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Honestly, these numbers mean a lot to me. We haven't launched publicly yet and we don't have a token, but in the first 9 days of Season 0 our players have already filled 34,892 orders and made 5,220 trades with each other. I genuinely think this is the direction Web3 gaming needs to go. Right now most Web3 games are built around their token. The token comes first and the game is built to support it. People show up because the token pays them, and once the price drops or the rewards slow down, most of them leave. We've seen this happen with so many games already. I think the economy should come from the players instead. Things should have value because other players actually need them, not because a token says they're worth something. That's what we're building with @Bloomshire_ For example, raw food doesn't give you any energy in Bloomshire, you have to cook it first. So a player who spends their day mining needs food, and the cook making that food needs crops and fish from other players. The ore from the caves gets forged into bars, rings and weapons, and even wheat gets turned into rope at the carpenter's bench. Players set their own prices at the Market Hall, and Odette's order board keeps asking for more. None of this needs a token to work. That's how 47,746 items have moved between 351 different players, with over 9 million Gold paid from one player to another. I've said this before, but an economy alone isn't going to keep people around. The game has to be fun first. A lot of Web3 games give you one or two things to do, and after a few days you've pretty much seen everything. We wanted Bloomshire to have a much bigger gameplay loop than that. There are ten skills you can level from 1 to 30. Farming, fishing, mining, woodcutting, foraging, cooking, crafting, combat, animal husbandry and exploration. Your skills also can't get more than 3 levels apart, so you naturally end up doing a bit of everything instead of grinding the same thing all day. You can grow crops through the seasons, raise chickens, ducks and bees, fish in rivers, ponds and a big lake (there's even a fish that only bites at night) and go through twelve cave levels, from copper all the way down to diamonds. There are eight bosses, each weak to a certain kind of weapon, and a dungeon with three difficulties. We also have a proper story. Book One starts on your island and opens up the rest of the valley as you go. Four parts are out right now and the rest are coming. Along the way you get to know the townsfolk, make friends with them and you can even find a sweetheart. And you're not playing alone. There are five towns, a global chat that translates itself into your language, you can visit your friends' islands and trade with people face to face. So there's always something to come back to, whether it's your crops, an order you're working on, a boss you haven't beaten yet or the next part of the story. This is the kind of Web3 game I've always wanted to play, one where people play because they enjoy it and the economy grows from that. We still haven't opened to the public, so this is just the start. If you're a gamer or a creator and you want to see what a player-driven Web3 game looks like, come check out Bloomshire.