An organization focused on the advancement of technology in the gaming industry says that blockchain gaming is at a mature stage, and an increasing number of gamers are accessing games seamlessly.
As traditional game developers begin to enter the scene, this could lead to dramatic changes.
Major studios such as Sony The following are some examples of how to get started: Square Enix According to An, layer-2 solutions are a way of entering space. Industry survey This week, the Blockchain Game Alliance released its latest report.
Public perception still remains the biggest obstacle.
According to the report, 66% of blockchain projects still struggle to prove their credibility and fight against the myth that games based on blockchains are scams.
The ease of getting into Blockchain games is improving, as the onboarding friction rate has dropped from 79.5% to 53.9%.
It’s mostly due to the improved user experience that makes it easier to introduce gamers to Blockchain games.
"At the heart of this growth is the principle of player empowerment," BGA president Sebastian Borget writes in the report.
Borget highlights the story of ownership as the primary attraction that gamers have for blockchain-based games. This report shows over 71% respondents believe this to be the case. “single biggest benefit that blockchain gaming delivers.”
"Since the last market cycle, more efforts have been put into UX and UI, prioritizing a seamless experience similar to what players would expect from Web2 games," The report should be read.
In 2025 the alliance expects this trend to continue, and will place a greater emphasis on players’ experiences than financial mechanisms.
Blockchain gaming platforms are shifting away from overt crypto elements—like token economies and NFT marketplaces—toward seamless integrations where the Web3 functionality operates in the background.
The meta of play-to-earn has changed.
Blockchain games will have a different meta in 2025, according to the Blockchain Game Alliance. Decrypt.
BGA stated that the transition of traditional gaming servers from centralized to blockchain infrastructure shows games’ embracement of ownership.
Blockchain integration allows true digital ownership by tracking assets and trading on the blockchain.
Then, in this regard the play-to-earn models The focus of the games that were developed in 2020 has also shifted dramatically to how they can be used.
Andrew Campbell (better known as Zyori in Web3 communities) notes that such a change has led to iterations based on merit and activities.
"The original play-to-earn model suffered from two critical flaws: hyper-inflationary rewards that grew uncontrollably with user adoption and a lack of sufficient token sinks to create deflationary pressure,” Campbell wrote in the report.
All-on-chain gaming and worlds with autonomous characters
The report also presented two new terms: autonomous worlds (AW) and fully on-chain games (FOCGs). They describe games as being closely native to and living entirely on-chain as autonomous experiences.
This includes game rules, player items, and in-game economics, rather than just keeping some pieces on-chain while running the game’s main client on regular, centralized servers.
Autonomous worlds enable games to “improve based on community input” by placing “elements of game state and logic on-chain,” Gillian Pua, chief of staff at Sovrun (formerly BreederDAO), told Decrypt.
This aspect also plays into how fully on-chain games could run in the near future, with the advancements in AI merging with blockchain infrastructure.
“With on-chain transparency, AWs also provide the perfect foundation for AI Agents to thrive, enabling intelligent, adaptive gameplay that responds to real-time player behavior,” Pua said.
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair