Hey Everyone,
Congratulations to all players and especially the winners during the first official seasonal tournament for Voxie Tactics! This is a great moment of celebration and we hope everyone will enjoy their seasonal rewards. Like any tournament environment we experienced ups and downs. As a team, we certainly learned a lot from the in game data and invaluable feedback coming from all of you, the players. Thank you, this will help us improve.
I would like everyone to know that we did an extensive review and checking of the leaderboards and data after the Season 0 close. We have taken these additional weeks so that we can go through all the finer details and validate all of the aspects that players were discussing during the season.
We have discussed and talked to the community extensively during the end of Season 0 and during this time acknowledge it was an imperfect system. Hopefully after reading further you will see that we have committed to making huge improvements for Season 1 and beyond.
In general, we are super happy with the engagement and with the players that took part in the first official Voxie Tactics season tournament. We feel that all players are being fairly rewarded for their participation.
So with that being said, here are key improvements we’re going to make ahead of the next battle!
One key item that came up extensively during Season 0 was sharing assets and recycling Voxies and items. As we looked over the full data for the entire season, we have done our absolute best to capture the worst offenders and review them. As a result, we have had to make tournament adjustments and disqualifications.
I'd also like to point out that since the main issue of sharing assets came up during the last few weeks of the season, and feedback has been very polarized, we also factored this into our decision making.
One of our main criteria for this review was to make sure we didn't penalize players that might have unknowingly acted in a way that later became more obvious as gaming the system. We considered that at the time, reasonable and fair players didn't see any problem in their initial actions. We also have had some players come out towards the end of the season and publicly declare that they would forgo their rewards, since they unknowingly had transferred assets and acted in a way that might have harmed the leaderboards. Regardless of these statements we still applied the same reviews and data analysis on everyone equally.
Going into Season 1, we will have a proper plan in place to prevent this from happening and thus improving upon our goal of competitive and fair game play.
One of the other key areas we’re excited to improve is the leaderboard. We’re designing a better experience that will allow the competitive nature of the game to thrive without compromise to the fair gameplay systems we’ve designed.
Here is a list of improvements that we will be building into the next version of the leaderboard:
We would love to thank each and everyone that has used and taken part in the Rental system since we launched it in October 2022. The Rental system has been an overwhelming success and allowed all Voxie owners and players to experience the joy and excitement of this aspect of digital ownership.
While the Rental system was not without hiccups, especially during the Season 0 tournament, it was a great addition to the Voxiverse and its economy. We’ve listened to all player feedback which helped complete our overall analysis and concluded that the Rental system needs improvements. There are a number of ways that the current Rental system doesn't foster competitive gameplay while ensuring a fair Voxie Tactics experience for all players. For this reason, we will be implementing a number of changes that will help reduce abuse during a seasonal tournament.
Here’s a list of improvements we are going to make:
I know all of you will have questions regarding these concepts. We are currently working on finding the right balance for these improvements and will share the technical details and limitations as they become available.
Building on improvements to the leaderboard, Rental systems and digital assets, we're introducing much clearer and explicit Rules and Regulations regarding digital assets and ownership rights, to be enforced during a seasonal tournament. A good example around this topic is instances when a single owner allowed their assets to be used by multiple players (either through rental or traditional scholarships) resulting in them being able to occupy multiple high ranking positions on the leaderboard. We’re aware that when this occurs, it causes harm to other players who could not compete against certain assets that were being used by multiple players. This type of action will be banned during a tournament and any players that are partaking in this action will be removed from the leaderboard during a season.
There will be other enhancements made to Rules and Regulations to provide clarity to players ahead of Season 1.
With the end of Season 0 and the coming improvements planned ahead of Season 1, we will be transitioning away from the Extreme pass. Once we remove the Extreme passes, we will convert all Virtual Diamond Goat Pet that came with the Diamond Extreme Pass into an NFT that will be fully owned by the wallet holder. This will allow the owner to trade/transfer/sell/rent their Diamond Goat pet just like any other Voxie Tactics digital NFT assets.
We will also expand pass functionality and I’ll be coming back with details on an extended version of a purchasable pass that will offer improved utility and features inside Voxie Tactics and also extend outside of the game - stay tuned for more details on this!
As Season 0 has now ended, we have been focusing on the future, diving straight into the new year full speed ahead with improvement projects. We have many exciting developments on the horizon for AlwaysGeeky Games and Voxies. To see what we have coming next, look out for a second letter coming from me on Tuesday January 24th where I will be sharing a few exciting new development projects. 2023 is going to be a great year for the Voxies Community!
Thank you as always for your support and excitement!
Steve, AlwaysGeeky Games
