→ Covered by Darshan Gandhi
Introduction
Hey everyone, we are back with another edition.
In the spotlight today, we’ve got Citizen Conflict - a free-to-play hero shooter game, which combines the best of both worlds esports + battle royale. It is built by QORPO Game Studio
Socials References 🌍
- Side (all links together)
Sections of the newsletter
- Description ✍🏼
- Team 👷🏼♂️
- Funding & Support 💲
- Core Product Details & Experience ⚒️
- Community curation & engagement 🌐
- Degen details 💰
- Business model 🤑
- Utility & Benefits 🚀
- Post mint details 🛣️
- Key details / What do we like? 🎯
- What are we keeping an eye on? 👀
- Closing thoughts 💭
Description ✍🏼
- Citizen Conflict is a free-to-play, 3rd person hero shooter with a cyberpunk theme, blending esports and Battle Royale modes
- Features advanced controls, futuristic maps, and unique heroes, offering a dynamic and tactical gameplay experience
- Supports esports with competitive modes, stat tracking, and built-in tournaments in a vibrant cyberpunk universe
- Powered by Unreal Engine 5.0, ensuring high performance on various devices, and integrates Web2 & Web3 for a player-driven economy
Team 👷🏼♂️
- Doxxed team with decades of experience across banking, brokerage, building games, animation
- Some of the team members have worked with the biggest names in the ecosystem including games like Mafia 2, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Tarzan, or Netflix series The Websters.
- The leadership includes:
- Rastislav Bakala (CEO & Founder)
- Pavol Strieborny (CFO & Co-Founder)
- Sebastián Šooš (CBO)
- Marian Jurík (Head of Animation)
Funding & Support 💲
- They have significant support from investors and backers
- They’ve got strategic support from the likes of Immutable & Epic
- They have also raised funds from prominent investors, including Maven Capital and Momentum 6
- A top list of gaming partners already onboard
Core Product Details & Experience ⚒️
- A 3rd-person shooter game with capabilities similar to those of standard battle royale games, offering the ability to move and play freely
- Players will have the choice of nearly 11 heroes, 17 weapons, and 5 maps
- There will also be different game modes available spread across classic (relaxed modes) to more advanced and strategic thinking + teamwork based modes
- It is listed on the Epic Games Store
- They are open about them competing with games like Shrapnel in web3 ecosystem and face an uphill competition in web2 with the likes of PUBG
Community curation & engagement 🌐
- They have already onboarded some great partners, including Polygon, BNB Chain, Magic Eden, Owned, Ghost Gamer Guild, and PG
- They have collaborated with many web3 communities and projects allocating a few spots for each of them
- What they’re looking for ideally are:
- web3 players
- NFT collectors
- esports enthusiasts
- gaming guilds and teams
Degen details 💰
- Collection name: Citizen Zero
- Supply: 2222
- Chain: ETH
- Date: 5th Feb, 2024
- Cost: FREE
This acts more as an ecosystem-level pass rather than a single-game pass.
Business Model 🤑
Primarily, there are two major revenue streams
- In-game revenues via battle passes, loot boxes, seasonal loots, boxes
- Ecosystem level revenues via royalties, advertisements and tournament participation fees
Utility & Benefits 🚀
- They will have a token - owning Citizen Zerø will unlock the $QORPO token
- Tokenomics Overview
- Some of the key benefits include:
- Classified Airdrops
- In-game NFT Character
- Custom Skins
- Governance Rights
- Staking opportunities
- Partnerships with other B2B expansions
Post mint details 🛣️
- You will earn loyalty points for long-term staking of your NFTs.
- There’ll be season leaderboards to keep the player engagement rolling
- A quick roadmap check post mint
Key details / What do we like? 🎯
- Free mint, very low supply
- Some good backers and extremely high engagement on social channels
- Listing on Epic Games store is a big plus with additional support from immutable and cointelegraph helping provide more distribution
- Got a huge group of gaming partners and communities they’ve partnered with
- The overall storyline and game looks great from the trailer released
What are we keeping an eye on? 👀
- It's a highly competitive market, contending with major players like Shrapnel in web3 and PUBG in web2
- More info on the exact utility, rewards and offerings for owning a Citizen Zero pass post mint will be ideal
- With every studio launching their own token, will be interesting to see $QORPO play out well
Closing thoughts 💭
- I feel the team is building a great ecosystem of games around each other
- Will be very interesting to see and observe the overall reception of the overall native token $QORPO
- Overall, I believe it's a no-brainer to get involved in this project, especially if you have a WL spot
Again, these are just my individual thoughts and not any financial, legal, tax or any other form of advise. Please do your own research and invest accordingly!