That guy buying the roads is actually galaxy-brained. Everyone's buying houses and parking lots, but how will they get from place to place without using roads?
Exactly what I was thinking, at the very least you had a solid way to identify the guy and report to the authorities. With this though, I doubt the creators are pasting names (at least real ones) and there's no way to catch them without more intrusive investigations and it sucks that they fell for it but holy hell do they not deserve it at that point.
Attention, all Earth 2 gamers. We need your help to save the virtual earth! All we'll need is your credit card number, the three digits on the back, the expiration month and year, your full legal name, your birth date, your home address, your full bank account name and account number, and your social security number. But, you gotta hurry, before the virtual terrorists take over Earth 2!
Search 'Ecoterra Earth 2' on RUclips. Some users have created a concept for a city in Earth 2 which is designed to save the fake earth 2 planet by using virtual renewable energy sources. These people are actually insane so they would go for your proposal.
@@chogus4075 I couldn't believe this until I looked it up. It's like a scam within a scam, basically someone has bought a bunch of empty tiles of the map in the middle of nowhere and is using stock footage to get people hyped about a nonexistent city to drive the prices up. You can't make this stuff up
@@noice7381 how do these people fall for this?? Its so outright obvious scam, I cant fathom the idea of how they managing to get people in this cesspool of dogshit. Jesus christ
I've never really seen many scammers on RuneScape when I played as a kid. The closest thing was a guy who wanted me to give him all 30 of my wolf bones for 10,000 gold when one was worth like 2000. But compared to all the other horror stories I've seen about RuneScape scammers from others, I don't even think this qualifies as one
A 1 to 1 scale of the world in a videogame already exists in MS flight simulator 2020. Doesn't quite have "super detailed vegetation" but it's still impressive. The clouds in it are rly pretty too
Microsoft Flight simulator is nowhere near 1 to 1 scale and they even state that themselves, they scale down the world a lot but change the speed of things to try to match it like little tricks to give the illusion of scale, their flight simulators will never render the whole planet properly because its unrealistic and its more important to focus on the physics simulation on the planes actually flying accurately the map just serves as more of a backdrop. Even without super detailed vegetation just an accurate photo of 100km squared space of land can sometimes be a few gigs, microsoft flight simulator is already over 120gigs to download, I don't think there's even a computer in the world that could hold and render 510.1 million km² of land, its a big reason Earth 2 is obviously a scam because the concept itself is still impossible especially when he says he will do it in VR lmao
@@davidmaitland3238 To be fair to MFS, there is a mode where you can stream data through the internet, from a database that’s apparently at least 2 TB, maybe far more Edit: It’s actually around 2 *petabytes* (2 million GB)
@@coalymoley8396 A fool and their money are easily parted. Being old and not knowing better isn't even an excuse, they should know by now there's no such thing as easy money.
The guy buying highway lanes is actually gigabrained. He's playing like 4d monopoly. Claim all of the vital transit points and tax everyone who wants to get through.
6:32 This is a specific unnamed family member of mine. He won't trust anything, we got my partners grandparents to install Discord so we could have a family bingo night, but he refused because he thinks it's a virus. He got scammed by a telemarketer telling him he had a virus on his PC and gave them his credit card info not a few years ago. The logical disconnect is insane.
Thanks for the coverage Charlie, been a long time viewer so this is a surreal experience for me. Oh they also sent me and a few other creators that covered this a defamation claim via RUclips and got our videos blocked in Australia.
I invested into the site back when it launched as a lot of what was there seemed simple yet promising, a player driven economy that would only expand in years to become a survival game like no other, to come with more than a handful of features to make it more complex and addicting to follow and keep up on - there were red flags, especially with their provider, cashing out, the obvious fact that it was a pyramid scheme with the personal "5% money-back" player-specific codes and their widespread use, the people working on it and the general idea of it seemed far too ambitious, but I disregarded them as really wanted to believe (I'm talking about the earlier stages of the game, before they started showing off the obviously pre-rendered clips of the terrain and all and making those ludicrous claims about the performance) Even now I'm still on the fence as the information that's coming out isn't anything new and a lot of times stuff is kept out, but hearing how they're actually blocking these videos is definitely an eye-opener. So as if PayPal cutting ties with them, a lot of server issues and everything previously mentioned wasn't enough.. yeah this is a scam. But my god is it a clever one - think about it, we're it not to get coverage and you only invested a couple of bucks to see if or if not it'll turn to be something massive - who would report on it? Yet that's what a lot of people did. They would get their friends on board thanks to the codes being "benefitial" for both parties (that's what I did as well) and they spread the word without the help of any actual ads, meaning more money to pocket. The system is addicting, the longer you stay the higher the chances for you to cash out, so people rarely do. I believe this entire ordeal just goes to show that if an actual big company were to attempt this, there would be a market behind it as the core idea is really, really cool.
Yeah if you go and look up posts about this game on r/scams (Which is what pops ups if you search "earth 2 reddit"), it's filled with people posting their referral codes. It's sad
This is exactly the reason that one guy gave on a reddit post after saying he invested $600. The reddit's state right now is quite sad actually, it's filled with good natured/innocent people and the guys from the outside trying to convince them to leave. And then the guys that are in too deep and don't want to admit it's a scam
I was born too late for RuneScape. But I live in a ex-communist country. And I'm the son of a professional car seller scammer (he sells pieces of shit like they're high-end sports cars) Not to mention I used to play DayZ while also selling that substance that shall not be named.
Flight sim: 1:1 earth scale and is low detailed with over 100gb as its size. Red dead 2: Map is WAAAAY smaller than the real earth and probably just the size of a medium sized city in the real world but is so detailed that its size is over 100gb. The storage that'd be required for earth 2 is definitely higher than we can even store on any hard drive.
Seeing games like this makes me want to quit being a game dev. Scammers get all this attention and profits, and legit devs get no attention. Guess I should've tried to make a cash grab scam instead of a real, fun game...
No guys, this is actually legit. I've brought the area where I dump my victims bodies and they're ACTUALLY there! With little Timmy and the cat too. Truly a revolutionary concept that delivers.
Why do I feel like this "company" has such a huge target on there back for cyber attack by basically saying they have all this private information. Idk much about cyber crime or cyber security so idk how hard or easy something like that is. It just seems really sketchy that you trust this website to have all your information like that.
I mean people have broken into places like facebook, and like capcom i believe, and im sure theres a group of people who could get it done in a week or two if huge companies with all this high end security get breached, that is if the "company" even stores that information anywhere, for all we know they just take whatever money the people've donated and delete or sell everything else thats been sent in (that being said no expert, so correct anything i said)
The guy who bought the road square was probably a big brain guy thinking of the long term game. When someone inevitably wants to buy all of the road in that area, he can mark up the price of his square to what he wants. Genius
I had a quick look when this started, and I could already see that people had already bought popular locations in the little 250,000 person city I live in. Crazy.
It’s literally completely outdated. I looked at my house and garden and these are the Google maps images from 6 years ago… people get scammed so easily.
What?? That’s like saying google maps is a scam because “the pictures of my house were taken 6 years ago”... you realize they don’t just take pictures of the entire planet every year right?
This is the equivalent of purchasing a star. You get nothing, the ownership of something that neither you or anyone else is ever gonna be able to use. At best you get a picture saying; "You own this"
@@aquila4142 But you know how people are, they'll just name them something stupid for the memes. I do not want to see a future where humanity's only hope for survival is an exoplanet orbiting Big Chungus or something like that
They aren't equivalent at all, purchasing stars is more of a charity, you are giving a space agency money not for the star but for funding space exploration and research and the star is basically a cute thank you card, like when you "adopt' an endangered animal its not your animal you're just funding its research and protection, Earth 2 is not a charity so its kind of silly to compare them.
@@georgiykireev9678 I mean to be fair, anyone pulling that off would probably have had to contend with a starting price of 500k or something. Turning, say, NGC-114 Into the Chungus Galaxy would be ridiculous, but honestly earned.
Definitely. Worth noting that pump and dumps are wildly illegal, but unregulated scams love using them. Inflate your initial price, cash out and run when the suckers buy in, leave 'em with the shit covered ashes.
man, I wish I had no morals like the people who created this. I'd be rolling in dough. Next crypto scam: selling a token for "ownership" over digital items.. oh wait
As others have pointed out in the comment section, NFTs for digital ownership is not completely a bad idea (for example, NFT ownership of items in a game is in theory more secure for you than having items bound to a single account. Also outside of video games it can take the place of certain legal documents, like property deeds, making them more difficult to be lost or stolen). The issue is how easily it can be used to scam people. Calling NFTs a scam as a whole is like calling Bitcoin a scam as a whole (which is completely false as you can actually make transactions with Bitcoin).
I've half-joked in the past that I'd be a billionaire if I had no morals. The stuff I've seen as a professional 570ckl tr4d3r goes deep. People think it's like the Wolf of Wallstreet, but it goes so much deeper than just selling worthless shares to people's grandmas. The scammers can get so sophisticated, that you'd think they could have just opened up a legitimate business with all that thought and effort.
Yo JSGwM hit me up I got a few ideas for popular RUclips channels that post regularly; you can watch ten seconds of every video they post and then put some filler comment on them?
@@purplebatdragon why does this need to be taken more seriously? Games like Hollow Knight and Undertale were funded in part by Kickstarter or a similar site; just because people are optimistic with their money and don’t always do a background check on the projects they donate to doesn’t make this some huge issue suddenly. It’s Kickstarter, you should go into any donation knowing that you could be wasting money, furthermore I’m not convinced that we have all the details here. There could be a lot of background we aren’t getting here, I don’t think this guy actively sought to play the money-grubbing villain who steals the backer’s money
Lack of education, lack of experience and the desire to get more money (somehow, they do it for the money, right? Otherwise i can't get WHY these NFT-things even exist) while doing nothing. Basic human flaws.
NFTs can be incredibly useful for things like digital items in video games. If you attach nft technology to a cosmetic item you bought in a game, you then own it, unlike the current system where you simply borrow it from the game publisher. If the game publisher nukes your game account you can sell sell the nft on the blockchain network.
I can see NFTs being used for ticket sales potentially, as each one would be uniquely identifiable, and there would only be a limited amount, but NFTs are only given value by the institutions or organisations that recognise them. For art, they don't actually contain the image or gif, they just link to it on the internet. The NFT will say who is the "owner" of it, but if the image is available elsewhere for free, then I don't know who would care about the NFT ownership of it. Especially since it doesn't necessarily represent copyright ownership I think. Happy to get more info though.
Ehh NFTs aren't useless. People don't understand what they actually are and think it's just art and they can disappear at anytime. Not quite the case. The big thing they're able to do is prove ownership of something so they have a lot of use outside of art. Eventually it could make sense to have titles and deeds backed by NFTs because they cannot be stollen etc. Also there are cool ideas to make games with them. There's some game called gods unchained which you can think of hearthstone but 100% upheld on the blockchain. Plays the same but has a cool public way to transfer/trade/show off your cards. Tbh I dislike the nft hype because it's highlighting NFTs for things they aren't best at, but I don't hate NFTs.
@@jeremyklein953 Except that it's first-come-first-serve, so whomever makes the NFT deed can claim the property. So, it'd be reallllly interesting, with a country of 130 million armed citizens, if a few million people thought they had the rights to other people's houses because an NFT said so.
@@manictiger that's not correct. Similarly anyone can print out a deed to a house/car if they don't own it. It matters where the deed COMES FROM. it's the exact same thing with NFTs.
@@souI.afterdeath They’re just trying to get attention by trying to be an edgy teen from 2012 because they have nothing better to do. Just report them 🤷♂️.
I'm 90% sure the "DONATORS" are not real and just used to trick people into thinking people actually believe in this project to make donating seem worth it
Would be pretty easy for them to allocate fake tiles to create the illusion that things are in high demand. People lose their minds in fear of missing out. FOMO is a desperate persons biggest driving force. I feel like those are the people they are targeting.
A game can't be good if it can be made by just a single web front-end developer. Dude's literary using CDN links for his libraries, I can understand not using a framework but would it kill you to at least use Webpack, we live in 2021 man. As for the map handling, they're using MapBox. Which uses Google Maps but the API you end up using is very simplified (I think the grid system is even built in), and it's paid for the commercial version. Also they have 20+ different libraries (plugins), none of which they host themselves - so if one of those external servers goes down (which is very easy to happen) - their entire website might break.
@@XistenceX1 Don't ddos the external servers, many people use them - plus they're massive I don't think you can take them down, what I meant was they can go down on their own since they're so heavily used. You could ddos him, that would be way more efficient.
Charlie could start a kickstarter for the greatest movie of All Time, record himself in a shower and it wouldn't even be a scam. Such is his acting genius.
When I heard of NFTs, I thought that they could be used by artists as a way of making sure their work wasn't stolen. Now it seems as though I am utterly wrong.
Depends on what you mean by “stolen”. If you were to take a picture of the Mona Lisa, would that be the equivalent of stealing the actual painting? I personally don’t think so. The problem is most people don’t actually care about having an original art piece, so they would settle for a copy. That’s virtually what is happening with NFT scams (NFTs verify ownership of that particular digital asset, but if nobody knows what the original’s NFT is (if it even exists) then nobody would know the difference even if they did care about the authenticity). Currently NFTs are mostly a scam, but the technology behind it is legit and can be useful if/once it gains widespread adoption (has a few technical problems that need to be fixed before it becomes more used, such as lowering the energy consumption needed to manage the blockchain).
@@DonutHolestien I think if he wasn't so adamant that he didn't cheated to the point of some minority of his fans harras the moderator, i mean people has said that if he instantly tells the truth none of this drama need to happen but yet he still drag on the drama.
he straight up says "get rich quick guys". def not a red flag when you offer the opportunity to blindly make money off something primarily marketed towards kids
...................... /\ ...................................... / \ Buy / \ Our / \ ----------------- Stuff No this is not a pyramid scheme you idiot, you're looking at a triangle. Learn your geometry and buy our totally not scams.
I know that it is 99.99% chance it's a scam, but I still want to buy all the squares surrounding that one square on the road for the .01% chance of getting to troll the shit out of that guy who would be stuck in the middle of the freeway.
I know that there is a 99.99% chance that this is NOT a scam! But if you want to buy USA tiles I would recommend buying them from the market. New land is already very expensive in US
@@FlexEffect2 you make an alt account for the sole purpose of knowing that its a scam but you’re like “hell, im bored. What should i do? Oh right, speak gibberish and binary language to people so i can make them mad” but to be fair thats what an alt account would do.
This is another EVE situation. This is going to go on until right around the 20-50 mil mark. And then this dude and all the money he made scammed will literally disappear.
Every time Charlie falls down the rabbit hole of a particular subject, it always sounds like the most uninteresting thing in the world, but then I watch these vids and I become almost as invested in it as he is.
Crippled?? Blahahahaah, the South Koreans put over $40,000 in the game in the last 24 hours... In fact all this negative advertising has actually increased sales....
Actually gotta respect the amount of effort they put into this scam they have set it up quit nicely now theyre in the phase where they just need to wait for the money to roll in
10:34 "I feel good when people think this is a scam, it just goes to show how this project is futuristic and out of their league". In what world is that a reasonable thought process?
That guy buying the roads is actually galaxy-brained. Everyone's buying houses and parking lots, but how will they get from place to place without using roads?
Its actually big brain because he can tax people for entering his highway square meaning he controls mass transit
@@plague1739 basically turning all of the road in the world into a tollway
Bruh 🤯🤯🤯
@Toothless he’s naturally buff foo
Thats A thicc dog you got there.
Charlie won’t be laughing when I buy an nft of his house
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Shit
@@QuartzGhost and fucking honestly
@@QuartzGhost e
@@QuartzGhost i read this 24 times and i still dont understand someone please explain
"we've rendered the entire planet better than you can imagine!"
Or....I could just fucking go outside
No man made structures at the start of earth 2. Same terrain. New buildings
Don’t be ridiculous, inside is the only way
But... but outside is scawwy!
You dare think a Redditor of my caliber would ever step foot into the sun? You underestimate me, wojak!
Now I can finally touch grass....
The guy who bought that one lane: “it’s not much, but it’s an honest waste of money”
He got his fair share of money
@be happy can you stop sending links from a song we don't want to listen to.
Jesus dude.
lmao
@@justice4chauvin942 I don't why this matters
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Charlie: *sarcasm* “Yeah I want to own 5 plants in Iowa”
Me, watering my garden in Iowa: 😥
I’m sure your plants are lovely
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thats what you get for living in Iowa and not the glorious state of Greater Michigan (now including what was ohio)
@@gohom3882 you take a corn with the husk still on and boil it, then take the husk off and move out of Iowa and never eat corn
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The Reddit of this scam is going through the stages of grief
Ok verified
Of course it has a reddit.
@@Driver-qt9jh that's literally the point of reddit
@@Driver-qt9jh Rule ?? : "If it exists, there is a subreddit for it."
Ok checknarc
This takes the “selling the Eiffel Tower/Statue of Liberty/Brooklyn Bridge” scam to a whole new level.
m- m- m- modern rogue?
Exactly what I was thinking, at the very least you had a solid way to identify the guy and report to the authorities. With this though, I doubt the creators are pasting names (at least real ones) and there's no way to catch them without more intrusive investigations and it sucks that they fell for it but holy hell do they not deserve it at that point.
Quite literally a whole new level, lol
Attention, all Earth 2 gamers. We need your help to save the virtual earth! All we'll need is your credit card number, the three digits on the back, the expiration month and year, your full legal name, your birth date, your home address, your full bank account name and account number, and your social security number. But, you gotta hurry, before the virtual terrorists take over Earth 2!
Search 'Ecoterra Earth 2' on RUclips. Some users have created a concept for a city in Earth 2 which is designed to save the fake earth 2 planet by using virtual renewable energy sources. These people are actually insane so they would go for your proposal.
@@chogus4075 I couldn't believe this until I looked it up. It's like a scam within a scam, basically someone has bought a bunch of empty tiles of the map in the middle of nowhere and is using stock footage to get people hyped about a nonexistent city to drive the prices up. You can't make this stuff up
@@noice7381 There's lots of similar ones too. An idiot born every minute.
@@noice7381 how do these people fall for this?? Its so outright obvious scam, I cant fathom the idea of how they managing to get people in this cesspool of dogshit. Jesus christ
@@noice7381 LMFAO.
"extremely detailed" I just looked up my home town and it legit looked worse than 240p
@llamaaa no
That's not what they're talking about when they mention that FYI. They're talking about the terrain in game. Not the MapBox.
I'm sorry that you live within a 240p world.
@@x67th are you a player
Wut game play
When u wanna see a fully rendered world in all its details, just... go outside. SMH
But Outside's gameplay sucks.
@@roflBeck but it's got really good graphics and according to some people that's all that matters
@@Blaze23124 the lore and writing sucks
@@HOHo-ws4mq the npcs are have the same dialogue
I think all these people complaining just suck at the game lmao get better.
getting scammed in runescape should be part of every kids education.
I am not from the runescape era but scams were pretty common in the steam trading era; especially CSGO.
Been there, haven't been scammed since
@@elmo4672 roblox here..
I've never really seen many scammers on RuneScape when I played as a kid. The closest thing was a guy who wanted me to give him all 30 of my wolf bones for 10,000 gold when one was worth like 2000. But compared to all the other horror stories I've seen about RuneScape scammers from others, I don't even think this qualifies as one
That's where I learned how to scam.
A 1 to 1 scale of the world in a videogame already exists in MS flight simulator 2020. Doesn't quite have "super detailed vegetation" but it's still impressive.
The clouds in it are rly pretty too
Microsoft Flight simulator is nowhere near 1 to 1 scale and they even state that themselves, they scale down the world a lot but change the speed of things to try to match it like little tricks to give the illusion of scale, their flight simulators will never render the whole planet properly because its unrealistic and its more important to focus on the physics simulation on the planes actually flying accurately the map just serves as more of a backdrop.
Even without super detailed vegetation just an accurate photo of 100km squared space of land can sometimes be a few gigs, microsoft flight simulator is already over 120gigs to download, I don't think there's even a computer in the world that could hold and render 510.1 million km² of land, its a big reason Earth 2 is obviously a scam because the concept itself is still impossible especially when he says he will do it in VR lmao
Can't buy real estate in a plane, now can you?
@@davidmaitland3238 To be fair to MFS, there is a mode where you can stream data through the internet, from a database that’s apparently at least 2 TB, maybe far more
Edit: It’s actually around 2 *petabytes* (2 million GB)
Ahh yes. Including the Brazil abyss.
The monoliths and portals to other dimensions are pretty fun too.
I'm now fully invested into the lore of MMO scams.
@@justice4chauvin942 ok
@@justice4chauvin942 ?
same here
@@justice4chauvin942 obvious bait
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Someone probably bought a NFT of this video right here lmao
ikr
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@@fatherindia4810 eyy
@@ConnorPugs lol
"selling rocks out of a dumpster and calling them energy rocks", is that what meth dealers do?
lmao
no meth dealers sell meth?
@Connor McGibbon Making you basically a Zombie for brain damage.
*"THEY'RE NOT ROCKS, MARIE, THEY'RE MINERALS!"*
If any meth dealer tried to sell actual rocks instead of meth, they'd get beaten to death by a crazed meth-head within a day
People are just sooooo scared to miss out on the next big money making scheme. They would literally Invest in anything.
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This is exactly what it is. Makes me sick to think of the old man behind his computer thinking that something like this is the next Bitcoin.
@@coalymoley8396 A fool and their money are easily parted. Being old and not knowing better isn't even an excuse, they should know by now there's no such thing as easy money.
"durr big billionaire man said funni coin slogan so it's time to burn my college fund"
The worst part is these scams make NFT's look bad, when the issue really lies with the seller & buyer.
The guy buying highway lanes is actually gigabrained. He's playing like 4d monopoly. Claim all of the vital transit points and tax everyone who wants to get through.
@@trelee9259 very true though, in theory if it was legit. It was a good strategy
“They never played rune scape; they never been scammed.” -Charlie 2021
"Free armor trimming"
I mean if you've played runescape you've probably seen every stage of a scam lol
What is runescape
Doubling gp for free!
My armor was taken and not returned upgraded. I still wait to this day.
If you ever feel dumb,
Imagine wasting your money buying a picture of someone’s house from some shady website
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arent you earning money for nothing if ur the seller?
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@@danyilbutsenko6339 lol u dont own any piece of land not even ur virtual house
Charlie has inspired me to start selling "energy rocks"
Sell kidney stones as natural made energy rocks. Big brain
Isn't that just crack
MrMelonz has inspired me to start selling "crack rocks"
@Lucien Hicks lol bait.
You gotta name them something unique for people to buy into them see how shungite does well.
Moist: “I want to own five plants somewhere in Iowa.”
Me: “Don’t we all?”
*Five planets in Iowa.
As someone who lives in Iowa I have to confirm that there are only 5 plants that exist.
@@sparrowequinox You own the five plants, you own the entire state.
@@hiimapop7755 That's all that's in Iowa
Iowa gang 😎
Buying highways is smart as fuck. My man gonna be ROLLING in toll money.
except there aren't going to be roads or buildings until people build them, so kinda pointless
@@Vizoar I think you replied to the wrong comment
@@Nick-oj8oh no he didn’t
@@sadflix8754 oh ok, I just don’t get what he is saying
@@Nick-oj8oh hes saying the guy wont make money from the tolls until the roads are built which might take a while
"They're probably very innocent, they never played Runescape"
Ah yes, I'll follow you into the PvP zone stranger, you seem respectable
fishing lvl?
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lmao
Need your Armour trimmed, I got you.
unrelated but I just can't get into runescape. i want to but idk what to do after finishing the tutorial
6:32 This is a specific unnamed family member of mine. He won't trust anything, we got my partners grandparents to install Discord so we could have a family bingo night, but he refused because he thinks it's a virus. He got scammed by a telemarketer telling him he had a virus on his PC and gave them his credit card info not a few years ago. The logical disconnect is insane.
Thanks for the coverage Charlie, been a long time viewer so this is a surreal experience for me.
Oh they also sent me and a few other creators that covered this a defamation claim via RUclips and got our videos blocked in Australia.
I invested into the site back when it launched as a lot of what was there seemed simple yet promising, a player driven economy that would only expand in years to become a survival game like no other, to come with more than a handful of features to make it more complex and addicting to follow and keep up on - there were red flags, especially with their provider, cashing out, the obvious fact that it was a pyramid scheme with the personal "5% money-back" player-specific codes and their widespread use, the people working on it and the general idea of it seemed far too ambitious, but I disregarded them as really wanted to believe (I'm talking about the earlier stages of the game, before they started showing off the obviously pre-rendered clips of the terrain and all and making those ludicrous claims about the performance)
Even now I'm still on the fence as the information that's coming out isn't anything new and a lot of times stuff is kept out, but hearing how they're actually blocking these videos is definitely an eye-opener. So as if PayPal cutting ties with them, a lot of server issues and everything previously mentioned wasn't enough.. yeah this is a scam. But my god is it a clever one - think about it, we're it not to get coverage and you only invested a couple of bucks to see if or if not it'll turn to be something massive - who would report on it? Yet that's what a lot of people did. They would get their friends on board thanks to the codes being "benefitial" for both parties (that's what I did as well) and they spread the word without the help of any actual ads, meaning more money to pocket. The system is addicting, the longer you stay the higher the chances for you to cash out, so people rarely do.
I believe this entire ordeal just goes to show that if an actual big company were to attempt this, there would be a market behind it as the core idea is really, really cool.
They could only manage Australia?
@@ciphergacha9100 it's because the earth 2 dev team are based in Australia, so I guess they can only block the video in their country.
@@margaesperanza I'm now a very embarrassed Australian lmao
Coincidentally, all the people who think it’s legit give their code as well. This is buying real estate except it ain’t even “real” estate lol.
FINALLY “Fake Estate”
Yeah if you go and look up posts about this game on r/scams (Which is what pops ups if you search "earth 2 reddit"), it's filled with people posting their referral codes. It's sad
It's costly fake estate
@@prestongarvey875 Wow. Your joke was simultaneously stupid and funny enough to give me one of the best laughs in awhile. Thank you
@@sleepdeep305 your welcome and hope your doing well
"Not even the tesseract from the Avengers can power this"
LMAO
The people who are being scammed are just people who missed out on the Crypto jump and vowed to never be late to something ever again
Still not too late for crypto anyways so they’re just plain dumb.
yeah yeah I'll be the one laughing when my 4k investment turns into millions ;)
good point
@@anormalguy8407 did you really spend 4k on nfts?
This is exactly the reason that one guy gave on a reddit post after saying he invested $600. The reddit's state right now is quite sad actually, it's filled with good natured/innocent people and the guys from the outside trying to convince them to leave. And then the guys that are in too deep and don't want to admit it's a scam
People who buy NFT’s will never cease to amaze me
@@justice4chauvin942 i shouldnt , but i laughted. GOod day sir
People who *sell* NFTs have either gotta be the villain from Die Hard, or a modern Robin Hood.
What's an NFT
@be happy no one is happy with this cr*p
@@DecimeCuba yes you really shouldn't have laughed at that racist troll's jokes. i see that freak everywhere
Charlie: "How can there be a single person that would be comfortable giving all of this to anything?"
Google, Facebook, Amazon: "You'd be surprised."
He's talking about random apps, not companies that have credibility.
Now that you mention it, I can't imagine why Amazon would need my credit card number or my address.
@@whoot813 You're gonna get amazoned sooner or later buddy as stated by the others, idk what is it about though
I mean they’re trusted, what would they even do to you if they’re richer than you? stalk you?
There are two types of people: those that get scammed and those that have played RuneScape
Ahh. A Renaissance man.
I was born too late for RuneScape.
But I live in a ex-communist country.
And I'm the son of a professional car seller scammer (he sells pieces of shit like they're high-end sports cars)
Not to mention I used to play DayZ while also selling that substance that shall not be named.
@@marcello8645 Homie be livin that postsoviet third-world lifestyle
So you either lose your Runescape bank to a scammer as a kid or lose your actual bank account as an adult lol
Haha Fr everytime I get a call from anyone I’m super sus no matter what
"Our game can render the earth at a 1:1 scale" and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself.
At a higher level of detail than the actual Earth!
Flight sim: 1:1 earth scale and is low detailed with over 100gb as its size.
Red dead 2: Map is WAAAAY smaller than the real earth and probably just the size of a medium sized city in the real world but is so detailed that its size is over 100gb.
The storage that'd be required for earth 2 is definitely higher than we can even store on any hard drive.
Seeing games like this makes me want to quit being a game dev. Scammers get all this attention and profits, and legit devs get no attention. Guess I should've tried to make a cash grab scam instead of a real, fun game...
What’s your game called man?
@@eoincleary248 probably nothing important
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I literally clicked on his name and there's a bunch of videos of it. People, the internet isn't that hard...
Hey man I checked out your channel and I wanted to say good luck on your game dude 👍
how long you think its gonna take you to finish the game
No guys, this is actually legit. I've brought the area where I dump my victims bodies and they're ACTUALLY there! With little Timmy and the cat too. Truly a revolutionary concept that delivers.
Oh my god, buy a land and get a chance to find a murder! Sign me up
Yes, officer, this one right here.
@@alexnoman1498 he's going away for a long time
Brb guys I'm gonna buy area 51
FBI agent of my account pls investigate this man
Why do I feel like this "company" has such a huge target on there back for cyber attack by basically saying they have all this private information.
Idk much about cyber crime or cyber security so idk how hard or easy something like that is. It just seems really sketchy that you trust this website to have all your information like that.
I mean people have broken into places like facebook, and like capcom i believe, and im sure theres a group of people who could get it done in a week or two if huge companies with all this high end security get breached, that is if the "company" even stores that information anywhere, for all we know they just take whatever money the people've donated and delete or sell everything else thats been sent in (that being said no expert, so correct anything i said)
I would bet they will be selling the info for extra revenue.
remember when Ashly Maddison got hacked?
The guy who bought the road square was probably a big brain guy thinking of the long term game. When someone inevitably wants to buy all of the road in that area, he can mark up the price of his square to what he wants. Genius
that subreddit is the saddest thing I ever saw in my life, a lot of adults not wanting to admit they were scammed
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I had a quick look when this started, and I could already see that people had already bought popular locations in the little 250,000 person city I live in. Crazy.
It’s literally completely outdated. I looked at my house and garden and these are the Google maps images from 6 years ago… people get scammed so easily.
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ITS MAPBOX NOT GOOGLE MAPS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@demigod4343get a job
Bri ish
What?? That’s like saying google maps is a scam because “the pictures of my house were taken 6 years ago”... you realize they don’t just take pictures of the entire planet every year right?
This is like buying a property in Monopoly
Nah in monopoly you can put stuff on the property.
Monopoly actually has gameplay....
With real money.
It's easier to fool a person than it is to convince them they've been fooled
This is the equivalent of purchasing a star. You get nothing, the ownership of something that neither you or anyone else is ever gonna be able to use.
At best you get a picture saying; "You own this"
Honestly though, if NASA wanted to it could probably auction off catalogued Celestial Objects for proper naming.
@@aquila4142 But you know how people are, they'll just name them something stupid for the memes. I do not want to see a future where humanity's only hope for survival is an exoplanet orbiting Big Chungus or something like that
They aren't equivalent at all, purchasing stars is more of a charity, you are giving a space agency money not for the star but for funding space exploration and research and the star is basically a cute thank you card, like when you "adopt' an endangered animal its not your animal you're just funding its research and protection, Earth 2 is not a charity so its kind of silly to compare them.
@@georgiykireev9678 I mean to be fair, anyone pulling that off would probably have had to contend with a starting price of 500k or something.
Turning, say, NGC-114 Into the Chungus Galaxy would be ridiculous, but honestly earned.
@@aquila4142 buying a star for 500k is a steal
Isn't it more likely that the number 1 tile owner is actually a "dev" account, made to encourage others buying tiles.
The dev account probably bought random low valued squares like the one in the street
probably most of the buyers are not real , just booby traps for poor weaklings
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Or some dumb luck crypto millionaire just throwing bets around just because they can...
Definitely. Worth noting that pump and dumps are wildly illegal, but unregulated scams love using them. Inflate your initial price, cash out and run when the suckers buy in, leave 'em with the shit covered ashes.
Why invest in physical property when I can just be taxed virtually
The guy who bought that single lane on the highway: my goals are beyond your understanding
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I have more respect for these stupid bots than that guy
man, I wish I had no morals like the people who created this. I'd be rolling in dough.
Next crypto scam: selling a token for "ownership" over digital items.. oh wait
Hmmmm
Don't forget openly selling something you have absolutely no claim over
What does it profit a man to gain the world but lose his soul?
As others have pointed out in the comment section, NFTs for digital ownership is not completely a bad idea (for example, NFT ownership of items in a game is in theory more secure for you than having items bound to a single account. Also outside of video games it can take the place of certain legal documents, like property deeds, making them more difficult to be lost or stolen). The issue is how easily it can be used to scam people. Calling NFTs a scam as a whole is like calling Bitcoin a scam as a whole (which is completely false as you can actually make transactions with Bitcoin).
I've half-joked in the past that I'd be a billionaire if I had no morals. The stuff I've seen as a professional 570ckl tr4d3r goes deep. People think it's like the Wolf of Wallstreet, but it goes so much deeper than just selling worthless shares to people's grandmas. The scammers can get so sophisticated, that you'd think they could have just opened up a legitimate business with all that thought and effort.
All jokes aside, this issue needs to be taken more seriously.
🤪🤪🤪 you so funny mustache guy 😩😩😭
Yo JSGwM hit me up I got a few ideas for popular RUclips channels that post regularly; you can watch ten seconds of every video they post and then put some filler comment on them?
Um, it's not filler when the guy makes a valid point relating directly to the video.
@@purplebatdragon why does this need to be taken more seriously? Games like Hollow Knight and Undertale were funded in part by Kickstarter or a similar site; just because people are optimistic with their money and don’t always do a background check on the projects they donate to doesn’t make this some huge issue suddenly. It’s Kickstarter, you should go into any donation knowing that you could be wasting money, furthermore I’m not convinced that we have all the details here. There could be a lot of background we aren’t getting here, I don’t think this guy actively sought to play the money-grubbing villain who steals the backer’s money
all jokes aside, why do you always say all jokes aside
edit: literally look at the dudes comment history on Charlie's channel alone
NFTs are the biggest scam
I cannot wrap my head around how people actually buy this stuff.
Lack of education, lack of experience and the desire to get more money (somehow, they do it for the money, right? Otherwise i can't get WHY these NFT-things even exist) while doing nothing. Basic human flaws.
NFTs can be incredibly useful for things like digital items in video games. If you attach nft technology to a cosmetic item you bought in a game, you then own it, unlike the current system where you simply borrow it from the game publisher. If the game publisher nukes your game account you can sell sell the nft on the blockchain network.
@@fortex24 sooo, useless. Your fortnite halloween skin is safe.. for a price.
I can see NFTs being used for ticket sales potentially, as each one would be uniquely identifiable, and there would only be a limited amount, but NFTs are only given value by the institutions or organisations that recognise them. For art, they don't actually contain the image or gif, they just link to it on the internet. The NFT will say who is the "owner" of it, but if the image is available elsewhere for free, then I don't know who would care about the NFT ownership of it. Especially since it doesn't necessarily represent copyright ownership I think. Happy to get more info though.
Rich people like buying art as a store of value. This is just the digital/crypto extension of that market.
Why are people thinking that something called "non-fungible tokens" is gonna be valuable at all?
Huh, I always thought NFT stood for Not Fucking Tangible. I mean, basically the same thing, but the more you know.
Ehh NFTs aren't useless. People don't understand what they actually are and think it's just art and they can disappear at anytime. Not quite the case. The big thing they're able to do is prove ownership of something so they have a lot of use outside of art. Eventually it could make sense to have titles and deeds backed by NFTs because they cannot be stollen etc. Also there are cool ideas to make games with them. There's some game called gods unchained which you can think of hearthstone but 100% upheld on the blockchain. Plays the same but has a cool public way to transfer/trade/show off your cards.
Tbh I dislike the nft hype because it's highlighting NFTs for things they aren't best at, but I don't hate NFTs.
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Except that it's first-come-first-serve, so whomever makes the NFT deed can claim the property.
So, it'd be reallllly interesting, with a country of 130 million armed citizens, if a few million people thought they had the rights to other people's houses because an NFT said so.
@@manictiger that's not correct. Similarly anyone can print out a deed to a house/car if they don't own it. It matters where the deed COMES FROM. it's the exact same thing with NFTs.
@@manictiger what's stopping someone from printing out a fake title to your car and then claiming it as theirs?
No one bought the Tomboy Mine in Nevada yet, if anyone is interested in investing.
1:24 I genuinely thought that my PC restarted by itself for a second.
Moist critical can save the world with his luscious hair.
@@justice4chauvin942 ???
@@justice4chauvin942 racist alert
@@souI.afterdeath It's just a loser troll
@@souI.afterdeath They’re just trying to get attention by trying to be an edgy teen from 2012 because they have nothing better to do. Just report them 🤷♂️.
Cringe alert
"With old people it makes sense, they're old, they don't know what the telephone is."
lmaoo truth
if u ever feel sad or depressed, just remember there's a 50 lane highway that merges into a 20 lane in china
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I think that was a on ramp
Thanks! My depression is _worse_ now!
How the hell is that even possible lmfao
Ok well, now im happy with the traffic I get every morning, thank you.....? I guess hahahaha
I'm 90% sure the "DONATORS" are not real and just used to trick people into thinking people actually believe in this project to make donating seem worth it
Yep! I refuse to accept that anyone with that kind of money on hand is that dumb.
Definitely lol
Would be pretty easy for them to allocate fake tiles to create the illusion that things are in high demand. People lose their minds in fear of missing out. FOMO is a desperate persons biggest driving force. I feel like those are the people they are targeting.
It’s true that the guy who just paid 50k for the Kremlin and the Forbidden City is not dumb. He’s a RUclipsr called Earth2 Odyssey, check him out
At this point I'm wondering if there's some kind of competition between scammers to see who can make the most money and get away with it.
A game can't be good if it can be made by just a single web front-end developer. Dude's literary using CDN links for his libraries, I can understand not using a framework but would it kill you to at least use Webpack, we live in 2021 man.
As for the map handling, they're using MapBox. Which uses Google Maps but the API you end up using is very simplified (I think the grid system is even built in), and it's paid for the commercial version. Also they have 20+ different libraries (plugins), none of which they host themselves - so if one of those external servers goes down (which is very easy to happen) - their entire website might break.
That's some amateur shit
Tbh if I was trying to make a quick $ by peddling a “game” I would make it as simple as possible and abuse common libraries just like this dev did.
So you’re saying to take this guy off the map, we can literally just Ddos any of the servers hosting the libraries? Rev up your fryers!
@@XistenceX1 Don't ddos the external servers, many people use them - plus they're massive I don't think you can take them down, what I meant was they can go down on their own since they're so heavily used.
You could ddos him, that would be way more efficient.
CDN? See Deez Nuts
I believe we could all agree that everything’s a scam nowadays
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How are there this many bots in a single comment section lol
@@h1z1army95 bots have tooken over
I bet someone in the future will make Charlie’s pop off meme, an NFT and sell it without Charlie knowing
Charlie could start a kickstarter for the greatest movie of All Time, record himself in a shower and it wouldn't even be a scam. Such is his acting genius.
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charlie with his stick legs
such is his acting genius indeed
I can't wait for all the NFT's purchased for million of dollars to plummet in value. It's going to be amazing to watch.
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Who knows? Maybe they're all a scam when the creator of it disappears with all the money.
Plummet in value? They have no value to begin with.
A lot will plummet, but NFT's aren't like crypto. The shit ones will die and the good ones will grow.
There's an Among Us shaped chicken nugget selling for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay...
Someone owning my house as a nft makes me scared for their wellbeing
When I heard of NFTs, I thought that they could be used by artists as a way of making sure their work wasn't stolen. Now it seems as though I am utterly wrong.
Depends on what you mean by “stolen”. If you were to take a picture of the Mona Lisa, would that be the equivalent of stealing the actual painting? I personally don’t think so. The problem is most people don’t actually care about having an original art piece, so they would settle for a copy. That’s virtually what is happening with NFT scams (NFTs verify ownership of that particular digital asset, but if nobody knows what the original’s NFT is (if it even exists) then nobody would know the difference even if they did care about the authenticity). Currently NFTs are mostly a scam, but the technology behind it is legit and can be useful if/once it gains widespread adoption (has a few technical problems that need to be fixed before it becomes more used, such as lowering the energy consumption needed to manage the blockchain).
The original comment was talking about digital art lol.
Charlie: Another Massive Scandal
Dream: *Sweats*
Charlie: Planet Earth 2
Dream: *Sighs in relief*
Dream cheated in a speedrun right? Whats the big deal, just wipe the time and move on
@@DonutHolestien the massive amount of people his fans harassed
@@DonutHolestien I think if he wasn't so adamant that he didn't cheated to the point of some minority of his fans harras the moderator, i mean people has said that if he instantly tells the truth none of this drama need to happen but yet he still drag on the drama.
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@@DonutHolestien cheating isn't the big deal, it's the way he reacted to it. Also made complete mockery of the speedrunning community.
he straight up says "get rich quick guys". def not a red flag when you offer the opportunity to blindly make money off something primarily marketed towards kids
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No this is not a pyramid scheme you idiot, you're looking at a triangle. Learn your geometry and buy our totally not scams.
So the Earth really is just two tennis balls wrapped together, because every MMO dev is warped. Noted
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Holy shit, so many advertising replies
@@supe4701 Yeah I can't keep reporting all of them 😪
From garbage trucks to overpriced mansions to MMO scams, Charlie can truly make anything interesting with his S-tier commentary
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Agreed
Just imagine chillin in the house and someone comes in tells you he bought it in earth2.I would kindly give it to him tho
Remember the story of Jack and the bean stalk of selling a cow for magic beans and thinking that’s stupid? I guess it makes more sense
I can buy my own house for $600, this is truly the game of a generation
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Fricking bots
Honestly...save your money, buy some GFUEL
of course
101 marketing here
No.
WTF?! How did I find you here...
"How many scam MMOs are there??"
Charlie... All of them... They're all scams...
At least World Of Warcraft and others are functional games you can play unlike this garbage
Actual MMOs can be quite good, the subscription isn't a big deal. Please don't shit on something you know nothing about
@@georgiykireev9678 some MMOs aren't even monthly subscriptions lmao
@@AAAAAA-qs1bv Yeah, but those are usually full of microtransactions, which isn't a very good look when you're talking about games being scams
By the same logic all video games are scams? all goods and luxuries are scams? I don't think you know the meaning of the word scam.
There’s also another one of these scams called Day Of Dragons, which was supposed to be a survival game where you play as a dragon.
Jesus RUclips needs to do something about these bots.
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that sounds lame as fuck
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@@destroyerofturtles5024 yeah they never will though
Can we just appreciate the amount of empathy Charlie has.
Charlie's vocabulary is the reason for humanity's existence
I love how it says it's the world that they've rendered when in actuality it's a stress test for PCs that they stole the graphics from
"How many scam MMOs are there"
Wait til you hear about Day of Dragons
I know that it is 99.99% chance it's a scam, but I still want to buy all the squares surrounding that one square on the road for the .01% chance of getting to troll the shit out of that guy who would be stuck in the middle of the freeway.
There’s a one to one Minecraft earth (and some other planets like mars)
All roads and buildings will be removed in E2, so that tile is worth the same as a tile in Manhattan or Hollywood
I know that there is a 99.99% chance that this is NOT a scam! But if you want to buy USA tiles I would recommend buying them from the market. New land is already very expensive in US
@@FlexEffect2 you make an alt account for the sole purpose of knowing that its a scam but you’re like “hell, im bored. What should i do? Oh right, speak gibberish and binary language to people so i can make them mad” but to be fair thats what an alt account would do.
@@rozanfaust2967 sry I don't know what you mean.
“Just pull out... I mean i’m not your dad” You see, that sentence alone is a double edged sword
This is another EVE situation. This is going to go on until right around the 20-50 mil mark. And then this dude and all the money he made scammed will literally disappear.
EVE Online? How is it related?
Yeah what is this whole EVE thing?
What eve
They've already made 50 mill... a while ago... and eve is still around too wtf?
Somewhere between 2010-2020 people seemed to have forgotten that others lie all the time on the internet.
A lot of people in general dont understand that people can lie really well and just seem nice. It’s super weird
any scam can work if it has to do something with bitcoin
Every time Charlie falls down the rabbit hole of a particular subject, it always sounds like the most uninteresting thing in the world, but then I watch these vids and I become almost as invested in it as he is.
I like how Charlie can be funny without offending anyone, its honestly great
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whenever i hear him say "thats about it" muscle memory kicks in and I'm ready to choose a new video
He probably saw Hilixxia and thought;
"Hmmm, I could do better than that."
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There it is. Earth 2's project has finally been crippled with the publicity of penguinz0. Put your rocket emojis away :D
Crippled?? Blahahahaah, the South Koreans put over $40,000 in the game in the last 24 hours... In fact all this negative advertising has actually increased sales....
@@AZNichol Denial
The game says "real people" are spending "real money" well it must be true!
Shut up and take my money!
@@AZNicholSounds like coping to me.
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*Me buying Cr1tikal's house*
Me: "I own you now"
The guy who bought 1 lane: Finally a reason to name it private street
I love everything charlie does i cant get enough 💛😊
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I bet the 600k guy is just something the scammer wrote into it so that people would go "yo holy shit big money is in this"
I garruntee that Florida tiles are all bought.
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"Youd need the tesseract to render that"
Euclidean unlimited detail point cloud engine
Actually gotta respect the amount of effort they put into this scam they have set it up quit nicely now theyre in the phase where they just need to wait for the money to roll in
I’m glad that I get to see his stream clips I wish I had time to watch some of his full streams
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the dislikes are from the people who spent money on this
0:08
“How many scam MMO’s are there?”
*Kingsisle has left the chat.*
So many scams these days and it's becoming easier too
@@justice4chauvin942 what
@@samcousins3204 its a bot
10:34 "I feel good when people think this is a scam, it just goes to show how this project is futuristic and out of their league".
In what world is that a reasonable thought process?
Wait till you see buying square meters of land to become a “lord” in Scotland
I've seen that