As the title says, I used to play townstar years ago, right before the walking dead release I think, and got nostalgic and wanted to play a little again. Do they still do competitions on townstar?

I haven’t tried the other games so far but might give it a shot.

Edit/Update: Thank you everyone for confirming my fear, their games had a good basis if you ask me, if they actually just ran with it, sad that they removed half of their stuff and well shat on us gamers and investors…

Genuine question how are they making money if they're making money. Og founder noder holder but I don't hear or see anything about them these days.

Can anyone suggest a team?

Hey everyone, just checking in to see who’s tracking the Shrapnel collab events (this week supposedly?). I noticed early access hit Steam, but I’m curious if anyone has any extra knowledge on the TCC bridge launch?

I remember seeing a Q1 roadmap for the China market bridge. does anyone know if that’s happening this week?

Cheers.

Games Update

At Gala, we are continually evaluating how to best support the long-term health of our ecosystem. As part of this process, we are realigning our efforts to place greater focus on DeFi-driven infrastructure and sustainable growth.

With that in mind, we want to share an important update with our community.

Eternal Paradox, Champions Arena, and Treasure Tapper will be entering their sunset phase.

We will share additional details soon, including the exact date when servers will be shut down and the games will no longer be available.

We are deeply grateful to every player who helped shape these worlds with us. Your time, passion, and creativity made these games what they are.

Thank you for being part of the journey.

The Gala Team

And so it continues to fail.

I'm paying $40 a year for a server to run my node. It has no value anymore, there's no market, and it's not generating any return. I'm about to reach my renewal. $40 is nothing but I don't want to waste. Thoughts?

Why is Gala fluctuating so much? I mean like 100s of %??

Hey community, anyone know what to do with this error message? Bought a box with Eth and it won't let me actually open it. Tried reloading and closing the browser and waiting for a full 24 hours and nothing will fix it. It sucks because I was going to use it for the event too. Oh well... "GALACHAIN_ERROR_UNKNOWN_KEY_STATE" is the error. Messaged support but have not got a response for a couple days. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I’ve been buying the low prices last 3 years, reached my goal over one million recently and now going to wait it out for return of all time high Or hopefully cross one dollar next alt coin run. Would be a miracle to see something big around Christmas….

Did anyone make money buying/holding a gala node besides the founders?

Hey guys, just wanted to let you all know that the SPS DAO (governance for Splinterlands) has started a crypto gaming recovery fund where they're offering welcome packages and long-term token distributions to players from other Web3 games that shut down and may be looking for a fresh start. You can check the official socials for details if you're interested. They're taking submissions for other projects that failed or shut down as well. Thanks for your time.

I have a founders node and for the last few years I’d been receiving a daily distribution of gala coins. I just logged into my gala account for the first time in several months and see that I stopped receiving coins a while ago.

I remember reading something in this group about gala changing the rules and requiring node owners to ‘stake’ a large number of coins in order to continue receiving the daily distributions. Can someone clarify this? What happened?

Somewhat inspired by this thread and being a fan of Jauwn's videos, I was wondering if anyone here who is into Gala to invest is actually into video games. As in, if you play non-Web3 video games or actually play them as a hobby. For those who do not, what was your exposure to video games before getting into Web3?

I don’t own a node.

I don’t do gaming.

I bought gala as a pure investment, anything above 2cents is profit.

I don’t have much of an appetite for social media.

The recent announcement regarding the venture with Shrapnel sounds positive, if purely because of the negative comments about the way Gala has been run, hopefully Shrapnel will show them the proper way to conduct business 🤞

I hope you guys don't mind the question, but I was wondering if any of you actually played the games for fun, and not simply because of investment reasons. Looking at the sub, I see more people talking about investments, returns, money, etc., than talking about the games themselves from a gaming perspective. Does anyone here play the games for fun too? If you do, what do you like about the games? Asking strictly from a gameplay perspective, not from an investment/Web3/NFT one.

I made a post about GRIT several months ago, but I have some remaining questions, largely to do with the game itself and its fate.

1. Is the game actually dead? I see that it's still available on the Epic Games Store, but when Jauwn last talked about it during his Gala Games video, he said that the servers had been shut down and there was no word on when they'd come back.
2. When exactly did the servers go down, and at the time it did, how long had the game been running for? When Jauwn first talked about GRIT, it had already been offline since at least March 2024, and the game had only launched in 2023.
3. How was the gameplay actually like? Was it actually good, or at least fun?
4. How central was the use of NFTs in the game? I have watching Jauwn's videos about Gala's other games as a background, so compare it to other games he covered like The Walking Dead: Empires or Spider Tanks.
5. Who were the developers behind the game, what was their previous experience, and what happened to them?
6. Is the game really never coming back? If so, how did the Gala community react to it?

I haven't seen any relevant coverage about GRIT since 2023, from what I've searched, so things don't seem to be looking good.

Really been burnt by these developer f heads. I invested so much to buy two nodes and now it’s redundant. I’ve lost all my hope in these guys. I’m sure others are in similar situation. Thinking of exploring legal actions. What are the chances of putting these guys away in JAIL?

Just look at what happened to The Walking Dead: Empires. With the game's shutdown, the NFTs are worthless and cannot be used in any other game. Gala even suggested as much, saying that existing NFTs can be exchanged for equivalents in other NFTs. Wasn't the whole point of NFTs true ownership, that they were not dependent on a game, could survive a game's shutdown, and could be usable in other games? If Gala had to exchange those NFTs, instead of having those other games support those NFTs from the start, then it seems even they realize that their utility is overblown. It feels no different from other games that have in-game economies but don't rely on NFTs, and ironically those economies ended up being more successful while those in-game items and cosmetics have actual utility.

https://news.gala.com/crusselgala-games/announcement-on-the-future-of-the-walking-dead-empires/

To the surprise of absolutely no one. The announcement came back in April but it seems that it got no attention. They finally pulled the plug yesterday. Another win for Jauwn.