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Gamestop launches NFT marketplace
- Thread starter Skyscourge
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anyone wanna buy an NFT that fell off the back of a truck
five bucks and I'll let you right-click
Creator has as bunch at $82 a pop and is selling them left and right. Who is their right mind buys this shite.
My favorite part is that it has the old Mountain Dew logo from like 2006anyone wanna buy an NFT that fell off the back of a truck
five bucks and I'll let you right-click
"Can I interest you in getting this game used? You'll save $0.72! Or you can by a Pro membership and save $0.84!"
"No? Are you sure? It also comes with a subscription to a magazine!"
"Okay, I'll give you a new copy. Let me just grab the disc that one of our employees took home for a week and plop it in this open case and then I'll charge you for a brand new copy!"
"Would you like to buy a scratch protection warranty for this blu-ray disc? I'm hoping that you don't realize how unnecessary that would be!"
"No, okay, well do you want to preorder 15 games while you're in here? How about a guide or some Batman bobbleheads?"
"You just want the game? Okay, sure. But have you heard about NFTs? You could have this game AND become a millionaire overnight if you buy this one of a kind jpeg. You'll own it and everyone will want it!"
Gee, how could GameStop possibly be failing as a company. Who wouldn't want this kind of experience every time they try to buy a game? And now we get to add NFTs to the game of 20 questions at checkout? Sign me up!
"No? Are you sure? It also comes with a subscription to a magazine!"
"Okay, I'll give you a new copy. Let me just grab the disc that one of our employees took home for a week and plop it in this open case and then I'll charge you for a brand new copy!"
"Would you like to buy a scratch protection warranty for this blu-ray disc? I'm hoping that you don't realize how unnecessary that would be!"
"No, okay, well do you want to preorder 15 games while you're in here? How about a guide or some Batman bobbleheads?"
"You just want the game? Okay, sure. But have you heard about NFTs? You could have this game AND become a millionaire overnight if you buy this one of a kind jpeg. You'll own it and everyone will want it!"
Gee, how could GameStop possibly be failing as a company. Who wouldn't want this kind of experience every time they try to buy a game? And now we get to add NFTs to the game of 20 questions at checkout? Sign me up!
You can click on them and see recent activity. They've already been selling.
I mean if you're buying an NFT you aren't buying a picture. What you're buying is a receipt on the blockchain ledger that contains a link to a webpage with that image. But that webpage could also contain literally anything. It could be a link that changes images depending on where it's being viewed from so it appears as a shit emoji if you open it from your wallet (this is a thing that has already been done). It could be a dead link that goes literally nowhere. It could be a link that goes to the piece of art you wanted for a few days, and then the link's contents are changed to something else entirely. And none of this is illegal, because you were never purchasing a picture in the first place, you were purchasing a fancy receipt.
Because the difference between digital goods and physical goods is that you really can't have unique digital images and the like by nature. It's actually impossible. That's why they don't sell you that, they sell you a fancy certificate.
Man, some day in the near future I'm going to be able to be chillin on my couch, Polium 1 controller in hand browsing the dank new nfts on GameStop's site. If I could go back in time to my younger self and told him about this, he would have said you're dumb.
Yeah, you and 19,999 other people since they're selling 20,000 of them 😆
Fucking thank you so much, this explained it better than anything else I've tried to read and understand from any article or even when someone here tries to explain it. I could never wrap my head around it but this is perfect for me to understand. Always knew they sucked ass, but this articulates it greatly.
Nothing short of a miracle will save GameStop long-term, which kinda explains why they are guzzling the snake-oil- they don't have any realistic options to survive and grow, or even reach stability, so they'd reached for a scam instead.
I'm going to laugh when they price everything at 5% off in their going out of business sales.
And almost certainly mostly selling to a small group of people trying to perpetuate the scam - like NFT sales anywhere else.
Yeah, this thing is going to die before Gamestop does. Probably one of their last actions before they go under is to shut this down and pocket whatever money is in those wallets.
I'm mad this is region locked. By the time i have access to offer my beautiful art to knowledgeable connoisseurs it will all be over.
I'm getting strong "buying a star" vibes. How's that still a thing?
one of the problems with not having good upper management is they don't have vision. They won't do anything unless it's already popular and by that point it's already too late.
Crypto Bro Claims They're Losing Their Wife and Kids Because They Bought a Super-Expensive NFT
In a bizarre, unhinged, and possibly trolling Twitter thread, one user claimed their purchase of a $186,000 NFT is causing their divorce.
futurism.com
Actually, NFTs are a gift to companies trying to sell junk to clueless parents and grandparents. Once you frame it as a Fortnite skin that can be used in hundreds of games and all over your social media, you've got a heck of a selling point. And when that selling point is being made by a trusted bricks and mortar store rather than some cryptobro on Twitter, you've got a powerful recipe for some ripped-off grandmas and disappointed kids.
Can't this company just die with dignity? I've rarely seen a corporate entity limp along as pathetically as this one. Embrace the inevitable, for fucks sake.
Oh yeah, f*ck Coca-Cola for their terrible LGTBQIA+ Pride Month NFT scam.
The only way NFTs would reach my grandparents' radar as potential Christmas presents is if they start selling them on QVC and HSN.
