The "Future" of gaming according to crypto bros - im not convinced

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today we dive in to what is apparently the future of blockchain / web3 gaming. if you've ever dared to peak your head around the corner and take a look at web3 / blockchain games you're probably allready aware of a lot of the issues it faces, today we pull back the curtain to see what web3 games REALLY look like, and what this means for the future of our industry, crypto scams are common and this seems no different!
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[@sionbarzad5371]

Man it's not supposed to be functional, just create enough hype to get other crypto bros to invest in. Crypto is like a western decor, just a facade.

[@blondbraid7986]

Like a literal Ponzi scheme?

[@JustToSaveYou]

My western decor is offended.

[@Music-gw4qf]

@@JustToSaveYou noce

[@Music-gw4qf]

Here's your cane, here's your pills, now go home.

[@Unprotected1232]

It is said that NFTs are a solution in search of a problem. In fact they're just a problem.

[@GERuseless]

And the fact that they STILL haven't found anything should be all we need to know. Blockchain seems to be only "good" for people to "invest" in/gamble with bitcoin. Everything else just seems like an attempt to get more people into their coins to make them more "valuable". That's why you can't trust anything crypto bros are saying: They are always incentivized to get more people into crypto and will financially benefit if gaming get's invested with this stuff.

[@CrystalWings12]

'Solving problems with problems'

[@Gustoberg]

y'know why there aren't good blockchain games? 1) only grifters want to destroy gaming to profit 2) professionals want to get actually paid, and not with 5 billion cryptocashingcoindoges worth 200 dollars

[@CrystalWings12]

No wonder why that Axie whatever-that-was game didn't do well to help people out of their poverty.

[@vylbird8014]

I can think of a few companies that want to destroy gaming to profit. EA comes to mind.

[@LuigiDOTexe]

The way you describe the crypto and web3 shenanigans as “infiltrating” the gaming industry is great, but honestly, the word I would use is “infecting.” Crypto and web3 are like parasites in the biological sense because they latch onto a host, don’t provide any benefits to the host organism, and the host suffers for it. It is in no way a mutualistic or even a commensalistic relationship.

[@AnalyticalReckoner]

The easiest way to get people to see something they don't care about is to infect an already established community. Whether the community survives this infection isn't a concern and if it does die they just claim it was supposed to happen because of "progress".

[@ChaosPootato]

Thankfully so far the gaming community's immune system has been quite resistant to web3 infections, despite its numerous evolutions

[@BoisegangGaming]

Even parasites provide a role in a natural ecosystem, so that's an insult to parasites.

[@sirbum1918]

But it's the future of gaming!

[@andrewryan2928]

​@@BoisegangGaming lets make it its own category Web3site

[@TikkiNikki]

I'm already in Web4 Side note: it would be so easy to focus on a great game and then add on crypto whatever into it. Instead, they design a crypto and make a game around it. Focusing on the "making money" part and not the "playing" part is doom to fail your "game" Thirdly, how are these multiplayer games going to function? If their Web3 is decentralized, who's paying for these servers and updating them/moderating them? I also have NO DOUBT the required specs are for mining 100%, using your machine to help the developer

[@aethertoast4320]

This is exactly why modern AAA games suck today too. That is what makes crypto easy to try to marry with the gaming industry.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

The moment you add crypto to a great game, you detract from it and make it a shit game "This healthy cell is great! Let's just add some cancer to it!"

[@Sniperbear13]

when you start focusing on making money; then you begin to fall. focus making a good game and the money will flow into it naturally. mind you, you wont make ALL the money, but you will at least make enough money.

[@Colddirector]

The AAA industry already tried adding crypto to their games, they were very quickly and justifiably bullied out of it.

[@fonesrphunny7242]

You could make a good game and add NFTs to them, but the backlash usually prevents the NFT part...for now at least. On the other hand, you have tons of shovel ware games build around predatory microtransactions, and those rake in the cash. We're not talking about passionate devs here. As for mining, I thought that was dead now. It might just be completely unoptimized as you'd expect, but 16gb of RAM for a 5gb game seems a bit weird.

[@_abby_miles_]

I recommend playing those games with a virtual machine unless you want to mint a nice cryptomining virus

[@CallumUpton]

all this was done in a VM, dont wory! XD

[@Speederzzz]

This video perfectly illustrates the problem with this whole system. When someone who wants to show it off can't even connect, imagine how you're casual gamer is gonna feel on this launcher

[@Fimbulvinter19]

With those minimum and suggested specs, there is absolutely a crypto mining program being bundled with it. There's no need to have such high minimum specs for what looks like a game running last last gen graphics, so something else is going on under the hood.

[@MegaRazorback]

Hell not even last gen graphics, try going back to the mid/late 2000's instead.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

That or that game is so badly cobbled together the flex tape is screaming

[@Jomali]

They also likely don't have very talented programmers working on it or much budget spent on optimization because it's all going to pump up the ponzi scheme. These games don't need to be well-optimized because none of them are being launched with the intent of creating a long term game people will actually play. Just long enough for the pump and dump and the CEO to chart his jet to Cancun for a long vacation.

[@RitzStarr]

One of the most annoying tropes less intelligent people latch onto these days is "hurdur crypdo minor in da softwur" when the incredibly simple and absurdly obvious answer to anyone with two braincells is just that the game is horribly programmed. You don't need 8k textures to make a game taxing, that's a huge misconception. Have none of you people ever played freaking java minecraft? Brooo java minecraft totesmagotes has a cyptduo manur!!! Jfc. There are dozens of ways to make a game taxing, the simplest being loading and keeping loaded an unecessary amount of game objects. That's an EASY way to spike RAM usage. Another would be an absurd number calculations or other tasks being completed simultaneously. Or both. I'm sure there's plenty more too..

[@M50A1]

​@@RitzStarrOkay. Who asked

[@AnalyticalReckoner]

Something is strange when your RAM requirement is much larger than the storage requirement. Does it download 11 GB of data each time you play? Is it mining on your hardware?

[@sakurakiyori]

My aunt's got like 32+ GB of RAM, because she likes having Lightroom stitch together panoramas from her photo trips. What sort of nonsense bullshit are they doing, that they want that much ram, for those graphics!

[@aethertoast4320]

​@Madeline Hunter they are mining while you play. Can't think of anything else. Plus they have no idea how to do any level of optimization.

[@joearnold6881]

Def mining

[@SleepNeed]

No doubt mining as you play. Those graphics aren't more intensive than what you can have on a smartphone (nor is the gameplay from clips I looked at, just looks like a generic spaceship shooter) so the minimum being 16 gb for THAT is highly suspicious for anything else.

[@t-yoonit]

​@@SleepNeed can confirm. I have 12g of ram on my phone and I can play online mmo games while watching a video in HD in a pop out. There's no way that they aren't mining with your PC.

[@Elleander1]

I have a strange feeling whenever a web improvement happens, we'll jump straight to Web4, like Windows 8-10. You know, avoid the poisonous garbage

[@CrystalWings12]

Not just poisonous. It's a radioactive-level garbage.

[@streeterville773]

Nah they should call it Web 3 just to spite crypto assholes "No no this is the actual web3, without monkeys and shit"

[@jonathanj8303]

Yeah, but is it going to be odd or even numbers that we all have to avoid?...

[@VeraTheTabbynx]

There was no web 1 or 2 and there is no web 3. It's a stupid term cryptobros dreamed up alongside their fake money to make it sound like blockchain was somehow the inevitable future of the internet. They say "web 1.0 was backend only, 2 was frontend and 3 is decentralization" Any knowledge of how the internet came to be shows this statement is deranged. So when was 1.0? When the internet was a private prototype at MIT? When consumer grade dialup connections became a thing? Whoops! There was already messy frontend infrastructure there, unless we idiotically decide anything pre-google was "just backend". The problem is that crypto morons have no idea what they're talking about and repeat this nonsense like a mantra. And decentralization? In what universe is the internet centralized? There is no master server, no one entity controls it. The internet isn't developed in static versions, as it is no one piece of software or hardware, it evolves over time as people and companies add to it, trends come and go, and technologies are introduced.

[@CrystalWings12]

@@VeraTheTabbynx So basically everything that cryptobros said are nothing but buzzwords.

[@sealsharp]

In order for some players to "play to earn", a lot more players must "play and pay". And when you can play2earn, the value of ingame work will be determined by the value of time of those who can play the game, which is not in first world countries and no one will become rich with that. Diablo3 was "play to earn" as you could sell real items. Nice job, if you live where 5 dollar a day feeds a family.

[@bretton_woods]

my idea of gaming is playing offline, on my own, on my old consoles (and any PC games older than 2004 that don't need Steam or DRM). Guess i do not fit into the modern paradigm of gaming,....oh well!

[@justinwhite2725]

Someone reasoned (accurately) that if the play to earn is fun, then the currency will be worth very little because more people sre doing it. The currency can only be good if few people are doing it, at which case it becomes a job by another name.

[@Temperans]

​​@@justinwhite2725 the only possible way I can even imagine it turning out well is if the in-game currency is itself crypto. At which point it has as much value as buying gold in an MMO but easier to trace, but that just sounds like pointless extra work.

[@cheesecake7159]

It won't work. Play to earn are stupid idea, most mmo are remove direct player trade to stop RMT, people usually cheat to get profit from RMT

[@Demopans5990]

And anything play to earn will be infested with bots

[@FuelDropforthewin]

I think that a virtual machine might be a good idea for when you want to play these for the channel.

[@samasrcounts6079]

Crypto & NFT in games are just the new cash grab. Thanks Callum for going through this so we don't have to. Heros wear capes & bounty hunters wear helmets.

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

they're not even a good cash grab, you've got to pay tax when the crypto comes under your control at market value (even if it's worth almost nothing the next minute) then pay gas fees to cash out, THEN pay capital gains... That's three times you're paying just to get paid, maybe more if you transfer it into eth or something else. I don't know how other countries tax crypto but I can't see pay 2 play getting very far here, there's no way young dudes want to pay a CPA or pay for specialized software to square away their gamercoins with the IRS. I don't know about you, but I don't want my sales on a game marketplace to be a taxable event. In game economies are one of the most fun parts of gaming to me, this stuff is awful for those of us tax averse. I give away my handicrafts because I don't want to deal with hobby taxes ffs.

[@nakano15]

With those system requirements, I believe those games aren't only for "earning" coins, they also have a bitcoin miner in it.

[@TheRenofox]

Imagine if any other industry tried this: -We're going to make a restaurant where you can buy food, and then sell it to other customers for profit! -That's weird. What kind of food? -Who cares, JUST THINK OF THE MONEY!

[@OldManInternet]

I'm so glad he noticed the min/rec specs on that star fighter game. I saw that right away and was wondering what the game could be doing that could possibly require that much power but only 5 GB of space. It has to be the most intense 20 minutes of gaming straight out of 2013, with definitely no suspicious stuff happening in the back end.

[@RitzStarr]

Have you never played java minecraft?... Size has nothing to do with poorly programming a game, which is likely all that game is. Poorly programmed garbage. The crypto game...not minecraft, that's just java being unoptimized garbage for what minecraft does which is build worlds with billions of objects.

[@theTweak0284]

I think there's a small nuance in the difference between "free-to-own" and "free-to-play" The former gives you a license and access to the game/the ability to download it, but makes absolutely no promises on your ability to actually play the game without a cost associated. Unless I missed something obvious of course

[@chainswordcs]

i think it's more normal to say "free to start" for that type of thing

[@theTweak0284]

@@chainswordcs I would agree, but we're talking about crypto bros. Plus if the word "own" is thrown into their marketing, it's another buzz word. Kind of like how you "own" NFTs

[@tinycrimester]

"every game here just feels like a kickstarter rugpull" i'm sure we can figure out why if we think together

[@ladyteruki]

The future of gaming is exclusively games that are "coming soon". Makes sense.

[@mrboogerlip]

I'm only at the beginning of the video, but the "passwordless sign on system to help bring gamers into web3" made me laugh. Like gamers are just too stupid to even use passwords

[@Guru316]

It's remarkable how very little they know about what gamer's actually want, considering they are trying to corner the market. And 99% of crypto bros aren't even gamer's.

[@andrewkoster6506]

Whenever anyone points out that crypto games are shit, the crypto bros accuse those critics of having "gamer brain". They're angry at their potential market for being users of the product that they're trying to sell.

[@ArtemisKitty]

The system requirements give it all away. Something like 5-10 percent of your system's power will go to running the little game, while the other 90-95% mines crypto for them in the background, and your "payment" is actually just a small portion of whatever you earn for them. It's not an accident that if you look up the system requirements for crypto mining apps they're the same. Right down to the minimal video cards required. Edit: typo fixed

[@justinwhite2725]

7:36 ... That's mining specs. That's some serious mining and or AI neural networks running in the background.

[@MasticinaAkicta]

This is truly a case of Failure to Launch! The makers behind it will not put any time or energy into getting it working. Nothing will be done with it and in a few months it will go *poof* Its creators by then have a new glorious project that will REALLY WORK.

[@ArDeeMee]

„Trust me, bro.“ 👊

[@gamingfox9845]

I never got the whole "play 2 earn" scheme. From my point of view, you are at best very very very unlikely to earn more money than you put into it (either directly or in time) if you did, the developers would be hemorraghing money which, as we now, is not a feasable business model. Especially when there is no fee to entry. Also the wording "in our next wave of f2p p2e games" ... that screams that they are aware that these programs are shovelware at best.

[@Temperans]

It works if it comes about naturally via the players trading as opposed to forced by the devs. Same as collectible card games IRL. EVE does it by effectively having an in game economy that justifies people using real world money to save time. Similar things happens with other MMOs where you have a dedicated group of raid groups. While you also have a dedicated group of farmers selling mats to the raid groups. While also having a dedicate group of bots selling mats in general. * P.S. Also yes the fact that they can't even make 1 decent game speaks loudly about how they aren't actually gamers. Any competent gamer would know that the key to success is making a game fun, and then earn money via marketting deals.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Yeah I'll stick with the past and my retro gaming space thx lol

[@grantkeller4634]

This shit looks like retrogames with none of the charm

[@atraxian5881]

Web 0 games (as games that do not require any internet connection) were some of the best games I ever played.

[@lakojake4215]

Same here!

[@Tuxfanturnip]

hell, you can get better games for a handful of dollars on itch, made by active developers who care about their work

[@paulmdevenney]

You need those high specs for the games to allow the game to mine crypto for the publishers while you play your popcap game.

[@Phantom-kf6bp]

Hey Callum, will you make a video on Dr Disrespect's comments on NFTs and his NFT game?

[@CallumUpton]

im actually looking in to those as of last night!

[@Dradeeus]

Uh, those specs, though. I mean it's ridiculously believable to think that a game made by these guys may be incredibly poorly optimized, but are we sure this isn't just using your computer to mine on the side? This is enough to play like, 3 Elden Rings simultaneously.

[@monkeyinapanzer]

The crazy things about crypto and NFT bros is that they are basically in the Wild West and if they where even remotely smart and good at taking calculated risk they could be loaded. The obvious play is throw morals out the window and join the ranks of the snake oil salesmen pawning off random coins and NFTs as the next big thing. But they just don’t they keep buying snake oil and like every one out of a thousand might get his money worth while the rest wounded what happened to all the money.

[@Lenariet]

They believe they are in the Wild West. But in some cases the law seems to have struck them down. They are not living in some new, lawless world. They only think so and if they get away then only because too few people or not the right ones are paying enough attention or are understanding much of it - yet. (?)

[@aslandus]

I mean, there's not really anything differentiating a "good" or "successful" NFT project from a rugpull, and none of these "projects" ever reach fruition. There's also nothing particularly revolutionary about their tech, everything the crypto market does was simply nothing major companies wanted to get into before the suckers buying in caused millions of dollars to start sloshing around for the taking. It's not that they're not making good decisions, it's that there's no good decisions to be made, the entire market is just a giant slot machine that some people have managed to make money on.

[@TeethSkylark]

I would assumed that the Specs are so high because some of the games are meant to have you mine crypto for them

[@Madnacc]

Maybe I'm missing something because I'm not exactly in the loop for web3 but what exactly is supposed to be the difference between this and any other game library platform like steam or gog (except web3 of course)? As far as I'm aware I get logged into steam automatically on boot up and don't have to use extra passwords for any game unless they are on third party accounts so....

[@rustkitty]

Maybe they mean the purchase part. For example in Steam I have to go through PayPal or do 2FA to buy with a credit card, but if your wallet is connected to your account then you can pay directly without further authentication. But if that's what they meant, I'm not sure it's a good thing...

[@mix1ro]

don't worry. people pushing for web3 don't know what it does either

[@user-account-not-found]

This one lets us con you out of twice the amount of money

[@Max.Volume]

With anything web3, NFT or crypto related, if it feels like something doesn't make sense and you must be missing something, you're not missing anything. It is what you think it is, and it doesn't make sense.

[@andrewkoster6506]

it's because Steam doesn't allow games with blockchain bullshit (because that would turn Steam into exactly this kind of garbage dump)

[@avendji]

Graphics Minimum : RX 6600 Graphics Recommended : 6500XT Right.... going to higher Settings somehow need the lower tier GPU.

[@Zybit1423]

@@milkknife I’m pretty sure it’s an emoji for channel members.

[@avendji]

@@milkknife its emoji from the KZbin actually, I can access it when I'm on desktop PC but it isn't there when I'm on a phone. You can use it anywhere btw its not channel members emote.

[@danielhiguita5511]

Those PC requirements ... they're either mining or they've never heard about optimization in their lives

[@lordhellstrande2763]

Both is possible...but it's more likely the mining

[@KamiThulak]

Its not just casual, its "Hyper Casual" Its a competition on who can be the most casual.

[@williamnother8066]

But..if the game takes off, and everyone starts playing it en masse, then everyone will either get their crypto and the whole system will become devalued or the devs will have to lower the reward rate until it's pointless to even receive NFT/Crypto from it. There's no point to even including it, it just brings up issues that will inevitably lead to bad PR

[@rogofos]

love it when a game needs more ram than disk space

[@ultgamercw6759]

Is it just me or is that launcher's UI an almost exact copy of the Epic Games launcher?

[@arnaskelpsa5207]

I can see resembalance

[@lordhellstrande2763]

Not just you

[@danielbrugovsky6018]

HOLD THE PHONE, the minimum/recommended specs are actually random. RX 6500 XT is a performance grade lower than RX 6600 and a lot worse, yet it's recommended and RX 6600 is the minimum requirement. And the 32 GB RAM requirement is BS as well, there is no way you can use that much, when the goddamn game is 5 GB big, like where does the X GB of textures, meshes, code and etc. come from?! They are blowing up the specs, so it looks like a next-gen AAA game to the not so tech savvy crypto-bros and nudges them to invest in it.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

Or just mining the shit out of it

[@YdenMk-II]

One thing I never understood is why the game needs to be web3 when the steam marketplace already exists if you want people to buy/sell/trade your game items.

[@MarquisdeL3]

Because Steam banned crypto games

[@YdenMk-II]

@@MarquisdeL3 No I mean there's no need for a game to be web3 to be able to monetize items. Steam already has a good example of a marketplace for game items without any need for blockchain or crypto.

[@MarquisdeL3]

@@YdenMk-II yes, but they don't want to make money by selling game items, they want to make money by selling crypto

[@soviut303]

Crypto bros trying to break into the gaming market reminds me of Hollywood's attempt to break into gaming with crappy FMV games. It's a bunch of speculators who see a flourishing free to play market and say "what if we made it all about the microtransactions?".

[@JennFaeAge]

Anyone else wondering how they determined which games were "popular"?

[@justinwhite2725]

8:53 I remember quest 64 being one of the first 3d RPGs on popular consoles. Let's be honest the graphics on that are pretty bad and the gameplay isn't much better. Was innovative at the time but niche (and already outpaced by super Mario 64) Anyway quest 64 is what those screen shots immediately remind me of. 1996 era.

[@Mac_Omegaly]

At least Quest 64 was a playable game with only two major bugs. And I respectfully disagree. Quest 64 looked far worse then this mess, but it is like the early games of the 2000's like "Dungeon Siege". Not bad exactly but it's bare bones by today's standards. It's clear they bought a bunch assets from a store, and slapped them together.)

[@justinwhite2725]

​@@Mac_OmegalyI actually quite enjoyed dungeon siege. It was a good game for it's time and it had a way of stitching terrain together that was groundbreaking (no load times between zones - one of the first games of the era to do that.) But I guess that's kind of the problem. We've listed two of the earliest games of the 90s and 00s that are jank by today's standards - and they are still better than this mess.

[@ArDeeMee]

@@justinwhite2725 I played the sh.t out of Dungeon Siege. Aaaah, memories. My first own full computer game. Played the demo maybe 20 or 30 times… got the game because I liked it so much. I mean, the cover was a redhead with green eyes and a flame sword. Duh. =D

[@Betterthanyou26]

If this is our future then im going to make my own game

[@kiarastaggs180]

And I’m going to do the same!

[@chainswordcs]

genuinely, please do! or make some creative work! the world could always use more of it

[@mortalLP]

All of those About The Game sections have that written-by-a-chatbot ring, imo

[@jauwn]

Crypto games are hilariously bad

[@ecthelionv2]

I think what they mean with that is they're going to mint the NFT for free. But you don't own it. Until you pay up.

[@cropathfinder]

still more feature complete "metaverse" then earth2 xD. Also the minimum requirements are totally not there to justify the horrible performance as cover for them using your PC to mine

[@Kiytan]

So that's what would happen if you took the epic games store and gave it all the "quality control" of the google play store...

[@jankucera8505]

As a person who has single-handedly developed two blockchain systems from scratch I feel and always have felt ashamed by the crypto community. I apologize on behalf of them.

[@noname-gp6hk]

I've been having a pretty shite few days m8, hearing about the stupid shit the crypto bros are up to helps take my mind off things. Thanks for the upload and making my day a little better.

[@paegr]

Thing is, this already exists in the form of CSGO skins. It has existed for over a decade, and it doesn't have any of the Blockchain Bloat attached. Cryptobros are literally 10 years late on this one

[@arsmariastarlight3567]

The system requirements makes absolutely no sense: higher setting requires crappier setup than minimum setting. It's obviously mining on the background

[@TensaZangetsu1200]

Notice how the minimum specs require a *better* AMD card than the recommended. The 6600 is far superior to the shitty 6500XT

[@dy031101]

Is it just me or do modern-day journalists still look down on people who play videogames as if they're doing us a favour by "bringing gamers into" their sacred cows?

[@dyalani643]

Gotta have good specs for mining on people's computers.

[@JontysCorner]

Those minimum specs on the first game prove, beyond any speculative doubt, that this entire venture is nothing but using your machine to mine. Also, can we take note of having the minimum GPU more powerful than the recommended one LOL!

[@FireKatArcher]

"One time password sign in" like I didn't sign on one time for my steam account a year ago and haven't needed to since

[@skylarkblue1]

I doubt the requirements are for mining. Most likely reason is because they just dumped a ton of assets into scenes without doing anything for optimisation. The ram as well, most things now list the total ram you should have, and honestly nowadays 16 is kinda the minimum required for doing anything as windows takes up far too much.

[@MastaDJMax]

How does Callum decide whether to put his hair on the left or the right side of his face?

[@dartz005]

I wouldn't be surprised if the listed specs for those "games" are just a facade to disguise the game doing some mining. Given that Crypto Clowns can't see far enough ahead to know that fad is dead, I wouldn't be surprised.

[@DirtCheapFU]

Those pc specs woke me up... I'm like half sleep, double sleeving my cards. Yeah... theyre going to mine your PC while you play and sleep.

[@christopherzajonskowski7123]

"revolutionary passwordless" Yeah... that was always the reason I didn't use other systems - it was always the bad passwords that kept me away... *smh*

[@Zakon213]

I'll catch you guys in the next one, and I'll catch you guys in the next one!

[@CallumUpton]

hahah, an edit mistake i didnt catch! you win a web3 weevil

[@tvctaswegia497]

Strong Steam Greenlight vibes here, lots of shovelware with desperate attempt to cash grab. Thanks Callum!

[@dabun4704]

I love how the "I went and did alittle research" is just the first page for google about what F2O means. He probably did more research than that but still was just a hilarious cut

[@chadschmaltz9790]

This is such a beautiful disaster! The hoops they want you to jump through to simply play one of these games is unbelievable. Not to mention the minimum spec requirements.

[@Archangelm127]

Yeah, these applications totally aren't camouflaged crypto mining programs. Totally.

[@johnmagus6341]

I will gladly stay in the past if this is the future of gaming...

[@lakojake4215]

I already feel that way without Web3. So many games are garbage now. Everything is a cash grab.

[@StevenSenile]

Every company that uses the word "Web3" in their marketing is immediately a scam

[@Unprotected1232]

We've all heard about burner phones. How about a burner PC? God knows you'll need one when trying out this hot garbo.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

VM ware ftw

[@bmwg35]

"lets take over the game market with games that would be laughed at 30 years ago!!!"

[@khmnc]

1:05 ... 1995 school gaming was organ trail, number munchers, and a few other mac games (this was before microshit started donating computers to schools to cement their monopoly)

[@codenchips]

OMG What's with the Jazz in the background? I wanted to hear what you had to say but that muzak made me want to deafen myself.

[@muellermat]

Maybe It's Just my phones Resolution. But the Screenshots from the Space Game look Like they are lifted from Starconflict.

[@friendlyspacedragon7250]

Something tells me this isn't going to overtake Steam anytime soon.

[@fluidwolf]

No password but you gotta sign in with a crypto wallet to every game. So they supposedly took away an annoyance and added a worse one that would be shit even if it did actually work.

[@lordhellstrande2763]

Hearing you mention miniclip makes me feel old as hell...I miss miniclip games

[@beckhanra]

When you see a "game" with PS2 graphics, that came outta some shady online distribution platform, require a powerful machine, you can kinda guess what's going on under the hood.

[@freack3333]

"holy 1995 abandonware" 🤣🤣

[@gerbo8018]

new e-sports ... You know if you could do this ... I'm certain company's like Blizzard would hire them. Its really hard to make a game an e-sport. Step 1 is usually make it popular.

[@messiusonline2817]

bet that these web3 games are also mining in the background when you play them

[@joearnold6881]

Astonishing that there are still cryptobros out there

[@TheLeviathan1293]

7:40 I jokingly said Forspoken had a crypto miner hidden in it... now for this one I could say it seriously.

[@CainXVII]

You want to get rid of passwords? Invent face scan for computer games. You can log in from any device via web cam, or if it doesn't have a web cam, get a link to your phone where you can scan your face. No web3 needed.

[@tristangeraets9258]

they made a launcher worse than origin? that's impressive!

[@VampireBlood7]

please make sure nothing secretly downloaded while trying this, so u will not be used for mining or whatsoever

[@RasmusN]

While i am a fan of crypto, does cryptos and nft's absolutely not have anything to do in any game, other than scamming people. Web3 is a deadborn idea

[@dheatlyblaze2846]

This is the first time ive heard a major youtuber mentions Miniclip

[@thunderaga]

Informative video! Thanks

[@abrahamtan5766]

the background music is too loud imo good coverage

[@ApexOT]

Create a VM to protect your system and play the games.

[@Dradeeus]

I'm actually wondering if there's going the be an update on this to say that the couple games that are actually out don't work because they don't actually exist. (I don't know if they do or not, that just sounds very very plausible.)

[@Tomahawkist_]

damn, even star citizen has more reasonable specs for what you get (and you can actually play the game in some capacity)

[@Mightydoggo]

I remember playing flash games like Stormwinds lost campaign way back in the days and having an absolute blast because the music was great, the steampunky look was great and the gameplay was fun as hell. This doesn´t look like games from 10 years ago, it just looks like a soulless modern prototype of what may could have become a good game if those people would actually care. BTW wtf is going on with those specs? Somebody should tell them that they have left some game assets in their crypto miner. lol

[@whtiequillBj]

I've never figured out what Wallet Connect is.

[@endymallorn]

Sollarion sounds like a fun idea - like Duelists of the Roses.

[@Saieras]

Loving the 49 cent hentai game music in the background.

[@EskilBagge]

The big pc needs are for the bit coin mines runing in the back ground

[@skynet0912]

How does gaming in this format deal with our youngest gamers? Are they just excluded from the market entirely? Because i get the feeling that it's illegal in at least some way to get kids involved in scams like this...

[@pretzelbomb6105]

You think the people pushing these systems care about laws, morals, and anything the FTC has ever said?

[@alexandrebelair4360]

It's not illegal. It's also not really a scam. it's just super unethical.