Wolf Recreation first launched in 2021, garnering a die-hard participant neighborhood over its four-year lifespan throughout each the Ethereum mainnet and finally layer-2 community Blast. However gamers aren’t proud of final week’s 2.0 relaunch on Solana, with some saying the transfer destroyed every part they’d grinded years for because of new “complicated” mechanics.
In response, Wolf Recreation 2.0 was halted on Monday, liquidity was faraway from its lately launched Solana token, and the CEO behind the sport mentioned that he has stepped down.
Primarily based on neighborhood suggestions, we will likely be halting Wolf Recreation 2.0 and liquidity will likely be faraway from the SOL token. @gfunkera86 is at present in a gathering with the Farmhands Council working towards the subsequent steps for Wolf Recreation.
Primarily based on these discussions, and with FHC assist, we are going to…
— Wolf Recreation (@wolfdotgame) April 14, 2025
When taking part in the unique Wolf Recreation expertise, gamers might both personal a sheep or wolf NFT. These with a sheep might passively farm the WOOL token, whereas it was the job of the wolves to loot these earnings. Wolf gamers might even steal different gamers’ sheep NFTs—with all of this occurring on-chain, after all.
This distinctive mechanic and crypto-native gameplay loop led to it garnering a bustling neighborhood, and finally to sport writer Pixel Vault buying the sport in August 2023 for an undisclosed sum. A 12 months later, Wolf Recreation migrated from Ethereum mainnet to layer-2 community Blast, which got here amid a significant airdrop farming push.
On Wednesday final week, Wolf Recreation introduced that its new token on Solana was stay and offered “Wolf Recreation 2.0,” which claimed to have expanded the token’s utility by way of new in-game mechanics. Nevertheless, it wasn’t nicely acquired.
Gamers discovered the reimagined model of the sport “complicated,” with a lack of rationalization for its mechanics coming from its builders. One participant mentioned that that they had “no clue what’s occurring,” with pseudonymous Wolf Recreation CEO GFunk saying that explainers would come later. Within the meantime, a neighborhood member known as FarmerPiddy took the mantle to clarify how the brand new sport works.
The brand new gameplay loop requested gamers to burn their wolf, sheep, land, and different NFTs that they had grinded for within the earlier sport’s evolution. However in doing this, gamers weren’t reimbursed with a 1-for-1 model of the burned asset. Slightly, avid gamers would earn new in-game property like “Shep’s Kiss,” which might be utilized in mini-games.
“What the hell is Shep’s Kiss? You’re asking us to burn our wolves, sheep, lands, and different property,” disgruntled neighborhood member Digital Optimyst wrote on X, previously Twitter. “Why would you destroy one thing with a robust, loyal neighborhood—one thing constructed round Shep’s imaginative and prescient, the unique white paper, and the fun of danger and reward?”
On prime of this, the two.0 relaunch didn’t embrace the Valley Recreation 2.0, an upgraded model of a well-liked mini-game that was hyped by the official X account again in September of final 12 months.
The backlash grew too loud on Monday, resulting in the sport being halted and GFunk twice claiming to have “stepped down.” GFunk didn’t reply to Decrypt’s request for remark.
The official X assertion mentioned that GFunk was working with the Farmhands Council to determine the subsequent steps. The Farmhands Council, typically shortened to FHC, is a gaggle of gamers and WOOL holders that had been nominated by way of the WOOL governance system. By becoming a member of the Council, people have a possibility to have their say on upcoming modifications to the sport.
A number of Farmhand Council members have claimed by way of Discord that they didn’t see a proposal of the modifications. One other member, JohnStargaryen, mentioned that the Council didn’t see the brand new model of the sport till per week earlier than the rollout, with “a number of folks” voicing considerations that it shouldn’t launch.
Now, avid gamers are calling out for a neighborhood takeover, or CTO, to revive the sport.
“I’ve by no means seen better lore for a CTO since Pudgy Penguins,” pseudonymous crypto enterprise capitalist Beanie mentioned on X. “The very best half is that Wolf Recreation artwork is CC0. Nice alternative for an aspiring dev to return in and immediately get the assist of many individuals, together with me.”
CC0, in any other case often called Artistic Commons Zero, signifies that its paintings is within the public area, permitting it to be freely used and commercialized—NFT initiatives like Moonbirds opted for this mannequin in 2022. Because of this a Wolf Recreation reboot might use official paintings with out the necessity of a proper acquisition, whereas the on-chain sport property are composable and thus might be usable in different apps.
For now, the Wolf Recreation staff maintains that it’s listening to its neighborhood, will restore burned property, and is engaged on the “subsequent steps” for the title.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
GG Publication
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