The creators behind Legends of Aria are trying to revive the failed MMORPG with various blockchain features. This year, Pay2Win characters have already been introduced, which you can purchase with your own cryptocurrency. Now a metaverse prison is to follow to punish players who break the rules.
Legends of Aria has been through tough times. It was originally supposed to be a new kind of Ultima Online, but players stayed away. After they wanted to revise the concept for 2021, the project was acquired by Blue Money Games.
This company specializes in blockchain and crypto elements, and since the acquisition, Legends of Aria has been switched to a Play2Earn concept. Since then, there has been a cryptocurrency that you can use in the game and Pay2Win characters, which are also NFTs.
Legends of Aria has undergone a significant overhaul to survive. Some failed Kickstarter projects could have benefited from this as well. More about that in the video:
Legends of Aria introduces metaverse prison
What is the metaverse prison? Legends of Aria has a crime system where there are different punishments for various crimes. If you are convicted as a murderer, your skills and character stats will be reduced.
In the future, if you continue your rampage as a murderer, players can send you to prison with a click after they kill you. Then players near you will receive a notification asking them to participate as jurors in your trial.
You will then have the opportunity to defend yourself in front of these jurors through the in-game chat during the trial. A judge chosen by the developers will ultimately decide your fate.
The prison is supposed to offer its own gameplay: You can join gangs with other inmates or reduce your sentence by working, for example by collecting ore in the mine.
Your prison sentence can range from a few hours to a week. If that feels too long, you can also attempt an escape. Either you team up with other inmates to overpower the guards or your guild tries to break you out of prison.
Is the idea really new? No, not really. Similar systems have already existed in other MMORPGs. What is really new is that such a system is being implemented for the first time in a Pay2Earn game.
Whether the system can truly deter players from breaking the rules remains to be seen. But what do you think? Is this better than simply banning players for a certain period? Can you imagine such a system in other games? Feel free to let us know in the comments.
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