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This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Wildcard has just migrated its Wildpass NFTs to Ethereum mainnet and is planning to launch a token.  Wildcard is an upcoming, crypto-optional PVP battle game I’ve been following for years. You play as a character who can run around a 3D battlefield and throw cards that turn into powerful creatures that autobattle each other. People that spectate Wildcard matches can also be rewarded for watching and engage with the game.  Wildcard is being developed by Playful Studios, whose CEO and co-founder, Paul Bettner, worked on games like Words With Friends, Age of Empires, and Lucky’s Tale. Why is Wildcard still not out yet after more than two years? Building a fun game is hard, but in Bettner’s view, building a good game with crypto ties-ins makes it even harder.  “I personally think it’s because it’s like building games while wandering through a minefield,” he tells me with a chuckle. “I’ve got two years of doing this under my belt and I’ve lost count of the number of times where unaligned incentives have attempted to hijack the game design and the focus [away from] just trying to create a truly fun game for a mass audience, because of crypto.”  Simply put, Bettner wants to make a game that you’ll choose over anything else in your Steam library because it’s more fun. “Crypto has this gravity to it, it has this set of forces that are constantly trying to tug the design of a consumer application, or a consumer product, especially like a game, in certain directions,” Bettner added.  Source: Wildpass floor prices in Polygon Wildcard initially released the Wildpass NFTs on Polygon back in 2023 — which gave up to 4,444 fans early access to the game’s development.…

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