I love how crypto bros desperately need normal gamers to buy into their scam, but will insult the gamers in the same vein. They really can't help it, it's amazing.
crypto bros don't get that games have had the items/characters that can work in other games for decades. the reason this is not common is licensng/coding. it being a nft doesn't magically it work
Maybe nfts have their use somewhere but they do not bring ANYTHING extra to games. What does it matter if my pink rabbit ears hat exist as nft or only in game database? It does not change anything, whenever game closes value of that nft is 0 as it is unusable anywhere else.
@@Wastingsometimehere It's like they're going out on a battlefield, with a neon green light saying: "shoot here" - type of deal. Cryptobros are on new level of drugs.
theres so many its wild, my perspective is crazy. im 31, grew up on CS 1.6 and quake. my friends all played WoW and stuff but thats the only big mmo. nothing came close. then i went off to work for ten years, and now have time for the first time again to chill and game. so i go on steam and think, maybe ill finally try an mmo instead of an fps, so i search it on steam... holy, fucking, shit, its like, what happened. its just trash, as far as the eye can see, like the WALL E planet is what steam is now. its wild, so i bought a fly fishing rod yesterday.
There’s WoW, and then there’s RuneScape. That’s basically the only two MMOs I can think of off the top of my head that have stuck around for a decade or two now, with virtually everything else getting the plug pulled on them for not performing well enough to justify further investment of time and resources into them.
If I opened an online game and all the 'cool' races that are standard across other games for free were locked I would quit and delete it immediately. This 'game' has zero respect for new players, and new players are the only thing that keeps online games alive.
Yeah, only having 1k elves is a big middle finger to players who like magic. I always play casters in games, and if I cannot I don't play the game. Why would a caster player even bother? I like calling lightning and throwing fireballs.
People hate gender lock, but paywalled character are whole different level of stupidity like pay to earn scam, RMT ruin the game but they force RMT are they never experienced bot and cheater invested game?
Gaming: The worst of us make micro-transactions, gachas and loot-boxes. Crypto: The best of us loot the place before it burns to the ground, that was why we built it in the first place.
@@honaleri I have to say as a long time gacha sucker, that's offensive to me when you compare gacha/mtx/lootbox system to a crypto. those unholy trinity is already bad enough, but crypto is just a whole new level of terribleness(?).
or just "steal it" like been with a lot crypto projects , they freeze trading on platform you "own it" , cash in theirs , and yours is worthless on end of the day
You ever played World of Warcraft? Runescape? or any game in which there is a second hand market for items which players WANT to trade/barter with each other? This just allows you to do what players already want to do without Blizzard banning your account lol.
@@HomeandYacht so what you are saying to me is that the "metaverse" mmos are just the same as regular Old games plus the insane p2w(the video said that the coin was use to "cast magic, level up)? so why use blockchain?
@@rokingfrost8446 You have to understand that just because a game uses blockchain technology, it doesn't necessarily mean its play to win or that one game's economy (if any) works the same as another. All the games I mentioned to Kira which he chose not to look into all have different tokenomics and use cases for blockchain integration. A blockchain is simply a public ledger that shows who owns what and what transactions were made so its perfect for games in which players are looking to obtain specific in-game items and want to barter with each other.
This is why people dislike NFT's and blockchain gaming, more than anything. If you're not a fan of crypto, you won't care for blockchain gaming. That said, Bitcoin isn't reinventing the wheel.. has staying power and a very good reason for its creation (see 2008 financial crisis).
@@wonderwallz99 if you're a fan of gaming you won't be fan of blockchain gaming is the truth. Also bitcoin was just reinventing currency. It literally wasn't anything new.
I'll be honest - even though it probably feels like you're just constantly repeating yourself when you make these videos, I still enjoy them. They make me laugh. So, sure ... Let's see more. Easy content to find when cryptobros just keep lobbing it over to you
@@HomeandYachtIn every video about you clowns? What's the point you're trying to make here lmao. Go suck some rich fuck's cock in the hope he gives you the money you wasted on these "investments."
“It’s pay to win and if you spend a couple hundred dollars on assets now, before the game is even out, you’ll have a massive advantage” “What do you mean gamers don’t like this, they clearly don’t know what they want!”
Please cover all of these. I love these “My First MMO” presentations. It’s like seeing little kids try to explain how their lemonade stand is going to overthrow Apple, only for them to give up before they finish purchasing the supplies.
3:36 - 3:57 And what if the 1000 players suddenly die in RL or decide to abandon the game without selling their elven characters to other, active ones? Elves die out then? These guys have either not thought this through or don't care about these long-term implications. An entirely FOMO-driven travesty is that.
It also puts a very hard limit on the amount of players that can ever be in the game ever. So when the inevitable drop off of the older players happens, the game will be kicked into a death spiral faster than FTX. If it lasts even a week, I'd be surprised...
What do they care about the second-hand market? They'll make the most money up front, even if they charge commission on character transfers. It's only a terrible game design if they truly meant to make a great game with longevity. But this is 99 % a rugpull.
I find it funny how they often refer to the game and its gameplay as "unique". Take for example this paragraph: "These specializations in skills will encourage players to cooperate with one another in order to achieve more than what their class can do alone. This will make the overall gameplay of Mirandus fun, challenging and *unique*. " Now here's the funny thing IMO. This is literally every effing MMORPG out there. It's called "tank", "DPS" and hold on to your hat... "Healer/Buffer". Just because they call it something different in this poor excuse of a 'game', doesnt make it remotely unique. I gotta be honest, this literally made me laugh so hard. Not sure what that guy is sniffing that wrote those things. These "Examplars" have their strengths and weaknesses, and you should(must) team up with other examplars to fill the 'skills' your examplar doesnt have. Again... Tank/DPS/Healer. There's literally *nothing* unique here, at all. But hopefully people have more than 2 braincells, and DO realize that this is just marketing BS. "oh it's gonna be the best game ever, super unique, blah blah". Ha, well first of all, let's see if it ever comes out as a game to begin with. Then we can all play it, and experience this unique gameplay mechanic where you need to use different roles/classes..oh sorry, I meant to say "Examplars", to build this traditional mmorpg party/team. Still dont get people like the one Kira showed in the opening, that sent that message. What's wrong with some people. It's like they've lost every single little braincell they had, and just cant wait to lose all their money and then go live on the streets. WIth the economy we're in right now, I dont see how anyone with even half a braincell would throw their money at these 'games' (not even games, but let's be "nice" to the fools).
But they might do something crazy we never seen before. Like a hybrid class. Can you imagine the possibilities?! ? What do you mean that's a thing already?
It sounds "unique" to crypto bros... the only people stupid enough to look at this pay to win scheme and go "that is the future" XD See they dont actually try to advertise to people who actually play mmos or even video games... they want to attract the type of "financial advisers" that really arent financial advisers, but sexpests that harass women on discord ;) Ofcourse its only a pay to win scheme if the game will ever become reality... wich when it comes to crypto/NFT/blockchain nonsense more often then not never happens
They all claim to be next next WoW, Runescape, Ultima, Everquest, ST:TOR, Albion or Pirates of the Burning Sea, with unique gameplay, yet also somehow are supposed to also be the MMO to bring back the same nostalgia? Feel the same?!
This argument of "you truly own these items" is completely useless. Say the game goes offline and the servers shut down, which will happen eventually, me really owning these items is of no use at all to me because their actual value only exists within the context of the game. Without the game, it's just some useless code that has no application anymore.
Yeah, if someone truly "owns" this stuff, and it's real actual stuff with value, then the company basically can't legally shut the game down without somehow compensating the asset owners. Which is obviously stupid, the dev will never put themselves under that kind of obligation. I'm not sure they even could. If there were one single Metaverse that was publicly-owned (some kind of accursed government-run VRchat/Roblox hybrid or something) and things in it were legally transferrable, then MAYBE some of the things these crypto-gaming scammers promise could be done. Except none of them would ever accept a government-run Metaverse, because then it would have regulations and laws.
@@chainswordcs Possibly. I don't think it's IMPOSSIBLE to make the claim that an intangible product in a game is a thing of value in a legal sense (software has value, stocks have value, neither of those are exactly tangible per se, etc.). And I suppose, if you acknowledged or failed to disclaim that a game asset purchased for real money solely had value within the game, you could be on the hook for it. Realistically, though, the present state of things already has a fallback for scummy devs: "Yeah we shut the game down, but your NFT still exists, we didn't take away the thing-of-value that you own, we just changed the circumstances that would result in how its value is appraised." Arguably, a game can do that already without shutting down through things like patches and buffs/nerfs, but a court would probably frown on the idea that you suffered an injury due to changes in circumstances of that sort (again, like stocks, you can't sue because their value went down because a company made a bad decision, absent specific legal justification). Basically what I'm saying is that the NFT grift already lets you say "Yeah you have the thing of value still, its value is just zero now that it can't be used for anything. Deal with it." Shutting a game down isn't denying you the thing you own, because an NFT is conveniently just a pointer or receipt and you totally still own that even if you don't own whatever it pointed to.
@@Uryvichk Oh, the TOS will probably say that you own _that blockchain entry with a token,_ and that is it. You will do so after the game shuts down (provided you move it out of the in-game wallet before that becomes inaccessible) but it will do nothing anywhere else.
Most games: Let's make our game fun enough that people want to spend more money on it! Crypto games: Let's make people spend enough money that they feel obligated to keep playing the game in the hope of finding fun.
Pretty sure it was the ex-CEO of Square Enix who said something along the lines of “playing games for fun is an outdated concept” while marketing the new Square Enix NFT game Seriously, could they be any more transparent about the fact that they only care about money.
@@tepig2828 I think that's one reason I've always been a Nintendo fan. Yeah, they want to make money, but they still seem to think the best way to do that is to make the games fun to play (for now, at least).
This is an example of exactly why I say NFT's will ruin gameplay loops. "I want to play an elf" "Tough titties, there aren't any left," "I want that item, I'll be happy to do stuff in game and play the game to actually earn it" "Tough titties, there aren't any left, maybe you can pay another player to give you theirs" Just the bit I don't get is why people pretend scarcity is a good thing? I get it is for people who want to make money off of it and exploit supply & demand for more money. I always felt the wonderful thing about the digital platform is that it takes away scarcity. Scaricity is just an unfortunate limitation of reality. Why the fuck do we want to bring it into our digital world? It only seems to benefit grifters and those who want to exploit money out of it. Kira is right to separate the two kinds of people, I look at a video game because I want to play it and enjoy it and have fun, these limitations would hinder the experience. But my reduced experience exists to help somebody else grift and make money? Fuck that.
Yes exactly, the whole concept makes me sad and frustrated. Artificially walling things off from anyone who can't afford it is gross, we already have enough of that in the real world.
@@r-pupz7032 pretty much. If there was more than enough housing in the real world and it was super affordable, nobody's gonna go "I miss the time where it was difficult to find a good house or find a house in a sensible spot and when they cost several times the price so those who couldn't afford it had to compromise with shitty living arrangements. It was so much better than everybody being able to own one and not going without or needing to be richer than they are"
Granted, a house is more essential than a video game, but of course point being, there's no personal benefit to forced scarcity when there is already enough to go around.
Sometimes an "Innovative" thing isn't because it's so original nobody thought about. It's something everyone thought about and immediately said "This is dogshit."
Reminds me of thrash metal bands in the 90s. The genre was flooded with shitty dime a dozen cookie cutter bands as far as the eye could see. Then things leveled out as time went on. This cryptobro game crap will pass just the same.
@svendleberries461 yeah but no idiot had to lose their life savings first. These games won't stop til every gullible mark gets educated. They should start teaching financial responsibility in schools at about 8yrs of age.
Still don't understand why games even need to be on the blockchain. Why can't you just own things without it being blockchain verified. I don't think video games are struggling with fake assets being added into their games
Especially with MMOS where you allready cannot do anything with your toons or items outside the confines of the game and where the developer/publisher/server provider has full control over everything. They are basically slapping a "new formula" sticker on pay to win cashstores and promise you that you actually "own" the stuff you buy... but i bet they will still reserve the right to ban you for whatever reason if they want to... You dont own anything no matter if its on the blockchain or on some chinese server farm...
What I loved about games is that after you buy it, your personal real life wealth and wallet didn't matter anymore. Everyone started out with zero and only your skill and time invested mattered. I feel like NFT shit is a massive step back and only interesting to a tiny niche. Like you often said, people who are interested in trading, finances and stuff like that usually are NOT gamers and if they are, they probably want games to be games and finances be finances. It doesn't mix well
One detail that caught my attention: the main class is the race, so if you wanna play as a human spellcaster you cannot, because that is a elf thing. Stealth? Halfling. A tank elf? Nope, must be orc. Thought this kinda of thing was left in the past.
The experience of EVE Online continues to show me that if a game talks about "a robust, player-driven economy" but doesn't have a staff economist on hand to advise how to adjust crafting material spawn rates to keep said economy stable, they are not going to have a "robust economy".
If you read between the lines here, casting spells costs money, and elves (the most expensive class) are heavily specialized towards that. They turned being a whale into a class.
Scam artists and Liars get really angry when you call them out on their bs and even angrier when you inform their next potential victim. Never stop doing what you do Kira, but also I think they get off on getting a 10-20 minute video spanking.
The people you have to watch out for are the ones who bought in and weren't previously aware it was a scam. They will hold on to their pride that they DEFINITELY didn't get scammed and that YOU simply don't get it until their dying (or bankrupt) breath.
I woke up this morning hacking up loogies, but your video made me feel a lot better. I don't hate you, but yes, I:d like to see you do these other GALA Games. Hope you are feeling better, and thank you very much.
It's very simple: If you do somethnig for money, then it's not a game, it's work. If you pay in money in the hope of getting more money, that's not a game, that's financial investment. Show me a blockchain game I can play only for fun, then we can talk about its quality.
@@toddtaylor6506 To be fair, from what we have seen of most crypto bros here on youtube and around the web... they certainly would believe its a "unique" and "never seen before" thing...
Oh, that word's not for us, the people who have ever seen an MMO before. It's surprisingly effective how just saying you're doing a unique thing will convince someone who's never seen it before that you are, and they'll probably still believe you after seeing proof you're not. You see people complaining that Tolkein's work is "too derivative", you see Warhammer being accused of ripping off Blizzard, etc. Whichever one gets in front of your eyes first has a LOT of power in your perception of innovation. Also, remember that gamers aren't *really* the target market for this sort of shit. They want people who are looking to expand their wealth, but have little investment (*cough*scam*cough*) knowledge, who find shares and similar intimidating, but keep hearing about 'new' and 'disruptive' tech companies making billions. THOSE suckers are the targets.
Play to earn game, sounds like work. And will be filled with bots and cheaters. Worst case, it's disguised malware that uses your computer as a crypto miner as you play this program. I can't call this thing a game.
The guy narrating the trailer sounds more like the CEO of a company giving a quarterly report to shareholders, rather than a developer or community manager presenting the game's features to their target audience. Really tells you a lot about who the developers see as their true customers. Hint: it's not the normal players.
What I find funny as you mention about the elves. If I didn't get into the game when I had a chance to get one, decided to try, and then find out I can't get one unless someone sells one to me for thousands of dollars? Would I either say "screw that" and go play something else that's cheaper? Or would I cough up money I don't even have just to play with an elf? Clearly the latter is the only choice a true gamer would pick.
@@Martial-Mat I mean, it's how the Triple AAA Industry runs their businesses, FOMO-Induced Business. When it's malicious greed. And it's the same for these cryptobros, they want the world and all they got is duct tape and a dream of making it big with NFTs. lol
Even if the Crypto nonsense wouldn't be in there, when it said "use Materia to shorten respawn timer", it completely lost me. This is some phone game level of nonsense. "Oh you died? Give us 5 dollar or wait an hour, to respawn"... That alone is a deal breaker in any other game. The only way people would get me to play a Crypto game is by paying me to play it.
I actually decided against applying for a game dev job at a nearby company when I saw they were focussed mostly on NFT games, including the mentioned Spidertanks. The weird thing is, they have a trailer of a different game that is also a pvp game with spider tanks in it. But they really seem to want to go for NFT games now.
I love how these crypto bros keep saying crypto games are the future... and yet, as a gamer, there's not a single one of them I want to play. Something here isn't adding up...
"The five main classes include elves, halflings, orcs, dwarves and humans" - hmm. Didn't know that Races are Classes now. I thought all that Ranger, Warlock, Thief, etc were the classes...
it's times like this that I'm grateful that I live paycheck to paycheck but even if I did have the kind of money that crypto bros have I'd most likely just spend it on something I can touch and actually resell when I no longer want/need it.
Right? some days it's comforting knowing that you'd not even be able to lose anything to them, even if they somehow targeted you by mistake, because you have nothing to lose...
My key example of giving credit when arguing with crypto gaming guys was that axie infinity was the closest working example to on-chain gaming working and it actually seemed to at least be sort of promising. That example in fact didn't age very well.
The only type of "gamers" who even only potentially could "gain" anything from blockchain gaming are whales. People who get their enjoyment from spending lots of money to feel poweful / special in the game. Every other type of gamer wants skill based systems / systems without need for outside currency in order to have ingame progression. For these players, who are the clear majority, blockchain gaming will always be a bad thing by design. Why would I even start a new MMO where I can get my land / char / item not though my ingame actions alone but paying money to a cryptobro investor for the NFT?
At 6:20 all I can think is.. at least one person bought a Grand Inn, Camp, Large Inn, Majestic Inn, and Tent. It's rare for MMOS to use resting sites as anything other than a travel hub. And even then, their services are typically very cheap or free because it encourages roleplaying as a living being that needs sleep. So it's entirely possible that the cash someone dropped on the game could go to... a nonprofit building that people don't even realize is owned. Or worse, a building that nobody would even bother to use because the more expensive one is just always better. Or all of the resting sites give the same bonus so the Majestic Inn just looks nicer for 100x the cost of buying a tent. Or maybe all resting sites are pointless cosmetics. Because the game isn't out yet, all we have is an implicit promise that "it'll be worth it". And like Kira said, that's assuming that the game even manages to exist at some point in the future!
@Kira You absolutely must go through each and every game you listed towards the end of the videos and critique each one of them in the special way you do.
Well, you can play as an orc if that race hasn't been sold out by the time you make an account. Because that's what gamers _love-_ artificial scarcity!
No but guys, don't you get that you can _earn money_ by playing these games?? What isn't there to understand, who _doesn't_ want to earn money while playing video games?? Anyone who disagrees just simply doesn't get it. - Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft
Only having a limited number of playable races seems counter intuitive to building a big and successful MMO even before they’ve slapped the shit of crypto all over it. Think crypto bros need to take a step back and look at what a good and healthy game is first. And yes please review more of these as they provide me much joy seeing how delusional people are!
Crypto games turning everything into an expensive financial "asset" regardless on if it makes sense so you can "own" it unlike in other games where you just own it for free and get to enjoy a game.
Sad part is.. you dont own jack shit even on the blockchain... the moment the developer shuts down the servers to the game thats it . Your stuff is deleted.. and you have absolutely no legal recourse against that.
Bought an exemplar for £50 many months back. Then saw more info about the game economy and sold it pretty darn quick. It's totally pay to win in a huge way.
I don’t care if a game incorporates NFTs or Crypto, If the game is good I’ll play it, if it’s shit I won’t play it. So far I haven’t come across any good NFT/ Crypto games.
See, here is how I can tell they don't REALLY want a vibrant economic ecosystem... if they did, they would just go play EvE. They do not want an interesting, engaging economy that acts like a real one.. they want a speculative investment where they can be landlords and there is nothing players can do about it. Put another way, what they picture is a game with very strict police that protect them from poor people, and that this imbalance is baked right into 'the code is law'
To be fair on the devs, they probably didn't hear of Eve (despite it making the gaming headlines multiple times, but I doubt cryptobros play any actual games at all)
So I looked up some of these games on RUclips and one thing I immediately noticed was that nearly every video about them was from some channel that only does crypto stuff. It is always about "That is how much I earned" or "This is how you can start earning $$$" in the video title and thumbnail. If these really were fun and interesting games you would have some people talking about it, that aren't in it solely because of the crypto stuff. But there is nobody... It's only cryptobros.
Dead drop would be the interesting one to look at but atm it’s more like a normal game with NFTs sprinkled on the side with no idea how it’ll really work.
If NFTs are just a small sidenote, then we will argue that they do nothing new and that they have no good reason to exist and that they are a solution desperately searching for a problem. And if they are a strong, fundamental, unavoidable point that everything else is designed around like in these P2E titles, then we'll say it's just inferior, limited, unfun P2W trash. There is no winning this argument for cryptobros.
14:02 would've been funny to follow this with "this video was sponsored by War Thunder" War Thunder features the worst type of pay2win, including loot boxes, paid progression boosts, making sure non-paying users suffer, vehicles only available for paying customers, etc.
So I founded a Star Citizen org a couple years ago.... Pausing for laughter lol... And we have a few hundred members. It never ceases to amaze me how much expendable income people have. Like, in a way, it sorta makes sense to have a few hundred bucks into a game when you are the owner of a guild.. but even brand new players are willing to drop thousands of dollars! I'm still on the fence wether if it's a sign of a healthy society or a dying one. From my experience in SC I think there will be some very successful nft games but they HAVTA come with more than this.
Crypto games seem to me to be an attempt to import real-life social classes into video games: one class of people own all the stuff, and the other class just toils.
This might be very "woke" of me, but I'm kind of over the whole "this race makes good leaders, while this other race is good at obeying and working the fields" and don't really want it in my games.
@@oysteivi There are physical differences that cannot be overlooked. A halfling or a dwarf wont be running as fast as a orc or human due to the dwarfs and halflings having shorter legs. An stereotypical elf will not be able to lift the same weight as an orc because they lack musclemass. In turn a Orc will never be as agile as an elf because all that muscle slows them down. Thats how biology works. Thats what makes races stand apart from eachother and makes them unique. Without these differences it all boils down to cosmetics.. you are not adding to the identity of these races, you are taking away from what makes them unique. Why even have fantasy races if after everything is said and done everyones the same? Where i agree with though is the mental faculties. Theres no reason a dwarf should be less intelligent then an elf, or a halfling should be less of a leadership figure then a human.
I can't help but think some of these posters are just trying to bring awareness to their game, knowing any publicity is good publicity. Until they bring a lawsuit blaming you for being right... playing the long game, very clever you crypto homies.
I think there needs to be healthy criticism of projects, both before and after launch. Keep it up. Continue to be clear why you feel the game is bad. I don't agree with all of your assessments but I do like your approach.
7:00 lol, “tent” is sold out! Imagine playing a game and not even being able to have a basic tent and then having to buy one marked up from some shady rando…
It is what you do. I like your videos tho. I've been watching you for months. I like your content because as a business person in the crypto gaming space your and people your critical eye of the bs in the industry has help me to form a good business. We should have a real conversation. Because there are things you don't know and that's just that. My opinion on your content tho. It's great
I paused and looked at the list of games. As someone who is a gamer on an enthusiast hobby level, and who keeps up with news in gaming even for stuff I might not have specific interest in playing, I've never ever heard of one of these games. And that's the problem, isn't it? These games aren't about being games, it's about earning money in a less 'subtle' way that companies like EA and Activision try, and we already loathe THEM for that. If you haven't caught the attention of enthusiast gamers like myself, or the pletheora of non-crypto bro whales out there, then you're not really important, big, or meaningful in any way.
If the only way to use your NFTs is in one single game with one single marketplace, then it's just normal limited quantity game assets that took a wildly inefficient amount of processing power to generate and are transferred just as inefficiently.
I've been gaming for decades now, and this isn't the direction for gaming. This is absolute craziness. Keep doing this content. Nothing new, haven't seen anything revolutionary yet.
I love how crypto bros desperately need normal gamers to buy into their scam, but will insult the gamers in the same vein. They really can't help it, it's amazing.
crypto bros don't get that games have had the items/characters that can work in other games for decades. the reason this is not common is licensng/coding. it being a nft doesn't magically it work
@@toomanyaccounts Naaah cmon bruh if Frostmourne was an Nft I could totally use it in Sims 3
Pump and dump!
@@Larry 😂😂😂😂
@@Larry Feels more like excrete in hand then fling
The only people who defend blockchains and NFT's are those stupid enough for have already fallen for it.
The definition of sunk cost fallacy
It's like a religion at this point
If you can't see the scam, you're the mark.
Maybe nfts have their use somewhere but they do not bring ANYTHING extra to games. What does it matter if my pink rabbit ears hat exist as nft or only in game database? It does not change anything, whenever game closes value of that nft is 0 as it is unusable anywhere else.
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It's like they're going out on a battlefield, with a neon green light saying: "shoot here" - type of deal.
Cryptobros are on new level of drugs.
Imagine booting up an MMO and getting to character creation and they're like, "Nope. Sorry. We're sold out of humans."
“If you want to play as human, you must purchase one from the market!”
It's so innovative!
inovative and original
yeah, fuck off with that
And I thought lord of the rings online was being restrictive af when they banned certain races from certain classes
Ya know... Every time I see a company making a mmo, I’m just reminded of the absolute graveyard of MMOs that have come before.
theres so many its wild, my perspective is crazy. im 31, grew up on CS 1.6 and quake. my friends all played WoW and stuff but thats the only big mmo. nothing came close. then i went off to work for ten years, and now have time for the first time again to chill and game.
so i go on steam and think, maybe ill finally try an mmo instead of an fps, so i search it on steam... holy, fucking, shit, its like, what happened. its just trash, as far as the eye can see, like the WALL E planet is what steam is now. its wild, so i bought a fly fishing rod yesterday.
It's been two decades and there's only been one WoW, and now even WoW isn't WoW.
Because they see WoW and go "yeah that's simple. We can do that"
While not having any actual concept of what makes a MMO function properly
@@themattylee wow was very recently usurped by ffxiv
There’s WoW, and then there’s RuneScape. That’s basically the only two MMOs I can think of off the top of my head that have stuck around for a decade or two now, with virtually everything else getting the plug pulled on them for not performing well enough to justify further investment of time and resources into them.
If I opened an online game and all the 'cool' races that are standard across other games for free were locked I would quit and delete it immediately. This 'game' has zero respect for new players, and new players are the only thing that keeps online games alive.
now i'm starting to think it's not "pay to win" but "pay to enter" and having to pay for every major step forward
Yeah, only having 1k elves is a big middle finger to players who like magic. I always play casters in games, and if I cannot I don't play the game. Why would a caster player even bother? I like calling lightning and throwing fireballs.
@@tomlxyz
Pay to Live
People hate gender lock, but paywalled character are whole different level of stupidity like pay to earn scam, RMT ruin the game but they force RMT are they never experienced bot and cheater invested game?
@@tomlxyz pay for everything and the developer gets a royalty on everything
Gaming : "If the services are free, then the users are the product."
Crypto : "The services are premium, and users still chose to be the product."
more like Crypto:the Users are the scammers.
Gaming: The worst of us make micro-transactions, gachas and loot-boxes.
Crypto: The best of us loot the place before it burns to the ground, that was why we built it in the first place.
@@honaleri bro you don't gotta do them like that. Real talk tho you are absolutely correct
@@honaleri I have to say as a long time gacha sucker, that's offensive to me when you compare gacha/mtx/lootbox system to a crypto. those unholy trinity is already bad enough, but crypto is just a whole new level of terribleness(?).
Everything in the game truly "belongs" to players.... until the devs shut down the game or ban your account.
Then they'll say
"Oh nononono! It's on the blockchain! You still own it!"
Ok but what are you gonna do with it outside of the game?
or just "steal it" like been with a lot crypto projects , they freeze trading on platform you "own it" , cash in theirs , and yours is worthless on end of the day
You ever played World of Warcraft? Runescape? or any game in which there is a second hand market for items which players WANT to trade/barter with each other? This just allows you to do what players already want to do without Blizzard banning your account lol.
@@HomeandYacht so what you are saying to me is that the "metaverse" mmos are just the same as regular Old games plus the insane p2w(the video said that the coin was use to "cast magic, level up)? so why use blockchain?
@@rokingfrost8446 You have to understand that just because a game uses blockchain technology, it doesn't necessarily mean its play to win or that one game's economy (if any) works the same as another. All the games I mentioned to Kira which he chose not to look into all have different tokenomics and use cases for blockchain integration. A blockchain is simply a public ledger that shows who owns what and what transactions were made so its perfect for games in which players are looking to obtain specific in-game items and want to barter with each other.
Crypto can be summarized as
"Trying to reinvent the wheel to be a square"
They are trying to trick people into buying digital numbers instead of gold.
and selling it to you for a higher price
And the wheel is on fire.
This is why people dislike NFT's and blockchain gaming, more than anything. If you're not a fan of crypto, you won't care for blockchain gaming. That said, Bitcoin isn't reinventing the wheel.. has staying power and a very good reason for its creation (see 2008 financial crisis).
@@wonderwallz99 if you're a fan of gaming you won't be fan of blockchain gaming is the truth.
Also bitcoin was just reinventing currency. It literally wasn't anything new.
I'll be honest - even though it probably feels like you're just constantly repeating yourself when you make these videos, I still enjoy them. They make me laugh. So, sure ... Let's see more. Easy content to find when cryptobros just keep lobbing it over to you
Its like war on terror, it never ends. It can only go to the moon.😂
Exactly my sentiment. Unpacking the novel ways these things are all still exactly the same is interesting.
Hmm cryptobro where have I heard that before?
Agreed, love Kira's take on these absolute ish shows, always a good laugh!
@@HomeandYachtIn every video about you clowns? What's the point you're trying to make here lmao. Go suck some rich fuck's cock in the hope he gives you the money you wasted on these "investments."
Oh, definitely go through that list of games that demonstrate how good and fun blockchain games definitely exist. It's quite entertaining content.
Seconded!
+1 , Bonus points if any of them use the same assets as another.
Yup, true dat.
+1. I want to laugh at all of them
Malus points if blockchain technology is actually used in an innovative approach!
It's admirable with how many ways they can come up to say "we'll have microtransactions, but more expensive"
I think it's more like "we'll have microtransactions and if you get in early enough you can cash in too"
More like "Marcrotransactions in a "game" that maybe comes out some day, hopefully, theoretically"
“It’s pay to win and if you spend a couple hundred dollars on assets now, before the game is even out, you’ll have a massive advantage”
“What do you mean gamers don’t like this, they clearly don’t know what they want!”
And they think that's a recipe for success. What a joke.
But much, much, oh so much more expensive
Please cover all of these. I love these “My First MMO” presentations. It’s like seeing little kids try to explain how their lemonade stand is going to overthrow Apple, only for them to give up before they finish purchasing the supplies.
3:36 - 3:57 And what if the 1000 players suddenly die in RL or decide to abandon the game without selling their elven characters to other, active ones? Elves die out then? These guys have either not thought this through or don't care about these long-term implications. An entirely FOMO-driven travesty is that.
It also puts a very hard limit on the amount of players that can ever be in the game ever. So when the inevitable drop off of the older players happens, the game will be kicked into a death spiral faster than FTX. If it lasts even a week, I'd be surprised...
@@FranNyan Which is pretty good evidence that all they care about is the up-front "investment", which will inevitably lead to a rugpull.
What do they care about the second-hand market? They'll make the most money up front, even if they charge commission on character transfers. It's only a terrible game design if they truly meant to make a great game with longevity. But this is 99 % a rugpull.
They’ll just make some more elves. They’ll have to if they want an ongoing revenue stream.
First - you are right. 2nd - this is a scam and this game will never exist.
I find it funny how they often refer to the game and its gameplay as "unique".
Take for example this paragraph: "These specializations in skills will encourage players to cooperate with one another in order to achieve more than what their class can do alone. This will make the overall gameplay of Mirandus fun, challenging and *unique*. "
Now here's the funny thing IMO. This is literally every effing MMORPG out there. It's called "tank", "DPS" and hold on to your hat... "Healer/Buffer".
Just because they call it something different in this poor excuse of a 'game', doesnt make it remotely unique.
I gotta be honest, this literally made me laugh so hard. Not sure what that guy is sniffing that wrote those things. These "Examplars" have their strengths and weaknesses, and you should(must) team up with other examplars to fill the 'skills' your examplar doesnt have. Again... Tank/DPS/Healer.
There's literally *nothing* unique here, at all. But hopefully people have more than 2 braincells, and DO realize that this is just marketing BS. "oh it's gonna be the best game ever, super unique, blah blah". Ha, well first of all, let's see if it ever comes out as a game to begin with.
Then we can all play it, and experience this unique gameplay mechanic where you need to use different roles/classes..oh sorry, I meant to say "Examplars", to build this traditional mmorpg party/team.
Still dont get people like the one Kira showed in the opening, that sent that message. What's wrong with some people. It's like they've lost every single little braincell they had, and just cant wait to lose all their money and then go live on the streets.
WIth the economy we're in right now, I dont see how anyone with even half a braincell would throw their money at these 'games' (not even games, but let's be "nice" to the fools).
Not even the playable races are unique or the setting.
But they might do something crazy we never seen before. Like a hybrid class.
Can you imagine the possibilities?!
?
What do you mean that's a thing already?
It sounds "unique" to crypto bros... the only people stupid enough to look at this pay to win scheme and go "that is the future" XD
See they dont actually try to advertise to people who actually play mmos or even video games... they want to attract the type of "financial advisers" that really arent financial advisers, but sexpests that harass women on discord ;)
Ofcourse its only a pay to win scheme if the game will ever become reality... wich when it comes to crypto/NFT/blockchain nonsense more often then not never happens
They all claim to be next next WoW, Runescape, Ultima, Everquest, ST:TOR, Albion or Pirates of the Burning Sea, with unique gameplay, yet also somehow are supposed to also be the MMO to bring back the same nostalgia? Feel the same?!
"Our game is unique" *proceeds to present features that could not be more generic if they tried and older than first RPG videogame"
This argument of "you truly own these items" is completely useless. Say the game goes offline and the servers shut down, which will happen eventually, me really owning these items is of no use at all to me because their actual value only exists within the context of the game. Without the game, it's just some useless code that has no application anymore.
Let me sell you a screenshot of my items from an mmo that shut down, I'm sure it'll be highly valued.
Yeah, if someone truly "owns" this stuff, and it's real actual stuff with value, then the company basically can't legally shut the game down without somehow compensating the asset owners. Which is obviously stupid, the dev will never put themselves under that kind of obligation. I'm not sure they even could.
If there were one single Metaverse that was publicly-owned (some kind of accursed government-run VRchat/Roblox hybrid or something) and things in it were legally transferrable, then MAYBE some of the things these crypto-gaming scammers promise could be done. Except none of them would ever accept a government-run Metaverse, because then it would have regulations and laws.
@@Uryvichk i imagine the devs could fall into that legal issue with a user agreement poorly thought out enough
@@chainswordcs Possibly. I don't think it's IMPOSSIBLE to make the claim that an intangible product in a game is a thing of value in a legal sense (software has value, stocks have value, neither of those are exactly tangible per se, etc.). And I suppose, if you acknowledged or failed to disclaim that a game asset purchased for real money solely had value within the game, you could be on the hook for it. Realistically, though, the present state of things already has a fallback for scummy devs: "Yeah we shut the game down, but your NFT still exists, we didn't take away the thing-of-value that you own, we just changed the circumstances that would result in how its value is appraised."
Arguably, a game can do that already without shutting down through things like patches and buffs/nerfs, but a court would probably frown on the idea that you suffered an injury due to changes in circumstances of that sort (again, like stocks, you can't sue because their value went down because a company made a bad decision, absent specific legal justification).
Basically what I'm saying is that the NFT grift already lets you say "Yeah you have the thing of value still, its value is just zero now that it can't be used for anything. Deal with it." Shutting a game down isn't denying you the thing you own, because an NFT is conveniently just a pointer or receipt and you totally still own that even if you don't own whatever it pointed to.
@@Uryvichk Oh, the TOS will probably say that you own _that blockchain entry with a token,_ and that is it. You will do so after the game shuts down (provided you move it out of the in-game wallet before that becomes inaccessible) but it will do nothing anywhere else.
Most games: Let's make our game fun enough that people want to spend more money on it!
Crypto games: Let's make people spend enough money that they feel obligated to keep playing the game in the hope of finding fun.
Pretty sure it was the ex-CEO of Square Enix who said something along the lines of “playing games for fun is an outdated concept” while marketing the new Square Enix NFT game
Seriously, could they be any more transparent about the fact that they only care about money.
tbf Ea and many other triple a companies mantra has been the second for a long time
@@thesilverblueman
And that's why Indie games have become so popular over the years. Because they can actually be fun, and for a _lot_ less money.
@@tepig2828 I think that's one reason I've always been a Nintendo fan. Yeah, they want to make money, but they still seem to think the best way to do that is to make the games fun to play (for now, at least).
@@jj48 They are slowly turning their games *into* the latter, not fun to play games that are only there to squeeze you out of money.
This is an example of exactly why I say NFT's will ruin gameplay loops.
"I want to play an elf"
"Tough titties, there aren't any left,"
"I want that item, I'll be happy to do stuff in game and play the game to actually earn it"
"Tough titties, there aren't any left, maybe you can pay another player to give you theirs"
Just the bit I don't get is why people pretend scarcity is a good thing? I get it is for people who want to make money off of it and exploit supply & demand for more money.
I always felt the wonderful thing about the digital platform is that it takes away scarcity. Scaricity is just an unfortunate limitation of reality. Why the fuck do we want to bring it into our digital world? It only seems to benefit grifters and those who want to exploit money out of it. Kira is right to separate the two kinds of people, I look at a video game because I want to play it and enjoy it and have fun, these limitations would hinder the experience. But my reduced experience exists to help somebody else grift and make money? Fuck that.
Yes exactly, the whole concept makes me sad and frustrated. Artificially walling things off from anyone who can't afford it is gross, we already have enough of that in the real world.
@@r-pupz7032 pretty much.
If there was more than enough housing in the real world and it was super affordable, nobody's gonna go "I miss the time where it was difficult to find a good house or find a house in a sensible spot and when they cost several times the price so those who couldn't afford it had to compromise with shitty living arrangements. It was so much better than everybody being able to own one and not going without or needing to be richer than they are"
Granted, a house is more essential than a video game, but of course point being, there's no personal benefit to forced scarcity when there is already enough to go around.
Sometimes an "Innovative" thing isn't because it's so original nobody thought about. It's something everyone thought about and immediately said "This is dogshit."
This is the future of sadness.
Fortunatly it's not the future for many
@@tomlxyz just fools with too much free time and too much income. 🤣
Reminds me of thrash metal bands in the 90s. The genre was flooded with shitty dime a dozen cookie cutter bands as far as the eye could see. Then things leveled out as time went on. This cryptobro game crap will pass just the same.
@svendleberries461 yeah but no idiot had to lose their life savings first.
These games won't stop til every gullible mark gets educated.
They should start teaching financial responsibility in schools at about 8yrs of age.
Still don't understand why games even need to be on the blockchain. Why can't you just own things without it being blockchain verified. I don't think video games are struggling with fake assets being added into their games
@Sara Øverby exactly. They are trying to do something already done but do it WORSE than others.
But you see I can OWN my character's items (that exist purely on infrastructure owned and fully manipulable by the developer)
Especially with MMOS where you allready cannot do anything with your toons or items outside the confines of the game and where the developer/publisher/server provider has full control over everything.
They are basically slapping a "new formula" sticker on pay to win cashstores and promise you that you actually "own" the stuff you buy... but i bet they will still reserve the right to ban you for whatever reason if they want to...
You dont own anything no matter if its on the blockchain or on some chinese server farm...
If this is the future of gaming, then I'll figure out how to connect my Atari 2600 to my HD TV and go back playing Ms. Pac-Man from 1988....
Do what I did. Loaded a Raspberry Pi with RetroArch and a massive portable drive full of every rom and iso I've collected over the last couple decades
What I loved about games is that after you buy it, your personal real life wealth and wallet didn't matter anymore. Everyone started out with zero and only your skill and time invested mattered. I feel like NFT shit is a massive step back and only interesting to a tiny niche. Like you often said, people who are interested in trading, finances and stuff like that usually are NOT gamers and if they are, they probably want games to be games and finances be finances. It doesn't mix well
One detail that caught my attention: the main class is the race, so if you wanna play as a human spellcaster you cannot, because that is a elf thing. Stealth? Halfling. A tank elf? Nope, must be orc.
Thought this kinda of thing was left in the past.
The experience of EVE Online continues to show me that if a game talks about "a robust, player-driven economy" but doesn't have a staff economist on hand to advise how to adjust crafting material spawn rates to keep said economy stable, they are not going to have a "robust economy".
If you read between the lines here, casting spells costs money, and elves (the most expensive class) are heavily specialized towards that. They turned being a whale into a class.
'Reduce revival time after death' always a fun mechanic
Scam artists and Liars get really angry when you call them out on their bs and even angrier when you inform their next potential victim. Never stop doing what you do Kira, but also I think they get off on getting a 10-20 minute video spanking.
The people you have to watch out for are the ones who bought in and weren't previously aware it was a scam. They will hold on to their pride that they DEFINITELY didn't get scammed and that YOU simply don't get it until their dying (or bankrupt) breath.
I woke up this morning hacking up loogies, but your video made me feel a lot better.
I don't hate you, but yes, I:d like to see you do these other GALA Games.
Hope you are feeling better, and thank you very much.
It's very simple: If you do somethnig for money, then it's not a game, it's work. If you pay in money in the hope of getting more money, that's not a game, that's financial investment. Show me a blockchain game I can play only for fun, then we can talk about its quality.
They sure use the word "unique" a lot for very common features
Yep, describe things from the base versions of games 20 years old ..... call it innovation. SMH.
@@toddtaylor6506 To be fair, from what we have seen of most crypto bros here on youtube and around the web... they certainly would believe its a "unique" and "never seen before" thing...
They never played mmos before, so that's why it's unique for them.
Oh, that word's not for us, the people who have ever seen an MMO before. It's surprisingly effective how just saying you're doing a unique thing will convince someone who's never seen it before that you are, and they'll probably still believe you after seeing proof you're not. You see people complaining that Tolkein's work is "too derivative", you see Warhammer being accused of ripping off Blizzard, etc.
Whichever one gets in front of your eyes first has a LOT of power in your perception of innovation.
Also, remember that gamers aren't *really* the target market for this sort of shit. They want people who are looking to expand their wealth, but have little investment (*cough*scam*cough*) knowledge, who find shares and similar intimidating, but keep hearing about 'new' and 'disruptive' tech companies making billions. THOSE suckers are the targets.
Been there, bought into the hype and luckily got to my senses before I lost too much money. Thrust me, you're 100% correct on this.
Play to earn game, sounds like work. And will be filled with bots and cheaters. Worst case, it's disguised malware that uses your computer as a crypto miner as you play this program. I can't call this thing a game.
"Innovative gameplay...we have a term for that, Pay to Win." Nailed it, well said sir!
That casually delivered boot leather line. I literally did a double take.
The guy narrating the trailer sounds more like the CEO of a company giving a quarterly report to shareholders, rather than a developer or community manager presenting the game's features to their target audience.
Really tells you a lot about who the developers see as their true customers. Hint: it's not the normal players.
What I find funny as you mention about the elves. If I didn't get into the game when I had a chance to get one, decided to try, and then find out I can't get one unless someone sells one to me for thousands of dollars?
Would I either say "screw that" and go play something else that's cheaper? Or would I cough up money I don't even have just to play with an elf?
Clearly the latter is the only choice a true gamer would pick.
Ah, but just like Spider Tanks, you can "rent" an Elf Exemplar from its owner.
100%. Whenever I see false scarcity in ANY product, online or in real life, I just walk away in disgust. I HATE being emotionally manipulated.
@@Martial-Mat Crypto-Games = FOMO Induced Economies. lol
@@ArmageddonEvil I suppose in a case where there are limited assets available that's true. I think mostly, it's just naive greed.
@@Martial-Mat I mean, it's how the Triple AAA Industry runs their businesses, FOMO-Induced Business. When it's malicious greed. And it's the same for these cryptobros, they want the world and all they got is duct tape and a dream of making it big with NFTs. lol
Arya not entertained?!
I love watching you analyze these crypto games. I love it even more when you come back a year later to tell us how far the project got 🤣
Another great video! Have a beer on me, Kira!
Did you look at the prices? Absolutely insane. Like $700 for human up to $16000 for an elf. So dumb.
Even if the Crypto nonsense wouldn't be in there, when it said "use Materia to shorten respawn timer", it completely lost me. This is some phone game level of nonsense. "Oh you died? Give us 5 dollar or wait an hour, to respawn"... That alone is a deal breaker in any other game. The only way people would get me to play a Crypto game is by paying me to play it.
"I've played MMOs since 1997. I've played hundreds of them. They're almost always dogshit." - Kira, MMO fan
Real and true.
Definitely look at the other ones! There’s no ceiling to how hilarious these projects are
The snark levels were off the charts in this one. One of the funniest videos you've done in ages, great job!
Yes, go through them all!
I actually decided against applying for a game dev job at a nearby company when I saw they were focussed mostly on NFT games, including the mentioned Spidertanks. The weird thing is, they have a trailer of a different game that is also a pvp game with spider tanks in it. But they really seem to want to go for NFT games now.
Hope you get work. Smart to avoid the stank a NFT focused company would have marked you with.
@@thatHARVguy I found one. General programming, not game programming, but hey.
I wont lie, your entire series of videos about this type of bullshit has been nothing short of illuminating.
Keep fighting the good fight.
I would like to know if that Walking Dead game obtained the rights for the trademark or not.
I love how these crypto bros keep saying crypto games are the future... and yet, as a gamer, there's not a single one of them I want to play.
Something here isn't adding up...
"The five main classes include elves, halflings, orcs, dwarves and humans" - hmm. Didn't know that Races are Classes now. I thought all that Ranger, Warlock, Thief, etc were the classes...
I saw the thumbnail and I was like "oh no" although admittedly I say that every time I see Kira in a thumbnail touching his temple.
it's times like this that I'm grateful that I live paycheck to paycheck but even if I did have the kind of money that crypto bros have I'd most likely just spend it on something I can touch and actually resell when I no longer want/need it.
Lol, grateful for living paycheck to paycheck? Are you insane?
It feels bad knowing you live stuck like that, but remember these people are never happy. It's never enough. You value what you have.
Right? some days it's comforting knowing that you'd not even be able to lose anything to them, even if they somehow targeted you by mistake, because you have nothing to lose...
My key example of giving credit when arguing with crypto gaming guys was that axie infinity was the closest working example to on-chain gaming working and it actually seemed to at least be sort of promising. That example in fact didn't age very well.
The only type of "gamers" who even only potentially could "gain" anything from blockchain gaming are whales. People who get their enjoyment from spending lots of money to feel poweful / special in the game.
Every other type of gamer wants skill based systems / systems without need for outside currency in order to have ingame progression. For these players, who are the clear majority, blockchain gaming will always be a bad thing by design. Why would I even start a new MMO where I can get my land / char / item not though my ingame actions alone but paying money to a cryptobro investor for the NFT?
At 6:20 all I can think is.. at least one person bought a Grand Inn, Camp, Large Inn, Majestic Inn, and Tent.
It's rare for MMOS to use resting sites as anything other than a travel hub. And even then, their services are typically very cheap or free because it encourages roleplaying as a living being that needs sleep.
So it's entirely possible that the cash someone dropped on the game could go to... a nonprofit building that people don't even realize is owned. Or worse, a building that nobody would even bother to use because the more expensive one is just always better. Or all of the resting sites give the same bonus so the Majestic Inn just looks nicer for 100x the cost of buying a tent. Or maybe all resting sites are pointless cosmetics. Because the game isn't out yet, all we have is an implicit promise that "it'll be worth it".
And like Kira said, that's assuming that the game even manages to exist at some point in the future!
@Kira You absolutely must go through each and every game you listed towards the end of the videos and critique each one of them in the special way you do.
They’re not even saying anything. They’re just saying “this game will be amazing” just phrased differently over and over.
Oh man please dissect more of these god awful "games". I love it when you tear into this stuff.
Would be fun to see you go through them!
Bizarre how greed can be the only game mechanic. Why can't my ass receive funding to make an NFT RPG. I actually know how to make a fun one
Please go through all of these!
- Them: "Here is our new innovative game!"
- Also them: "With humans, orcs, elves, halflings!"
- Me: *yaaaaawwwwn*
wait, so I don’t have to play as a human, but could play as a orc, or a goblin or some other shit?? dang this game sound innovative af
Well, you can play as an orc if that race hasn't been sold out by the time you make an account. Because that's what gamers _love-_ artificial scarcity!
No but guys, don't you get that you can _earn money_ by playing these games?? What isn't there to understand, who _doesn't_ want to earn money while playing video games?? Anyone who disagrees just simply doesn't get it.
- Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft
Yes please. Very informative and valuable. Anything that fights this trend
Love how casually the video talks about the worst pay to win methods like they just invented them.
I ALWAYS want to see you check those games. Go for it kira!
Only having a limited number of playable races seems counter intuitive to building a big and successful MMO even before they’ve slapped the shit of crypto all over it. Think crypto bros need to take a step back and look at what a good and healthy game is first. And yes please review more of these as they provide me much joy seeing how delusional people are!
World would be so much better if crypto gaming space was an actual joke, not a figurative one
Crypto games turning everything into an expensive financial "asset" regardless on if it makes sense so you can "own" it unlike in other games where you just own it for free and get to enjoy a game.
Sad part is.. you dont own jack shit even on the blockchain... the moment the developer shuts down the servers to the game thats it . Your stuff is deleted.. and you have absolutely no legal recourse against that.
Is so easy to write promises on a website, and now we just prompt GPT to write great promises and start collecting money
Boy, I do love me some Race-As-Class. That's just swell.
*original D&D flashbacks*
Bought an exemplar for £50 many months back. Then saw more info about the game economy and sold it pretty darn quick. It's totally pay to win in a huge way.
How much did you lose?
He probably turned a profit. On OpenSea, the cheapest Exemplar sells for well over $100, and usually a lot more than that.
@@Remls I made £100. So a happy mistake, as Bob Ross would say.
@@Mr.Glitch so you scammed some one
@@ladyaceina how is someone offering to buy something a scam?
I don’t care if a game incorporates NFTs or Crypto, If the game is good I’ll play it, if it’s shit I won’t play it. So far I haven’t come across any good NFT/ Crypto games.
See, here is how I can tell they don't REALLY want a vibrant economic ecosystem... if they did, they would just go play EvE. They do not want an interesting, engaging economy that acts like a real one.. they want a speculative investment where they can be landlords and there is nothing players can do about it.
Put another way, what they picture is a game with very strict police that protect them from poor people, and that this imbalance is baked right into 'the code is law'
To be fair on the devs, they probably didn't hear of Eve (despite it making the gaming headlines multiple times, but I doubt cryptobros play any actual games at all)
@@Demopans5990 it is almost like they lack any relevant domain knowledge....
So I looked up some of these games on RUclips and one thing I immediately noticed was that nearly every video about them was from some channel that only does crypto stuff.
It is always about "That is how much I earned" or "This is how you can start earning $$$" in the video title and thumbnail.
If these really were fun and interesting games you would have some people talking about it, that aren't in it solely because of the crypto stuff.
But there is nobody... It's only cryptobros.
Dead drop would be the interesting one to look at but atm it’s more like a normal game with NFTs sprinkled on the side with no idea how it’ll really work.
If NFTs are just a small sidenote, then we will argue that they do nothing new and that they have no good reason to exist and that they are a solution desperately searching for a problem. And if they are a strong, fundamental, unavoidable point that everything else is designed around like in these P2E titles, then we'll say it's just inferior, limited, unfun P2W trash. There is no winning this argument for cryptobros.
I do love your roasts of cryptogames, please do more.
I got a ad for a game called Sky Utopia, I was told by a AI generated voice that “the graphics where literally GC”
I get those too, and the footage seems to be stolen from the game Biomutant .
Yes go through it, I would love for you to get a ntf game follower on a call and pick their brain.
Most NFT developers be like, this piece of blank paper is the best game ever.
14:02 would've been funny to follow this with "this video was sponsored by War Thunder"
War Thunder features the worst type of pay2win, including loot boxes, paid progression boosts, making sure non-paying users suffer, vehicles only available for paying customers, etc.
So I founded a Star Citizen org a couple years ago.... Pausing for laughter lol... And we have a few hundred members. It never ceases to amaze me how much expendable income people have. Like, in a way, it sorta makes sense to have a few hundred bucks into a game when you are the owner of a guild.. but even brand new players are willing to drop thousands of dollars! I'm still on the fence wether if it's a sign of a healthy society or a dying one. From my experience in SC I think there will be some very successful nft games but they HAVTA come with more than this.
I'm so here for the whole list, tear this whole list down hahahahahha
Crypto games seem to me to be an attempt to import real-life social classes into video games: one class of people own all the stuff, and the other class just toils.
Yeah it reminds me when people defend P2W games by saying it's "Just like the real world" like why do you think people play video games?
3:30 Those aren't classes those are races. Classes are the type of warriors u can be.
This might be very "woke" of me, but I'm kind of over the whole "this race makes good leaders, while this other race is good at obeying and working the fields" and don't really want it in my games.
@@oysteivi There are physical differences that cannot be overlooked. A halfling or a dwarf wont be running as fast as a orc or human due to the dwarfs and halflings having shorter legs. An stereotypical elf will not be able to lift the same weight as an orc because they lack musclemass. In turn a Orc will never be as agile as an elf because all that muscle slows them down.
Thats how biology works. Thats what makes races stand apart from eachother and makes them unique. Without these differences it all boils down to cosmetics.. you are not adding to the identity of these races, you are taking away from what makes them unique. Why even have fantasy races if after everything is said and done everyones the same?
Where i agree with though is the mental faculties. Theres no reason a dwarf should be less intelligent then an elf, or a halfling should be less of a leadership figure then a human.
@@oysteivi Well I do
I own and work with many Synty packs and dont recognize any of those assets but they definitely look like asset store assets.
I can't help but think some of these posters are just trying to bring awareness to their game, knowing any publicity is good publicity. Until they bring a lawsuit blaming you for being right... playing the long game, very clever you crypto homies.
Kira, I will never tire of you shitting on cryptobros and NFTs and garbage MMOs. Keep 'em coming. 💚
Check em all out, sounds like a good run of content for ya
I think there needs to be healthy criticism of projects, both before and after launch. Keep it up. Continue to be clear why you feel the game is bad. I don't agree with all of your assessments but I do like your approach.
7:00 lol, “tent” is sold out!
Imagine playing a game and not even being able to have a basic tent and then having to buy one marked up from some shady rando…
The crypto bro asked for it. Roast them all
It is what you do. I like your videos tho. I've been watching you for months. I like your content because as a business person in the crypto gaming space your and people your critical eye of the bs in the industry has help me to form a good business. We should have a real conversation. Because there are things you don't know and that's just that. My opinion on your content tho. It's great
I paused and looked at the list of games. As someone who is a gamer on an enthusiast hobby level, and who keeps up with news in gaming even for stuff I might not have specific interest in playing, I've never ever heard of one of these games. And that's the problem, isn't it? These games aren't about being games, it's about earning money in a less 'subtle' way that companies like EA and Activision try, and we already loathe THEM for that. If you haven't caught the attention of enthusiast gamers like myself, or the pletheora of non-crypto bro whales out there, then you're not really important, big, or meaningful in any way.
If the only way to use your NFTs is in one single game with one single marketplace, then it's just normal limited quantity game assets that took a wildly inefficient amount of processing power to generate and are transferred just as inefficiently.
I'll literally watch any content you drop, so go for any of em. Spider tanks sounds legit
The old adage still rings true: "A fool and his money are soon parted."
I've been gaming for decades now, and this isn't the direction for gaming. This is absolute craziness. Keep doing this content. Nothing new, haven't seen anything revolutionary yet.
I'd say go ahead and review them, let us budding game makers have a good look at what not to do 🤘🖖👌❤