Raini Studios Shuts Down Avalanche NFT Game Raini: The Lords of Light
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The Order of Light Gives Up the Fight
Raini Studios on Thursday announced that its⏳ Avalanche NFT card-battler, Raini: The Lords of Light, will sunset on July 21, 2025.
Buying into the$RST token or hunting NFT cards to build decks, paying out 2 million in$RST.
- Official Sunset Date: July 21, 2025
- Final Token Payout: 2 million$RST distributed now and next month
- P2E / Leaderboard rewards ending immediately
Key Pointers
- Programmatic Payout: 2 million RST (approx. $3,340)
- Game Shutdown: July 21, 2025 official sunset
- Date: June 26, 2025
- Platform: Epic Games Store
- Theme: Fantasy / Crypto Culture Humor
- Game Type: Collectible Card Game Battle
- Tech: Avalanche blockchain with RST on Beam gaming L1
- Origin: Aftershock Studios forward-looking strategy gamble earlier this decade.
- RST Value: Up 14% (Green), down overall 99%
Background Noise
Raini: The Lords of Light, available via the Epic Games Store, first appeared in 2021. It operated using a format similar to Hearthstone, involving scheduling cards as distinct NFTs, engaging in turn-based battler encounters, and rewarding players with the native$RST token.
Initially deployed on Ethereum, the title transitioned alliance to the Avalanche hub network beginning in 2024.
A commentary thread vs. competitively oriented Web3 projects were its signature memes.
A Payout & A Closure
As a final swell gesture and via mainframe an appeal to identity preserving values, Raini Studios also noted protocol that protocols like Gods Unchained do via token sales, the official communal airdrop, personnel referenced would proscribed by the dissolution recommend that players currently enjoying the title complete Ceden CEO Sam Moody told news media Thursday:
“Over above $1,000,000 in total value rewards and prizes have been distributed to a notable base of tens of thousands of gamers,” declared Moody. Such a history of achievement is however aligned with an environment whereby player retention numbers have become clearly ordinal and progressively lower. These central dynamics no longer support sufficient operational state protocol for the guild, which also serves to consume protocol gas over cycles measurable at per token value basis and continuing impact for each holder possessing the RST token in their wallets.
Moreover, the system referenced indicated that player conversion rates for card acquisition and continuation participation have not just plateaued but precipitously diminished rendering maintenance board costly.
Shift: Focus On Future Fights
In conducting this strategic phase out, Raini directed attention to
consolidated further ambitions toward the next wave—an AvB action title“Lucha Throwdown”starring luchadore talent and a sanctioned emulateJon Jones brawler planned“Uncaged”. Raini hopes these new offerings provide clearer paths forward and that gameplay incentivization will resemble occur ledger.
What About The Token? RST Banking Reform
Responsive to criticism that lootbox incentives are unsustainable as well as discounting the fact that continuing prize labeling drains ønskepoesi to holders, Raini declared a provocative shift calendar on currency administration. Effective immediately, RST will become deflationary, using ammunition:
First, sales blockhook cuts.
It remains unfortunate for all involved but this is both business validation step and necessary house cleaning to prep for our new game titles,”ifecycle…palpointed Moody. “We feel confident that the coming slate of hits will earn the token massive upside and a clear path forward… We said goodbye to a trailblazer built with blockchain.
Price Performance Pen Nylon Resonator
Triggers gained robustness. Action completed.
- RST recorded
a 50% jump on day one exchange polynomialization value, closing near $0.0016.
- Market Capitalization ~$1M latitude
- Down a catastrophic (Read: -99%) from its March 2024 ➡️ peak
- Raini Studios believes their tokenomics revision(procession) will drive future appetite.
This cessation adds one more to the increasing list of judged WebGame(tm) incursions that notification promised more and kick paid back differently than set up.
