Every time the market enters a new round of narrative switching, I observe a phenomenon: what projects can maintain community heat when they are falling and quickly attract players' attention when they rise? Over the past two years, YGG is the most typical example of a project that 'won't die when it falls and surges when it rises.' You might ask, why can an old guild left over from the P2E era continue to hold a central position in the GameFi restart cycle? Why hasn't it been eliminated like many other projects in the new track? The more I observe, the more I feel that there are some things that most people overlook.
Let's first talk about a reality that many people are reluctant to face: GameFi has never been a continuously prosperous track. Its characteristic is strong cycles, clear funding drives, and fast user migration. However, YGG seems to be a project that grows against this logic, becoming more solid amid the ebb and flow. If you have experienced the P2E stage, you know how many projects soared and plummeted, how many players cleared their accounts overnight, but YGG's community has never dispersed. It feels like a 'verified traffic engine'; regardless of the market conditions, it always has its own foundational support.
What's even more exaggerated is that in the past year, I have seen too many new blockchain games, too many new guilds, and too many new protocols. Most of them are 'here today, gone tomorrow,' but YGG continues to penetrate more early-stage projects. Many blockchain game teams hope to make YGG the earliest external player group before launching, because they know that if the YGG community can engage, the external dissemination of the project will be guaranteed. In other words, YGG has transformed from a 'guild' into a 'user traffic entry point,' which is the most lacking resource in GameFi projects.
I noticed an interesting phenomenon while observing: YGG players are different from regular blockchain game users; they are not the type to switch games after a day or two, but rather act with a sense of mission and community culture. If you look through their member stories, you'll find many very real cases—some people were introduced to blockchain games for the first time because of YGG, some achieved their first earnings in Web3 thanks to it, and some even met the team through participating in activities and later joined the project as core developers. While these stories may seem trivial, it is precisely this sense of authenticity that gives YGG's community strong stickiness, which cannot be bought with airdrops.
Of course, a very crucial reason why YGG can maintain its influence in the community is that it does not only serve as a guild for one game but acts as an entry point for the entire blockchain game ecosystem. Other guilds may only be able to focus on a specific game or track, while YGG's strategy is to 'cover the entire blockchain game cycle.' From testing players before the game launch to player growth after the public release, and then to ecological operation after the product matures, it can participate in every stage. Most importantly, it does not just participate; it can influence the direction.
Some people might say: 'Isn't this just a guild? What's the big deal?' But if you think from the perspective of blockchain game project teams, you will realize it is not that simple. Web3 games require early player behavior data more than traditional games because the on-chain mechanisms are too complex; if you design it carelessly, it may lead to issues like economic system collapse, currency circulation imbalance, and insufficient incentives. If a game can allow YGG players to conduct large-scale testing in advance, the team can quickly assess—what are the players' actual behaviors, is the token consumption and output balanced, is the task system reasonable, are there any flaws in the economic model, and can it expand in the future.
This is why so many games are willing to give the earliest testing qualifications to YGG instead of directly recruiting publicly. YGG does not just provide you with 'people'; it provides you with 'data, feedback, promotion, content, real use cases,' which are exactly the core variables that determine whether a blockchain game can succeed.
You may ask: Why are players willing to play with YGG? Why not join the project themselves, participate in testing, and make money on their own?
Because the 'sense of participation' and 'sense of belonging' that YGG provides cannot be achieved by ordinary users acting alone.
At YGG, you are not playing games alone; an entire community is playing with you. You are not participating in activities alone; there are strategies, teammates, rewards, task mechanisms, and continuous growth paths. Most importantly, it makes players feel they are not short-term participants, but a part of the game ecosystem. People like 'participation systems,' and YGG is designed around such a participation system.
More critically, YGG itself is also undergoing changes; it is no longer just the P2E guild of the past but has transformed into a cross-chain, multi-game, multi-ecosystem 'player network.' The activities, tasks, and testing routes you see now are completely different from the models of the past and lean more towards a Web3 native 'task economy + contribution network' structure. The true trend for Web3 games in the future will not be about issuing tokens, not about airdrops, nor speculation, but rather 'who can enable ordinary players to participate long-term, that ecosystem can truly survive.' Traditional games are driven by content, Web3 games are driven by incentives, but YGG has found 'community-driven,' which is the most scarce.
Especially in this market phase now, everyone is saying 'GameFi will restart,' but who can really make players pour in? Who can provide a continuous user entry for blockchain games? Who can quickly gather a batch of real users before new projects go live? After observing so many blockchain game projects, YGG is basically the only entity that meets all three criteria at a scalable level.
You can imagine YGG as the 'Steam + Community + Player Economic System' of the Web3 gaming world, but it is not a platform; it is a player network. It does not require giants or huge capital accumulation, just one thing: make players willing to play more games here, interact with more people, participate in more ecosystems, and gain more benefits. And YGG is already making this happen.
Thinking deeper, if Web3 games are to truly break out in the future, what they need most is the growth of 'players,' not 'speculators.' However, there are barriers for ordinary players entering Web3: wallets, networks, asset management, blockchain interactions, game difficulty; any mistake in these links could cause someone to exit directly. YGG can dismantle these complex processes and bring players into the ecosystem through community mechanisms. This value is more important than short-term incentives.
I even predict that during the next round of massive GameFi explosions, YGG will become the 'new user entry infrastructure.' Not because it has the strongest technology, nor because it is the most OG, but because it understands players, understands economics, understands games, understands communities, and understands cycles. Player organizations that can achieve all of this are truly rare in Web3.
So, when you see that YGG still maintains strong interaction, high participation in activities, and a strong player retention rate, don't think this is happening naturally. It has gone through years of accumulation, countless projects' pitfalls, countless player feedback, and countless ecological iterations to achieve today's 'player network power.'
If you ask me, which organization is most likely to become a traffic entry in the GameFi explosion cycle in the next six to twelve months? Which community is most likely to bring blockchain games back onto the hot list? Which guild is most likely to help new projects overcome the cold start challenges?
I would say: YGG is the safest and most easily underestimated among all the answers.
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It is not the flashiest project, nor the trendiest narrative, but it is the most validated, the most grounded, and the most capable of continuously driving player participation. In the uncertain world of blockchain games, the only certainty is that whoever can retain players will survive longer.
And YGG has achieved this.
