At one point, players there made up 40% of the game's user base. Created by Vietnamese studio SkyMavis, Axie Infinity became a phenomenon in 2021, with a large majority of its player base hailing from the Philippines. Welcome to Axie Infinity Regional Discord Servers Join your Axie regional server and get support instantly from your regions community.
The game initially made a huge impact in the Philippines. Innovative metaverse ideas like Axie Infinity offer immense promise - but also tangible peril for those who feel they have no other option but to take the plunge into the digital unknown. But Orias and others say that Axie Infinity reinforced predatory systems and gave them false hope. Many crypto thought leaders, when rebutting criticism about the unsavory aspects of the space, point to its impact in developing countries. The story of Orias and Axie Infinity serves as a cautionary tale for crypto and its bombastic rhetoric about changing the world. I became more aggressive in every aspect of my life," he says. Fast forward to today and the Philippines is the number one source of traffic for Axie Infinity globally (Axie itself just won a big new funding round ). It was boring and stressful, he says, a common refrain among the dozen players TIME interviewed for this story. Fourteen months later, most Filipino players, including Orias, have exited the game nursing anger and anxiety - and, in some cases, thousands of dollars down. At the same time, thousands of young people in the Philippines were jumping headlong into the game.įor a brief moment at the peak of crypto's astonishing 2021 boom, these young Filipino players were fulfilling a longtime dream of crypto's most ardent evangelists: that "play-to-earn" blockchain games like Axie could lead the way to a more equitable, opportunity-rich global economy. He soon began earning cryptocurrency, which he converted into pesos, allowing him to take better care of his mother and his home. So he plunged into Axie, doing battle with cartoon monsters for hours deep into the night. Orias, now 26, desperately needed an escape hatch from his financial woes: his mother had had a stroke and required medication, and electricity and grocery bills were stacking up. His friend told him he and others were pocketing up to $600 a month playing Axie Infinity, a game fueled by cryptocurrency and NFTs. Orias was earning about 4,000 pesos a month (about $80, a little less than half the national minimum wage) making takoyaki - Japanese octopus balls. Andrew R Chow and Chad De Guzman, reporting for Time: Samerson Orias was working as a line cook last year in the rural Philippines when his friend told him he could make way more money playing a new video game.
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