Calling the backlash against NFT’s a Crypto-hate circle jerk seems like a pretty passionate defense of them to me.

Wow, that’s a whole lot of whataboutism in one comment.

I mean sometimes a circle jerk is justified.   Fuck crypto, NFTs and the idiots that buy them.   

If NFTs had value, the porn industry would be all over them - and they won’t touch them with a ten foot dildo. Ditto for the furry community.

I mean the easy answer is crypto mining robs the market of video cards which directly effect the readers here.  

Haha I guess you’re right. Just tired of seeing them everywhere, reminding me of just how dumb NFTs are.

Just like their owners

While crypto in general is money laundering, NFTs specifically are a con game - pig in a poke, gold brick scam, title to the Brooklyn Bridge, that kind of thing.

I take issue with people calling crypto a pyramid scheme. It is totally unfair and not representative of what crypto is at all.

You know that one of the big problems with crypto and NFTs is that they make many of the things that you’re whatabouting worse, right? They’re an engine designed to concentrate wealth and burn unfathomable amounts of energy to do so.

Seems like a perfect fit for exactly that reason...

Sir, this is a video game blog.

Repeat after me: it's always money laundering. This one is also a scam, money laundering that also happens to generate its own income, but at the bottom of it, it's always money laundering. 

Nah, thats just what you think.  Most people know that its a scam or a ponzi scheme.

If you have 2 hours and a bit, and really want to know just how bad, the NFT space is atm, and how much worse it could be, I.e some one can send you and nft and empty your wallet right now and there is nothing you can do, then i would recommend this vid on youtube.

Except its not like Microtransactions and Season Passes. You might hate them, and for legit reasons, but they do add value to a lot of games by providing a funding mechanism for post-release development. Simply put, they make a lot of very popular games financially viable.

which to be fair is a CEO’s job, now weather a game company needs that type of CEO is a whole other can of worms.

It’s pretty telling that everyone talking about how NFTs will “solve problems” in games aren’t themselves game developers (and have no idea what they’re talking about), whereas the people in the industry (e.g. CEOs) pushing for NFTs in gaming have no coherent vision for how they’d specifically work, they just see them…

Why do we need them? What benefit does it have putting these systems into our games? Who is using these things? It feels like a very small audience. And also, these technologies are still not using sustainable energy and are a target for money laundering. As a developer I feel deeply uncomfortable that there is a…

“How this hasn’t been identified as a pyramid scheme is beyond me.”

In the US you mean? Probably for the same reason multi level marketing is still legal. That being said, I do actually have a bit of trouble imagining crypto nonsense as a pyramid scheme though. It’s nonsense, to be sure, but it’s less about funneling…