NFT are shitty, toxic things that arr destroying an efty chunk of the planet we currently abitate.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s Twitter Account tweets out an image with multiple paragraphs defending their use of NFTs in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 [UP: Oops nvm]
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Sure...which is why I'm saying, just set up a separate company or subsidiary and propose an NFT project to investors that is not tied to your new anticipated game, that people are losing interest in every time you Tweet about NFT's.
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And this is why I made sure to write it out before it was deleted LMAOOOOOOOO
My impression of NFT/Crypto bros was that they are a very very vocal minority, I generally see more hostility towards them than support. But obviously everything is anecdotal due to us mainly residing in our internet bubbles.
Stop me if you've heard this one before…
Dear gamers, we're just a small indie studio working on our biggest game yet. Funds collected from "X" will go into making out game better and better. Don't worry, none of this will affect gameplay - it's all cosmetic. We just want to be as transparent as possible.
Dear gamers, we're just a small indie studio working on our biggest game yet. Funds collected from "X" will go into making out game better and better. Don't worry, none of this will affect gameplay - it's all cosmetic. We just want to be as transparent as possible.
They deleted the image, here's the original image reuploaded :)
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ya are that finally backing away from this mess they created???
Because it's omega griffting and i'd rather not. Any corp that endorses NFTs do not care for anything other than making a quick buck on rich idiots and any claim that they are not as damaging to the enviroment is a lie to grift harder. Crypto has wiped out any gains in renewable energies, because electricity of multiple countries combined is being used for funny money.
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It's more offensive that there wasn't a yellow background tbh
Wait why are people upset about this? They're just selling cosmetic items. They're not withholding anything significant either.
They're very loud because, surprise, the people in Cryptoland at the ground floor have a lot invested on bringing others into the (pyramid) scheme.
I've got to imagine someone from Microsoft just told them to pull that tweet or their co-marketing deal is off. Spencer was just interviewed a month ago about how NFT's are exploitative. I don't think they want that type of shit tied to Game Pass...so I bet there are some pretty heated discussions happening right now.
https://kotaku.com/xbox-boss-phil-spencer-talks-about-exploitive-nfts-1848071039
https://kotaku.com/xbox-boss-phil-spencer-talks-about-exploitive-nfts-1848071039
That's only reserved for vapid and meaningless claims that they're sorry.
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DMarket still uses a couple of Ethereum standards for their NFTs and those still aren't the most energy efficient standards, if I'm correct. GSC should really share exact specifics if they want to make claims about environmental impact. It sounds like they don't even have the low-level details in order yet. Or, if they do, they've not done a good enough job sharing/surfacing them.
And if they wanted support from fans, they could still do this without requiring NFT integration of any kind. It smells like bullshit.
And if they wanted support from fans, they could still do this without requiring NFT integration of any kind. It smells like bullshit.
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Do they? Could be wrong but I remember Phil or someone specifically saying they don't do engagement-based contracts. If that's the case then they already got paid so 🤷♀️
If they are running on proof of stake blockchains I really don't see an issue. Cardano is one of the biggest blockchains and nodes literally run off raspberry pis. It has the second most transactions of any blockchain and it's total energy use is like 0.5% of Ethereum. It is also powering some really neat stuff for school systems in Africa. It probably uses less power than all the servers running xcloud or something and you don't see a lot of people complaining about energy for server use. Ultimately NFTs are kind of dumb and I don't need them in my video games but it kind of seems like people want to hate and be mad but really have no idea about the technology.
Would it make sense to ask Gamepass/Xbox to not allow NFT Scheme games on their platform by any chance? I have a feeling GSC won't give a fuck in any case, but Microsoft might when it comes to their ecosystem.
edit okay, given the amounts of tweets containing "xbox", "stalker" and "nft", they surely must know at this point.
edit okay, given the amounts of tweets containing "xbox", "stalker" and "nft", they surely must know at this point.
Y know, I've seen more than a few talking heads go on about how NFTs are the future/better get used to them/blah blah blah, but when stuff like this gets announced the backlash always seems to be really damn quick and the YouTube vids/tweets are removed and (at least some of the time, like Discord) reconsideration is almost immediate.
Maybe, just maybe, this time people aren't buying the bullshit being sold? (And for anyone who tries to link "X trashy Chimp JPEG sold for 87 billion dollars" ect, I would like some receipts showing that it's not just speculative market money trading. That shouldn't be TOO hard, right?)
The one thing they could really do with Blockchain that might be nice is to just let us own/resell the digital game copy and no one is going that route. WoNdEr WhY
Maybe, just maybe, this time people aren't buying the bullshit being sold? (And for anyone who tries to link "X trashy Chimp JPEG sold for 87 billion dollars" ect, I would like some receipts showing that it's not just speculative market money trading. That shouldn't be TOO hard, right?)
The one thing they could really do with Blockchain that might be nice is to just let us own/resell the digital game copy and no one is going that route. WoNdEr WhY
That's on GSC and DMarket for not having their houses in order before they try to invite people in. They should've been hyper-specific about how they planned to implement this.
In Spanish at least, guillemets are technically the correct way of using quotation marks, so it might be the same on their language. That said, basically no-one uses them and it's kinda weird to see, so it might as well be for emphasis like others have said lmao.
If you read my post above and the link to Phil Spencer's comments, he seems to be on the same page that they don't want games with NFT's on their storefront.
Now...to be fair...you can totally argue that it's kind of self serving in the sense that I'm not sure MS will see any revenue from NFT sales associated with this game, but again, I think Phil isn't really mincing words in that article.
