My experience with crypto games (Focus on ROI)

Hi,

I just saw this post created last week:(https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ofg2bp/my_favorite_cryptorelated_games/). As that person was more focusing on playing, I looked into ROI and wanted to share my experience. Please keep in mind that the ROI is always calculated back to the initial crypto invest you had to do (EGGs for Waves Ducks, Skills for Crypto Blade). So if the value increases or decreases, the calculation could change with regards to FIAT.

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Also feel free to suggest other games if you have some interesting ones. I also looked at AXIE Infinity, but could not bring myself to start it since the starting point is steep and the game looks boring.

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Waves Ducks (Completely Passive Income)- After seeing that post I decided to jump into waves ducks. Starting to breed EGGs (the currency of Waves Ducks) takes at least 1 EGG for a perch and a duck NFT that farms EGGs. Currently, the perch sits at $256. As an example: If you let a duck sit on the perch with a rarity of 24% (Costs $400 in the marketplace at the moment), you should be break even 7 months. Please keep in mind that the value of WAVES or EGGS might increase. The rarity does go down, therefore, I have to estimate for pessimistic. Reason for this: Ducks with the same genes reduce the rarity and the yield. New user starting also reduce the overall yield. You can find a lot of information on their website. Also keep in mind, the highest yield ducks need longer to break even but will give you more money afterwards (absolute amounts, not ROI). Since the community is pretty new, EGGs can still be earned by completing weekly tasks (Facebook, Twitter, Insta). The UI looks great and new stuff is released weekly.

ROI after 12 months with my example above 171%. Getting a good deal on the marketplace can increase this. Furthermore, you will own the duck NFT.

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Crypto Blades (Active and Passive Income) - I just started with this game. You have to initially start with around 30 SKILL (roughly $150). There is an additional bonus of 5 SKILL that everybody who mints a new character gets. From here on, spend 24 SKILL on 4 characters and the remaining on a good 3/4* weapon on the marketplace (or forge weapons and hope for the best). Since the SKILL price is very high at the moment, this game gets profitable immediately. You earn roughly 0.002 BNB per fight and pay 0.0007 to 0.0009 BNB every fight. As you don't win every fight (I'm at 70-80%), the margin is a little lower. Calculating with 10 fights, you pay roughly 0.007 BNB and get (at 7 wins) 0.014 BNB. As your level gets higher, your character will earn more and your NFTs will be worth more. Paying out requires a fee of 15% that gets lowered by 1% every day. If you stake it, you earn interest and get an immediate bonus of 10% in SKILL which can be used immediately. Always have some BNB in the wallet in order to fight. Gameplay is great. As far as I have seen, the server was also always up and the team is releasing a lot of new feature regularly.

(As you have 36 fights a day, I will calculate the ROI with those fights in mind. In theory you )

ROI: Breakeven after 22 days (if you play at low congested times and pay 0.007 BNB per fight) or 31 days (if you pay 0.009 BNB at high congestion times). The yield will increase with higher levels but I'm calculating from base position. ROI is between 1700% (low congestion) or 1100% (high congestion). You have to play 36 matches every day, and I have calculated with a 70% winning rate, so some luck is involved to get there directly. Otherwise, you might need longer to breakeven.

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Please keep in mind that the yield of the fights will most likely go down if the value of SKILL continues to skyrocket. Staking the SKILL will directly increase the outcome and the yearly ROI

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My Defi Pet (No earning mechanism) This one has NO earning mechanism yet. I started it because there might be some way of earning in the future. To start, you need to get 5 monsters. Every monster costs around 3 DPET, so 15 DPET investment (roughly $85), and probably another 15 DPET to evolve the monsters after level 10 in order to participate in the future events. I repeat, no earning mechanism yet! Furthermore, server is down. If you want to buy monsters, this might not work (I'm still waiting for 2 of my 6 to appear in the account)

ROI - Nobody knows. This one is a gamble

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Honorable mention (since no investment involved to start these games):

Coin Hunt World You don't pay anything to start. It's like Pokemon Go. You can earn through questions or through collecting crypto in real world. This will give you roughly $10-20 a week (depending on your location). Some countries haven't gotten any functionality besides the quiz (which gives you some BTC and ETH).

ROI - Since no initial invest, no ROI can be calculated

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Crypto Royale A game that gives you some crypto for winning. Don't expect a lot. After winning a few games, I was at roughly $0.01 so I stopped playing this game as it was not worth it. There is great staking mechanism in place for 100 days. You get 0.3% yield on what is inside your wallet, but still a pain to build up a relevant amount.

ROI - Since no initial invest, no ROI can be calculated

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Feel free to ask any questions, I'm happy to help you.