gaming on the blockchain actually already exists memecoins! if you squint, memecoins are a pure MMORPG where users PvP each other in small factions and different weapons and armour they pay for (terminals, dex, etc) they just replace LoL for a subset of users

I'm empathetic to the trenches, they got sick of being grifted by protocol theatrics and just went to the extreme end think they can still work, but there exist a few problems: i) the games are not actually 0-sum today, they are negative sum due to tons of leakage in various parts of the stack ii) the game is predatory to players who don't know the rules. this is particularly the case when people with big followings get their followers to engage there must be a way of bounding the game to people who are explicitly playing it