Monthly player count for Axis Infinity not seen since November 2020
The NFC token-based video game Axie Infinity once had millions of monthly players, peaking at 2.78 million in January 2022, according to ActivePlayer.io data. January certainly isn’t over yet as the last 30 days to date indicate an average of 432,001 players. During December 2022, there were 468,805 players which is not less than seen in 2 years after November 2020.
2 million players were hired by EXC for eight consecutive months between October 2021 and May 2022. After May, the average monthly player count dropped to 958,044, or 1,202,210 fewer players than the previous month. In the next 4 months, the number of its monthly users remained above 700000 but in November 2022 it decreased to 556058. According to the figures for the last month of 2022 and the first month of 2023, there has been a decline and disappointing numbers have been seen. As for all-time NFT sales, the project developed by Vietnam studio Sky Mavis recorded $4.26 billion in total NFT sales, far surpassing top marketplaces such as Magic Eden, Luxirare, X2Y2, Rare and AtomicMarket. Axie’s Ronin series has registered a 41% increase in sales over the past 30 days, with Ronin sales totaling $1,418,842 in the last 30 days, making it the ninth largest blockchain in terms of monthly sales this month. And this month Ronin is the ninth largest blockchain in terms of monthly sales. Axie Infinity’s native token, AXS, has also performed well this month, gaining 62% against the US Dollar in the past 30 days.
According to 2-week data, AXS is up 67% against the greenback. On January 22, it (AXS) was trading at prices between $8.95 and $11.84 and recorded a gain of 24 percent on Sunday afternoon eastern time. AXS is the 42nd largest crypto by market capitalization with a value of approximately $1.31 billion.
Despite recent gains, AXX is still down from its high of $164 per unit on November 6, 2021, and is down 93% since that day. The number of players in Play to Earn a Game Axie Infinity is quite small compared to some of the top ones being played today. For example, ActivePlayer.io shows that the number of monthly players for Over watch 2 was around 23 million in the past 30 days and 23 million during December 2022. Call of Duty: Mobile live players had 58,502,111 average monthly players over the last 30 days and 58,001,154 were recorded during December 2022. Specifically, AXI’s December 2022 average monthly player count represents 0.81% of the count when compared to Call of Duty’s average number.
