Economic Freedom..?
that was what the developers were boasting about on social media during the time when good Axies would cost around USD 500 or even more..
playing and earning at the same time, while making use of a great number of regular SLP reward as their bait..
but for the victims from the 2nd half of 2021, it didn't last very long before the developers revealed their hit-and-run plan...
back in 2022, they started to move to a new game, which is Axie Infinity: Origins..
the graphics and gameplay may have improved, but NEVER their treatment for the scam victims..
it was just a downhill ride for a lot of Axie investors ever since the developers' betrayal in terms of manipulating the daily rewards..
and now, they are using their AXS as the new bait for unsuspecting victims...
but before i proceed with this terrible story, here are some changes for me within the game:
yes, i was stupid enough to buy some new ones..
i thought they could help me get my hands on some rewards as the number of active players diminished as each day goes by..
but NO, as it happens, the developers just also make the spread of the rewards in their leaderboard become more unfair..
this is my seventh Axie..
as in giving no chance for the scam victims to retrieve what they have lost back in 2021...
it's useless to explain their role or what they are good at in battle..
why is that so..?
because the developers just keep on changing a lot of card skills...
and so let's proceed with this evil story..
here's an enumeration of a lot of other unfair schemes in Axie Infinity: Origins:
- FREE Axies - they are different from the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Axies, their purpose is to try to attract new players so they can get a feel of the game, hoping they can convince those new players to actually buy Axies so the developers can earn from the commission
- Defective Cards - they always make an excuse that some cards may be defective because the game is still under development, but some cards never got fixed at all, and that's basically impossible since they are fond of continuously changing a lot of card descriptions, i even have a card back then which can make me automatically lose a match every time it gets broken
- Turn Based - during the earlier stages of Origins, players can already get an advantage just by choosing the more preferable turn
- Bonus Energy - during the earlier stages of Origins, the players with more cards that provide bonus Energy are usually at an advantage, but to make things worse, some Axies are even gifted with the skill to replicate such bonus Energy cards without any penalty
- Boar Requirement - this is like the 800 MMR (Matchmaking Rating) anti-earning rule back in V2, players can't earn any SLP unless they reach such stage
- Reduction of SLP Reward - it's actually further reduction of the SLP reward, before the end of V2 i was still earning USD 2 for every 15 days, but during the earlier stages of Origins, it takes me a month just to get the number of SLP with that estimated value
- Beneficial to Few - Origins was only beneficial to those investors who have already earned their return on investment (ROI) before the collapse of SLP and then that of the entire cryptocurrency market in the 2nd half of 2021, it was also beneficial to new players since during Origins it was cheaper to purchase Axies in order to come up with a team that can better climb the leaderboard, unlike in the case of scam victims who already lost so much back in 2021, so much that only the higher positions in the leaderboard can help them recover their lost money
- Class Skills and Purity Imbalance - back during the Origins' days when Class still matters, a few Classes were clearly given an advantage because they were provided with a lot of strong skills, skills whose effects are not even available for other Classes, while Beasts and Birds can remain pure while possessing such strong skills, other Classes only had the choice to remain pure with their mediocre skills or sacrifice Potential Points so they can also make use of the Beasts and Birds' powerful cards
- Beasts' FREE Cleanse and Rage - one of best assets of the Beasts Class during the time when there were powerful disabling cards, and it comes for FREE
- Disabling Cards - back in V2, cards that have disabling abilities were only allowed to disable certain parts of an Axie's body or based on the reach of the attack (melee or ranged), that way the Axie won't be completely useless in battle, but in the earlier stages of Origins, instead of just targeting select body parts or reach type, they allowed disabling cards to target either attack or shield cards as a whole leaving the opponent with very small chance to fight back
- Deck and Draw Rigging - in my case, there were a lot of times when i would repeatedly draw a set of cards which i can't even use together, or times when in multiple turns i would just draw Revenge and Curse cards, that kind of bad luck while my enemies just find it easy to draw their main cards
- Fake Market Activities - showing market activities is one of their schemes to make it look like players can still earn outside the leaderboard, but what's very suspicious about their marketplace is that powerful Runes are still being sold at high prices during off-season when there is no more reward at stake and they can't even Disenchant those to get any useful item, rare Axies and Lands are also still being traded at very high costs
- Energy Burst - it didn't solve the problem about the Energy imbalance since V2 because anyone who gets the Energy Burst permanently gains the bonus Energy for the succeeding turns, so the first to activate it will mostly likely get the advantage in the match
- Funds Concentrated for the Elite - whether tournaments, social media contests, or the leaderboards, we have noticed that the value of prizes are always so much bigger for their elite players (guild players, influencers, acquaintances), they are only generous to a select few, even the rewards for their social media contests are just mostly being given to players that they know, and they are doing that as if it is impossible to distribute the prize pool to more players in order to help the others recover some of the money that they have lost for believing in the game
- Increasing RON Fees - although the transaction fees nowadays in terms of RON can be considered small, the truth is a lot of players lost more money as compared to whatever they are saving during the age of RON transactions, and seeing how such fees doubled or more than doubled in value in a short period of time is disturbing
- Lending Land to Influencers - their NFT Lands costs a lot of money, and in order to try to attract other players to buy their Lands, they are lending some to their influencers so they can showcase in their streams and social media pages the possible uses of such assets
- Burning Assets - this is something that they could have done before, but they are leaving the decision to burn assets to the players, the fact is their company can do the sacrifice to purchase assets for burning purposes in order to help the victims from 2021, but instead they are just focusing most their of fundings for their elite community as if they are only ones who have helped the company earn a lot before
these are just some of the added reasons why the game can never be fair for all..
reasons why the scam victims can never recover the money that they have lost in buying Axies in 2021, especially the weak ones..
reasons why the game is continuously going down..
and reasons why people, most people, should never trust such gaming and cryptocurrency company...
here's a related post about the violent changes in Axie Infinity: