# Recently Seeing "Points" Old Tricks Making a Comeback

I've been noticing quite a few projects dusting off the "points" playbook lately.
Wash trading, daily check-in tasks, and whether you can redeem them fully depends entirely on the team's mood... After seeing so much of it, everything feels like a copy-paste job. Hard to get genuinely invested.

But @RealGoOfficial's design actually caught my attention—feels genuinely different.

It doesn't treat users as mere tools. Instead, it quantifies all daily behaviors into points assets.

Like capturing and nurturing creatures in-game, participating in PvP battles, holding Genesis Mining Pets, or completing ecosystem tasks—none of these actions go to waste. Everything crystallizes into points, which directly unlock airdrop eligibility, ecosystem rights, and activity thresholds.

The real issue isn't the points themselves, but what behavior they're actually incentivizing.

Some projects encourage crazy volume chasing, ending up with bots running the show;
Some only care about lockups, draining liquidity dry;
Others rely on social virality—noise-filled short term, zeroed out long term.

RealGo feels more like a combination model: time investment + genuine gameplay participation + asset binding.

Not the kind where you max out in a day, not pure pay-to-win either. More like filtering for users genuinely committed to staying in the ecosystem long-term.

This actually answers a real question—
Does the project want farmers or actual players?

If points only count task completion, they get gamed quickly;
If it's purely about capital, regular users get locked out.

Binding "playing behavior + holdings + engagement" together might not look dramatically aggressive for user acquisition short-term, but it's way more likely to build retention and value cycles medium-to-long term.

Especially if airdrop distribution genuinely ties back to points later on—
those everyday actions from early stages could become core chips.

A lot of people instinctively reject anything points-related now. Totally get it.

But think about it differently: not all points are worth farming. Some points are essentially pre-distributing future rights.

Which category does RealGo fall into?

Personally, I think it's worth watching a bit longer to see if they can actually execute this mechanism properly.