Errr, Calum, you went from talking about going shopping with Josh, then it turned into "sending my girlfriend to find out the price"... Is this one of those, you've never seen my girlfriend and Josh in the same room kind of scenarios?😉 Haha sorry not sorry 🤣
The ONLY thing I've encountered so far that actually makes sense as an NFT was when EVE Online held a combat tournament, as they regularly do, and minted NFTs of killmails and gave them to the people who got the kills. Literally no one in the EVE community actually cared, but it accurately captured what an NFT really is: a digitally-verifiable receipt that lives on a blockchain. Killmails in EVE are basically just receipts verifying that you killed so-and-so at such and such a time and inflicted this much damage on them and their lost ship cost so much ISK. Nobody asked for or cared about them, but they were correctly used as receipts.
Question I have here: Why do these make sense *as NFTs*? Why not just have a regular database, like a simple SQL one, where each entry is one of these receipts, complete with a column each for time, who was killed, amount, link to kill feed, etc. This scales, is fast, has zero minting cost, next to no upkeep, and its easy to set up so these will be created automatically in each combat tournament from here on, so there is always a receipt like that.
@@fy8798 Yeah. Agreed. That’s the problem. Sure, this works, but it feels like it’s just a waste of time and energy to even do when there are much simpler ways to achieve the same thing. Similar things are done in other games already, so there’s zero reason this had to be NFT’s.
I'm actually super curious if every team and every streamer shown in these cards actually gave them permission to use their likenesses for a commercial product. Cause, you know, it's not like NFTs haven't done THAT before.
Don’t know if anyone remembers, but back in the early 2000s there was a show and TCG called Chaotic. Super fun game, really unique play, but it was the first tcg that made online play a cornerstone of the game. You would buy a physical pack, and each card had a unique code that you would type in and get that exact card in game. Not only that, but creatures had a small range that their stats could be in, so incredibly few creatures were exactly the same. You could still trade the online cards separately from the physical ones too. Nothing like Pokémon where you buy a pack only to get a completely different virtual pack. Reminds me of this, but still done the best out of any tcg.
Chaotic was pretty damn fun tbh. Was really disappointed when I found out about the pokemon packs not being 1:1 for the online game after being so into Chaotic
The quality of the printing/cardstock is of no surprise as physical cards like this are a very mature industry. The scary part is that it adds whole new levels of scammy crap to both NFTs AND physical cards (which have always been scammy their 'rarity' systems etc.)
Nah, trading cards themselves have always been scummy; using many of the same tricks everyone hates about AAA games. As have NFTs which are hated with a passion by gamers for exactly the same reasons the (non-gamer) NFT bros like them. You’re Adding two cancers and hopping not to get worse cancer.
@@soylentgreenb So true. I remember that lesson well... all that money as a kid spent on ball cards "because they're an investment". I mean, okay, there were some I liked because they had pics of players that I legit liked, like Ken Griffey Jr., but dear gods do I regret that I hadn't spent all that money on cards. Comics tried to advertise the same way, but, at least those have interesting stuff outside of a speculated "worth". Next thing you know... TY Beanie Babies the physical NFT will be a thing... and my aunt will come back from her grave to ensure that I get drowned in them "for future value".
Wouldn't 1st edition imply that there would be further editions? Which means more copies of the same cards. Which means they are replaceable. Doesn't that kind of break a core part of what NFTs say they are about? Also the physical packs you could buy in store have 5 cards but the digital ones only gave 3.
Sure, but they’ll never be another *first* edition card. Just as reprints of books are still the same books (assuming no errata got corrected), but they’re not *first edition* of that book. Doesn’t make this whole thing any less stupid, just saying that editions doesn’t necessarily invalidate the nft concept (because, really, all that nfts do is to make true digital objects, where each thing is a unique thing even if it is an identical copy of the same thing, just like books).
@@CallumUpton Out of curiosity, do you know if every team and player, or streamer, gave their permission to be on these cards that are being sold at commercial value?
I feel like if they made the actual physical card like an AR system using the app to display a 3D or even a 2D version of the NFT on the app and making the actual physical card the NFT would have been better. That way the physical cards would have more of a purpose you can buy and sell the actual physical cards which I get defeats the purpose of NFTs but still would have been better then this wierd mess.
the AR Card concepts been done before.. not in an NFT Sense but it has been done. (PS3 Eye of Judgement, Nintendo 3DS AR Cards...,l homebrew'd "Yuigoh" cards that would pop up the monster much like the show)
@@CaelThunderwing Yeah i used to love messing with the 3DS AR cards, but I still believe it's better than just scanning the cards for the physical cards to become useless and could prevent some major issues of storing online data of one-time use cards, sometimes a simple and smooth system is better.
@@CaelThunderwing That's the thing about NFTs (and most crypto projects in general), their very few functional projects are very often just unwieldier versions of things that already exist without blockchain technology.
I am confused about this being NFT. When you were opening the digital packs it said that you already owned it for some of them. How can you own multiple copies of the same NFT?
you can't, or better yet, you should't, but NFTs are a scam. So right click, save and - dan dan - there are now two of the same. Not to metion the art theft that this crap has caused
7:42 age verification for buying condoms? you're joking, right? seriously? that doesn't make any sense. anyway, age verification for buying these NFT cards: how does that work? why was Callum having an anxiety moment over the contents of his wallet? is some part of his ID card (his ID nr?) going to leave a record with the purchase? Callum clearly looks the part of being over 18, so why does he need his ID to verify his age? sorry if my questions sound stupid but nobody ever asks me to verify my age...
Right?! That seems so counter intuitive. Do they WANT teens to get pregnant? And yeah, where I live if you look old enough you don’t need to show your ID. Maybe it’s a law that they literally have to check everyone
I have worked with QR codes on collectable cards, it was just a fun gimmick and to save time on development we just put a static ID on the QR code, can you rescan them or scan them with an different app to see what the QR code contain? This was for a book club company that had monthly parcels with some cards in each parcel.
I disagree with the notion that NFTs would be good for trading cards normally tbh. I may be misunderstanding what Callum meant with shiny Charizards and stuff but like, in Yu-Gi-Oh (and probably every other card game but I don't know for sure), every card has a code based on which card it is in which released set. So even if a card gets reprinted later down the line, it will have a different code that differentiates it from earlier versions. Yu-Gi-Oh even has 1st edition and unlimited edition versions within the same set, as packs are printed in 1st edition for a while. So if you got a 1st edition Big Floppa from a Test Pack, you got a 1st edition TP-004 or whatever, which was produced in limited quantities. If Big Floppa gets a reprint later down the line, it will be a different pack, so instead of a card that has the code of TP-004, indicating its number in the TP set, you will get a RP-015 or something. The number of TP-004 cards remains the same as before, which might seem inconsequential but it matters to collectors and affects prices. I'm sure he already knows this though, so I may be misunderstanding his sentiment.
@@DominantDinosaur Seems pretty pointless tbh. Why would I need confirmation that I have the card I'm holding in my hand? And what if I trade or sell the card? Would the NFT just be taken from me and given to the new owner of the card if they scanned it? Would I get to keep it and sell or trade the card without the next person being able to claim it? And why even do it other than for the sake of doing it or to make NFT bros buy them?
I believe they only bought rights to photos that already existed, which means the people on the cards probably got no money for being the subject and may not know they are on these.
@@deltasaves Wtf are you talking about, goofy? Kolex are partnered with ESL for a long time and have the rights to use the likenesses, names and logos of all the players and teams that play in ESL Pro League and events. Players sign Kolex physical signature cards, jerseys and jumbo cards in-person at events all the time. They love them too and a lot of them collect. They have featured these in many vlogs and streams.
were you be able to scan all the cards from the first pack? that one you showed on stream? because i managed to scan that one. that would mean you can scan those cards multiple times with different accounts XD also it shows you only how many collection you have completed.
Tbh i think rather than a qr there should have been an nfc smartcard in there instead. Because by scanning the qr you are decoupling the card and the nft. With an nfx smartcard the private key that serves as proof of the card stays well within the card and also wouldn't allow it to be transferred along the blockchain but just be tied to the card and allowing signatures so one could have a way to say "callum owns this holo australis card" signed with that australis card proving that it's a real card and he actually has the card.
That would make these better. They were probably focused on price. Or CardaMundi or whoever the printing and packaging got outsourced to suggested qr because they're used to it.
@@zimbu_ kinda hilarious considering the NFTs are usually expensive AF and all (but at like 4 pounds for a pack seems pretty reasonable and actually making smartcards would be much more expensive, but considering they are NFTs likely not really a problem
Callum gets antsy about buying quasi-legitimate products without ID from a live person the same way I get antsy about buying milk with my wallet carefully organized from a self-checkout stand.
Was there any screaming at the screen for Callum to click on "ADD CARD TO LIBRARY". This whole NFT card thing one of the worse things I have heard about this year apart from getting Borris back in number 10.
The funny thing is that MTGO was effectively doing this, in reverse, over a decade ago. They charged retail cardstock pack prices for digital cards, but that was because if you could collect a complete set of an expansion (foil cards counting as a separate set from non-foils, of course) you could redeem that entire set for a physical set of real cards that MTG would ship to you. But you couldn't redeem physical cards into digital ones.
@@elixwhitetail Man knowing they used to do stuff like that really makes me hate how WoTC are now. If they did something similar these days, they'd charge you $4000 to send the set to you.
Can you create another account and scan the same cards into that second account? Would it refuse and tell you someone else owns them already, would it effectively allow 2 owners of 1 card/NFT, or would it do something else off-the-wall?
whit how Disconeted NFT spearheaders have been whit reality and IT security and IT/data general understanding of tech. I would not be supprised at all. I would also not be supprised if diffrent card had the same QR code because there are no cheaks to make sure the same code is not used twice.
The one usecase I could see for this technology is digital proof of ownership of a physical thing. For example I buy a boardgame, which has an online version. How it goes nowdays is either you have to buy the license for the online game too, which I shouldn't, I already bought the game, or if it's a fan-made project, the company just cracks down on it, claiming piracy, which again, it is not, since I bought the physical thing they are selling. Of course you can't really trade these, and no real need for a blockchain... but it would be a useful application imo.
I dont get it, its like you buy in store a pack of cards for HearthStone for exemple (with QR code), and when you register the cards on your game inventory, they will automaticle desenchant, whats the point of that.
NFTs are heavily intertwined with the metaverse idea, which (among others) is fantasizing about merging the physical and digital realm. To create physical assets simply to promote digital ones is a bit backwards however, I guess.
Can I just say, you and JSH are such a great unit. EDIT: Also, why do condoms need age verification in the UK?? In Oz any ol' child has the God given right to buy a pack of condoms to inflate as balloons, giggling all the way to school.
Topps use to do something called ETopps were you bought a digital version of a baseball card, but it was backed in real life by a real card which they kept safe in storage. You could pay to get the real cards sent to you as well your digital collection online. They were limited release and as I recall would depict often, specific events achieved by players or that they were a part of. They stopped producing new physical cards in 2012 and it likely costs more then the cards are worth to get them mailed to you now, but they will still send you the cards from your pre 2012 set. I thought it was kinda crazy but at least for the first 12 years, there was something physical behind it. After that what is the point.
Okay, crazy idea. What if someone made a community supported card game where every card was unique. The card was given 10 points to be used in different stats, and a person could then add a special effect. They can then name the card and add art, and then send it to the team that started this game for approval. It could balance itself if a meta is found, everyone uses it to the point a new meta is created to counter the old one, and the cycle is repeated indefinitely, preventing the game from getting stale. Also, it would have to be online for any of this to even remotely function. The best way I can really describe it is that part in Inscyption in chapter 3 where you are prompted to make a card. You can use the card to fight and send a copy over the Internet for another person playing Inscyption to use. A op meta was quickly found and used, but it was still pretty fun.
They hired the number 1 collector because he wasn't just a collector, he was a highly experienced individual. There are a few collectors that have became staff due to their skill sets & knowledge of the platform
I'm wondering how they're supposed to be traded? Do you have to send them in the the mail to trade the digital one, or can someone buy the digital card off the website while you keep the physical one? What happens if someone scans your physical card? How do you transfer ownership? Seeing how janky their site is I can't image it's implemented well, but I don't really see a way for this to be implemented in a way that feels as straightforward as only digital or only physical
You can either trade easily as Digital only, or you can send the card and when someone re-scans the back it provides a trade request to the original owner to accept/approve.
They are all signed to the louvre agreement in esports and with Kolex being a partner of ESL they have the rights to all likeness and image rights of teams and Players
I am not sure why you are having trouble understanding these. It makes perfect sense to me. This is all the downsides of magic the gathering or Pokémon with none of the upsides of magic the gathering or Pokémon.
correct way to do this would be to give people stickers with the QR code. First time it's scanned, it gives you the item. Afterwards every time you flex your shinies people can scan them to see you own that card. That way we hit the real market: people vain enough to cover stuff in NFT stickers to show off how much money they spent.
I like how the pack opening starts with this _"intense"_ glitchy cinematic and then it cuts to a completely silent black screen while the cards themselves just get unceremoniously dropped into a pile. Just zero effort or understanding of how its supposed to go. I wonder if that cinematic was premade or if they just ran out of money.
I see NOWHERE NFT & Blockchain in this. its just a buzzword. you have to login with your account to see what you "have". I guarantee your app is not a wallet, and there is no blockchain integration whatsoever in this. Just a database.
All the cards are minted on the IMX network and can be transferred from your account profile to your wallet. You can also transfer to Opensea for example.
@@itssBluegg good to know they are at least NFTs not just riding the hype train of the name. why the F they don't care that the core app or account registration doesn't really work?! Makes no sense.
@@3sgamestudio We do but unfortunately at the time the video was made, we had a small issue on registration. Most of its fixed, although we're looking into any other potential issues mentioned in the video.
@@itssBluegg is your network EMV compatible? Im actually the creator of unreal engine Blockchain plugin :) maybe you would be interested in implementation of your tokens into 3rd party games?
don't know if you figure it out at the end or if someone else points it out in the comments, on 16:37 when you have other cards you want to see, you have 2 buttons (list on market and add card to library), i bet if you click one of those you can see the other cards
so you did figure it out :) (they don't do it auto for you so that if you have a double or you don't like the person you can directly click on "list on market" ... so you are always incentivised to keep buying and selling)
NFT's are dumb and all but watching you miss the 2 buttons right next to the card that would have let you look at the next card brought me physical pain.
@@jamesmorrisfava like callum said in this video this is the only case where NFT's have been used in any way that makes sense. NFT's arn't just this one project they are a concept that has no real use cases aside from scamming gullible people at this point.
15:49 what is it with content creators and blindness? There's two colored buttons that have instructions in singular obviously waiting for you to make per card decisions.
So, you just scanned those cards and got 330 points. But look at the scoreboard. People bought enough to add up to over 900k points. How much did that cost? How much money is in the system?
I Can't believe I'm saying this, but this might Actually Be the Best if not the only implementation of Block chain I've ever seen. I used to collect Trading Cards, having the actual print and run for your cards in an undisputable ledger actually solves a Lot of problems.
Ironic that Rolex started off as a working man's watch especially among allied ww2 aircraft crews, deep sea divers, hikers to tall mountains such as Everest. their status as a rich persons watch started in the 60s or 70s
I know I'm way late on this but um isn't the whole point of an NFT is that there is only one of them? If so than how did Callum get 2 of the exact same card from the free packs????
Skip to the start at 2:00 Edit: apparently you can cut out the intro countdown after the premier is done, still gonna leave it here even though it doesn't make sense.
Of course the physical cards have a use. The same use every other collectable card has. You collect them. You can get special books with pages containing little pockets to hold them. Why you would do this escapes me, but there have been collectable cards on a wide variety of subjects with no discenrable use for decades, so someone must like them.
Number 1 on the leaderboard is a 4 year collector and also a kolex staff member... but funnily enough hes still unranked. Its almost like all of this is meaningless.
TBH I still don't get collectible cards at all. I did play MtG with friends 25 years ago using their cards, and the game was fun enough, but even then the lootbox aspect just made me nope out.
No, it doesn't. They could still all have additional unique identifiers. Yellow logo A might be ID 4639 and yellow logo B ID 8305. (It's dumb, but we're talking NFTs.)
Feel like if you want to do a Digital NFT trading card and also a physical you prob just need to do what Mtg used to do with Mtgo where you were able to redeem certain sets for a fee and they would send you physical copies of the cards you opened in game. Im not sure it has to but i feel like digital first works better, you can limit the digital amounts and then you can limit the physical cards since each one needed to be owned digitally first, this would potentially make the digital cards more valueable based on if they are redeemed or not. You could also look through the number of redeemed digital cards to be able to tell the physical population of a given card which could make the physical cards more or less valuable knowing how many there are.
I would imagine if your going to do NFT trading cards then have it be similar to You gi oh where cards like blue eyes white dragon only had a very limited set making them more valuable. also any more updates on nightmare world dev?
As someone that is majorly into esports, specifically CSGO, and likes to collect various knickknacks (never trading cards though) I could have been THE target audience for this. Gave the website a try a couple of months ago and even though creating an account was no issue back than it did not hook me in. Looked like a nicer front for an online casino to be honest. Plus the collection makes no sense - nothing has a coherent look. Give me just team logos, or just portrait shots of players, but not everything mixed together with action shots and random crowd shots. But that is to be expected as this is basically ESL throwing their vast archive of pictures at them to monetize said archive. The physical cards do look very nice and I might have been interested in those, but I just don't want to financially support anything to do with NFTs.
23:00 I'm pretty sure you're not scanning QR codes, the QR code is the part of the card that looks like a QR code, you're scanning the logo. No wonder it's taking so long, and you can obviously see it's struggling to find the QR code when you're holding a card really close up, like 24:52. Of course it's gonna be tedious when you don't even try to do it properly.
I'm so confused. Is now the card the valuable thing or is it the NFT. Does it even come with a crypto NFT or is it just on their website... It just doesn't make sense at all.
Wait... NFT trading cards... But aren't NFTs supposed to be fully digital? Doesn't making NFTs into non-tradeable cards (QR code can only be activated once) defeat the whole point of NFTs? At that, Pokemon/Yu-gi-oh cards have value because of their rarity, their power within the game and because they exist physically. Since NFT cards have codes which can only be activated once... Doesn't that mean that you can't trade them? What's the point of all of this?
It's interesting that they are a product of Cartamundi... coming from a Poker background, I know them most as a Standard 52 producer... why NFT "trading" cards now? Wouldn't that be a whole new Card Stock, printing, and distribution process? I'm saying if Bicycle wants to make MTG cards from now on, I'm all for that.
No. NFTs are just an online receipt of sort. The receipt is unique, what it links too can be anything. There's a problem in the NFT space, people use the same JPEG as other NFTs and sells them as NFTs. Nothing stops them.
@@alexandrebelair4360 that's the point everything I hear said about them is that each one is different so as someone with little knowledge about them will be confused.
This could be useful for a limited print card type from a normal card game however I don't know any card games that couldn't accomplish this without having a code on the front that you could enter to claim a digital copy. The next thing is that the if they were to really be a trading card thing they should have fairly well established values for each card and each rarity however there isn't any kind of rarity in the NFT system all of them are supposed to be unique and not replaceable or exchangeable.
There's really trading cards for everything. I recorded some videos of just opening strange and bizarre trading cards I found, including trading cards about famouse people with aids, and while I never uploaded becuase i wasn't happy with the quality of my backup mic I did gain an appreciation for how insanely many trading cards there are.
Callum I know you're probably doing it to make a point at how poorly put together their website is. However I am literally getting angry watching you go "HOW DO I SEE THE CARDS BEHIND THIS ONE!?" when there is a button right there that says "add card to library" that I am 99% sure will show you the next card. Lmao you literally discover it 2 seconds after I commented.
"Shouty man" and "4 blokes ignoring me." These remind me of the upper deck baseball cards I had as a kid in the 90s. We were all convinced they were going to make us rich and then our mums threw them out or we spilled strawberry Robinsons on them. 🍓
Cant stand all this NFT stuff BUT did NOT see a problem with the interface for looking at your cards other than it was simple. Click Left to 'List on Market' or Right to 'Add to Library', then it moves to next card so you sort them 1 at a time. People really need read everything on the screen.
You need to scan the cards a second time. It wouldn't be the first time a company (Earth2) claimed NFT while not doing it. As others have mentioned, this is likely processed through a cheap card production company. It's an impulse purchase to get people into the one-click gambling spin.
The "Spins" are using silver which you get for free from collecting mainly. It's not a gambling company in the slightest. They also use Cartamundi who owns the United States Playing Card Company. Not a small one at all. Same company that made Magic cards
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so its nft loot boxes Atari would be proud.
Errr, Calum, you went from talking about going shopping with Josh, then it turned into "sending my girlfriend to find out the price"...
Is this one of those, you've never seen my girlfriend and Josh in the same room kind of scenarios?😉
Haha sorry not sorry 🤣
@@SuperEmin LMAO
ahh warhammer player , tau player here for the greater good
Your segue into the sponsorship made me laugh out loud while walking down the street.
Also: Tyranid player here
The ONLY thing I've encountered so far that actually makes sense as an NFT was when EVE Online held a combat tournament, as they regularly do, and minted NFTs of killmails and gave them to the people who got the kills. Literally no one in the EVE community actually cared, but it accurately captured what an NFT really is: a digitally-verifiable receipt that lives on a blockchain. Killmails in EVE are basically just receipts verifying that you killed so-and-so at such and such a time and inflicted this much damage on them and their lost ship cost so much ISK. Nobody asked for or cared about them, but they were correctly used as receipts.
and those receipts are good if someone wants check back on the kill feed.
Question I have here: Why do these make sense *as NFTs*? Why not just have a regular database, like a simple SQL one, where each entry is one of these receipts, complete with a column each for time, who was killed, amount, link to kill feed, etc. This scales, is fast, has zero minting cost, next to no upkeep, and its easy to set up so these will be created automatically in each combat tournament from here on, so there is always a receipt like that.
Does that need to be a one-of-a-kind NFT?
Because it's centralized, do you even know a Blockchain is?
@@fy8798 Yeah. Agreed. That’s the problem. Sure, this works, but it feels like it’s just a waste of time and energy to even do when there are much simpler ways to achieve the same thing. Similar things are done in other games already, so there’s zero reason this had to be NFT’s.
I'm actually super curious if every team and every streamer shown in these cards actually gave them permission to use their likenesses for a commercial product.
Cause, you know, it's not like NFTs haven't done THAT before.
im actually checking atm!
@@CallumUpton Eagerly awaiting those findings!
@@CallumUpton All cards were done under official partnerships/licenses!
@@itssBluegg Source?
@@devcrom3 They have an official partnership with ESL, quite easy to find. They've been doing this legit for 4 1/2 years now
Don’t know if anyone remembers, but back in the early 2000s there was a show and TCG called Chaotic. Super fun game, really unique play, but it was the first tcg that made online play a cornerstone of the game. You would buy a physical pack, and each card had a unique code that you would type in and get that exact card in game. Not only that, but creatures had a small range that their stats could be in, so incredibly few creatures were exactly the same. You could still trade the online cards separately from the physical ones too. Nothing like Pokémon where you buy a pack only to get a completely different virtual pack. Reminds me of this, but still done the best out of any tcg.
Chaotic was pretty damn fun tbh. Was really disappointed when I found out about the pokemon packs not being 1:1 for the online game after being so into Chaotic
Chaotic was the bomb! Thanks for the blast from the past
I mean yugioh cards used to have each a unique number on them so you could insert their code into the games and you could buy them individually.
I seem to remember Kohdok talking about it in his 7 deadly sins of TCGs but I just can't find it anymore. Did it have unmixible attributes?
Omega remembers I've got to have a box of cardboard collecting dust somewhere
Does it detect if you scan a card twice, what about a card that someone else has scanned? And how hard would they be to create without buying them?
I’d actually love to see a follow-up video of your experience trying to sell the cards!
ohh dont worry! i've got them listed purely for that reason!
@@CallumUpton If you want to try sell the hybrids, it's better to do so in the discord as a pair together
The quality of the printing/cardstock is of no surprise as physical cards like this are a very mature industry. The scary part is that it adds whole new levels of scammy crap to both NFTs AND physical cards (which have always been scammy their 'rarity' systems etc.)
Miles off I believe, these are awesome physical collectibles that add an additional layer if people want. Can always stay as awesome trading cards.
Nah, trading cards themselves have always been scummy; using many of the same tricks everyone hates about AAA games. As have NFTs which are hated with a passion by gamers for exactly the same reasons the (non-gamer) NFT bros like them. You’re Adding two cancers and hopping not to get worse cancer.
@@soylentgreenb That's what they said.
@@soylentgreenb So true. I remember that lesson well... all that money as a kid spent on ball cards "because they're an investment". I mean, okay, there were some I liked because they had pics of players that I legit liked, like Ken Griffey Jr., but dear gods do I regret that I hadn't spent all that money on cards. Comics tried to advertise the same way, but, at least those have interesting stuff outside of a speculated "worth".
Next thing you know... TY Beanie Babies the physical NFT will be a thing... and my aunt will come back from her grave to ensure that I get drowned in them "for future value".
Wouldn't 1st edition imply that there would be further editions? Which means more copies of the same cards. Which means they are replaceable. Doesn't that kind of break a core part of what NFTs say they are about?
Also the physical packs you could buy in store have 5 cards but the digital ones only gave 3.
Sure, but they’ll never be another *first* edition card. Just as reprints of books are still the same books (assuming no errata got corrected), but they’re not *first edition* of that book. Doesn’t make this whole thing any less stupid, just saying that editions doesn’t necessarily invalidate the nft concept (because, really, all that nfts do is to make true digital objects, where each thing is a unique thing even if it is an identical copy of the same thing, just like books).
There are a lot of different types of packs. Some give 2, 3, 5, 6 or more. There are a lot of varients/collections
Thank you for going through the humiliation of buying them for our entertainment.
i'll never recover. you're welcome!
@@CallumUpton Out of curiosity, do you know if every team and player, or streamer, gave their permission to be on these cards that are being sold at commercial value?
He brought them so YOU don't have to.
lol🤣🤣
@@magnolia549 They are officially licensed and partnered.
they basically used every scummy tactic in one thing, my stomach actually churned when you mentioned the leader board
Dude I wish I could scan my MTG cards into my online collection that fast. I could be done in just an hour instead of the 2 days I expect it to take.
"Add card to library" oh god cmon Callum
I feel like if they made the actual physical card like an AR system using the app to display a 3D or even a 2D version of the NFT on the app and making the actual physical card the NFT would have been better. That way the physical cards would have more of a purpose you can buy and sell the actual physical cards which I get defeats the purpose of NFTs but still would have been better then this wierd mess.
the AR Card concepts been done before.. not in an NFT Sense but it has been done. (PS3 Eye of Judgement, Nintendo 3DS AR Cards...,l homebrew'd "Yuigoh" cards that would pop up the monster much like the show)
@@CaelThunderwing Yeah i used to love messing with the 3DS AR cards, but I still believe it's better than just scanning the cards for the physical cards to become useless and could prevent some major issues of storing online data of one-time use cards, sometimes a simple and smooth system is better.
@@CaelThunderwing That's the thing about NFTs (and most crypto projects in general), their very few functional projects are very often just unwieldier versions of things that already exist without blockchain technology.
@AmateurThespian I mean I can't argue with that NFT and crypto based projects that have been made are very pointless.
I am confused about this being NFT. When you were opening the digital packs it said that you already owned it for some of them. How can you own multiple copies of the same NFT?
you can't, or better yet, you should't, but NFTs are a scam. So right click, save and - dan dan - there are now two of the same. Not to metion the art theft that this crap has caused
7:42 age verification for buying condoms? you're joking, right? seriously? that doesn't make any sense.
anyway, age verification for buying these NFT cards: how does that work? why was Callum having an anxiety moment over the contents of his wallet? is some part of his ID card (his ID nr?) going to leave a record with the purchase? Callum clearly looks the part of being over 18, so why does he need his ID to verify his age? sorry if my questions sound stupid but nobody ever asks me to verify my age...
Right?! That seems so counter intuitive. Do they WANT teens to get pregnant?
And yeah, where I live if you look old enough you don’t need to show your ID. Maybe it’s a law that they literally have to check everyone
I have worked with QR codes on collectable cards, it was just a fun gimmick and to save time on development we just put a static ID on the QR code, can you rescan them or scan them with an different app to see what the QR code contain?
This was for a book club company that had monthly parcels with some cards in each parcel.
You can scan them again, but it would request a trade/confirmation from the other person. So they would have to approve it.
I disagree with the notion that NFTs would be good for trading cards normally tbh. I may be misunderstanding what Callum meant with shiny Charizards and stuff but like, in Yu-Gi-Oh (and probably every other card game but I don't know for sure), every card has a code based on which card it is in which released set. So even if a card gets reprinted later down the line, it will have a different code that differentiates it from earlier versions. Yu-Gi-Oh even has 1st edition and unlimited edition versions within the same set, as packs are printed in 1st edition for a while.
So if you got a 1st edition Big Floppa from a Test Pack, you got a 1st edition TP-004 or whatever, which was produced in limited quantities. If Big Floppa gets a reprint later down the line, it will be a different pack, so instead of a card that has the code of TP-004, indicating its number in the TP set, you will get a RP-015 or something. The number of TP-004 cards remains the same as before, which might seem inconsequential but it matters to collectors and affects prices.
I'm sure he already knows this though, so I may be misunderstanding his sentiment.
Yep basically what the blockchain will do itll comfirm them. I collected pokemon cards for a long ass time so can see where this can go.
@@DominantDinosaur Seems pretty pointless tbh. Why would I need confirmation that I have the card I'm holding in my hand? And what if I trade or sell the card? Would the NFT just be taken from me and given to the new owner of the card if they scanned it? Would I get to keep it and sell or trade the card without the next person being able to claim it? And why even do it other than for the sake of doing it or to make NFT bros buy them?
Are the QR codes uniquely identified? Are you able to scan a card that has already been scanned? Would be pretty dumb if.....
Yes, but it doesn't give you the card. It requires having the other person approve the transfer
Would be fun to know what the people that are on the cards thinks of it.
Thanks for the paycheck, probably?
@@mariusvanc seeing how NFTs usually play out then I would not be so sure, but one might hope that permission were given.
I believe they only bought rights to photos that already existed, which means the people on the cards probably got no money for being the subject and may not know they are on these.
@@deltasaves That sounds reasonable, which means you are not an Iron Warrior.
@@deltasaves Wtf are you talking about, goofy? Kolex are partnered with ESL for a long time and have the rights to use the likenesses, names and logos of all the players and teams that play in ESL Pro League and events. Players sign Kolex physical signature cards, jerseys and jumbo cards in-person at events all the time. They love them too and a lot of them collect. They have featured these in many vlogs and streams.
Cryptobros are upvoting, because Callum supports their idea with this stuff and buys even cards : D
I'm half asleep and read that as "cyborgs" and honestly, that might be an upgrade.
were you be able to scan all the cards from the first pack? that one you showed on stream? because i managed to scan that one. that would mean you can scan those cards multiple times with different accounts XD also it shows you only how many collection you have completed.
you... it was you! stealing my Shiny Ninjas in Pyjamas card.. yeah it only works once per scan, so yeah that was the one that it declined to scan haha
@@CallumUpton okay, so no card opening on stream for these :3 pretty stupid problem for streamer cards...
Tbh i think rather than a qr there should have been an nfc smartcard in there instead.
Because by scanning the qr you are decoupling the card and the nft.
With an nfx smartcard the private key that serves as proof of the card stays well within the card and also wouldn't allow it to be transferred along the blockchain but just be tied to the card and allowing signatures so one could have a way to say "callum owns this holo australis card" signed with that australis card proving that it's a real card and he actually has the card.
That would make these better. They were probably focused on price. Or CardaMundi or whoever the printing and packaging got outsourced to suggested qr because they're used to it.
@@zimbu_ kinda hilarious considering the NFTs are usually expensive AF and all (but at like 4 pounds for a pack seems pretty reasonable and actually making smartcards would be much more expensive, but considering they are NFTs likely not really a problem
I'm sure they will work features out like that in the future. Its only the beginning.
@@jamesmorrisfava actually I doubt it as you couldnt trade it on the blockchain anymore, XD
Callum gets antsy about buying quasi-legitimate products without ID from a live person the same way I get antsy about buying milk with my wallet carefully organized from a self-checkout stand.
Of course I see a use-case: It gives you material for an entertaining video.
Was there any screaming at the screen for Callum to click on "ADD CARD TO LIBRARY". This whole NFT card thing one of the worse things I have heard about this year apart from getting Borris back in number 10.
This technology has practical applications for actual TCGs, like buying a pack of MTG and getting the corresponding cards in MTGO or MTGA.
The funny thing is that MTGO was effectively doing this, in reverse, over a decade ago. They charged retail cardstock pack prices for digital cards, but that was because if you could collect a complete set of an expansion (foil cards counting as a separate set from non-foils, of course) you could redeem that entire set for a physical set of real cards that MTG would ship to you. But you couldn't redeem physical cards into digital ones.
Why use Blockchain for it instead of building and hosting the service on a traditional centralized database?
@@slouch186 Because of marketing. Blockchain is a marketable word. A buzzword like word.
@@elixwhitetail Man knowing they used to do stuff like that really makes me hate how WoTC are now. If they did something similar these days, they'd charge you $4000 to send the set to you.
Can you create another account and scan the same cards into that second account? Would it refuse and tell you someone else owns them already, would it effectively allow 2 owners of 1 card/NFT, or would it do something else off-the-wall?
whit how Disconeted NFT spearheaders have been whit reality and IT security and IT/data general understanding of tech.
I would not be supprised at all.
I would also not be supprised if diffrent card had the same QR code because there are no cheaks to make sure the same code is not used twice.
I would watch a whole vlog channel of just you and josh out prowling on the town
The one usecase I could see for this technology is digital proof of ownership of a physical thing. For example I buy a boardgame, which has an online version. How it goes nowdays is either you have to buy the license for the online game too, which I shouldn't, I already bought the game, or if it's a fan-made project, the company just cracks down on it, claiming piracy, which again, it is not, since I bought the physical thing they are selling.
Of course you can't really trade these, and no real need for a blockchain... but it would be a useful application imo.
At 19:57 you opened the card that is featured on the front of the packs. Don't know if that means anything though.
I dont get it, its like you buy in store a pack of cards for HearthStone for exemple (with QR code), and when you register the cards on your game inventory, they will automaticle desenchant, whats the point of that.
If it turns out creator is from Latvia... Im sorry for sharing my stupid idea back in 2006
The use case is obvious. For when people have more money then common sense, these help address the balance somewhat.
Wasn't the whole fucking point of NFTs to be completely online and "On the blockchain"?? Code is law and all that crap?
NFTs are heavily intertwined with the metaverse idea, which (among others) is fantasizing about merging the physical and digital realm. To create physical assets simply to promote digital ones is a bit backwards however, I guess.
Can I just say, you and JSH are such a great unit.
EDIT: Also, why do condoms need age verification in the UK?? In Oz any ol' child has the God given right to buy a pack of condoms to inflate as balloons, giggling all the way to school.
So are there duplicate cards in this NFT trading card game? Which would go against the whole point of NFTs...
Each card has a unique mint number, so while a card can have the same design, it's an edition of X. Same as many NFT's :D
Topps use to do something called ETopps were you bought a digital version of a baseball card, but it was backed in real life by a real card which they kept safe in storage. You could pay to get the real cards sent to you as well your digital collection online. They were limited release and as I recall would depict often, specific events achieved by players or that they were a part of. They stopped producing new physical cards in 2012 and it likely costs more then the cards are worth to get them mailed to you now, but they will still send you the cards from your pre 2012 set. I thought it was kinda crazy but at least for the first 12 years, there was something physical behind it. After that what is the point.
Ironically when you buy a normal TCG card pack you collector them by just opening them not having to scan them.
You can do both, you can keep these as unscanned and just having fun collecting, but redeem the digital side if you want them also!
@@itssBluegg But there is honestly no good reason to.
@@kclink1579 maybe, if you play Pokemon TCG on PC
Okay, crazy idea. What if someone made a community supported card game where every card was unique. The card was given 10 points to be used in different stats, and a person could then add a special effect. They can then name the card and add art, and then send it to the team that started this game for approval. It could balance itself if a meta is found, everyone uses it to the point a new meta is created to counter the old one, and the cycle is repeated indefinitely, preventing the game from getting stale. Also, it would have to be online for any of this to even remotely function.
The best way I can really describe it is that part in Inscyption in chapter 3 where you are prompted to make a card. You can use the card to fight and send a copy over the Internet for another person playing Inscyption to use. A op meta was quickly found and used, but it was still pretty fun.
Number 1 on the leaderboards has Kolex Staff displayed on it, surprise surprise.
They hired the number 1 collector because he wasn't just a collector, he was a highly experienced individual. There are a few collectors that have became staff due to their skill sets & knowledge of the platform
I'm wondering how they're supposed to be traded? Do you have to send them in the the mail to trade the digital one, or can someone buy the digital card off the website while you keep the physical one? What happens if someone scans your physical card? How do you transfer ownership?
Seeing how janky their site is I can't image it's implemented well, but I don't really see a way for this to be implemented in a way that feels as straightforward as only digital or only physical
You can either trade easily as Digital only, or you can send the card and when someone re-scans the back it provides a trade request to the original owner to accept/approve.
@callum did you reach out to like vitality and astralis if they are partnered with them at all? / licensed them?
This is a really good point. I would definitely ask them.. Not Faze though, bunch of losers.
astralis and vitality have league lec teams for example
They are all signed to the louvre agreement in esports and with Kolex being a partner of ESL they have the rights to all likeness and image rights of teams and Players
@@PR1D3__ oh didn't know about that
You got emotionally violated by the physical embodiment of NFTs. Brutal. Thank for your sacrifice for the cause, you are a journalistic trooper!!
I already have a feeling these are going to show up at my local Walmart, but not the 40k MTG cards ._.
Only available in Target :D!
I am not sure why you are having trouble understanding these. It makes perfect sense to me. This is all the downsides of magic the gathering or Pokémon with none of the upsides of magic the gathering or Pokémon.
correct way to do this would be to give people stickers with the QR code. First time it's scanned, it gives you the item. Afterwards every time you flex your shinies people can scan them to see you own that card.
That way we hit the real market: people vain enough to cover stuff in NFT stickers to show off how much money they spent.
I like how the pack opening starts with this _"intense"_ glitchy cinematic and then it cuts to a completely silent black screen while the cards themselves just get unceremoniously dropped into a pile. Just zero effort or understanding of how its supposed to go. I wonder if that cinematic was premade or if they just ran out of money.
If there are aliens, I think trading cards alone would be enough for said aliens to want nothing to do with Earth.
I see NOWHERE NFT & Blockchain in this. its just a buzzword. you have to login with your account to see what you "have". I guarantee your app is not a wallet, and there is no blockchain integration whatsoever in this. Just a database.
All the cards are minted on the IMX network and can be transferred from your account profile to your wallet. You can also transfer to Opensea for example.
@@itssBluegg good to know they are at least NFTs not just riding the hype train of the name.
why the F they don't care that the core app or account registration doesn't really work?! Makes no sense.
@@3sgamestudio We do but unfortunately at the time the video was made, we had a small issue on registration. Most of its fixed, although we're looking into any other potential issues mentioned in the video.
@@itssBluegg is your network EMV compatible? Im actually the creator of unreal engine Blockchain plugin :) maybe you would be interested in implementation of your tokens into 3rd party games?
Exactly how many times did you watch the movie, "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam?
@Callum Upton have you tried rescanning cards that you have added to your collection?
don't know if you figure it out at the end or if someone else points it out in the comments, on 16:37 when you have other cards you want to see, you have 2 buttons (list on market and add card to library), i bet if you click one of those you can see the other cards
so you did figure it out :) (they don't do it auto for you so that if you have a double or you don't like the person you can directly click on "list on market" ... so you are always incentivised to keep buying and selling)
It's like an NFT collection of Tinder rejects..
Anyone else yelling at screen for 2 mins to click on the button add to library? Tbf it's more user friendly than FUT/HUT
NFT's are dumb and all but watching you miss the 2 buttons right next to the card that would have let you look at the next card brought me physical pain.
You think having a digital copy of something that is physically collected is dumb? 😅
@@jamesmorrisfava like callum said in this video this is the only case where NFT's have been used in any way that makes sense. NFT's arn't just this one project they are a concept that has no real use cases aside from scamming gullible people at this point.
15:49 what is it with content creators and blindness? There's two colored buttons that have instructions in singular obviously waiting for you to make per card decisions.
So, you just scanned those cards and got 330 points. But look at the scoreboard. People bought enough to add up to over 900k points.
How much did that cost? How much money is in the system?
I Can't believe I'm saying this, but this might Actually Be the Best if not the only implementation of Block chain I've ever seen. I used to collect Trading Cards, having the actual print and run for your cards in an undisputable ledger actually solves a Lot of problems.
16:31 there are buttons on sides. srsly, it would mess if you had to drag it, not click button.
Well, in the sense that NFT is supposed to be a digital sale receipt this isnt so bad but considering the glambing aspect makes impossible to support
It's essentially a free spinner to let people get cards for free. It's not a gambling site.
I am now curious to know what Warhammer army do you play
Did those RUclipsrs authorized their names an images to be sold for profit ???
I think Kolex is a word play on "collect" and "Rolex". Remember when Rolex watches were a status symbol?
Ironic that Rolex started off as a working man's watch especially among allied ww2 aircraft crews, deep sea divers, hikers to tall mountains such as Everest. their status as a rich persons watch started in the 60s or 70s
More a play on the word "Collects" :D
I know I'm way late on this but um isn't the whole point of an NFT is that there is only one of them? If so than how did Callum get 2 of the exact same card from the free packs????
Skip to the start at 2:00
Edit: apparently you can cut out the intro countdown after the premier is done, still gonna leave it here even though it doesn't make sense.
yeah that's on youtube, the system is hecking weird.
Of course the physical cards have a use. The same use every other collectable card has. You collect them. You can get special books with pages containing little pockets to hold them. Why you would do this escapes me, but there have been collectable cards on a wide variety of subjects with no discenrable use for decades, so someone must like them.
you have playdates with josh?
Number 1 on the leaderboard is a 4 year collector and also a kolex staff member... but funnily enough hes still unranked. Its almost like all of this is meaningless.
Jeezus thats one clean phone screen!
TBH I still don't get collectible cards at all. I did play MtG with friends 25 years ago using their cards, and the game was fun enough, but even then the lootbox aspect just made me nope out.
Online sims exist, which is why I play Yugioh master duel
@@princesscrystal6410 It's worst lol
Everyone recommend buying singles tho.
Seeing you mentioned you had that yellow logo one in another pack already shown they're fungible...
No, it doesn't. They could still all have additional unique identifiers. Yellow logo A might be ID 4639 and yellow logo B ID 8305. (It's dumb, but we're talking NFTs.)
now we only need someone to make images or 3d models of the cards and sell them as NFT's again
You have to show your ID to buy NFT cards in bongland lmao
“OI GOT YER NFT LOICENSE M8?!”
I'll 'ace yer know that the NFT Loicenses are used ter run fer Proime Minister!
I mean it's became full circle now?
Testiclles' profile says "4 year collector" no way this has been around for 4 years
This has been around for 4 1/2 years!
Feel like if you want to do a Digital NFT trading card and also a physical you prob just need to do what Mtg used to do with Mtgo where you were able to redeem certain sets for a fee and they would send you physical copies of the cards you opened in game. Im not sure it has to but i feel like digital first works better, you can limit the digital amounts and then you can limit the physical cards since each one needed to be owned digitally first, this would potentially make the digital cards more valueable based on if they are redeemed or not. You could also look through the number of redeemed digital cards to be able to tell the physical population of a given card which could make the physical cards more or less valuable knowing how many there are.
I would imagine if your going to do NFT trading cards then have it be similar to You gi oh where cards like blue eyes white dragon only had a very limited set making them more valuable. also any more updates on nightmare world dev?
As someone that is majorly into esports, specifically CSGO, and likes to collect various knickknacks (never trading cards though) I could have been THE target audience for this. Gave the website a try a couple of months ago and even though creating an account was no issue back than it did not hook me in. Looked like a nicer front for an online casino to be honest.
Plus the collection makes no sense - nothing has a coherent look. Give me just team logos, or just portrait shots of players, but not everything mixed together with action shots and random crowd shots. But that is to be expected as this is basically ESL throwing their vast archive of pictures at them to monetize said archive.
The physical cards do look very nice and I might have been interested in those, but I just don't want to financially support anything to do with NFTs.
12:21 they're garloid, Callum. Those ones have been feeding on fruit so they look like fruit
Isn't the whole nft thing to have it fully digital and not have a physical item?
23:00 I'm pretty sure you're not scanning QR codes, the QR code is the part of the card that looks like a QR code, you're scanning the logo. No wonder it's taking so long, and you can obviously see it's struggling to find the QR code when you're holding a card really close up, like 24:52. Of course it's gonna be tedious when you don't even try to do it properly.
I'm so confused.
Is now the card the valuable thing or is it the NFT. Does it even come with a crypto NFT or is it just on their website... It just doesn't make sense at all.
Cards can be transferred from the user profile to the IMX network or to Opensea via the individual cards page within your library.
@@itssBluegg So its like Schrödinger's NFT. It is at the same time a NFT and it isn't. 🤣
Wait... NFT trading cards... But aren't NFTs supposed to be fully digital?
Doesn't making NFTs into non-tradeable cards (QR code can only be activated once) defeat the whole point of NFTs?
At that, Pokemon/Yu-gi-oh cards have value because of their rarity, their power within the game and because they exist physically.
Since NFT cards have codes which can only be activated once... Doesn't that mean that you can't trade them?
What's the point of all of this?
See a digital trading card game would be an awesome idea to apply the nft type tech to making an actual online tcg game with actual rarity attached
So if you sell the nft, do you have to send the physical card to the person who bought the nft? :D
You do not! But the community mostly is focused on keeping them together
I need an edit of him opening NFT cards
next to the guy who opened Onmyoji Summons while on the Potty in AR mode
You inadvertently increased demand by asking every gameshop if they had the cards.
did you try having a friend scan the same card as you did?
i did on 2 accounts, ists single time use per card
It's interesting that they are a product of Cartamundi... coming from a Poker background, I know them most as a Standard 52 producer... why NFT "trading" cards now? Wouldn't that be a whole new Card Stock, printing, and distribution process? I'm saying if Bicycle wants to make MTG cards from now on, I'm all for that.
if they are NFT's shouldn't they all be new with no duplicates?
No. NFTs are just an online receipt of sort. The receipt is unique, what it links too can be anything. There's a problem in the NFT space, people use the same JPEG as other NFTs and sells them as NFTs. Nothing stops them.
@@alexandrebelair4360 that's the point everything I hear said about them is that each one is different so as someone with little knowledge about them will be confused.
@@rjshadow4321 Each card has a unique mint number. So there can be 50 of 1 card, but they are 1/50 etc although in Kolex case, its A1, A2, A3 etc
what's your sound board at 9:38 ?
hey! im using the GoXLR
This could be useful for a limited print card type from a normal card game however I don't know any card games that couldn't accomplish this without having a code on the front that you could enter to claim a digital copy. The next thing is that the if they were to really be a trading card thing they should have fairly well established values for each card and each rarity however there isn't any kind of rarity in the NFT system all of them are supposed to be unique and not replaceable or exchangeable.
There's really trading cards for everything. I recorded some videos of just opening strange and bizarre trading cards I found, including trading cards about famouse people with aids, and while I never uploaded becuase i wasn't happy with the quality of my backup mic I did gain an appreciation for how insanely many trading cards there are.
Esports trading cards are becoming a more popular thing!
About the leaderboard: You can see that sir Testiclles has a "kolex staff", and that they been a collector for 4 years.
Callum I know you're probably doing it to make a point at how poorly put together their website is. However I am literally getting angry watching you go "HOW DO I SEE THE CARDS BEHIND THIS ONE!?" when there is a button right there that says "add card to library" that I am 99% sure will show you the next card.
Lmao you literally discover it 2 seconds after I commented.
and THAT'S why you finish watching videos before commenting on them
wait the digital packs only have 3 cards a piece???
Digitals have a mixture of 1 card to 10 card packs, there are many seasons/options available :)! Different price points also
"Shouty man" and "4 blokes ignoring me." These remind me of the upper deck baseball cards I had as a kid in the 90s. We were all convinced they were going to make us rich and then our mums threw them out or we spilled strawberry Robinsons on them. 🍓
Cant stand all this NFT stuff BUT did NOT see a problem with the interface for looking at your cards other than it was simple. Click Left to 'List on Market' or Right to 'Add to Library', then it moves to next card so you sort them 1 at a time. People really need read everything on the screen.
You need to scan the cards a second time.
It wouldn't be the first time a company (Earth2) claimed NFT while not doing it.
As others have mentioned, this is likely processed through a cheap card production company.
It's an impulse purchase to get people into the one-click gambling spin.
The "Spins" are using silver which you get for free from collecting mainly. It's not a gambling company in the slightest. They also use Cartamundi who owns the United States Playing Card Company. Not a small one at all. Same company that made Magic cards
so these are pokemon/ yu gi oh cards.... also kolex is one letter away from a rolex lawsuit