Key Takeaways
- Steam rejected the opportunity to collaborate with Web3 games in 2021 but could reconsider the change in the future.
- Web3 gamer’s wishlist for the Steam platform could include a marketplace for different gears, P2E, and unified gaming.
- Regulatory policies and scams have affected the Web3 gaming industry as space continues to grow.
Steam! The digital playground of millions of games and gamers spending thousands of hours playing their favorite games.
This gaming platform has hooked many players, both old and young, as they spend more time on it than attending to their real responsibilities, such as school. While this platform has gained much popularity for games, web3 users have wondered if Steam would ever embrace web3.
Or are we doomed with web3 games outside the Steam platform gaining a larger audience than they should when compared with other web2 games that have built strong communities and gameplay?
Let’s dive into the world of Steam and Web3 and see if gamers finally get their wish list if Steam and Web3 merge.
Steam Says No to Web3
In 2021, Steam, an online gaming platform, shot the door in collaboration with the web3 gaming industry, raising strong concerns about scams, volatility, and uncertainties associated with the web3 industry.
While the platform hasn’t accepted web3 games on its platform, this hasn’t stopped the web3 gaming industry from continuing to grow and attract much attention, as the possibility of web3 gaming being featured on Steam remains possible.
If the Steam team ever changes their minds regarding web3 gaming, here are features we would love to see featured on Steam as a gamer’s wishlist.
1. Item Ownership
Imagine going on web2 for 100 hours with sophisticated weapons or fighting swords bought with hundreds of dollars, but this weapon dies when the game comes to an end after you have completed all stages.
In a Web3-integrated Steamverse, users own in-game assets, such as swords, which live on the decentralized blockchain technology, allowing gamers to trade these assets in the market.
These in-game assets can be sold, lent, and combined with other in-game assets to become upgradeable and improved.
Users who grind to win these assets own it on the Steamverse platform.
2. Steamverse Marketplace
The Steam platform is already a goldmine, but imagine combining Steam and Web3, forming Steamverse, incorporating crypto wallets, eliminating intermediaries, and allowing gamers to conduct transactions with full transparency among themselves.
This will be a game-changer for its platform and the Web3 gaming community.
3. Play-to-Earn, Fun, and Unified Identity
The Play-to-earn gesture in the Web3 industry feels like a cheat. Imagine combining the potential of Steam to attract high-quality gaming with a compelling storyline, graphics, and mechanics while allowing gamers to earn real value from their gaming time.
This would be a game-changer for the community, eliminating fake gaming launches and rewarding real gamers for reaching elite mode.
Such perks could open up more opportunities for data to be saved on-chain, allowing the top 1% of gamers to have full access to gaming events, merchandise, perks, and opportunities for beta testing.
While this has been a gamer’s wishlist, Web3 is still in its early stages of development, trying to overcome setbacks such as regulatory policies and concerns about scams that have plagued the Web3 space for years.
Until Web3 matures to the desired point of gaining the strong trust of the Steam community, Steam will likely continue to give the Web3 space a cold shoulder.
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