I was just wondering about other use cases of GameCredits. Not like in the usual manner when money goes from players to game developers for some extra in-game features. But instead players could compete for GameCredits against other players? Like for example there could be paid matches and free matches for a game. In a paid match people would have to buy-in to compete against each other and the prize pool would then be awarded for winners while developers would take a small fee. Think of a poker tournament. What do you think?
That sounds like a great idea
i think the real adoption hinderance as of now is, player required to first buy bitcoin and then to buy GAME rather than simply buying GAME with paypal or credit card. I know developers said they would be intergrating this but if adoption is your goal, IMO this should be first priority.
Although i like your idea of distributing GAME for free matches. Free GAME (dust amount) for players to play around would be good too.
We've said this many times, that is literally the next thing that is coming. Within a matter of days/weeks we will have the option to pay with paypal or credit car. We launched in Fragoria before we had these options to test a number of bugs and work on fixing the system. It was best to do this when only a rather small portion of users would be buying GameCredits with bitcoin from our wallet.
As for the question about prizes. GameCredits has the ability to monetize a number of games. In essence, we could (and are planning) gaming tournaments where individuals can play to win thousands of GAME. Any early tournament will again, be a test of our system polishing off any bugs. That way, when we offer our solution to developers, they can start doing paid tournaments of their own. Hope that makes sense!