Understandable, I’ve got the same feedback from other investors, VC-backed and late stage projects are not as attractive as grassroots, specially around Web3 where most people expects huge returns after the TGE.
Building IP collectively is very attractive, we’ve seen that eg. with BAYC how NFT holders can use that IP for their own businesses like branding restaurants or mechandise, it also comes with a touch of exclusivity because you need to be invested in the project in order to hold those rights.
(IMO) Becoming a Blockbuster can happen in 2 ways
1- You become a sensation from the start, your content goes viral for a short period of time
2- Through consistency, you continue to build your brand
The second is the most profitable and reliable way to achieve this, content creators know this for decades since YouTube, while the first is mostly out of luck and great marketing.
I’ve done my best to make Cosmicrafts look like a AAA game but can’t compare 2 or 3 underpaid devs against big studios like Rockstar Games or Blizzard-Activision, where they have hundreds of people, each one of them working on a small part of the pipeline. They create and dump games left and right, they can afford to do that in order to dominate.
The gaming industry is on a rampage against NFTs and crypto, if you would see the Reddit feedback on Web3 gaming is disastrous, not only they dislike it, they automatically flag it as a scam.
See that for yourself.
In addition to that, last year I reached out 50+ gaming publishers, I shared that list in an interview with DFINITY and their feedback. Same issue, none of them want to be part of Web3.
ITCH.io Epic Games and Crazy Games would allow you to publish your game on their platforms, but they state that your game can’t be centered around Web3 economy, to not have a platform for the users to trade tokens and NFTs because it doesn’t benefit them at all.
The solution I’m offering here is to wash out the Web3 stigma out of Cosmicrafts by leveraging the capabilities of the Internet Computer, like reverse-gas fees and remove the need to use an external wallet, providing with a native Web2 experience.
The SNS launchpad was never meant to gain users, it is meant to fund the project and have actual marketing to reach out our target audience, in addition to have the canisters hosted on a larger subnet.