Video game publisher Square Enix announced on Tuesday the launch of a “Chapter 1” campaign on its allowlist for the coming period NFT game Symbiogenesiswhich will run on the Ethereum And Polygon networks.
The publisher of Final Fantasy said it will not hold a public coin for Symbiogenesis, but will instead roll out character NFTs as rewards for fans who join the game’s official Discord server for a two-week period starting on Tuesday and ending on November 21st. game is currently scheduled to launch in December.
By joining the eligibility list you will have the opportunity to “mint” or generate unique digital collectibles from Symbiogenesis – potentially for free. Players can earn points and improve their ranking through games and quizzes on the project’s Discord server.
Discord users can participate in three games to earn points for the NFT coin: The Lucky Bloom, the Majority-Minority Game, and the “Hella Difficult” Quiz. Ahead of the campaign, fans who obtained “relics” through other social media contests were awarded points based on the number collected, Square Enix said.
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Square Enix will launch the 500 character NFTs in this campaign in three phases, the first of which will include 10 slots on the allow list for the game’s stakeholders and developers. After that, another 90 slots will be opened to high-ranked players, and finally, the last 400 minting slots will be opened to everyone participating in the admit list campaign.
While the NFTs may be free to mint, Square Enix said that if certain characters attract multiple players looking to mint them, those NFTs will be put up for auction. The price may ultimately depend on the demand for Symbiogenesis character collectibles.
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Symbiogenesis was announced in November 2022 as the company’s first NFT game in the Ethereum ecosystem. The company later clarified that some NFTs will soon be minted on the Ethereum mainnet others will use Polygonan Ethereum scaling network.
Developed as an original IP, Symbiogenesis is billed as a “digital collectible art project” that builds an interactive narrative experience around character NFTs and other collectibles.
Square Enix has made a number of moves into the crypto and NFT world, including investing in metaverse game The Sandbox and say it will happen bring its “Dungeon Siege” franchise to the online world. The company also released Final Fantasy VII Trading Card NFTs tied to physical images, and launched other NFT collectibles in Japan.
Editor’s note: This article was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.
