Offering of the $GODS

Gods Unchained is doing yet another retroactive airdrop for its loyal players. This next GODS token distribution to come before the ability to earn GODS daily is called Offering of the $GODS. They've been very cautious with the way the play to earn mechanics work in the game. I think they're focused on making sure that they don't over inflate the token.

They want to make sure that the tokens have use and value. I think this slower than average distribution of tokens is a great thing for the token economy. We've seen it time and time again that tokens from play to earn games get inflated into oblivion. Thinking about it, the first one that I really experienced was the R-Planet token AETHER. It still hurts.

Anyway - we're not here to talk about GODS vs other game tokens... The newest play to earn campaign coming to Gods Unchained is pretty interesting.

Over 1 million GODS tokens are set to be distributed to players that have held, continue to hold, or start holding GODS in their Immutable X wallets. This will go along with some other eligibility requirements. It's kind of a hacked together version of staking according to their own blog post. I guess it's easier to track all these requirements than to just implement staking...

I'm no developer so I don't know how hard it actually is, but I imagine there's quite a few staking mechanisms they could copy-paste. Whatever. All of the GODS tokens that are going to be distributed to active players have been earned from being used in the game.

That's just a demonstration of the actual use-case for these tokens. People are using them to buy expansion packs and to forge cards. They continue to reward active players with different incentives, which shows that they do care about the players.

So what are the requirements for this?

33% of the tokens are being distributed in a surprise airdrop based on weekly snapshots from December 2021 to June 12th, 2022. The remaining 67% will be distributed based on weekly snapshots from June 13th forward.

In order to be eligible for either of these rewards, you had to have or have to have GODS in your Immutable X wallet. In addition to holding the tokens in your wallet, you need to meet one of 4 other criteria. The eligibility criteria are - Mint an NFT through the Forge, play at least one game, buy at least on expansion pack, or buy/sell a Gods Unchained card on the market.

These are all things that a typical player is probably doing on a daily basis anyway. Not a regular player? Just hold GODS and make sure you're playing 1 game per week or buying 1 card per week. The lowest amount of GODS held within each week is the basis for how rewards are calculated.

That sounds weird, but it makes sense. It discourages people moving around large chunks of money to game the rewards system. They want to promote long-term holding of the tokens. Remember - this is the first iteration of a staking mechanism so that's the next step.

The requirements are a little weird, but hey... Who doesn't like more tokens given to them for doing what they already do? I think GODS has a lot of room to grow. What say you?

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