not reasonable, they can check the game’s Smart Contract and modify the logic in the game according to their wishes, thereby creating other Mods. in game.

Here we see that Fully Onchain Gaming has a very different point from previous games: it is greatly influenced by the community and reduces dependence on game manufacturers. If a game manufacturer does not run the game well, the community can create their own Mod and operate the game themselves. Thereby we see that the community’s contribution becomes more important, all for the success of the game.

Fully Onchain Gaming Opens Up A New Concept Web 2.5 Gaming

When Fully Onchain Gaming titles appeared recently, a new concept appeared on the market called Web 2.5 games. So what is Web 2.5 Game? Everyone can simply understand that Web 2.5 game is a combination of Web2 game and Web3 game in which in-game assets such as NFTs and tokens are stored on Blockchain while logic and state are in the game. The game is still deployed on the Server like traditional Web2 games.

Following this concept, we see that many famous game titles on the market are web2.5 games, typically: Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, illuvium or the recently emerged AAA game Big Time.

So what about Web3 games, that is Fully Onchain Gaming when all the content in the game is deployed on Blockchain. We have seen some outstanding FOCG games at the moment such as: Pirate Nation, Dark Forest or Sui 8192 game.

So maybe people will ask a question: Will Web3 games or Web 2.5 games be better for players?

This is very difficult to say at the present time, when the Blockchain infrastructure is not complete, especially for the GameFi segment, if designed in the style of Web3 or Fully Onchain Gaming games, delay and lag can be a problem. factors to consider. In addition, implementing Logic in the game in the form of Smart Contract for complex games is quite difficult to do and we also see that at the present time, most Fully Onchain Games have quite simple game content.

As for Web2.5 games, most of the above problems are solved, but players will have to face the publisher’s intervention in the game, although this intervention will be less than in other games. Traditional Web2.

In general, in my personal opinion, Web2.5 games and Web3 games at the present time will develop in parallel and at a stage when Blockchain’s infrastructure becomes stable, then games will will gradually transition to Web3.

Solution to Overcome Disadvantages of Fully Onchain Gaming at the Present Time

• Temporary Blockchain: In cases where the data generated during the operation has no particular value, it can be designed to automatically disappear after a certain period of time. The beauty of this method is that even other data can be connected and transferred to another Blockchain thus retaining all the valuable information.
• Precompile for applications: Robbinson plans to develop Blockchains specifically designed for gaming applications, which will help Onchain games perform better.
• Battle Rollups: Instead of saving the entire state in the game, this method will only retain a portion of the state. This strategy allows the game to maintain reliability while significantly reducing computational power. The Battle Rollup approach promises to enhance scalability and performance without compromising game integrity.

Fully Onchain Gaming’s Next Direction

In GameFi’s golden cycle in 2021, most games were released for a while, then the problem of NFT and Token inflation caused the games to gradually die over time. This is not just a problem specific to Fully Onchain Gaming titles, but a common problem that all gamefi titles at the present time need to solve.

Finding a solution is indeed a difficult thing, but we can learn from the model that Web2 games have applied and succeeded, such as Clash of Clans. When users participate in the game and go mining, they will earn gold and then use the gold to upgrade houses and weapons. Fully Onchain Gaming titles can take advantage of this to reduce the inflation rate that users farm in the game.

However, if the problem of inflation in gamefi titles is considered to have been resolved, a question arises: Are players interested in playing a game for a long time?

Overall, the answer is still no. For many players, playing games is just for the fun and experience that the game brings and often quit after a while.

However, there are Web2 games that have existed for decades such as EVE Online in the form of franchises. The game has been around for over 20 years and still has up to 100,000 daily active users, which is the goal of many Web3 games. Players come to the game not for the new content provided by the developers but for the rich emerging social and economic world driven by other players. Other classic games like StarCraft II, Minecraft, and RuneScape still attract hundreds of thousands of active users even more than a decade later.

Fully Onchain Gaming can leverage this to build a sustainable economy that gives players full control over the items they purchase and the results of their in-game efforts. Players can even reshape the original gameplay to their liking and form guilds with other players to maintain the long-term survival of the game. Even if they decide to leave the game, new players can still pick up where they left off and continue progressing.

summary

Every breakthrough innovation faces initial challenges before achieving success. I believe that Fully Onchain Gaming is one of them with challenges at the present time but with the advantages and differences it brings, the future is really worth looking forward to. Above is what I want to introduce in this article, hope everyone has received useful knowledge.