Games, OtakGames – Digital hamsters kombat have been reported to be dominating Iran and the state doesn’t seem to be too thrilled about the idea.
The Telegram-based game of crypto Hamster Kombat has been attracting a lot of attention in Iran According to an article published Monday by the Associated Press in which local players are drawn to the easy game of tapping to earn money ahead of its launch in the coming days.
The interest in the game has been observed widely in the past few weeks, since the game’s main focus is around tapping the screen, and allows players to run a fictional crypto exchange through the eyes of an ogre CEO, has apparently attracted large numbers of gamers eager to share in the drop of tokens.
Hamster Kombat Telegram Game
Hamster Kombat’s creators announced on this morning that the game has recently attracted 200 million players which is a significant part of the reported around 900 million Telegram players. It’s an increase from the reported total of 150 million in June 14.
This is based on internal information which was shown via screenshots. Decrypt is unable to independently confirm the authenticity of this claim using public sources. But, this demand is in the midst of growing social media followers for the game. It has the most popular Telegram overall with almost 44 million users, which is more than twice the number of subscribers for the second-largest channel. This is for the game that is a rival to TapSwap.
Hamster Kombat has seen significant expansion on YouTube as well as Twitter in addition with reports such as this one by the The AP on Monday to prove of the video game exploding into a huge way.
This isn’t a good thing in the eyes of government officials in the Iranian government, according to reports. When Iranian players use their mobiles hoping to earn cryptocurrency rewards, officials of the government seem to see the practice as an unjust Western influence. Iranians have to contend with high inflation, a lack of jobs as well as Western sanctions.
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“One of the features of the soft war by the enemy is the ‘Hamster’ game,” the deputy chief of the military Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari told the state-owned IRNA media agency. The The AP also reported that Sayyari suggested that Western forces have been seeking to divert Iranians from their presidential race in order to ensure that they don’t “pay attention to plans of presidential candidates.”
Iran is scheduled to select a new president next Friday after the tragic death of president Ebrahim Raisi during an accident involving a helicopter that occurred in May. The state-owned daily, JameJam, is also critical of the interest in Hamster Kombat and wrote that it promotes “the dream of becoming rich overnight and gaining wealth without effort.”
“A society that instead of working and trying to succeed and earn money turns to such games and looks for shortcuts and windfalls gradually loses the culture of effort and entrepreneurship, and moves towards convenience,” the paper said, quoting the The AP.
Hamster Kombat’s creators have announced they will introduce the token for the game on the Open Network (TON) on July. The game will follow closely in the footsteps of Notcoin the identical “clicker” game that launched in the spring of this year, and attracted 35 million players prior to dropping its own NOT token the TON network in May.
Notcoin has reached an high market cap that was above $2 billion during the time following the announcement, but Notcoin’s value has decreased by 52 percent from its record highest price on June 2.
