MetaVerse Massacre: The Next Generation of NFT P2E Staking Games
It’s no secret that the play-to-earn model for most NFT Games has fallen flat. One thing they excel at doing: creating problems. Poor tokenomics, boring games, expensive in-roads, even more expensive upkeep, gas fees, endless grinding, and poor business models come to mind.
Late in 2021, staking games caught fire. The games were fairly simple. Mint a few NFTs, stake them, earn tokens, use those tokens to mint more NFTs from the collection, stake those, earn… well, you get my point.
I jumped into the fun and reaped the rewards of being in Wolf Game early. The rest of the staking games that followed suffered the same fate as most derivatives or copycats PFP projects. A handful of folks profited, but the majority suffered from no ability to actually earn while playing or flat out rugs. And the gas cost to mint-stake-repeat piled up quickly!
While I played, I found I quickly lost interest, especially if I wasn’t netting a profit. None of the games presented a challenge. (Note: Wolf Game did evolve into more, so props where props were earned). Worse, there was no way, outside of a fat wallet, to gain an edge.
When your results primarily center around luck, you’re participating in a lottery not a game. Don’t get me wrong, luck plays a factor in every game, but it should not be the primary factor.
And neither should wallet size. Pay-to-win games heavily favor one style of player. Unfortunately, many also bought into the biggest misnomer around play-to-earn in thinking everyone will earn. It’s the biggest myth around. Even in play-to-earn, there will be losers as well as winners.
When taking into account there will be losers in every game, no one wants to start at a huge disadvantage. No one should have to constantly spend to keep playing or keep up. And no game should rely primarily on luck to determine the outcome of winners and losers.
Enter MetaVerse Massacre — the evolution of a staking game from an expensive game of luck to an affordable, level-playing field of strategy.
What is MetaVerse Massacre?
Think of it as a game of hide-and-seek with a deadly twist.
It offers a low-cost entry into a true strategy staking game (only .022 ETH to mint). Best of all, players, not luck, decide where the game goes.
Let’s take a closer look at a game of life, death, and murder.
Metaverse Murder is a game about facing your ultimate demise. Play it right and you could grab yourself a big pile of ETH. Guess wrong and wind up a victim to one of the maniacs terrorizing the city.
The game is simple. How it plays out lies completely in the hands of the players.
Surviving the Streets
The Countdown
No one can survive on the streets of SlaughterTown in the metaverse for very long. The fastest, strongest, and smartest of you might last four days at best. Red shirts will have as little as 2.5 days. The good news is you will have choices to possibly stretch your time or exit quicker. Just know that the last one left alive gets the ETH prize pool when we buy back your NFT. Others will collect bounties. In the end, most of you will wind up as worm food.
Worried about what happens if you only have the street skills to survive 5 days? Might not seem like much time but you have choices:
- Hide — i.e. Staking
- Visit Dr. Kovorko’s Crematorium & Children’s Science Center
- Live out your days on the run from the knife-wielding, ax-swinging, chainsaw-waving murderers terrorizing your hometown, until they finally trap you in a corner and tear you limb from limb. Just the way Mother Nature intended.
Hide
Want to limit your time on the streets of SlaughterTown? Stake (hide) your NFT in one of five different locations. While there, your street countdown clock will stop.
Once you duck into a hiding spot two things happen:
- You cannot leave until time is up. Once time is up, you must exit your hiding spot.
- ETH accrues hour by hour in your hiding location. When you leave, it returns to the last survivor prize pool.
Once you exit your hiding spot, you cannot enter a new hiding spot until you’ve spent some time on the streets as dictated by your most recent hiding spot.
Oh, we almost forgot — the more ETH accrued in the prize pool, the higher the odds Dr. Kevorko will produce a Murderer.
Hiding Locations
- JW Gacey’s Garlic Pizza Playhouse
Hide Time = 1 hour clock stoppage
Post-Hiding Street Time = 2 hours cooldown
2. Lonely Times Bowling Alley
Hide Time = 2 hours clock stoppage
Post-Hiding Street Time = 4 hours cooldown
3. Massacre MovieHouse
Hide Time = 3 hours clock stoppage
Post-Hiding Street Time = 6 hours cooldown
4. SlaughterTown Mall
Hide Time = 4 hours clock stoppage
Post-Hiding Street Time = 8 hours cooldown
5. Abandoned Psych Ward
Hide Time = 6 hours clock stoppage
Post-Hiding Street Time = 12 hours cooldown
i.e. A player who hides in the Massacre MovieHouse must remain there for three hours. Once three hours pass, the player automatically returns to the streets and cannot select a new hiding spot until six hours pass.
Visit Dr. Kevorko’s Crematorium & Children’s Science Center
Don’t want to live in fear? Not good at hiding?
Take a chance with Dr. Kevorko! There may just be a little something in it for you. Or maybe not.
One of two things happen when you visit the good doctor:
- His scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and you wind up a pile of ashes in his Crematorium or a cadaver for the children to play with.
- Emerge a MetaVerse Murderer!
Your first task as a Murderer will be to attack the hiding place of your choice, separating heads from the bodies of those hiding cowards and sending them straight to Hell.
It will be a massacre.
You will have two hours to complete this task.
Once a location suffers a massacre, people will be too afraid to hide there any longer and it becomes unusable for the remaining players.
Murderers will collect 90% of the accrued ETH of every player located in that hiding spot. You’ll not only know how much ETH is in each location, but how many players… and who.
If all the hiding places are empty, we’ll buy your Maniac back from you for 0.5 ETH
Live out your days on the run
Don’t want to risk being an experiment? Content with living on the run? Then do nothing and wait for your countdown clock to hit zero. If you’re the last one left, we’ll buy that NFT back from you as your clock hits zero. If you aren’t, it’s been a pleasure knowing you.
The DeadPool
No one likes losing an NFT or being murdered in the Metaverse. It’s simply unpleasant. The good news is you won’t be going home empty-handed. The NFT you receive post-slaying will be yours to keep as a collectible and it’s worth hanging onto. After a survivor emerges we’re going to randomly make ETH offers to buy back three DeadPool member NFTs.
Rules for the ultimate game of murder chicken
Players will mint a Metaverse Massacre NFT (current estimates)
Total Mint 6666 NFTs + 34 bounties/promo
Cost per NFT .022 ETH + GAS
Prize Pool 75% of the mint
Wen Last Week of July
Did we mention the game has already been built? It has.
FAQs
What happens to the prize pool if every NFT is hiding in the same location and a Murderer is minted?
-The Murderer collects the hiding place bounty, then strolls into the blood moon with a lot of ETH.
Where do I mint, hide, or visit the doctor?
-We have lovely websites for all three.
I died a violent, “natural death” on the streets. What now?
-The worms eat your brains.
Seriously. What now?
-Your regrets haunt you for all of time.
What?!
-You visit the doctor, but this time as a corpse. You have no chance minting a Murderer because your dead. Make better choices. That’s probably why you died so young.
Prefer a visual run through? We have that for you as well.
