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Wildcard has just migrated his Wildpass NFT’s to Ethereum MAINNET and is planning to launch a token.
Wildcard is an upcoming, crypto-optional PVP combat game that I have been following for years. You play like a character who can run around a 3D stroke field and throw cards that turn into powerful creatures that autobate each other. People who specify Wildcard matches can also be rewarded for watching and being busy with the game.
Wildcard is being developed by playful studios, whose CEO and co-founder, Paul Bettner, worked on games such as words with friends, age of empires and Lucky’s Tale.
Why is the Yoker sign still not off after more than two years? Building a fun game is difficult, but according to Btner, building a good game with crypto-ties-ins makes it even more difficult.
“I personally think it’s because it’s like building games while you wander through a minefield,” he tells me with a smile. “I did this under my belt for two years and I have lost the number of times of the number of times that did not tried to hijack the game design and focus [away from] Just try to make a really fun game for a mass audience, due to crypto. ”
Simply put, Bettner wants to make a game that you will choose above everything in your Steam library because it is more fun.
“Crypto has this gravity, it has this series that constantly trying to draw the design of a consumer application, or a consumer product, especially as a game in certain directions,” Bettner added.
Source: WildPass floor prices in Polygoon
Wildcard initially released the Wildpass NFTs on Polygon in 2023 – which gave up to 4,444 fans early access to the development of the game. Bettner calls on these holders and the members of the Discord server of the game, the ‘Golden Cohort’. They are the core community that he wants to make happy with the game.
Wildcard founders Bettner and his wife Katy Bettner previously lived in the conference of the game developer in the past as part of the Polygon stand, which represents part of the chain game ecosystem (which then also canceled the now canceled shooter Deadrop included, who launched founders on Polygoon).
Now the Wildpass leaves NFT’s Polygon. The team migrated them to the Ethereum Minet on Monday and covered the costs of gas for the relocation for holders.
Bettner tells me that they are not committed to an EVM chain that is progressing, but they see the Ethereum Minet as a good place for the Genesis NFTs because of the liquidity of the chain. However, the mainstet has higher transaction costs than polygon.
“The Wildpass is not intended as an asset that people act every five seconds,” Bettner explains. For future Yoker signs or rewards that are often traded, it is likely that the team will choose a different EVM chain with lower costs.
WildPass statistics from Magic Eden on Monday before the move to Eth Minnet
Their toilet token, which has not yet been released, is different from everything we have recently seen, because this token will be 100% in the community, without allocating teams or VC involvement. And it is also not a memecoin.
“I hope we can set a new standard here,” Bertner shares. Token does not have a team or VC allocations because he does not want the Wildcard community to feel financially against the team or investors if investors suddenly decide to redeem and steer the token.
The recent favorable regulatory climate with the elections of Trump and the stir in the SEC has also made the team more comfortable to launch a token.