Preface

MetaCene strives to create a boundless on-chain homeland for all gaming enthusiasts. By connecting MMORPG players, content creators, and Web3 enthusiasts worldwide, MetaCene aims to actualize the vision of "Co-Entertainment, Co-Creation, and Co-Governance" through multiple phases and become the North Star of the Pangu Universe.

MetaCene brings together the founders of Shanda Games, Blizzard, Perfect World and Snail Games. They believe that the emergence of blockchain has given MMO games a new opportunity: a return to the entrepreneurial ethos and a reimagining of gaming as a social endeavor wherein players collectively fashion a new virtual society through communication, collaboration, and competition.

Through the three core stages of the Genesis of Fire, the Realm of Apocalypse, and the Spirit of All Things, MetaCene plans to launch an official game version in 2024, accessible across PC, mobile and cloud platforms. With ecological NFT series such as Apostle, Realms, and Treasure Box, MetaCene endeavors to foster symbiotic relationships and mutual prosperity between players and the ecosystem through continuous development and evolution.

Vision

Building a boundless on-chain homeland of Co-Entertainment, Co-Creation and Co-Governance for mass players.

Mission

To provide rich game content to meet diverse needs of various players, implement the spirit of Web3, and build an on-chain metaverse with a sustainable economic system, solid underlying technology, unlimited content extension, and community DAO governance.

MetaCene offers a multitude of original game content tailored to the preferences of different player archetypes, meeting the interests of whale players, social players, hardcore players from the Web2 world, and P2E players from the Web3 world.

Incorporating the principles of Web3, MetaCene integrates game logic and code into smart contracts, enhancing the seamless interaction and interoperability of both fungible tokens (FT) and non-fungible tokens (NFT) within the game through open interfaces.

Starting from the underlying logic, MetaCene is designed completely in accordance with the production principles of blockchain games. The main resources in the game, such as mining machines, weapons, equipment, land, real estate, etc., are all NFT assets. The game economic system maintains long-term stability through the output, consumption and circulation of NFT assets, game consumption tokens, and governance tokens.

Through collaborative player engagement, MetaCene breaks new ground in the expansion of game content, allowing players to contribute to various aspects including character customization, item creation, architectural design, and innovative gameplay mechanics, among others.

Furthermore, MetaCene pioneers the concept of community-driven governance through Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), disrupting the traditional monopolies held by game companies in the Web2 landscape. Players have the power to vote for in-game representatives or agency organizations, granting them authority over functions such as taxation and the management of communal resources.

Value

The dreams of the past, the light of the future.

Web3 games and traditional MMO games complement each other. The high degree of community autonomy in Web3 games has gradually awakened the original intentions of traditional MMO game creators — giving players a voice. In fact, the origins of early MMO games are closely linked to the emergence of blockchain. Today, practitioners deeply involved in the blockchain field, especially in the realm of blockchain games, are almost the same group as the early pioneers of MMO games. They have all been influenced by legendary works such as Snow Crash, but MMO games started earlier than blockchain, with games like Ultima Online and EverQuest becoming pioneers in the development of online gaming. As the market for MMO games expanded, their models became increasingly commercialized, and player freedom gradually became limited, with the power of discourse gradually shifting to the hands of developers. The emergence of blockchain has given MMO games a new opportunity: to return to their entrepreneurial roots and imagine games as a social practice, where players can communicate, collaborate, and compete to create a new virtual society.

Blockchain games and MMO games perfectly complement each other's advantages. In form, MMOs, with their model of "game guilds organizing players on a large scale and high trading volume of in-game items," truly approach the concept of Web3 games. The advantage of Web3 games lies in the use of blockchain technology, which ensures that in-game assets and economic systems are more secure, while also seamlessly integrating and circulating in-game assets with those outside the game. In other words, incorporating Web3 concepts and elements, supplemented by blockchain technology, is a natural course of evolution for traditional MMO games.

Conversely, MMO games can address some of the issues present in current Web3 games. For example, how to attract "whale users," how to achieve a balance between different players' in-game consumption and long-term benefits, and how to increase user stickiness, thereby greatly extending the lifespan of the game. For example, MMO games like The Legend of MIR, World of Warcraft, and Fantasy Westward Journey have all been operating successfully for over 20 years and are still active today. The two core elements of long-term successful operation for these games are social interaction and sustainable revenue. Players can find their own position in the virtual world, gain recognition in the virtual world, and also earn economic benefits in the virtual world. The experiences of these games can be drawn upon in Web3 games.

Based on these principles, MetaCene was born.