Legal consequences and morality aside, I just can’t imagine being so mad at someone that I’d give myself a body shop bill over it.

Late 90s: Squaresoft nearly goes bankrupt due to a wildly ambitious CGI movie, merges with Enix to survive.
2024: Square Enix nearly goes bankrupt due to wildly illogical push into pyramid schemes, acquired by Epic purely so that Cloud and Sephiroth can be in Fortnite

Planets dying’, Cloud!

I hope the pushback continues so it doesn’t become a new norm

Yep, dlc and microtransactions at least have a problem they solve (“I want morencontent for the game I like” and “I want something I can get into for cheap and then pay more if I like it” respectively)

That’s the problem though. Anything that doesn’t get massive, sustained pushback - drm, mtx, games launching unfinished - becomes the new normal. We’ve seen it time and again. And it was never for the good of the consumer.

There are a lot of people behind NFTs in gaming that absolutely see this as how people reacted to microtransactions or, more broadly, any sort of contentious development in how gaming is consumed over the years.

That is to say, if they push hard enough, ignore enough of the criticism and keep making it a thing, people…

As evidence of this, the owner included in-car footage of himself at Virginia International Raceway turning in a 2 minute, 17 seconds lap. For context, Car and Driver lapped a McLaren Senna around VIR in 2019 in 2 minutes 34.9 seconds.

It’s a pyramid scheme, yes. You need new customers coming in constantly to pay off the ones already playing (assuming you even could play the game to begin with that is), which is somewhat problematic because pretty quickly you need more players than the entire population of planet Earth to keep the scam going.

Nah bro, leave it to be immortalized as an NFT egg to be hatched or something

Oh, they’re still out there; but they’re just more circumspect these days as they’ve realised that trying to sucker the public, who largely hates their scams and can see them for what they are now, risks drawing unwanted attention that might pop the bubble before they’re ready to cash out and leave you holding the…

I have watched them all, and to say it wasn’t a rug pull because Logan has money still in it is a deliberate and dishonest spinning of the facts; video 3 “Ending Logan Paul’s Biggest Scam” in particular goes into details about how the project couldn’t even get to the public rug pull stage before all the participants…

This absolutely was a rug pull, it’s just that the ones responsible for setting it up got Caught up in it too because aside from being shitty human beings, they are also total morons...

Have fun staying poor brah.

Yeah but crypto simps don’t understand when you don’t break it down for them. You can’t just say it’s a ponzi scheme, you have to explain what one is as well. Of course even then they don’t understand, but at least you tried.

What do you think is being done with the money if it isn’t going to the devs?

The precise term you are looking for is “Ponzi Scheme”. Play to Earn games are literally just a Ponzi Scheme.

These stories just aren’t as fun anymore now that most of the crypto simps seem to have gone quiet following their “investments” crashing and burning recently. The comments just aren’t the same without them telling us how we just “don’t understand” (just ignore the fact they themselves can’t explain it) or how this is…

Good to know that all it takes for Logan Paul to redeem himself from the suicide forest thing is to....just keep being Logan Paul and change absolutely nothing.