Developers of Guild of Guardians Add Characters from NaVi, Fnatic, C9 and Other Esports Clubs. What Do We Know About It?
Bogdan LashchenkoNFT games, metaverses and esports
Metaverses and the digital assets industry as a whole tend to cross over with the world of esports more and more often. We can see how the border between these two worlds is getting thinner whereas the names of blockchain projects appear in headlines with collaboration with esports clubs.
One of the recent examples is collaboration between Cloud9 and, perhaps, the most popular NFT game — Axie Infinity. The parties decided to expand their influence in the spheres that don’t have enough of it. Therefore, players of Axie Infinity got familiar with the esports club C9 whereas Cloud9 fans got to know about the NFT project Axie Infinity. Besides, the collaborators prepared a special tournament where esports stars are going to participate in, and contestants will be fighting for a prize pool for motivation.
A similar but slightly different decision was reached by the developers of Guild of Guardians who started collaborating with other esports organizations. These developers.went further than the developers from Axie Infinity and managed to get support from many clubs. Besides, the collaboration will imply not only a brand upgrade but also monetisation of this decision.
Guild of Guardians coming into esports
Today we will tell you what we know about this collaboration between the developers of the NFT game and esports clubsThe list of partners of Guild of Guardians is represented by such famous organizations as Cloud9, Fnatic, Natus Vincere, Ninjas in Pyjamas, NRG Esports, SK Gaming, T1 and Team Liquid. It has already been revealed that the creators of the NFT game will be collaborating with esports clubs, however, recently we have found out that they are creating unique characters based on players from the organizations. The new collection will be called Esports Exclusives. They will become available for purchase on 9 February at 08:00 UTC +0.
What are the characters? How much do they cost?
In total, there will be eight types of legendary heroes available, representing each of their esports clubs. Therefore, every fan of the mentioned organizations will get a chance to buy a character that belongs to one of the esports organizations.
The cost of the characters will be around $100. The exact price was not stated because of the rate of Ethereum. If we take into account that at the moment of this article being written the rate of Ethereum is $1,635, in this case the price is likely to be 0,06 ETH. As for the overall number of characters, there will be 16,000 of them. They will be different in their rarity and it is likely that the difference will lie in the skills that could be used in the NFT game.
Advantages of participants of the while list
The developers of Guild of Guardians reported that they had created a white list that will enable people to purchase exclusive goods that will be available in the following days right after the start of sales. They have not explained what kind of content is going to be exclusive but the developers promised to share the details in the near future.
The developers also mentioned that users from the white list will get not only a higher chance to buy unique characters but also increase the likelihood of getting one single mythical hero.
They also told about the conditions of getting the privilege. To receive the status of participant of the white list, users have to own NFT characters of Guild of Guardians. Another way of getting the slot in the white list is to complete all missions that will be present in the community’s challenges.
Blockchain
Everyone might have stumbled upon a question: what blockchain will be used for sales? The answer is Immutable X. The blockchain is essentially a solution of the second level that is implemented on Ethereum, however, unlike the latter, it has numerous advantages that are perfect for NFT projects. It can boast its high speed of transactions and, which is more important — absence of commission for a money transfer. Overall, Immutable X was created as a special collusion for NFT game and Web3 technologies, so the choice of developers is surely successful.
Nevertheless, even though Immutable X is an Ethereum fork, users have to have ETH on their account for purchasing items in the network.
Way of obtaining heroes and their uniqueness
If we don’t speak about exclusive content for privileged customers but turn to selling regular characters, users can mint them during all following week after the start of sales. When sales are over, buying characters for 0,06 will be impossible so trying your luck in getting unique heroes will stop as well. However, swapping character in secondary market including the Immutable X marketplace will still be available. Other mentioned platforms included TokenTrove, Rarible and AQUA.xyz.
While getting each character, there will be a likelihood of obtaining a special hero that will be different from regular characters. There is a 10% chance to get a warrior and 2% chance to get an elite hero. One especially lucky client will be able to get a mythical hero that has special skills and visual effects. The developers also report that thanks to purchasing heroes from the esports set, buyers will have a guaranteed access to exclusive privileges and tools that are unavailable for usual players.
Unique options for users of tokens from the Esports Hero collection
For instance, one of the special functions will be an access to special competitions with leaderboards. There owners of special esports heroes will be able to compete with each other. The best players will be able to get exclusive rewards that won’t be received in any other way. Besides, owners of esports heroes will be able to customize the characters and as well as obtain other collection items.
It is also noteworthy that the developers of Guild of Guardians especially note the fact that customers will be able to buy out-game abilities with the help of special NFT tokens. According to the developers, buyers of esports characters will have access to VIP events in the world of Web3 technologies that will take place around the world.
The developers of Guild of Guardians also reported that they would carry out raffles among owners of special items that will be on sale. To diversify the wardrobe of users, the developers will knock out a contest for 140 T-shirts with autographs of esports figures.
Besides, according to the developers, there will be for NFT airdrops for participants in the sale. Their value is likely to be less attractive in comparison to the items that will be available at the start of sales, however, bonuses must be pleasant. All details about the airdrops and their frequency will be revealed later.
If there aren’t enough unique abilities of characters, chances of getting especially rare heroes, T-shirt raffles and NFT lotteries, the developers also announced another bonus that will be waiting for players who took part in purchasing the limited edition of heroes. According to them, owners of unique characters will get unique quests that will bring special rewards. The details will also be known later.
Rewards for spenders
The person who will spend the biggest money on sales will get a chance to talk to the developers of Guild of Guardians in person. The latter are planning to enlist the support and inspiration from the spender and create special content together with them. The developers intend to create a gaming hero together with this person or a pet.
Other details including the appearance of characters in Guild of Guardians and how the representatives of collections of each esports club will be different from each other have not been shared yet.
Bogdan Lashchenko – content manager at EgamersWorld.Bogdan has been working at EGamersWorld since 2023. Joining the company, he began fillin the site with information, news and events.