Why Soccerverse Is Not a Game to Make Money

I have been playing Soccerverse since the beta version and have followed its development with great interest for several years.

What I find especially exciting is scouting real talents.
I am the agent of several players, such as Giorgian da Arrascaeta and Mussa Kaba. I follow their performance and development.

Enclosed is a short article about Soccerverse and a few links.

I can’t recommend the game for making money. Because whatever you want to take out of the game, someone else has to put in. So far, there are no external inflows of money.
The development team takes a hefty cut of the SVC revenue in the game and, quite rightly, pockets the proceeds from the club packs.

But it is a lot of fun, definitely. I had the advantage of being an early adopter. If a big hype comes, that could still be very useful to me.

📚 The article from Gemini (corrected by me)

Welcome to Soccerverse: The Future of Decentralized Football Management

Imagine not just playing a football manager, but owning the club together with thousands of other fans around the world.

That is exactly the vision of Soccerverse (https://soccerverse.com/). This revolutionary Web3 game takes classic football management to a whole new level by combining real blockchain technology with complex management simulations.

The ultimate goal of Soccerverse is to turn the entire game into a gigantic DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).

This means there is no central authority dictating how the game should be run.

Instead, the clubs and players are divided into so-called fractional NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). The community has absolute control:
Anyone holding shares has voting rights. Every club and every player functions as its own small DAO, in which you can invest and actively help shape its destiny.

Current news from the Hub

The game’s development never stands still and is closely coordinated with the community. Anyone who regularly checks the official Soccerverse Hub knows how dynamic this world is. Just today there was a massive update: the game engine for simulating match results was adjusted. This innovation ensures even more realistic game outcomes. The calculation of goal-scoring chances, tactical effects, and player values during a match has been fine-tuned. For managers, that means old certainties no longer apply. You have to adapt your lineups and tactics to the improved artificial intelligence if you want to keep collecting titles.

Gigantic scale: teams and players

The scale of Soccerverse is enormous and puts classic manager games in the shade. The virtual world includes over 5,350 clubs and more than 140,000 players. Thanks to a groundbreaking licensing agreement with FIFPRO, 65,000 real, licensed professional footballers with their real names and image rights are also immortalized on the Polygon blockchain. Whether you are a fan of a world-famous club or prefer to lead a lower-league side to glory – the choice is limitless. (You can find more in-depth mechanics and rules in the official guide).

The different roles in Soccerverse

Unlike in traditional games, you do not necessarily have to stand on the touchline as a coach. To reflect a functioning ecosystem, users take on different roles:

Manager: You are the tactical mastermind. You set up the team, plan training, analyze the opponent, and respond directly to the pitfalls of the new match engine.

Agent (player advisor): You represent the interests of individual players. You negotiate contracts with managers and make sure your protégés get the best salary.

Influencer / shareholder: The financial backbone. You buy shares in players or clubs. If the club is successful, wins titles, or the player develops brilliantly, the value of your shares grows and you earn dividend income as well.

The challenge of a sustainable economy

One of the biggest problems for many play-to-earn and Web3 games is creating an economy that is sustainable in the long term. Soccerverse takes on this complex challenge. Since the game is based on crypto assets, there is always the danger of hyperinflation or a “boom and bust” cycle.

The difficulty lies in balancing supply and demand for salaries, transfer fees, and prize money so that the game is still fun in five years.

If too many tokens are distributed as rewards, the currency loses value.

If, however, the contracts are too expensive, clubs go bankrupt. A sustainable economy requires constant adjustments by the developers and smart investments by the players.

That is exactly where the DAO concept comes in: the players themselves bear the economic responsibility for their clubs.

Leading Borussia Dortmund back to the top

To understand how captivating Soccerverse can be, let’s imagine the following scenario:
You are a passionate Borussia Dortmund fan.

In the game, however, BVB has fallen into a sporting and financial crisis. The squad is aging, the shareholders are unhappy, and the value of the club shares is at rock bottom.

You decide to take matters into your own hands. First, as a shareholder, you buy club shares in BVB cheaply (called influence in the game) and convince a group of other players on Discord to do the same. With your newly gained voting power in the club DAO, you fire the unsuccessful manager and elect yourself as the new manager.

Your first order of business:

You use your scouting knowledge to search the global market for hidden, undervalued talents. You negotiate hard with the agents of these rising stars and bring them to Dortmund.

Somehow, you still manage to avoid relegation.

In the next season, your talents have increased in rating. Matchday by matchday, Borussia Dortmund climbs up the table.

The young players develop splendidly, their market value explodes – and with it the value of your own shares and the club’s finances. You have not only brought BVB back to the top of Europe, but also made the entire DAO profitable again!

Community and influencers as the key to success

The community is the engine that drives Soccerverse. In addition to the official tools, there are fantastic fan-created resources.
A great example is the Spanish-language portal El Rincón del DT, which clearly explains Soccerverse’s complex mechanics to new players around the world.

However, when it comes to the latest updates, market analysis, developer interviews, and the best tactics, there is no getting around NickxCrypto. He is unquestionably the most important influencer in the Soccerverse ecosystem. On his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@NickxCrypto, you can learn firsthand how to extract the most money as an agent and how to use updates (such as today’s game engine adjustment) to your advantage.

Soccerverse is more than just a game. It is a living economic and sporting ecosystem shaped by its players. Are you ready to lead your club to the top?