The Mystery Society, a web3 game that combines the casual-friendly gameplay from among us with a murder mystery atmosphere, has suspended the development after developer Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow said it had difficulty finding financing to continue to support the game.
The web -based game debuted at the beginning of 2024 when the studio collected $ 3 million in a financing round led by Shima Capital. Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow was founded by veterans in the game industry and led by CEO Chris Heatherly, who previously supervised Disney’s Club Penguin -Gaming platforms and later the Gaming division of NBCuiversal.
Mystery Society was initially launched on Ethereum Scaling Network Polygon and then migrated to unchanging at the end of last year, with plans to launch a mystry token around the game. But now token is on hold after the announcement of Monday.
“We will keep the game live as long as we can while we are looking for a new house,” read the team of the team. “We are considering a relaunch without the Web3 elements on Steam. And we are open to moving the game to a publisher – or in web2 or web3 – if there is willing to help it. “
The post briefly pointed to problems with securing financing to continue the development of the game, and when he was reached for comment, Heatherly did not chop words about the current state of playing.
“It is the mother of all clusterfucks for Web3 gaming at the moment -the crashing of the cryptomarket, VCs are being tapped and a poor track record of Game -Token [generation events, or TGEs]”He said Decrypt. “The majority of the dry powder was used months ago, and many VCs are forced in liquid trade from alts and memes to try to show returns to LPS so that they can collect new funds. The risk of risk does not exist. “
Indeed, the crypto prices have been battered lately. While Bitcoin and other assets increased in the aftermath of President Trump’s election profit, with some reaching new peaks of all time, many top coins have already dropped most of that profit. Bitcoin traded under $ 83,000 on Thursday, barely a month after a peak over $ 108,000.
Gaming -Tokens have taken some of the most difficult hits and have exchanged a lot like meme coins with their volatile swings. And from this writing, only two gaming tokens remain in the top 100 coins per market capitalization, with various of the list in recent months. Most of last year’s largest new gaming tokens have since clamped in value.
In his comments DecryptHeatherly aimed at a wish of investors and traders for a quick return on a token, while the recent momentum crashes around Meme Coins.
“Meme coins have really fucked the space more than people want to admit,” he said. “It attracted people to magical ‘ponzinomic’ thinking that you don’t need a real product, you just need a hype and you can just rotate from token to token, story to story by haunting Alfa.”
Heatherly said this is the reason why many crypto gamemakers launch things such as special Layer-2 networks, telegram spin-off games and AI agents in an attempt to keep the hype alive.
“It is not that some of them may not be worthwhile to do,” he clarified, “but it is done to get investments in the judge or a token too hype, not in a fundamental or long -term way.”
Heatherly still thinks that web3 gaming has a future. A model in which players can sell their NFTs or tokens for a certain level of return when they stop playing a digital game can help stimulate the adoption of Web3, he believes. But that only works when expectations are kept under control, and players do not demand a huge token remuneration only for trying out a game.
The Mystery Society has been developed while the implementation of similar “Web2” games such as ours and Stumble Guys, of which Heatherly said it earned hundreds of millions of dollars without crypto economy. He believes that the industry to be released would quickly shift on the chain if such a model has been proven, but that requires that you have to go beyond the “get-rich fantasy” that will remain in the room.
“Corrence and stupidity of just about all players kills the space before it can prove themselves,” Heatherly added. “We must first be focused on building healthy companies on chains and end these ponzinomic misconceptions. Every web3 -gaming founder I know is frustrated, burned out and just doing what they do to try to survive -but with real conviction that evaporates every day. “
But there can be light at the end of the tunnel. On Wednesday, Heatherly wrote that he has received Outreach from different chains and makers in space and is considering “giving the IP” for the Mystery Society or another path ahead.
“I went into this because I missed Club Penguin and I wanted to do Club Penguin for adults,” he wrote on X. “And somehow, all the people I suggested to just extract, and it just felt soulless and so disconnected from what I want to do and am good at.”
‘But the last few days have you let me know You Maybe still there, “Heatherly continued. ‘You Can still give it up. You Maybe you want to build something together that is more than a pump and dump. You Maybe you want to build a real clubhouse for web3. When You Are there still and You I want to figure this out, I think I see a way. ‘
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