{"id":141472,"date":"2024-11-06T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptodnes.bg\/en\/?p=141472"},"modified":"2024-11-06T11:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T09:26:15","slug":"hamster-kombats-user-base-plummets-by-86-amid-declining-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptodnes.bg\/en\/hamster-kombats-user-base-plummets-by-86-amid-declining-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamster Kombat&#8217;s User Base Plummets by 86% Amid Declining Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the same time, a new game called Paws has quickly gained popularity. It reached 20.5 million users in just eight days, growing faster than Hamster Kombat did.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2024-11\/0192fba5-9d62-7d13-a936-a94616b18fea\" width=\"880\" height=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>The number of active players in Hamster Kombat has also dropped. In late September, the game had around 772,000 active players, but that number has since fallen by more than a third.<\/p>\n<p>The price of Hamster Kombat\u2019s token, HMSTR, has also dropped significantly, losing almost 70% of its value since late September. This reflects the drop in user activity and interest in the game.<\/p>\n<style>\n    .dark-mode .read-more {background-color: #343a40 !important;}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"read-more pb-3 pt-3 pt-md-2 px-3 my-4 border bg-light\">\n    <h5 class=\"text-uppercase border-bottom mb-3 pb-1 d-none d-md-block\">READ MORE:<\/h5>\n    <a class=\"article row\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptodnes.bg\/en\/could-ethereum-follow-amazons-path-to-dominance\/\" title=\"Could Ethereum Follow Amazon\u2019s Path to Dominance?\">\n        <div class=\"contentRight col-4\">\n            <span class=\"imgContainer mt-0\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image img-defer\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptodnes.bg\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Ethereum_1263379366-scaled-e1649954603907-240x170.jpeg\">\n            <\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"contentLeft col-8\">\n            <h4 class=\"title mb-0\">Could Ethereum Follow Amazon\u2019s Path to Dominance?<\/h4>           \n            \n        <\/div>        \n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Other Telegram games, like the Dogs token, are facing similar declines. The value and activity for those tokens have also dropped in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Hamster Kombat has faced some negative attention, including criticism from the Iranian government and rumors of being banned in Uzbekistan, though those rumors were false. Despite this, the team behind the game plans to add new features, like NFTs and a payment system.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the new Paws game is growing quickly. It reached 10 million connected wallets and 1 million followers on social media within just a few days.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/hamster-kombat-decline-telegram-game-competition-rise-of-paws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamster Kombat, once a popular game on Telegram, has seen a huge drop in players. In August, it had 300 million users, but now only 41 million people play the game, a decrease of 86%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","category-altcoins"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hamster Kombat&#039;s User Base Plummets by 86% Amid Declining Popularity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hamster Kombat, once a popular game on Telegram, has seen a huge drop in players. 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