Legacy, the latest project from Peter Molyneux and his development company, 22cans, will launch on October 26th.
On the Legacy website, the team sums it up this way: “Found your own business and grow it into a Mega Corporation through the power of your creativity, the superiority of your commercial prowess and the strength of your competitive nature!”. 22cans has hosted land sales for a while, starting at the end of 2021, and working to present the game as a “play to earn” project.
The blockchain sim is looking to make its mark with a business-oriented community style with both landowners and the businesses they establish, and free to play players. Free players will be known as “partners”. In announcing the official launch date, the team also stated that landowners will receive something called deed keys tied to their land’s rarity. These deed keys can let landowners, AKA those who’ve paid into the game, to “empower partners…to win real rewards”.
The team promises more info over the next couple of weeks leading up to launch, “including features, gameplay insights, an economic Litepaper, and exclusive opportunities”.
It is a business sim and a game, but it is, of course, also a business. Legacy has its own currency called LegacyCoin which runs on the Ethereum blockchain.
With blockchain gaming, there’s often been a certain skepticism among some, a buy-in from others, and over the past several years, a ton of investment cash flowing in that direction. YEt with blockchain and NFTs, there has also been a decidedly negative evaluation on the outlook recently, with a recent report saying an estimated 95% of NFTs are now effectively worthless, "but the future of NFTs is still very much in play".
There is still investment in the segment, and development takes time, so many of the announced projects are heading towards launches or advanced development stages. This includes Legacy and also Ember Sword.
