"Wukong" takes four years to create a "black myth", while the crypto world takes four years to grind a "golden sickle".

Author: David

On August 20th, the highly anticipated game ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ arrived as scheduled, attracting attention from many players in China.

You may not play games, but you should have heard a little bit about the reputation of Black Myth recently:

China’s first self-developed 3A masterpiece, a shining moment of our own game industry capabilities, the cultural output of the Journey to the West theme, Xinhua News Agency reporters were the first to play, and the sharp joint promotion with Luckin Coffee…

And, all Chinese players look forward to it, hoping that Wukong can impact TGA (The Game Award, the Oscar of the game industry) and establish a good reputation for Chinese games on the international stage, finding spiritual identity for their gameplay that is not ‘digital opium’.

The game industry practitioners, players, and public opinion in China are in dire need of a game like ‘Black Myth: Wukong’.

And at such a moment of popular discussion about Wukong, the crypto world is ironically absent.

As a comparison, encryption games often shout “Mass Adoption”, trying to show everyone on the label that I can let more people play, I can solve many problems of traditional games.

Any popular trend in the crypto world can attract traffic, and when the dark mythology fails to generate any discussion in the community, the chain game waving the flag of Mass Adoption precisely demonstrates:

There are few black myths in the crypto world, and the audience of encryption products has never been real players.

Just like the Meme comparison at the beginning of the article, when Goku appears, players are looking forward to when he can impact TGA; while when games appear in the circle, Degens actually only look forward to when it can TGE (issue tokens).

Different missions and positions lead to different outcomes.

What happened to the entire encryption industry’s games or other products?

dopamine, endorphin in the crypto world

In the crypto world, there is no product with the same temperament as Black Myth, which is largely due to a preset assumption - you come here to find dopamine.

Dopamine is a reward mechanism that can give you instant pleasure, it is cheap and easy to obtain.

The wilderness is chaotic, without asking about origins, opportunities and dangers are everywhere… I come here just to make a quick profit in such an environment. This may be the naked thinking after most degen or even practitioners take off their fig leaves.

Obviously, Black Myth seems more like a compensatory mechanism for endorphins, its secretion is very stingy, usually requiring suffering to obtain.

Black Myth: Wukong is similar to the production process of the film industry. It has a long production cycle and requires a large initial investment. All resources and efforts are focused on polishing the work for a long time. In simple terms, it is a model of not opening for 4 years and being able to sustain for 4 years when opened.

Of course, it is also possible that it will not sell well and result in no return on investment.

Feng Ji, the founder of Game Science, the company behind the game, revealed in an interview with the media that the development cost for producing game content that players can smoothly experience in just one hour ranges from 15 million to 20 million yuan.

This also means that the polished work must be carefully crafted, meticulously and carefully, and after a period of painful attempts, the finished product will be handed over to the market for inspection.

There is no short-term dopamine feedback, all the pain is for the moment of delivering the product for the bet.

Image: Feng Ji, the creator of Black Myth, once made a self-deprecating short film, expressing that he got beaten up for not making what players wanted.

By comparing, you will find that Black Myth is truly building a project with product priority and benefits placed afterwards.

While most encryption games prioritize assets and follow up with products, they raise the banner of “solving traditional game problems” and create more problems, such as the death spiral of Tokens, lack of gameplay, and Rug runaways.

This cannot be entirely blamed on the game project party.

You came to seek profits, and VC investors also seek to unlock and sell coins. When the game project receives a large amount of assets in a moment of good market conditions, it becomes extremely popular. Do you think they will still work on the game with great difficulty?

The whole industry operates on a dopamine-driven behavior pattern. Borrowing a line from Bilibili’s bullet comments:

“It’s like this, everyone here is responsible”.

In addition, Feng Ji revealed the current situation of Chinese online games in an old article titled ‘Who Killed Our Game?’ many years ago:

“What is behind the operators of online game? It’s capital.”

What is the huge disillusioned crowd in China in the eyes of the capital? It is the best and most delicious flock to be slaughtered; it is a super gold mine that cannot be found anywhere in the world; it is perfect, undeveloped, and the most fertile virgin land.

**Remember, in the eyes of capital… corpses are its delicacies, tears are its condiments, it lives on this and never tires of it."

And now, this sentence seems to be more appropriate to describe the harvesting and PVP of the crypto world.

Everything is about products, nothing about works.

The utilitarian rarely relaxes and rarely has a sense of mission.

Looking back, it is indeed the kind of circle environment that nurtures what kind of works and participants.

What is the essence of the utilitarianism of the crypto world?

Actually, the editor believes that the crypto world is essentially a highly compressed version of the venture capital circle in terms of time and space.

What does it mean? Basically, it means that there is not enough patience and room for development. In terms of time, most people won’t have the patience to wait for you to make a stunning trade and talk about profits; in terms of space, the audience for your project is extremely limited, far from the core trading needs and the narrative of major infrastructure projects, everything is cold.

In such a circle, it is difficult for you to have a calm mind to polish, focus on building, and speak with products.

When you are being pressured by investors to unlock the Token and the ratio, forced to sell assets by the NFT Deadline, forced to do data by the critical assessment of being in a relationship with a superior, and even forced to Close Position by contract alarms…

Under increasing pressure, would you try Black Myth: Wukong, a luxury entertainment product that requires a solid investment of 2 hours to experience the plot and action?

A utilitarian circle is rarely relaxed.

News is coming in one after another, the market is changing rapidly, Side Events are intertwined, where do you find the complete time to experience the high-level entertainment of mobilizing emotions? Just brush through the Chinese gossip in the circle.

And how can we expect them to really polish the so-called benchmark 3A encryption game masterpiece when practitioners are not inclined to or have no chance to try such game products?

How can you expect it to truly Build when even resigning and entering a new job requires a utilitarian state of mind that demands loyalty, labeling, and feedback-seeking, almost wanting the whole world to know about it?

Everything is contradictory from the beginning.

Utilitarians are difficult to have a sense of mission, and it is even harder to resist public opinion and withstand pressure to realize their ideal products. They can only seek compromise between Token and products, and try to exert their talents within the framework of the crypto world.

And works like Black Myth are precisely rooted in a sense of mission — not some top-down grand plan, nor a strategic vision, but solely driven by a childlike heart, with an unwillingness to explore the difficulties.

A little less copper smell, a little more taste of lone hero.

And there are more places with the smell of copper, and Build is always just a means, not a goal.

Thinking of means everywhere is not a way to talk about polishing real entertainment products. Because entertainment from the heart requires relaxation and cannot tolerate any utilitarianism. The crypto world needs utilitarianism and cannot tolerate any relaxation.

So, the encryption game may not be entertainment to death, but too little entertainment to death.

The funding disk model seems to be entertaining, but in fact, it is a serious and precise economic layout, a proper supply and demand arrangement, and a behind-the-scenes harvesting drama.

It is the only thing that is not easy and simple pastime.

Conclusion

In fact, this circle never really cares about games, so it is normal that there are no works with the atmosphere of Black Myth.

And if kol throws out a coin with the same name, when they learn that the small plate has pumped X times in the last month, they may go sniping again, pretending to say that the Black Goku is the number one in the world.

encryption The big stage has come to today, but the source is still Bitcoin.

The success of Bitcoin is actually a necessity for idealists. The anonymous Satoshi, in the founding Block, ironically ridiculed the bankruptcy of traditional banks. Several mature cryptographic technologies were ingeniously deployed, opening the curtain of encryption assets, in line with the idealistic view of currency decentralization.

Seemingly unrealistic, but actually a historical inevitability.

And now, the short-lived popularity or “success” of more encryption projects seems more like a coincidence for utilitarians. The group’s situation is just right, encountering a strong Liquidity, and the broadcast of the signal is just right, everything seems to be organized and premeditated, leading to a lucky Token.

This circle may need to do some good deeds and relax more.

Don’t lock your heart in encryption.

Embrace relaxation and applaud the true builders of entertainment projects, applaud the Black Myth: Wukong.