You thought the Diablo 3 auction house worked fine at launch? What? You think Blizzard felt they were making too much money and decided to remove it because all those expensive cars wouldn’t fit in their driveways anymore, or...? I mean, you went straight for THE example of how it’s a bad idea to make that particular…

When I’m living through another record high-heat summer, I won’t be thinking of this article.

Oh, by all means, hit me with the complex stuff.

Yeah, no, the inability to monetize your in-game goods is a feature, not a bug. There are tons of examples of grey markets to monetize in-game assets and they are consistently a cesspool and make the game worse, even before crypto is involved.

No, due to how they require excessive amounts of resources to mint while providing no value above what existing things get us.

No, I understand it. I’ve heard people actively working in the field admit they don’t, though, which should scare you.

Oh, I am painfully aware of how many crypto games exist and keep popping up. They are all bad, make no sense and/or could be done just as easily without any reliance on crypto at all.

I don’t think I’d go that far. Like a fake deed for the Brooklyn Bridge, the NFTs never actually had value, someone was just conned into thinking they did. And they never had value for the same reason - the thing they were associated with isn't actually what is being sold.

“Isn’t all life ephemeral” is a wild defense of NFTs.

Because there’s no practical application of it. Other than allowing players to make money off of the game (potentially) by reselling rewards, which is a massive regulatory dark pit, there’s nothing you can put in a game using crypto/nfts that you can’t do more easily and cheaply otherwise.

Came here to say cryptobros are the worst, happy to find one I can direct it at.

Just so we’re clear, even if the crypto market held its value in the next decade or so it would still be a bad idea. Especially when it comes to integrating it with gaming.

I think you’re confusing being a socialist with being a monk or something... He didn’t take a vow of poverty. 🤨 I’d never even heard of him before the house thing, but this ‘fake socialist’ crap is asinine.

It always bugs me when people categorise it as an easy job because they simplify it to just playing games all day. It’s (probably) a fulfilling job, it can definitely be a well paying job. But I can’t imagine it to be easy. You want an easy job? Do a salaried desk job, ideally one where you work from home.

I actually don’t think it’s that cushy. One of the great problems of streaming is that you *have* to be constantly putting out content to keep that subscriber count going. You have to be “on” all the time, performing for the camera, and even taking a vacation where you’re not streaming can cause pretty large dips in…

Never said he did. I’m saying he worked hard to build a strong Twitch following. He’s not really my cup of tea, but I’ve definitely seen some of his coverage over the years, and the guy will stream for 12+ hours while bringing in other streamers and commentators. Streaming is work, regardless of whether you’re gaming…

The reactions to this—especially towards Hasan—have been hilarious to watch people freak out over easily discoverable information.

If you don’t like the review, maybe you should accept it as simply a dissenting opinion. Also it kind of says something about your argument in that you had to resort to personal insults against the reviewer so fast.

Yeah, it’s almost like it’s their job where they are paid to play through these games and give their opinions on them.

I think people are getting tired of the FC games having a facade of political meaning and then just straight ignoring it and pretending like there’s nothing political about it. In a way I almost think it would be more moral to make the game straight socialist/commie bashing and super pro-capitalism because it would…