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New crytpo card game Calvaria is attracting huge investment in its presale and has now raised almost $500,000 in just a few days since going live.
The project has a unique advantage over other play-to-earn (P2E) gaming projects because it will release two versions of its main game - P2E and free-to-play (F2P) - in a bid to finally attract casual and traditional gamers to the blockchain.
Despite games such as The Sandbox and Decentraland boasting massive potential and having market caps of well over $1 billion each, the two games - as well as many others in the space - have struggled to attract traditional gamers.
P2E games were supposed to be 'bear-proof', with the hypothesis that those coins would lose less value in a bear market as players continued to use their ecosystems.
Unfortunately, that has not proven to be the case, with most games struggling to attract regular players.
In fact, Decentraland and The Sandbox have been labelled 'empty metaverses', with the two games attracting less than 20,000 combined players in the past 30 days.
The disparity to the most popular Web2 games is huge, with the likes of Fortnite and Roblox attracting ens of millions of players every day.
Calvaria believes the issue is two-fold and has come up with a solution to fix both.
The first problem is that with most blockchain games, players need to buy expensive NFTs or tokens to even access and try the game in the first place, which can be prohibitive for many.
The second issue is that lots of players can be intimidated because of a lack of technical knowledge on how crypto works, such as needing to set up
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