It may sound very futuristic, but in the future you can literally make money playing games. In a few years, as a professional gamer you will no longer have to stream or participate in large tournaments, you can just play and cryptocurrencies earn with your progress. Perhaps that is exactly the purpose of Star Atlas. The developers of this game have now announced the addition of a DAO and an in-game marketplace.
DAO for a game
Star Atlas should become something of a competitor for games like EVE and Star Citizen. The story takes place in a futuristic, intergalactic world with spaceships to explore the countless planets. Players fight for dominance in the galaxy, according to the developers.
There isn’t much information about the game yet and it’s still in the pre-alpha stage, but it sounds like a huge open world. Extra techniques that make the game as independent as possible are important in this.
Therefore, it has developed a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) for the game. This one is set up to properly manage society in the game itself. That’s how complicated and big the game is.
‘The long-term vision of Star Atlas is an autonomous game that is fully owned, controlled and funded by the players themselves through decentralized governance. Therefore, the economy is designed to work through DAOs from its early stages. The governance token POLIS and the currency ATLAS are the fuel for this.’
In-game trading for real money?
VFor the in-game economy, the developers also have a own trading platform designed for the game. Games like Star Citizen also have such a system, which allows you to buy everything from merchandise and crew to even complete ships. Star Atlas will also get such a system that should be at least as extensive. It allows you to sell assets directly to other players. It uses blockchain for this.
It is not known whether it will also be possible to exchange the in-game currency and the governance token for another cryptocurrency from outside the game, such as Bitcoin (BTC) or a gaming token, or for fiat currency. But if we keep in mind the scale of the game, the time you can spend in such a game and the gaming industry of the future, it is obvious that that will be a possibility.