Hello, Lunacian frens,
How are you feeling on this lovely Saturday? I must say, we are great. The holiday season is starting to shape up, and both Se Won and Marko are chasing new opportunities and developing new metaverse strategies. The only constant is Axie Infinity and, as usual, interesting things are happening in Lunacia. Let’s see what was new and interesting this past week.
🕹 Axie Infinity Updates
BANHAMMER! Yeap, Sky Mavis landed a huge ban wave to almost 10000 accounts. A total of 24000 Axies have been banned for different periods of time, with the longest being 99 years, or basically forever. But that didn’t last long. As usual, we have seen lots of people happy about the ban and also lots of people discussing how it was unfair. This is because, in this ban wave, lots of less or more known managers and scholarship guilds have been awarded a ban or a few, removing their assets (Axies) out of the game for them. For some small scholarship operations, this was a serious blow to their investment.
Luckily for many, Sky Mavis released a statement :
Upon re-examination of the data this weekend, we discovered an error in our detection algorithms causing some innocent Axies to get banned. These Axies alongside other Axies that were sold on the marketplace prior to this detection wave have all been unbanned.
We also recognise that some of the banned Axies belong to well meaning-managers who are still learning how to best screen scholars. The bans in this wave have been reduced to 90 days which we believe gives managers a strong incentive to ensure that scholars are only playing on one in-game account.
All of the scholarship managers will now have to be extra careful when giving axies to their scholars. If you are new to scholarships or planning to create one please make sure you read the TOS carefully! Some managers have decided to stop their scholarship and I have no doubt that this can potentialy slow down the growth of the game.
Breeding Event for the Ten Millionth Axie was announced as well. Lunacia is approaching this huge milestone, and Sky Mavis has decided to reward the trainer who breeds that milestone Axie. Be careful here as well, and disable all your breeding scripts as this action is not supported by this kind of event. The reward is pretty epic and the trainer who breeds the ten-millionth Axie will win a Tanuki Mystic land item! Good luck to everyone! - Mr.Kepolas
💰 State of the Economy + ❓Question of the week
In Q4 2021 the project has reached nearly $2.5 billion in trading volume and over 2 million daily active users, making it the biggest NFT game and project in general. However, there are some concerns regarding the retention of the current Axie Infinity user base. Let's briefly talk about them here. The majority of Axie Infinity players are scholars. And while having very impressive stats (most of Axie Infinity accounts are active since the day they have been created), we have to discover if such high retention is an indicator of loyalty? Or most of Axie Infinity scholars are just like workers who retain because of the pay-check. I want to mention, I have nothing against scholarships, in fact, I give Axie teams for those willing to play as well. But I just want to raise awareness and start a conversation that I believe is important for this community. If you are a manager, or a leader of a scholarship guild, take time to encourage your scholars and put effort to ignite the interest in the game (or
ganize events for example). If you are a scholar, ask yourself, do you really want to keep on playing with the rented team and earn an SLP token, which value changes every day? Oh, sorry, every hour. Educate yourself about the game, the industry, the technology. Learn, grow, network, invest (as little as you can). And I know this advice is not applicable to everyone. I know there are people who need money to put food on their table and Axie Infinity might be the only option left. My message is to people who have access and possibilities. Let's all be mindful. At the end of the day the longevity and economy of the project we all love depend on us. - Sewon
👨🏽🤝👨🏽 Community Spotlight
Today’s community spotlight will go hand in hand with our eSports section as the same organization or better to say tournament will be mentioned. FTX Galaxy Cup organized a huge giveaway to promote this amazing eSports event. They are giving away a MYSTIC AXIE, 2 AXIE LANDS, and 40 AXIES! This is just mind-blowing. I am not sure when will you read this, but it should still be viable to enter the giveaway here. This is probably the biggest giveaway used to promote the event and a platform. Well done! - Mr.Kepolas
🎨 Lunacian Art Scene
Today I want to highlight an amazing artwork made by Niek. It tells the story about this week's biggest holiday - Thanksgiving. The artwork shows exactly how I believe thanksgiving should look like for all of us - friends and family gratefully share the meal. By the way, did you manage to find your axie there? - Sewon
⚔ eSports Overview
As mentioned in the community section, this weekend we have an amazing eSports tournament called - FTX Galaxy Cup. The tournament starts today - Saturday 27th and ends on the 28th of November.
On the 27th at 01:00 PM GMT+8 the tournament starts with Influencer Showmatch where we will see some familiar influencer faces competing with Brycent being one of them. This will be crazy. Then on the 28th, we will be able to watch the PRO tournament. Last time I wrote on the exciting format where players will pick and ban Axies. I am also looking forward to seeing the METAT8 team founded by Elijah for the first time in the tournament. Oh, and also, a lot of great casters will be commenting on the matches, one of which is DAVEvsAXIE. I simply love his analytic style, it’s always a learning session when he casts.
Overall, from the point of promotion and so far the organization of the tournament, this seems to be the one that sets the bar really high. Now let’s see how will the execution go! - Mr.Kepolas
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