Put the Power Back Where it Belongs — Are You Ready to Game with Plair? Plair Follow Mar 8, 2019 · 5 min read

There’s only a short time left until we officially launch the alpha platform and we are pretty excited about it! That’s why we decided it’s time to share more about our brief version of future development strategy.

The Vision: Blockchain is the Turning Point for Esports

The esports market, despite blooming, is still at a formative stage. The market, unfortunately, is one-way commercialized but it’s up to us to change the future. The concept of Plair is simple, empower the people that drive the gaming ecosystem, its community. Plair aims to improve the gaming experience and lifestyle, enabling sports enthusiasts of all kinds to play and earn a sustainable living doing what they are most passionate about. Plair plans to do this in a way that makes it profitable for developers, publishers, and IP owners to share in the process, bring power to its end users, and create a full circle ecosystem. By integrating blockchain technology and PLA tokens, the platform can be maintained without shifting the cost to its users and in turn, offering its users a chance to earn as it engages with its evolution.

Current Stage: Alpha & Beta Development

In the initial stage, we are building an all-in-one esports platform which will soon be publicly launched soon.

The Alpha Version will be released in March (apologies for the slight delay as we are working hard to fix bugs) with a public beta planned shortly after. Plair is creating a platform that rewards users and elevates gaming experiences. In this phase, we will support functions such as organizing a large-scale tournament, highly-customized gaming lobby, and chatting-with-your-friends functionality. Plair supports state-of-the-art tournament structures which empower esports organizers to create, manage and share their competitions on social media.

To tackle the problem of fraud, our wallet function integrates with the VeChainThor Blockchain, instantly processing transaction requests with PLA appearing in user wallets without delay. Once a game is completed, our pool of decentralized nodes will automatically verify the game results and the winners of the match will be rewarded with the pool size of PLA tokens sent directly to their in-game wallets. All of this is done in conjunction with Comet’s in-browser wallet addon.

All this enables us to provide the best experience for our users. We want our users to enjoy playing games in an environment that is socially interactive and fun, making new friends within a safe gaming platform.

Future Stage: Optimizing the Platform, Going Offline & Extending the Network

In the future, we will optimize the platform. More functions such as daily quests with PLA bonus, quick games and streaming will be established. Streaming, for example, will support interactive functionality and reward viewers for their viewing time which is not done on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. Imagine becoming the next Ninja or Shroud on Plair? Plair plans to transition gamers into influencers by leveraging the easy-to-use tools that easily allow users to gather content, market, and collaborate. Working as a gamer, and an influencer, through streaming will bring two different types of revenue streams unlike any other. You won’t need to juggle platforms. Instead, you will be able to earn rewards through one convenient platform. Plair.

Plair will create the perfect community space to connect gaming enthusiasts. It will become a decentralized user-generated and professional-ready esports platform for everyone. In fact, the future development of Plair will go beyond blockchain. We will also combine machine learning, artificial intelligence, and big data to give users the best growth opportunity.

As Plair starts to hit critical mass we will be rewarding our users with Plair tokens to set up nodes, sharing their computing and bandwidth power with us further decentralizing the Plair platform. Imagine millions upon millions of nodes all over the world working together as one to power Plair in an ecosystem that rewards its own.

We will build up a league of semi-pro and pro players to join online celebrity tournaments. Plair will cooperate with non-endemic and endemic Esports leagues and generate commercial values for each other. When the platform is well-established, we will create a series of offline marketing campaigns around the world from 2020 onwards. We will organize large offline tournaments with industrial partners to bring the league of players physically together while promoting the platform.

Plair will also integrate e-commerce functionality that will allow gamers to trade Plair Tokens for real goods. Why go to a store and buy goods with your credit card when you can use the token directly on the platform that you earned and make a purchase instantly. You will have access to steam cards, the best hardware out there such as motherboards, ram, processors, video cards and much more.

In the latter phases, Plair plans to welcome passionate game developers, that may never get a chance with major publishers, to list their creations on Plair. We can cater this experience to empower IP owners, publishers, and third-party developers to collaborate on existing, developing, or theoretical titles that the market can engage with during every phase or even help build without removing funnels for revenue. This space allows developers, such as yourself, to develop games with Plair and elevate them to the next level through our transformative and empowering ecosystem.

Our goal is to become the one place gamers will go to truly live the gamers life. A one-stop shop for gamers.

Stay Connected!

In short, Plair is a complete gaming ecosystem that players can enjoy the fun and satisfy their needs without even leaving the platform. We intend to establish and grow a community space where gamers can not only engage with one another through on-and-offline events and tournaments but where they will have access to tools that will allow them to earn a sustainable living and forge a career path in video game play.

To make this happen, our teams of UX/UI designers and tech experts have been working day and night to build the platform that’s original. We will release more marketing campaigns as well as news and as a way to stay connected to our growing community!

Last but not least, your voice will be heard! We invite you to help us make our strategy stronger. If you have any business ideas, in terms of our future development or possible partnership, do not hesitate to share your thought via support@plair.gg. Our goal is to build this for you, with you, and never against you.