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For gamers who have played DOS games in the past, most of them have probably played this game at least once. I've never even been fishing, but in the game, I could become a pretty good fisherman, I'm talking about 'Fishing King'. It was a fishing simulation without any grand narrative or flashy visuals, but I remember staying up all night because it was so much fun.

A game for gamers with such memories was officially released on the 26th. 'World Fishing Championship', a Web3 fishing game developed by Wemade Plus, is the main character. It is the first fishing game to be introduced on Wemade's global blockchain game platform Wemix Play, and it is characterized by the addition of P2E elements to the unique hand taste. Among the many fishing games already on the market, we took the time to find out how 'World Fishing Championship' offers differentiated fun.

I mentioned 'Fishing King' earlier, but the basic play style of 'World Fishing Championship' is more arcade-like than simulation. It's not the kind of game where you study various fishing methods depending on the environment and use different baits, lures, and fishing rods depending on the type of fish. 'World Fishing Championship' expresses these various elements for fishing in a simple and intuitive form. That's through fishing proficiency.

Fishing proficiency is an element commonly referred to as combat power in mobile MMORPGs. In other words, the higher your fishing proficiency, the easier it is to catch a wider variety of fish. Therefore, players must level up and acquire and upgrade better equipment to increase their fishing proficiency. I said equipment, but there's nothing complicated about it. There are only three fishing equipment (fishing rod), which is the alpha and omega, the boat you ride, and finally the angler, who can be said to be a companion.

Among them, the main thing is fishing equipment. Fishing equipment, which can be said to correspond to the main weapon in other games, not only has high fishing proficiency, but also lure durability varies depending on the fishing equipment, so it is necessary to take care of it first. Of course, the higher the grade and the higher the enhancement value, the higher the fishing proficiency and lure durability. However, this upgrade is not easy.

Since good fishing equipment requires a lot of resources, it is necessary to increase fishing proficiency with other things in the early stages. This is where boats and anglers come into play. Boats are composed of various parts, and you can increase your fishing proficiency by equipping or strengthening each part. It is enough to collect parts just by playing in the game, and the burden on resources is less. As much as that, fishing proficiency is also low. It can be said to have a character close to typical auxiliary equipment.

Then there must be a role for the angler. To put it simply, an angler can be said to be an equipped skill. Each angler has various stats, including fishing proficiency, skills, and tour specialization effects, and has a variety of skills, including hailstorms, lightning strikes, and summoning whales, so it is very effective in the tug-of-war with fish.

That's not to say that skills are everything. There is something as important as skills. The tour specialization effect, which can be said to be a kind of passive skill, is exactly that. Since each has a variety of tour specialization effects, such as normal damage +30% and snatch damage +30%, it is fun to combine anglers that suit you according to your play style. If you want to feel the hand taste, you can configure an angler that strengthens snatch damage, and if you want a stable play, you can configure an angler that strengthens normal damage. It is like implementing builds or metas through anglers.

The fishing method is as simple as the equipment configuration. In a traditional fishing game, there are many things to pay attention to, such as casting, the movement of the float, the increase or decrease of force when winding the reel, and whether to pull or release the fishing rod, but in 'World Fishing Championship', you only need to pay attention to whether it is the desired fish species and when it is efficient to use skills. It's a look that solves everything with one reel button.

That's not to say that the hand taste has been overlooked. 'World Fishing Championship' offers a pretty good hand taste through actions such as intense vibrations during the casting process and continuous firing of various skills to reduce the fish's strength. In addition, when the fish jumps above the surface of the water, swipe action, and when it falls to the surface of the water, touch the reel button in time to add additional hits to maximize the thrilling hand taste.

However, there is one thing to make clear. It's just 'not bad'. This may be because the arcade is too strong. In traditional fishing games, the tackle also varies depending on the type of fish and the fishing environment, but 'World Fishing Championship' is not. If you have only one high-grade fishing equipment, it is difficult to see it as a game that enjoys 'fishing' in the pure sense.

The 'World Fishing Championship' seems to alleviate this disappointment by incorporating P2E elements. It's like filling the lack of fishing hand taste with P2E. The way to make money in 'World Fishing Championship' is simple. It is a method of collecting pearls, which can be said to be the main token, and skating. To do this, you must first collect pearls.

Pearls can be obtained little by little through the Pearl Encyclopedia or reward rewards, but of course there is a limit to this alone. This is because the pearls you can get by filling the Pearl Encyclopedia also reach their limit. Therefore, if you have collected a certain amount of pearls, you need to participate in the championship tournament. Pearls are required to participate in the tournament, but if you collect championship points with the fish you catch, rank in the rankings, and catch big fish on a first-come, first-served basis, you can receive pearls as additional rewards, so it can be regarded as the main content for earning pearls.

If you have collected pearls in this way, you need to stake them for tokenomics. When skating, Coral, the 'World Fishing Championship' game token, is accumulated according to the pearl stake, and you can receive it as a reward. In fact, only Coral can be traded through Wemix Play, so you must skate to monetize it. However, there is one thing to keep in mind. The pearls used for pearl staking are immediately moved to the Dead Wallet, so they cannot be returned or unstaked afterwards.

You might say that it doesn't matter since it's only used for staking, but pearls have another role besides staking. 'World Fishing Championship' consumes fuel as fatigue every time you fish. Of course, to play the game more and longer, you need that much fuel. You can buy fuel with money, but there is also a way to use pearls. Boosting is that it is possible to reduce the maximum number of fuel recovery and recovery time by accumulating pearls you own. Furthermore, unlike pearl staking, you can freely recover pearls, so there is no burden.

There are two main uses for Coral, which is obtained as a pearl staking reward. One is monetization, which is the core of P2E, and can be traded through Wemix Play. In fact, it is the most important use. The other is black pearl exchange. It is a high-end currency used for angler enhancement or roulette, and can only be obtained by exchanging Coral. Strengthening the angler can lead to higher scores in the championship tournament, which in turn leads to more pearls, so the token is naturally consumed in the game to balance the tokenomics.

The pearl staking method of 'World Fishing Championship' can be said to be a systematic method in that the rate of return can be increased depending on the effort. As P2E and tokenomics, it deserves a high score. However, as a Web3 game, there are many regrets. This is because it is not a new game suitable for the new method of Web3, but only a P2E element added to the existing game and a slight improvement.

In conclusion, 'World Fishing Championship' is a game that pursues the completeness of P2E rather than the fun of Web3 games. It cannot be said that this choice itself is bad as a P2E game. But it must be fun first. If it's not fun, it's just a mining program in the form of a game. As it has built a systematic tokenomics, I hope that it will now focus on the fun of the game. That will be the secret to long-running in the true sense.

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2023-06-02