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a blockchain-based business sim
Sorry Pete but blockchain is so 2020. Everyone knows AI is the new hotness in tech buzzwords.
"Ownership and creativity take center stage as you get the chance to build and manage your business on your very own land!"
What happens if/when the servers your business is located on are switched off?
Ownership and creativity exit stage left.
If they use the blockchain as designed, there will be no central server to switch off - it's just running in a bunch of basements. They rarely do, though.
The person who stated this a while ago deleted their comment so the reply may not have made sense:
The blockchain does not contain the digital assets. it is just a ledger saying who owns the assets.
If the place the blockchain ledger points to no longer exists, the ledger is useless.
Same with NFT's, they are digital receipts that point to a web address, If the web address closes down, the NFT is useless.
For a real world analogy.
A deed (blockchain ledger) proves you own a house (digital asset stored on the game server). If the house burns down (game server is switched off), the deed still exists but it is useless as the asset it describes no longer does.
It's all just buzzwordsalad at this point.
Who the fuck genuinely cares about a digital plot of land? The only reason stuff like this attracts people is the hope to make money, and therefore only people who only care about the monetary aspect play games like Legacy.
I highly suggest the YouTube channel "Jauwn"! The dude plays nft games "frome the perspective of a gamer", so he tries to give those games a fair shot (although he is clearly biased against nfts in general). To no one's surprise each and every nft game is just a grift to mine money in the pockets of idiots who think they are smarter than the rest.
Pete in June:
"I do think, though", he concedes, "we have stumbled, and it feels like stumbling on a mechanic that has never been seen in a game before."
"And a lot of this is very mystical because I'm trying to avoid to tell you what it's like. But it's going to be a lot more like a kind of Fable - Black and White - Dungeon Keeper kind of experience"
Of course it was blockchain bullshit.
"A kind of Fable - Black and White - Dungeon Keeper kind of experience"
Three remarkably different games there. Ol lyin Pete just wanted to mention the greatest hits to drum up interest in his nft nonsense.
it’s going to be a lot more like a kind of Fable - Black and White - Dungeon Keeper kind of experience
Based on this description and given the only thing two of these games have in common, I can only conclude his latest project is a game focused on using your floating god hand to slap the shit out of your minion(s). I'm just not quite sure about the Fable connection...
He knows the buttons to push to sell his snake oil.
Only this motherfucker could make a blockchain based product in 2023 and think he's still ahead of the curve (and not, y'know, turning up to buy tickets on the Titanic after it hit the iceberg).
It's probably been in development since 2009 when it was cutting edge.
Molyneux's great sin is the inability to shut the fuck up while he's ahead. lt's hard to explain how much weight this guy carried in the 90s/very early 00s but he was the guy that did Populus, Dungeon Keeper, and Syndicate. And then he just kept over-promising and fucking up for a whole decade.
If he'd kept it reasonable he might still carry some of that weight but he cannot stop promising the moon and then delivering mediocre shit. It would be like Miyamoto releasing flappy bird with NFTs instead of the next Zelda game. God he's so frustrating.
I just want a proper Black and White sequel, not this crap. A man can dream.
Imagine the old black&white but with chatgpt level creature AI and propper gesture recognition...
Get monetization and crypto out of games. Sell complete entertainment products!
No need to buy it. I'm already disappointed.
But why though?
Blockchain anything was how you got investor funding in 2017 and no one was gonna fund a Peter Molyneux game without it
It makes them money off of desperate or in turn grifting people, I suppose. Just like all of crypto.
You can't keep a good grifter down.
He definitely delivered on Fable though
Most of "his" genuinely good games seem to deliver despite him, not because of him. Beyond his ability to deceive enough investors/gamers to get funding for other people to pull something good from the fire he creates, what else does he do.
Is he the Elon Musk of video games?
He's more of a snake oil salesman than a Musk, who makes the pitch, takes the money and vanishes off to another scheme.
Musk likes to become very involved and get his hands dirty, even if it's often just from his own faeces that he is throwing at the wall.
The game that was missing so many features promised by him that the studio had to stop him from doing any more interviews?
Molyneux is the Shyamalan of video games. He’s done a couple of brilliant things, some decent stuff, and a lot of batshit crazy cringe-fests.
New titles are like Christmas poppers. You look forward to them because you remember that first time they were fun, but then you crack one and remember they’re mostly a mix of disappointment and the faint waft of gunpowder.
I really like this comparison. Dude has publicly gone on record about how he regrets utilizing hype irresponsibly. I think acknowledgement is all we want, and plenty of people still like fable and black and white. I would root for him to have a bit of a comeback.
Regrets utilizing hype.
Goes on to make a blockchain game.
OK. I'm not anti-blockchain for everything, but 99.999% of the time it's not the best option, or even a good option, unless you're running a scam.
He's sticking to what he knows.
I swear it was only a week or so ago I read about him apologising for this sort of bullshit and overhyping everything.