It's been a little over a month since I started playing Axie Inifnity, and like many players, I'm already obsessed with the about game. I literally haven't missed a single day since I first started playing, and I don't think I'm going to miss one any time soon. This is the same kind of energy I'm getting from many other players I've met along the way.
Why is that and why do people love playing Axie Infinity so much?
Well, for myself and many others, it's because after spending most of our lives playing games which when we stopped playing, left us with nothing other than the millions of short bursts of serotonin they blasted us with. After being products and cash-cows of videogame corps for decades, we've finally discovered a game that actually aims to financially empower its players instead of just the founders and shareholders.
A true dream come true for the avid gamer.
It's truly hard to believe sometimes that there is a game that literally pays us to play.
The Play to Earn model is an unbelievably powerful and addictive combination of two mighty incentives, playing a game and earning money.
Although some players might not play the game as much if there was no ability to earn, it's a really fun, complex, and tactical game, with mechanics resembling those of Heartstone and Gods Unchained, just instead of having one hero to fight with, players get to battle with a team of three incredibly cute fantasy pets, called Axies.
Because they are NFT's, Axies are not only digital pets players can battle with but they double as valuable collector items, which recently started enjoying a rapidly increasing prestige amongst the wider crypto community. At first Axies were on the ethereum blockchain, but insanely high fees made it impossible for players to interact with the game so founders had to find a way to circumvent fees in order to make the game playable for a wider audience again.
The solution to this problem came in form of Ronin, an ethereum-linked sidechain built specifically for Axie Infinity where players get to trade, transfer, and breed Axies, without having to pay ethereum gas fees. What followed, is truly awe-inspiring.
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Getting rid of eth gas fees was a major catalyst for Axies stunning growth over the past few months. Following the implementation of Ronin, in a historic turn of events, Axie Infinity revenue dwarfed that of all other ethereum-based projects, and even that of MetaMask, PancakeSwap, Synthetix, Maker DAO, Curve, and SushiSwap, combined!
Why I'm so hyped about Axies?
The collection aspect of these cute mystery pets is what got me really hooked to the game, because Axies are giving me huge Pokemon nostalgia vibes. A card game I was deeply in love with back in the day when Runi was just a tiny little kidderino, collecting and trading Pokemon cards like an overly-obsessed maniac.
My life-long passion for collecting, competing, gaming, and hustling, has materialized in form of an empowering obsession over Axie Infinity.
Yes, you've read that right, it's an empowering obsession. Empowering in the sense that it's in no way negative but rather only a strong positive driving force behind my motivation to keep playing the game, and to invest a lot of my time and energy into creating something special for the entire Axie community.
I'm not going to lie, the money is great!
I started with 2000$ a month ago and 3 Axies. Today, I've got my initial investment back, made 1800$ in profit with which I bought more Axies for breeding, and I currently own 19 Axies in total. Talk about exponential growth! The best thing about having more Axies is that you get more energy so you can enter more match-ups and earn more SLP. So my earnings are poised to further increase over the coming months, which I'm really thrilled about.
In the last two weeks, I've earned 4k SLP which I used to breed 6 new Axies with an average market value ranging from 500 to 1200$ depending on the genetics and move-set. Personally, and I believe most others will agree with me, this is a mind-boggling amount of money to earn from playing a game.
The best part being, earnings are projected to increase as the bull market continues to uplift cryptos from the recent pullback and catapult them back to the moon and beyond!
Want to learn more about Axies and get paid to produce content about the game?
Visit Axie Buzz, the dedicated Axie Infinity community on Hive where players get to share their knowledge about the game to earn cryptocurrency. Get your first Axies and start playing anon because the FOMO train is going to run you over once Axie becomes the first crypto game that hits 1 million players!!
Want to start playing but can't spare a thousand bucks for a new team?
Fear not because Axie Buzz got you covered! In about a week or two, we're going to release our Scholarship Program where participants get their own team to play with and in return, they share a part of their revenue with the Axie Buzz community. Income generated by Axie Buzz's scholars will then be funneled into breeding new Axies to increase the number of scholars we can take in.