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Good on countries like Belgium and The Netherlands for not allowing that poo poo with Diablo Immortal. Hope more countries follow suit. Regulation is the only way to control this because there is a segment of game players who either have no problem with it or are the ones that are hopelessly hooked.
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priznat posted:Good on countries like Belgium and The Netherlands for not allowing that poo poo with Diablo Immortal. Hope more countries follow suit. Regulation is the only way to control this because there is a segment of game players who either have no problem with it or are the ones that are hopelessly hooked. you don't understand, capitalism will regulate itself  oh oops nevermind
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It's also worth mentioning that studies have shown that these pay-to-win games and gacha games and other mobile microtransaction stuff make 99% of their money from whales with horrible gambling addictions who are destroying their lives to pad the company's profit margins. They aren't profiting from people paying five dollars here and five dollars there, those users are basically a rounding error. The whole industry is specifically designed to find mentally unwell people and utterly ruin them, for profit. It's pure evil
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CountryMatters posted:It's also worth mentioning that studies have shown that these pay-to-win games and gacha games and other mobile microtransaction stuff make 99% of their money from whales with horrible gambling addictions who are destroying their lives to pad the company's profit margins. They aren't profiting from people paying five dollars here and five dollars there, those users are basically a rounding error. The whole industry is specifically designed to find mentally unwell people and utterly ruin them, for profit. It's pure evil i mean when you put it that way it's shocking that they haven't swerved to crypto sooner
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CountryMatters posted:It's also worth mentioning that studies have shown that these pay-to-win games and gacha games and other mobile microtransaction stuff make 99% of their money from whales with horrible gambling addictions who are destroying their lives to pad the company's profit margins. They aren't profiting from people paying five dollars here and five dollars there, those users are basically a rounding error. The whole industry is specifically designed to find mentally unwell people and utterly ruin them, for profit. It's pure evil There was an article I read or a video or something a long time ago - like, way early in this mobile gacha poo poo - written by someone who had worked for one. It has an anecdote that always stuck with me. This guy was in charge of community outreach for this game. I think it was an actual F2P computer game, not even mobile. Anyways they had this big convention or something and he got the job of inviting the whales to come out. These are the top spenders, the people who they're doing poo poo like putting together custom purchase packs for etc. White glove whale poo poo like you're playing pai gow in the high roller's suite in Macao. The Con is in the US and the company offers to fly these people out. One of them, in Europe, agrees to then back out last minute. When they asked why it was because she had just spent down the last of her paycheck and couldn't afford the like 60 euros or whatever for a train from her town to the city with the airport. Whaled away the money she was going to spend on a train ticket to her free airplane trip to another continent to hang out with people into that game - ON THE GAME. In other words, it's preying on addicts in the most disgusting ways.
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Jun 9, 2022 18:10
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https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1534933962182873093
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VeChain: the crypto you need a TBI to invest in.
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Cowcaster posted:i mean when you put it that way it's shocking that they haven't swerved to crypto sooner You can't cash it out to real money quick enough, this is the main factor. You have stockholders to pay, and execs to siphon the rest of the money, and neither wants a currency that fluctuates depending on the wind and Elon's drug fuelled tweets.
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Cyrano4747 posted:There was an article I read or a video or something a long time ago - like, way early in this mobile gacha poo poo - written by someone who had worked for one. It has an anecdote that always stuck with me. This guy was in charge of community outreach for this game. I think it was an actual F2P computer game, not even mobile. Anyways they had this big convention or something and he got the job of inviting the whales to come out. These are the top spenders, the people who they're doing poo poo like putting together custom purchase packs for etc. White glove whale poo poo like you're playing pai gow in the high roller's suite in Macao. Long shot, but do you remember which article this is? It sounds really interesting since a lot of the articles I read are either about the players/victims themselves or theoretical discussion of "is this ethical or not". Meanwhile, the flipside of your article is this presentation on "How to Addict People to Pixels on a Phone": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4 It's funny, as fast as Bitcoin speedruns scam history it's still behind the state of the art.
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I would like an artist to model my trucksona in 3D (see above), for free of course because they'll get so much exposure, and then I want to use it in every game that's ever been made or will be made, and I want to make millions of dollars by doing it. If you can't understand that then I pity you and your simple baby mind.
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Good Dumplings posted:Long shot, but do you remember which article this is? It sounds really interesting since a lot of the articles I read are either about the players/victims themselves or theoretical discussion of "is this ethical or not". this video is great LOL
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Good Dumplings posted:Long shot, but do you remember which article this is? It sounds really interesting since a lot of the articles I read are either about the players/victims themselves or theoretical discussion of "is this ethical or not". If I did I would have dropped it. I've got a tickling at the back of my head that it might have been older Jim Sterling material, he might have cited someone who told that story. That's where I'd start.
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LifeSunDeath posted:literally all of them. every single one. not one was just a guy online who reverse engineered then hacked all the apes in 24hours and had everything set up already to hide the money instantly. It was planned, they just think there's never going to be liability so they keep saying it was a hack. Um, no. All this poo poo is built on hastily assembled garbage software with no quality control and half-assed "audits," with all the vulnerabilities lying in plain sight by design and no means to reverse transactions. It's an extremely juicy target and there are definitely actual hacks mixed in with the inside jobs. Also, the phishing scams because crypto bros' hostility to skepticism creates a community of extremely credulous marks that are easily scammed, made all the easier by the impossibility of reversing transactions and the lovely UI written by the lovely companies looking to cash in before the whole rotten thing falls apart.
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HappyHippo posted:Um, no. All this poo poo is built on hastily assembled garbage software with no quality control and half-assed "audits," with all the vulnerabilities lying in plain sight by design and no means to reverse transactions. That's an interesting point - the fully transparent nature of blockchain means the code is available for anyone to look at and essentially all of crypto is fully exposed cybersec attack surface.
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Regarding the new nickelodeon tokens, announced today: Where are Corporate NFTs crafted? If someone had legislative access in Burbank, could they stop nickelodeon from making NFTs on the basis of power draw? My theory is these are all made in minted in Guatemala or somewhere in the desert where a typo makes energy two cents a kilowatt. I’m trying to help a politico find a legal basis to ban NFTs in their community. Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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LifeSunDeath posted:literally all of them. every single one. not one was just a guy online who reverse engineered then hacked all the apes in 24hours and had everything set up already to hide the money instantly. It was planned, they just think there's never going to be liability so they keep saying it was a hack. hey hey hey !! Axie's "$600b" in ether does indeed appear to have been stolen by North Korea
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Even if someone came up with a clever standardised solution where models and textures could be reliably auto converted from engine to engine, model to model, and artstyle to artstyle lol
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Gonna make some fortnite dance nfts and do some orange justice in Lego star wars.
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lmao https://mobile.twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1534956633251532801
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Ubisoft trying and failing with their NFT Quartz project will hopefully serve as all the evidence that other game companies need to not waste time with NFTs. A large AAA game developer and publisher potentially could have been able to set up some sort of NFT marketplace for their own IPs at least. They still couldn't figure out how to make it attractive to players, and it of course doesn't make any sense as an investment when considering the development costs, upkeep, liability, or whatever else. I expect some other big brain exec to try to make this poo poo work though.
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Putting NFTs in there at all doesn’t make any sense though when valve already has people buying and selling in game items between eachother on a market valve controls and profits off of. All without crypto anything. It’s just so dumb.
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wake up screaming and grasping for my apes every morning. i cannot take them into my arms - but they are safe. would never sell my portfolio is the envy of my online brethren. yet normies spit in my face and glass me in bars when the stitches come out i hold court in korean joints and in line at the PO. i'm so goddamn loud while i list my holdings 8 months from now, a free airdrop. legit 9 months from now i'll sneak into a seafood factory and jump into an industrial fish grinder: 60hp, high torque, dual shaft design even the largest sheepshead fish are no match. i become pink soft serve my last thought... november 2021... btc 60k
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Lmao I appreciate your crypto “slice of life” posts Bruno 
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Gutcruncher posted:Putting NFTs in there at all doesn’t make any sense though when valve already has people buying and selling in game items between eachother on a market valve controls and profits off of. All without crypto anything. Exactly. You don't need any of this. Automation and BeamNG Drive spent months building a fascinating cross compatibility system to allow the cars you make in one to be driven in the other. It's free and only requires a little bit of technical knowledge. Sales of both games jumped as a result. Chain poo poo would have made that system slow, expensive, and exclusive.
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I could not convince a finance guy that NFT's don't add utility/have any value, specifically re: NFT's for videogames. He conflated that because people will spend money on NFT's they add utility and have value, and it was conflated to house ownership / stock ownership as equivalent. Crypto maximalists are loving terrible.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:wake up screaming and grasping for my apes every morning. i cannot take them into my arms - but they are safe. would never sell 
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I got the AI's to make me some hella cool weird Magic Card type poo poo to make a custom sort of game for my nerd rear end brother who is into that, and was like, what if I make one an NFT as a joke gift, and what the gently caress are with the prices. gently caress this. He can just have some cool weird cards we can play with but not have fake ownership of them.
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The Butcher posted:I got the AI's to make me some hella cool weird Magic Card type poo poo to make a custom sort of game for my nerd rear end brother who is into that, and was like, what if I make one an NFT as a joke gift, and what the gently caress are with the prices. gently caress this. He can just have some cool weird cards we can play with but not have fake ownership of them. There's a bunch of places online that will do on-demand playing card printing, maybe even in Magic's size and border radius. That would be really cool gift.
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chaosbreather posted:There's a bunch of places online that will do on-demand playing card printing, maybe even in Magic's size and border radius. That would be really cool gift. Ok but how would this work on the blockchain?
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for a second i read this as "took out $80 million per month" and nearly start shooting blood from my eyes
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I get where these rug pullers are coming from. Is it really stealing if the people who you took money from are insanely greedy creeps?
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:for a second i read this as "took out $80 million per month" and nearly start shooting blood from my eyes You did. From the article: The United States Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly discovered a situation where $80 million dollars (100 billion won) of the company’s funds every month were sent to different wallets for the operating expense. This reportedly happened a few months before the collapse of Terra. This particular activity, according to the reports, is what raised money laundering suspicions about Do Kwon.
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Jadeilyn posted:Ubisoft trying and failing with their NFT Quartz project will hopefully serve as all the evidence that other game companies need to not waste time with NFTs. A large AAA game developer and publisher potentially could have been able to set up some sort of NFT marketplace for their own IPs at least. They still couldn't figure out how to make it attractive to players, and it of course doesn't make any sense as an investment when considering the development costs, upkeep, liability, or whatever else. I expect some other big brain exec to try to make this poo poo work though. a big terrible publisher like ubi is in fact the best case scenario for gaming nfts to actually work, because that big publisher actually DOES have the ability to make sure the gamedev makes it possible for you to use your crying sephiroth nft in all the upcoming ubisoft video games. that even they couldn't turn it into a successful business model (because of course they couldnt) pretty much dooms the idea of anyone else being able to
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HappyHippo posted:Um, no. All this poo poo is built on hastily assembled garbage software with no quality control and half-assed "audits," with all the vulnerabilities lying in plain sight by design and no means to reverse transactions. It's an extremely juicy target and there are definitely actual hacks mixed in with the inside jobs. Also, the phishing scams because crypto bros' hostility to skepticism creates a community of extremely credulous marks that are easily scammed, made all the easier by the impossibility of reversing transactions and the lovely UI written by the lovely companies looking to cash in before the whole rotten thing falls apart. On this note the latest Darknet Diaries episode was on a guy who stole a shitload of crypto via SIM swapping and resetting passwords, worth a listen. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/118/
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Ad by Khad posted:a big terrible publisher like ubi is in fact the best case scenario for gaming nfts to actually work, because that big publisher actually DOES have the ability to make sure the gamedev makes it possible for you to use your crying sephiroth nft in all the upcoming ubisoft video games. Certainly looking forward to pulling out my Division Kill Drone and Far Cry RPG in Assassins Creed.
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smellmycheese posted:Certainly looking forward to pulling out my Division Kill Drone and Far Cry RPG in Assassins Creed. Looking forward to meeting the definitely not antisemitically designed NFT merchant who I have to talk to to complete three separate quests and who keeps trying to convince me to buy ScripCoin as my GPU inexplicably overheats
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