Nine Chronicles, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) backed by South Korean blockchain company Planetarium and video game juggernaut Ubisoft is off to a good start after Arena Season 0 launches on September 8.

The inaugural season, called Yggdrasil: The Alpha Season, will run until around October 6 (ending once block number 2,463,999 has been validated) and allows players to win their share of 896,000 NCG tokens in jackpots as well as rare and exclusive NFTs that provide players with in-game utility and built-in value.

Why this game could be the next big thing in blockchain-based gaming

With a robust Discord community and a Twitter following over 36,000 people, Nine Chronicles should capture the imaginations of MMORPG gamers and crypto enthusiasts alike. But that’s just one of the reasons the game is likely to take off.

Last month, the Planetarium raised $ 2.6 million in venture capital from some of the best investment funds in the games industry to develop the developer staff and continue to develop the content of the game itself.

But of course, there’s an even bigger reason why Nine Chronicles is set up to be successful. It follows in the footsteps of Axie Infinity by offering players a chance to earn cryptocurrency and NFTs using its unique version of a game model to win that will continue to evolve as the game matures.

Axie Infinity is estimated to have generated a whopping $ 485 million in turnover since July. With the incentives that Nine Chronicles has in place for gamers and the fact that the value of NFTs in the game is directly related to the size and passion of the communities around these games to be won, the game could be the next one to win. shake up the crypto world and restore value to players rather than just publishers who benefit.

Learn more about Nine Chronicles Inaugural Season Play-to-Earn Features

Yggdrasil: Season Alpha offers four main rewards for players:

• 448,000 NCG tokens distributed among all players qualified for the arena game.
• 448,000 NCG tokens distributed among the 500 best weekly players in the game.
• Six mythical quality costumes Ruci NFT in game characters and 34 NFT in game Rui in legendary quality costume.
• 100 titles for the best arena players

How players can qualify to earn rewards

The rewards offered during the first season of Nine Chronicles have the potential to be so valuable that the game takes off, but players must qualify to earn rewards by doing three things:

1. Reach level 17 to unlock arena mode.
2. Keep competing in the arena to get higher marks for the characters.
3. Claim rewards through the Portal of the Nine Chronicles.

Players can participate in a maximum of 20 available fights each day. They need Arena Tickets to enter battles. They can receive five tickets every six hours (or every 2,000 validated blocks).

The current game architecture doesn’t allow for more at this time, but the plan is to allow for more Arena Tickets to be made available to players in future seasons.

Why the future value of NFTs could skyrocket

End-of-season rewards for Nine Chronicles players are both plentiful, rare, and potentially incredibly valuable going forward, so the game covers all the bases.

All participants who enter the arena earn NCG tokens. The top 500 weekly players share the same chip share, and the game rewards players who wager their NCG chips throughout the season.

The rewards don’t just come in the form of more tokens, but also a chance to hit one of the 240 NFTs exclusive to the first season. This includes the chance to get 1 of 9 Rui character NFTs.

Having an exclusive character of which there are only nine for a community that saw 850% growth in daily active users in the fiscal second quarter of this year means Nine Chronicles could see players playing to win. incredibly valuable rewards.