Unio recently took great steps in the web3, hiring the old Shrapnel The long Mark boss as CEO.
Unio is a web3 game platform that allows players to create, own and share digital assets within “Universe”, a science fiction franchise belonging to the community. His game, vortex: hoverrome, is scheduled for October 2025. It is a rapidly evolving futuristic combat arena where players control hoverbikes.
The project is led by a team of experienced veterans of the industry who worked on franchises like GTA, Star Wars and Call of Duty. Mark Long, the former neon chief (bursts of shells) has just joined the CEO.
Universe is not only a single game, but a platform designed to support a variety of games and content, linked together via a shared science fiction story. This is made possible by the blockchain, which allows digital assets – such as characters, skins and cards – to belong to players and transferable on several games.
He recently separated from the bursts of shells after a dispute with investors accused of having tried to take money from the company because they were faced with debt problems. This is an example of a civil war between a CEO and investors resulting in significant commercial disruption. THE The case was settled.
Long said in an interview with Gamesbeat that he had established the link with Unio through the former CTO during his first game company, Zombie. The friend, Wyatt Ridgeway, had worked with a long time for two decades.
“When I started bursts of buses, I sort of evangelized it on the blockchain, and he launched this new Unio studio, on a similar model with bursts of bus, with a community model of content generated by the user (UGC) built on the blockchain.”
After bursts of long shells on the left, Ridgeway asked him to lead Unio.
“I am here to help him take one of their games on the market and try to get positive income,” said Long. “This is the biggest project you have never heard of because they are so far away. With bursts of shells, we still haven’t yet had the publisher’s tools, but he has three. Wyatt has a vehicle publisher, a weapon editor, a character editor and two examples of games. »»
One of the matches is a Rocket League style game. The game soon launches on Steam. The team only has 13 people, but it has made a lot of progress. The previous CEO has taken personal leave and resigned.
There is more light of day for the cryptocurrency industry in the United States, now that Donald Trump is president. He was accused of having made his own “carpet traction” in a pump and dump program linked to his own token sales. And therefore the administration of Trump should be indulgent on the cryptography industry. Regulators have reduced their implementing measures. For blockchain games, this may mean that they will not have to do so many international maneuvers to collect funds.
Long said that the web games market has not materialized as many things expected. Long believes that it was excited as the start of the Internet where everyone jumped without understanding it. He said that the “dirty secret” of web3 is that there are only about a million players.
“For the web three games to succeed, you will have to convert web2 players. I think you have to give them value so that they want to create a portfolio, “said long.
But long did not consider it a reason to stay outside the web games.
“You know, the Internet has proven with the next generation. I have the impression that the first generation of blockchain game societies unfortunately experienced this expectation, then non-delivery, “he said. “But I think the next generation will change the industry economy.”
He noted that Matthew Ball’s slide game captured how the game blocked and that players play the same games again and again. They have a little time to spend playing new games.
“So imagine a future where it continues, but the blockchain is done,” said a lot. “There will probably be only a handful of successful games. And NFT trading is a way for players to find new games and advance money in the ecosystem. »»
So far, Long recognizes that the blockchain and crypto have been really difficult to use. If you make a simple mistake, you can send thousands of dollars in ether and never recover it, he said. He thinks it must be corrected, and this is one of the things that Unio has accomplished with integration without friction.
Long tries to draw attention to the company and its games without spending a lot of money in marketing. The company gets a path through the process and tries to discover the game.
“I have always argued that if the game is fun, and I’m talking about my friend to play it, it will succeed,” said a long time. “If it is not fun, then it doesn’t matter. You can do whatever you want and it won’t work.
One of the things you can do in the Rocket League, vortex: hoverrome, is modding. This is one of the ways in which the Discord of Unio has reached hundreds of thousands of players.
“We build tools that are already complete and really easy to use to build your own cards, your own vehicles, your own characters, your own weapons,” said a long. “One of my favorite things about web game3 is that fans are passionate.”
An external view
Alexandru cattleAn economist and a foreigner in Unio, noted that the price of bursts were collapsed like the other web gaming tokens. He declared in a message to Gamesbeat: “This new project also having a token speaks of itself, because it is the same leadership.”
He revealed that he was at Economics Design when they made the Tokenomics for the bursts of bus, but Alexandru was not directly involved in the design of the model.
“The locking period for investors is laughable. They also make people pay to create UGC which is completely behind to support a functional UGC economy from zero, “said Alexandru. “There does not seem to be a well thought out plan on the functioning of the UGC economy. In addition, no recognition of bus errors and plan to solve them, just the old web3 ‘If you build it, they will come “the clichés and the roadmap” arrives soon “. Extremely low confidence.
