NFL RivalsOfficially licensed mobile soccer game from Story gamesThe second in-game season will begin on Sept. 5 with the start of the real-world National Football League (NFL), it was announced Friday.
According to Legendary Games, the mobile game had over 5 million downloads and over 115 million plays in its first season. The second season, called “Year 2,” will introduce new game modes, “exclusive” pack drops, and new ways for fans to engage with the sport.
Earlier this week, Mythical announced a deal with the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, to name NFL Rivals the team's official mobile game. The partnership includes branding opportunities for the game at the team's Arrowhead Stadium, among other collaborations.
We have a list of in-game and off-game activities to further enhance our players' engagement with the NFL Rivals brand and football season. Legendary Games CEO John Linden said. Decrypt“We want the player community to be integral to this game, which means more engagement and interaction with our amazing players.”
The iOS and Android soccer game sees players act as Team Managers (GMs), play and try to win matches against teams in the league. While at its core serving as a traditional free-to-play game, NFL Rivals is built around select NFT playing cards, with the studio adding an in-game marketplace last August to streamline the marketing process for digital collections.
Linden believes the addition of the NFT marketplace has taken the game to a new level, adding “another dimension” to NFL rivals that wouldn't otherwise be possible. He believes that the introduction of a new player-player (PvP) mode will have a similar effect on the future of mobile gaming.
Linden added: “The upcoming and highly anticipated PvP mode should be the biggest update to NFL Rivals since the Marketplace went live, and it's one we know our players will be very excited about.”
According to the legendary CEO, 20% of players “have They have upgraded their in-game wallet to an actual web3 wallet to interact with NFTs built on the Mythos Chain built on Polkadot. DTransactions on the second marketplace jumped from a few hundred last year to more than 8,000 a day before the start of the second year, he said.
“All of this points to a very bright future for NFL Rivals and Web3 Gaming,” Linden said.
Edited by Andrew Hayward.
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