Morris PericoChief Operating Officer of Meta Gaming Guild (MGG), spoke about the shift to Play to Airdrop tournaments and his bullish outlook on Telegram tap-to-earn games.
- The interview took place on September 7, 2024, at the Avenue Plaza Hotel in Naga City, Camarines Sur, during the inaugural Bicol Traders Meet.
In focus: Meta Gaming Guild (MGG) is a Bicol-based community organization focused on blockchain gaming.
- Recent News: Last year, MMG officially launched its free NFT dungeon crawler game, MetaSaga Warriors, offering features such as mini-tournaments, PvP battles, and a rescue mission game mode.
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The following extract In the interview, Perico discussed MGG’s approach to developing blockchain-based games and web3 games, highlighting its transition from Play to Earn, which had issues with the reward system, to Play to Airdrop tournaments that reward only the best players to maintain the value of the chips.
- With a community of 5,000 people in Bicol, Perico remains optimistic about tap-to-win Telegram games despite recent challenges.
Interview: MGG COO on Play-to-Airdrop, Tap-to-Earn
Nath Cajuday, Junior Editor, BitPinas: Good evening everyone. We are here with the BitPinas team and we are joined by Mr. Morris Perico from MGG and AIS.
But before we continue, sir, could you introduce us to MGG and Astra Interactive Studios (AIS)?
Morris Perico, COO, Meta Gaming Guild: AIS focuses on the development of games under blockchain and web3 technology.
While MGG takes care of the web3-developed games we play, we ask players in our community to join and earn rewards.
Aid: We know that the hype or the use case is a little different now. It’s not as clear or as focused as it was in Play to Earn. So how are you adapting in terms of game development and how are you communicating these trends to the community?
Parakeet: That’s right. The concept of web3 has changed. Previously, it was all about Play to Win. However, there were long-term problems because the reward system was abused.
What we did was move players to Play to Airdrop tournaments, where only the best players, not all, receive rewards.
So we set up a leaderboard, for example, for this season, only the top 20 players will receive rewards.
This prevents abuse of the token reward system. If everyone gets a reward, they will liquidate it all at once and the price of the token will go down. Kasi, if you give rewards to everyone, everyone will liquidate the token you rewarded.
Aid: We just want to ask, how big is your community here in Bicol so far?
Parakeet: In fact, our community started here in Bicol. During the pandemic we helped thousands of players.
Right now, we have a community of around 5,000 members here in Bicol.
Aid: Speaking of Play to Airdrop that you mentioned earlier, there is a popular trend now: tap to win or click games.
We would like to ask your opinion about these clicker games. Do you think this trend is bullish or bearish? And do you think this is the new Play to Earn?
Morris: That’s a good question because we also explored The Open Network, which operates under Telegram.
I saw the trend of tap to win games or Telegram bot games. It’s easy to access: as long as you have a Telegram account, you can participate.
So we also entered that space because we experienced that it was quite promising. For me, I’m optimistic about tap-to-win games.
However, Telegram recently faced a problem when its CEO was arrested in France, which affected the Telegram community. But as we discussed earlier, if a project has a strong community, it won’t be affected too much. So I think Telegram bot games are fine and a lot of people will use them because they are easy to access for crypto communities.
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