Axie Infinity reveals Atia’s Legacy MMO, AXS reward pool

The new game lets you embark on quests, collect loot and socialize

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The Axie Infinity team has unveiled Axie Infinity: Atia’s Legacy, a game on Ronin set in the Axie world of Lunacia. 

In it, you can play with others and navigate your Axie around the fantasy world filled with treasure boxes, quests to complete, and little monsters to whack for XP. 

The game looks cute and dynamic, filled with different weather environments, diverse challenges, and the ability to swap Axies as you navigate through the world. The pop-up conversations look very similar to Animal Crossing, and the Axie-battling vibe is a lot like Pokémon in how you can inspect your available Axies and choose up to four for engaging in battles. 

Your Axies will share gear in battles and level up together. Gear quality can range from Common to Legendary, as is common in MMORPGs and battle royale games. 

Snagged a screenshot of Axies flirting 

Overall, the graphics look good for a mobile game, and it stays true to the charming, pastel Axie aesthetic. The voice acting is a bit corny, but maybe that won’t bother most players who are used to mobile games.

If you’re itching to play Atia’s Legacy like I am, you’ll have to wait. The Axie team is promising playtests “this year” for select Axie frens. We don’t know the exact launch date yet.

In the meantime, you can earn AXS tokens for referring friends to the game for the next 27-ish days after pre-registering yourself. Up to 25,000 AXS (about $88,250) will be split among the top 200 winners. You could also get a Mystic Axie NFT in addition to tokens. The more players who sign up, the more potential rewards you could get, according to a release I viewed from the team.

Overall, I’m optimistic about this one. I think Atia’s Legacy has potential to be more exciting and dynamic than the base game, which can feel repetitive. 

Axie Infinity has rebounded a bit since June last year, where it saw all-time lows in unique active wallets (UAWs) not seen since three years prior. Now, activity is up a bit. 

Source: Axie Infinity UAWs, volume and transactions over time

While UAWs don’t directly represent the number of users, it’s a sign that there’s more interest in the game franchise now than a year ago. 

We’re seeing over 4.5 million transactions a month from just under 200,000 UAWs, compared to roughly 15,000 UAWs last March.


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