I keep wondering who actually has power inside Pixels.
The game seems open anyone can. Anyone can earn, but when I take a closer look I start thinking about where the real control is.
One thing that stands out is the land it is not for show it affects how well the game works. Players who own land can do things faster. They get to decide who can access certain areas, which gives them a quiet kind of influence it is not loud but it is always there.
Then there is the team that runs the game they are always making updates changing rewards and tweaking the system, which's good because it means the game is stable but it also means that the team is still in charge I do not see them letting go of control yet.
The token is another thing, people who own PIXEL tokens are supposed to have a say in what happens but I keep asking myself what kind of decisions they will really get to make will it be things or big important things.
There is also the power that some players have because they understand the game well they can make the most of it faster and other players follow them this creates leaders in the game who are not official but they are still influential they shape how others play without needing to be in charge.
What I find interesting is how all these different groups overlap, the people who own land the players who are really active the people who own tokens and the team that runs the game they all have some kind of control but it is not the same for all of them it changes depending on what's happening.
Now Pixels feels like a guided game more, than a game that is really decentralized which is okay most games need that at the start but the real test will be later when the team starts to let go of control.
I keep watching how decisions are made not what people say. What actually happens in the game.