"F1 Delta Time" Closed Down - It's Impacts on NFT Gaming

"F1 Delta Time" Closed Down - It's Impacts on NFT Gaming

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Source: PCGamer

F1 Delta Time

If you don't know what "F1 Delta Time" is, it's a NFT game that launched in 2019. It gained the news back in the days because it had a huge, popular brand behind it: Formula 1. The game bas based on the Ethereum Blockchain, and players could trade NFTs like cars and drivers.

In 2021, the game went back to the news because a player bought a car, in-game, for approximately $270,000. It was a nice car, I think.

The developers, Animoca, recently announced that the game would be closing down, because the Formula 1 license wasn't renewed. After this announcement, the F1 Delta Time market crashed, as expected, and both the utility token and the in-game NFTs are currently beind traded almost for free.

As the NFTs are on the Ethereum Blockchain, they still exist even after the game closing down. But, well, no one's actually wanting to hold them as, without the game itself, they're not useful for anything.

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Source: MotoGP Ignition

The developers are now offering a kind "NFT Swap" to the F1 Delta Time players, in the sense that they're exchanging NFTs from the now-defunct game to NFTs in other games that they run (they have a few other Racing-Themed games that are still running, including another licensed one, called MotoGP Ignition).

Hive NFT Games

This whole ordeal is obviously hurting the image of NFT games; major news sites and discussion forums (such as Reddit) are criticizing the existance of these games. Their main argument is that while ownership is indeed decentralized, the game itself is not. If the developer shuts down the game tomorrow, players are left with their tokens that ultimately serve no purpose whatsoever.

Unfortunately, the closure of F1 Delta Team will impact all NFT games, including the ones here at Hive (Splinterlands, RisingStar, PsyberX etc.).

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Source: PNGWing

The sad fact is that the NFT Gaming world is full of scams and badly-created projects, and that every time a one of these closes down, it makes it even harder to attract players to solid-and-serious games.

In the other hand, this situation shows that it's increasingly important that serious projects HAS to have things like whitepapers and auditable development, in order to separate the malicious projects from the honest and solid projects that actually have the goal of creating an interesting game and a functioning ecosystem.

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I feel ETH based games are killing them selves. Sucks to see games close but feeless chains are only way

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Yeah, it's very difficult to have a sustainable, long-term gaming project based on a system in which you have to pay high fees in order to do small-value (like 99% of the in-game items) transactions.

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ETH games are just not going to work for a while.. Also the fact that the whole thing was dependent on licensing just meant there were a little too many factors in whether the game could be successful. It's just always a big risk when you depend on someone lending you the rights to use their brand.

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ETH, at least on the 1st layer, is not meant to be used on games, due high fees + not-instant transactions.

But yeah, the main problem of this F1 Delta Time was this whole licensing stuff. But, ignoring the license developers abandoning the game is common on online games (server expenses, fighting against cheaters, fixing bugs, etc., all of that cost money), and we'll keep seeing more and more NFT Games being abandoned.
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