Psyber X - Small Recap

Psyber X is one of the newest additions to the hive ecosystem. What happened so far and where is this new project heading?

Since the first announcement one month ago I would argue we have seen a fairly typical evolution of a new blockchain project. We first had the big hype around their trailer which looked really good and surprised many with its content as well as their claim of trying to become "the biggest blockchain game yet in the industry" (which was obviously a marketing strategy; see info below).

However, after such a peak of interest there is often a reverse flow of events which was struck off by Hive account@tuck-fheman's posts pointing to some shortcomings and inconsistencies of the game studio Hive account@saltyreptile. In my opinion some of the critique was justified, but certainly not all of it. In general I would consider this a healthy development as it is always better to address some problems highlighted by the community before a project really takes off. The critique was officially addressed by Hive account@psyberx which was of course necessary, but more importantly it showed that he was serious about the project and that this wasn't a pump and dump scheme.

Since then we have seen what I had hoped for: a continual stream of updates showing the progress of this project. We first saw a post about NFTs which the team decided would be given to early adopters. Some pointed out that the amount of lvl tokens was too high which was set at 5 mil to be qualified since the total supply of this token is "only" 500 mil. However the team addressed this issue by announcing more Tiers for their NFTs at lower prices. There is now also the option of getting a custom made character for the game as an NFT on Hive account@nftshowroom. See here.

Next up we had the announcement the Psyber X and Polypixels partnership which should take care of the marketing of the game. Apparently the team claimed the biggest pixel available which probably means that there will be a bigger emphasis by Polypixels on the game. I guess this will be requiring some more adjustments in the future depending on how successful this campaign will be. Personally, I haven't heard of Polypixels, but they have so far quite a few well known projects on their list.

Another positive development is the collaboration the the #1UP team headed by Hive account@flauwy which has seen some great success over the last weeks since its launch. This means that posts about Psyber X will be curated to earn 1UP tokens!

To conclude, the progress over the last month has been somewhat "rollercoasty", but all in all, I think this project looks quite promising. There is always the additional challenge of making a blockchain game as there are many new things to consider compared to a normal game. I am looking forward to the white paper which should shed some more light on the tokenomics of the lvl token and how they want to continue to distribute it.

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