We are in some agreement here even if my view is a bit more strict than yours. A lot of web3 mistakes come from inexperienced project owners trying to get rich this way. The future is not going to be some world where people analyze and trade tokens and NFTs all the time. Neither a world where people participate in Discord and Telegram and such. Real people are too busy to invest so much time in a single project unless they are half addicted gamers who don't do anything else.

A game must have token economy embedded in itself, and preferably it should have very little exposure to crypto at all. What I mean with that is that an average user should be able to come and play the game without even understanding that the game currency is a real crypto token at all. If you build a good game where the in game currency is the token and you add some burn mechanisms, utility is already there. What I have seen web3 greedy games do is introduce another in game currency which can be bought with traditional money, so stupid.

A video game does not need a token and neither do many different types of projects in crypto. It is flawed from the start. Sell equity if you want funding, don't print tokens for free and then sell them.

They suck and just exist to drain money from naive investors.

Humans are basically just naturally occurring bots that happen to be organically implemented, so banning bots seems a technically doomed endeavor thus it makes more sense to me to just go with it and recognise that human beings are not the only life-forms in the multiverse, maybe even go so far as to try to prevent the kind of racism/hate that one might term humanism, the corrosive bias of certain organically implemented naturally-occurring bots versus other implementations of bots aka lifeforms...

A child can learn to spell and to play text-based "MUD" (Multi-User Dungeon) games even before their manual dexterity has been practiced enough to write with pens or pencils, since keyboards form the letters and align them into straight legible lines for them, so humans can grow up learning to more and more automate characters from a very early age; by the time they can comfortably write with pens and pencils at a decent speed they can already have one or more player-accounts populated not only with an adventuring team for when they are "at the keyboard" but also a set of labourers/artisans to leave running when they are not "at the keyboard".

Thus in the Galactic Milieu's scriptable text mode interface, implemented using CoffeeMUD, player-accounts can have up to ten characters up to five of which can be online concurrently.

That allows a team of five artisans who gain "experience" doing tasks like foraging, mining, smithing, construction, shipbuilding and so on and so on and so on plus a team of five "adventurers" who gain experience basically killing monsters or other opponents.

CoffeeMUD has breeding too, so those who wish to get into that aspect can leave some characters-capacity free to accomodate children as they grow up into playable characters.

Obviously these player-accounts are ridiculously lucrative/productive thus the economy would be doomed were there not a mechanism to help limit them, thus the game provides them only to "Civilisations", leaving it to the "Civilisations" to administer their use by others such as their own citizens, members, customers or whatever, and charges them a yearly fee per player-account, shown at https://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/mudgaard.html

Since "Civilisations" necessarily own "shares" of GHC (General Hosting Corp aka Galactic Holding Corp) they have collateral thus their billing can be handled using the same hourly-compounded interest routines used to handle the startup loans of the intergalactic mining Corps, which also provides one of the ways a "treasury" can be depleted since a Civilisation's holdings of GHC "shares" is part of its "treasury". If the debt to GHC exceeds the value of GHC "shares" held one or more of those "shares" can be liquidated to bring the debts down under the remaining total debt or bankrupt the "Civilisation".

Hopefully this system should keep the "Civilisations" from "wasting" valuable player-accounts on players who fail to run the accounts productively enough to help the "Civilisation" continue to renew the accounts.


-MarkM-

You forgot the most important thing which every web3 games have which is the source of income outside the game itself that they can use to fund the rewards to every players.

Team just use the existing token supply as rewards while they continuously drain the liquidity on exchange by dumping team tokens and “marketing/operation” tokens using holders liquidity that result to continuously dumping of the price.

A real web3 games will be sustainable if they have other source of income for the rewards that is not from the token supply.