Today in the news!
– Kojima’s next horror game!?
– Epic Games Goes Crypto
– Street Fighter 6’s Game Face
Notes and Links:
Kojima’s next horror game!? – https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hideo-kojima-is-reportedly-working-on-a-horror-game-called-overdose/
Epic Games Goes Crypto – https://kotaku.com/epic-games-web3-pc-blockchain-nft-video-game-grit-1849025194
Street Fighter 6’s Game Face – https://wccftech.com/street-fighter-6-game-face-feature-lets-players-change-facial-expressions-on-the-versus-screen-ryus-new-special-moves-revealed/?beta=1
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28 Comments
Avoided Epic Games and games hosted only on there/requiring it because I figured something like this would happen. Just didn't think it'd happen using…THIS. Please fail already.
If all the middle class and poor folks avoid NFTs, we can all sit back and laugh as the rich trade these things back and forth in the vain hope of making money from it. As long as we never participate, they'll never make enough money to make it worth their while.
What? Epic? Nooo those nice people who made a fortune chasing trends (abandoned a game they were already accepting pre-orders for to make a Battle Royale) and stealing other people's work (Apex Legends' team-based balancing and Among Us's entire gameplay including the map design that is integral to its success) are into NFTs? I can't believe this.
End-Stage Capitalism is just all greed, and it's finding ways to infect everything we do to extract every last cent from us.
The only thing I use Epic for is to grab their free games every few week, They're the dumpster diving of the gaming world.
If they're trying to sell me on owning "unique" assets in a video game, why dont they try selling me some I actually want to look at? I mean they dont even have a leg to stand on with this new BR. It looks just as skeezy as it is.
Might as well just work a few more hours or get a second job, at least that way you'll be making as opposed to losing money whilst working.
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?????
The problem is that you don't actually "own" any part of the game, and in fact this is the whole reason NFTs are seen as a joke. Crypto bros just keep throwing around the term "ownership" but the fact is NFTs havent been used to give you meaningful ownership of anything so far.
Also let me just point out that in the first place you will never truly "own" an online game because the company that owns the rights to it can just kill off or abandon the servers for good and there's nothing you can do about it (until someone makes a fan server I guess). NFTs dont change that.
i dont own my games?
Well looks like the whole epic store vs steam had some merit after all.
I still dont understand what NFT's mean.
How is it different if I buy a hat skin on any other game that then I own that hat on my account, where would it being an NFT make it different?
Well, I just got another reason not to buy games on Epic. Not that I was anyway but it just makes the timed exclusives that keep going over there just that little bit more annoying to wait on. It also makes me question the companies willing to work with them. This NFT craze can't die fast enough. Unfortunately, it's probably going to be a while yet.
Saw the title and I knew someone f'd up
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Are we really surprised epic is cool with blockchain stuff
Glad i boycotted Epic ever since it became a thing.
Nfts & pay to win are gonna kill the game industry… loot boxes 📦 are bad enough…
Epic Games is, somehow, the most unsurprising company to do crypto bs. I'm surprised it took this long, honestly.
"When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you." —Lolly Daskal
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Epig was always scummy, no wonder they embrace nft crap.
I will keep reiterating, if companies wanted the concept of nft to benefit the players, they would let players resell their keys for the Game.
and msot importently there is own and then there is own, one is supported by law the other isnt
Just when you thought the gaming industry couldn’t get any worse…
Man that wild west crypto game thing does not look good at all and that's beside the blockchain nft garbage.
If u needed any more convincing that EGS is the evil counterpart to steam then look no further than one said no Crypto and the other said Crypto battle royal.
Eh it's nice to be able to sell skins. It works for Rust on steam just fine. Making skins easily resellable means you can get some money back when you are done with it, or transfer to a friend vs the current industry where they just keep everything. I'm sure people wish they could sell their league of legends skins / fortnite skins / pubg etc. It's free money.