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It seems quaint now to be upset about Star Citizen. There are so many "games" being promised now to people buying NFTs that don't even seem to be trying to be
by georgeecollins 5y ago
It seems quaint now to be upset about Star Citizen. There are so many "games" being promised now to people buying NFTs that don't even seem to be trying to be plausible. Like: No one working on our team has ever really made a game before but we plan to make a revolutionary one before the end of the year. Sure. At least Roberts Industries is trying.
But its still kind of scummy imo.
- cmeacham98 5y agoNo NFT game has raised even close to hundreds of millions of dollars (at least yet).
- georgeecollins 5y agoTrue if you consider only consumer money. But if you consider investors that is not true. There are NFT "games" that have raised a lot. I don't know if they would define themselves as games, but functionally they all look like they are trying to be an MMO or Roblox. And they haven't had as much time!
- cmeacham98 5y agoWhat is an NFT game that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from any source (including investors)?
- georgeecollins 5y agohttps://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/the-sandbox-f24f-series-b--b1acbc04 https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/the-sandbox-f24f-se...
- xbar 5y agoWe are merely days away from Star Citizen from announcing its NFT plans and obviating this statement.
- ethbr0 5y agolaughs Apparently we wrote virtually the same comment, at the same time, with the same words. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195702
- georgeecollins 5y agoGreat minds think alike!
- NelsonMinar 5y agoA Reddit discussion highlighted one important way Star Citizen is not like an NFT; there's no supported resale of the virtual assets. If you want to buy a fancy spaceship to stare at in your hangar you pretty much have to buy it from Star Citizen and the revenue goes to them. (There is some third party trading but it looks pretty minor.)
- deeviant 5y agoAt this point, the average wacko NFT-based game probably has a greater chance of success than Star Citizen. Although you'd probably have to use to some advanced mathematics to determine the difference between these two extremely-close-to-zero chances.
- bduerst 5y agoI'd say that Star Citizen and video game NFTs are both on par with being all promise and no meaningful delivery (yet) though. I could see both Ubi restricting sales of their "NFTs" and Star Citizen adding resale features later. That's how nebulous both are.