No Refunds: The Gala Games Saga

[@Wholiannn]

Cant believe i bought gala 😢

[@sweethysteria8737]

We all make mistakes

[@MinosPrimeGaming]

Ouch

[@jauwn]

Keep your head up brother the future is bright

[@DSPsWifesBF]

I mean, at least you know it was a mistake.

[@Bgamboe132]

On the brightside, you wont do it twice

[@bipolarminddroppings]

No fucking way did I just hear someone try to justify this cryptoslop by saying that they're trying to save children's lives? In what country can you afford to own a PC/console/phone good enough to play these games, and have the hundreds/thousands of dollars to buy in to the game, but in which earning a single dollar could save their child's life?

[@youtube-kit9450]

It's preying on idiots or extremely desperate people. Remember that Axie Infinity rode on the covid wave in the philippines putting many people out of work so those people basically put their last savings (and more) into the game because they basically faced bankruptcy anyways, and a phone or pc is something most, even poor people, own because internet access is required for so many things.

[@PurpleXVI]

It's a classic gambit, like insisting that Bitcoin will "bank the unbanked" because third world countries have a ton of unbanked people with PC's that can do crypto mining and shit.

[@HigherPrime8]

@@PurpleXVI You dont need a PC for crypto my dude.

[@FifinatorKlon]

The same people complaining about being poor also tend to spend regularly 7 bucks on half a liter of beer or 5 bucks for a flat white.

[@gibra-elwalker7937]

@@FifinatorKlon a daily expenditure of 10 dollars is not why people are poor kek. You must be from an actual third world country if this is the case in your mind.

[@extremepayne]

The 4X exploit exploit exploit exploit is actually four different exploits: 1. Game exploiting players’ psychology to get them to gamble away their money 2. Players exploiting the game (no crypto game has ever been polished or well-balanced) 3. Publishers exploiting the devs’ labor 4. Marketing exploiting the public’s lack of understanding of crypto

[@NothingXemnas]

If you squint, that is pretty much how AAA companies work, these days... Even without P2W mechanics and presence of in-game currency for the gambling mechanics, it is all too obvious from "Early Access" and "Pre-Order" purchases being in the hundreds of thousands, people so impatient that they end up buying to gamble anyway rather than grind, but not of their own fault, given that companies make grinding so bad. Rushed products full of glitches, bugs and absurdly unbalanced, all because publishers (and their investors) don't want ANY game to take longer than 2 years to get ready. And of course the devs get the short end, with underpaid work. Money, money, money. Gamers like to uncontrollably spend it, publishers and investors like to get all of it, devs get none of it. AND NOW THERE IS AI EVERYWHERE. Thank you, AAA.

[@kaiserruhsam]

@@NothingXemnas these crypto scams are just distilled unregulated capitalism

[@williamdrum9899]

I thought he said ForEx as in "Foreign Exchange" 😂

[@oceanman_8370]

No one in this world works harder than Gala's Chilean team. Godspeed

[@rusm5710]

Fuck em all

[@jeanvaljean6433]

You wouldn't know my developers,they're in chile

[@4x13x17]

somos el mejor país de chile

[@Just_Some_Dude73]

Developer here, and i'll get right back to work if someone sends me an empanada de queso, pls tengo hambre y mi mami no me hizo almuerzo :(

[@4x13x17]

@@Just_Some_Dude73 greetings from Hell, Talca

[@draconis17]

The very first game is "idle game but you can't idle" Crazy

[@1gient]

If I had a quarter for everytime I have seen one of those I would have three quarters. It's not much but it's weird it happened more then twice.

[@FluffinWasntHere]

Cookie Clicker is sorta like this, except that you can keep the game open, the journey towards the "semi-perfect idling" is buying specific upgrades In this other idle game you can't idle... it's probably not a gameplay thing they just didn't bother to make it idle Classic Gala games blunder

[@unowong3084]

It's an issue with the browser he's using, if you turn off occlusion culling in config it works

[@CharlieFoxtrot]

@@FluffinWasntHere CC does have upgrades that unlock offline baseline CPS production though, up to 6 days I think

[@FluffinWasntHere]

@@CharlieFoxtrot yeah that

[@Ganey16]

"Boy I can't wait till someone makes a MMO where I can have a virtual landlord, what a wild and fun fantasy, that sounds like a fun experience!" -Literally no one

[@isenokami7810]

Maybe not LITERALLY no one, but the people who tried from more understandable angles realized pretty quick it was still a bad idea. I’m referring more to some of the MMOs Josh Strife Hayes has covered that did finite land stuff: the idea was usually more to have player housing be part of the world, even have player made towns in some cases, but the knock on effects from only having so much land to give out presented too many problems. The crypto version of this, though, yeah, no one ever wanted that.

[@KajuTheRudeMonke]

I JUST BOUGHT MORE LAND IN THE METAVERSE

[@plebisMaximus]

@@KajuTheRudeMonke Now I get paid rent in cash with atlasearth

[@mariobosnjak99]

The Sims series be like:

[@marianlungu36]

@@plebisMaximus Got virtual land across the globe (across the globe)

[@HasidicKaiju]

I remember when Peter Molyneux released that tap-to-remove cube game to see what the secret prize was inside. Dubbed a "social experiment" or some such, people tapped to remove cubes, to remove layers, to get to the center of a sphere. And I said, "you know what would be hilarious? If the big reveal was an ad for a game". Sure enough, Godus was announced once the sphere was cracked. Memba Godus? Me neither. Peter Molyneux is a head up his own posterior charlatan.

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

@@HasidicKaiju the "one lucky person" that was the last click on the box was supposedly going to be made into the god of gods in said game (plus a small stake in profits), then they iced him out for a few years and cancelled the project. 100% up his alley, though honestly I more expected some sort of "unity of the human race coming together is its own reward uwu" type spiel so a supposed actual tangible reward was shocking lmao.

[@zetty6460]

And then they tried to scam the winner out of getting anything

[@thediabolicalraisin8953]

@3possumsinatrenchcoat The funny thing is, it wasn't canceled! The official channel uploaded 3 months ago!

[@Chonkems]

@@thediabolicalraisin8953 Yeah, Godus is somehow still going.

[@affegpus4195]

Molineux is more of a pie in the sky/head in the clouds type of person, rather than a scammer, even though the difference is a bit hard to pinpoint a lot of time. He has worked in good games when he had people reigning in him, unlike most scammers. Even thou I wouldn't ever expect anything out of him nowadays.

[@sussy6905]

i just wanna say, i LOVE the weird glitchcore SFM aesthetic of your channel that has basically nothing to do with your content, it gives your videos so much personality

[@jauwn]

Thanks!!! I love making them. I want to start making standalone animation videos as I slowly shift away from crypto content

[@bluish5189]

@@jauwn sounds rad. Would love to see what your head can cook up especially with your unique brand of passion.

[@sweethysteria8737]

@@jauwngo ahead, I love the weirdcore glitchcore stuff I’m hoping waiting for that Jauwn glitchcore weirdcore action adventure game! I hope you keep talking about games, these game videos have me more interested in game development Turns out being shown what not to do and being told that a college student could make a better game makes me wanna finally learn to make games like I always have wanted to. :)

[@Robotdestroyer0]

​@@jauwntime to tack another creator(you) onto my wall of favorite artists

[@mini_hek]

​@@jauwn it scratches an itch that I didn't know I had, really makes your content stand out more than you already do so I can't wait to see what you come up with :3

[@PointsofData]

I genuinely love that you went to Spy Kids 3D and not Sword Art Online for "game so real you LIVE the game".

[@jauwn]

I know my audience

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

lmaoo

[@Carnyzzle]

Spy Kids 3D is a better Sword art Online either way

[@polaknasieci1331]

@@PointsofData based

[@Tectonicplates3000]

There's only 1 season of SaO, everything else is just fanfiction lol

[@ScarlettMaraxa]

28:14 Jesus Christ... Gala Games is worst than I thought. They refuse to pay their developers if the game is failing. Then they sue them because they wouldn't work for free... And then they try to sue them again because they failed to the first time... I hope Gala Games gets a legal hammer slammed into them for these kinds of practices.

[@nessdragon]

From what was covered in the video, someone would have to sue them in the correct court first. Weird that these companies--who presumably have professional attorneys working for them--keep getting that wrong.

[@zulda1396]

@@nessdragon Bold of you to assume that anything run by crypto bros would have a legal team.

[@nessdragon]

@@zulda1396 I mean, they're clearly not spending that money on the games, so they should have plenty to hire a decent lawyer. I'd make that a pretty big priority if I were running a gigantic scam operation.

[@Queenfan999]

@@nessdragon Yeah but you're not as delusional as they are ig

[@deerkaiser9983]

@@nessdragon lol all the money they make gets pocketed, like in every crypto scheme. This is not a real and serious company with a professional budgeted legal team, it's a bunch of money hungry crypto bros

[@frigginresulrum]

The funny thing about Gala Music is that AI generated shit isn't copyrightable in the US...so...one should in theory be able to upload and use their music at any point in time.

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Yes, but it's probably all so horrible that nobody would want to use it, though

[@KajuTheRudeMonke]

No wonder it's shit, then.

[@Charles2wice]

But you can right?

[@Enricco_pucci-]

FERB I KNOW WHAT WE ARE GONNA DO TODAY

[@am-ranth8955]

Anything AI-generated without significant human involvement or work isn't copyrightable here in the US. That includes images, text, basically anything anyone has ever prompted into existence and published wholesale.

[@sssssssshhhhhhh]

Yeah one extra dollar a week could prevent me to sell my WAIT WHAT

[@STIR-FRIED-SUBWAY-RAT]

Give me a dollar or your child, your choice.

[@planescaped]

Imma post up at the bank. WTB 1 child

[@Ninelivescat8993]

Raising a child costs about 15-20k a year If you sell your child you'd actually get way more than just the 200 dollars a year they promise with their dollar a week ...or maybe they are subtly nudging you to buy birth control for that price

[@nikkiofthevalley]

​@@Ninelivescat8993A dollar a week could not possibly cover birth control in the US

[@Ninelivescat8993]

@@nikkiofthevalley condoms are fairly cheap and also count as birth control though

[@Limofeus]

23:50 "You're better of with offshore casinos, then at least you're actually gambling" is such a strong insult for a game ha ha

[@sushi4864]

"thank you for the video jauwn" we chant in unison

[@gemknight9889]

"AI Generated NFT song" is a string of words that I would not have pieced together like that in my most horrible nightmares

[@BoisegangGaming]

the gala exec saying that play-to-earn will "Buy time until someone has to sell their kid" is just... Who is selling their kids? What the hell are these crypto bros smoking?

[@Myoron]

Worst off, WHY make them play games you spent millions making instead of just.... giving them the money directly?

[@TheRarenth]

And $1 a week... you could make more money selling literal garbage in even the poorest parts of the world with less effort than playing this game day-in day-out

[@selectionn]

the real question is where do you go to sell your kids? Should I just find my local democrat politician? Do I need to call ahead or can I just show up?

[@FelisImpurrator]

​@@selectionn*Republican

[@BoisegangGaming]

@@Myoron Because execs only like it when people give them money, not when they give out money.

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

a family member did art design for Gala for two years or so, the employees on the team that worked on the game he did all got a free node when it launched and i think he was about to strangle the next family member that tried to confirm that "yes, okay, and they're paying you in real, genuine, United States Dollars for your work, right?" 😂 he's retired now and does freelance while making whatever the heck he wants, managed to be there in the sweet spot without any notable (at least relayed to any of us) worker abuse. honestly until i started watching your series a year ago i had no idea just how insane they actually were, we just got to see fun concept art he'd made if he ever brought up work. great video as always!

[@SrFlink]

seeing Forever Winter here was genuinely shocking, thankfully the devs got away from Gala

[@schmick1018]

@@SrFlink I had no idea that Fun Dog had any ties to a crypto scheme. Glad they got away from that and went their own way

[@tbestig4164]

Ikr I was so worried lol

[@MechaMonkeyz]

explains why the games mechanics were/are so bad, seemed like it was designed to milk all of your time.

[@autemsicarius]

That would explain the Water Mechanic

[@MechaMonkeyz]

@@autemsicarius or infinite spawning enemies when you get certain loot.

[@leowilliamson1573]

Wild nobody's mentioning the show that had a dude get attacked for paying in paper currency by crypto bros in a show made by crypto bros. That felt like the most insane thing in this video because I wasn't expecting a moment where Are We the Baddies was that applicable.

[@fntthesmth423]

The kind of delusion you usually only see in a Tumblr fake story secretly written by a redditor trying to make "the sjws" look bad

[@sharkk127]

13:13 "real time tactical, turn based battles" ......that literally makes no sense

[@jauwn]

Buzzword machine broke

[@Speederzzz]

There is a theory that time progresses in incredibly small distinct chunks, perhaps that's what they mean 😂

[@Nshadowtail]

Something like FF7's ATB system could kind of be described that way, I guess? (Alternately, I've often described Runescape as a turn-based game... you just have a really short time limit per turn.)

[@sharkk127]

@@Nshadowtail i have no idea what either of those look like, but the one game i know that has both rts and tbs is ultimate admiral dreadknoughts, but that game still has them separate

[@nitehawk86]

@@jauwn Or working exactly as intended. Like the old days where every web page had a hidden text of a few thousand common search terms.

[@BoneMachine1443]

who doesn't want a game made by finance bros? "so yeah, the core gameplay is you own stuff."

That Spider Tanks lawsuit... 21 million dollars made... from one mediocre game... (2021, sure, but still). 50 million for a Snoop Dogg colab... I cannot comprehend the world of the filthy rich.

[@jauwn]

It truly is incomprehensible. The way you view life as an individual with a net worth in excess of $100M has to be immensely different than how you or I live our lives.

[@isenokami7810]

That goes both ways: the filthy rich can’t comprehend our world either. That’s how you get tech and crypto bros in the first place. And that’s terrifying: the people with the most resources and power to change our world, by the nature of having that power in the first place, are fundamentally incapable of understanding it.

[@RollyPollyPal]

@@jauwn wtf...... youtube says op's comment is from ten hours ago but your comment is from 12... am I going insane?

[@mariobosnjak99]

​@@RollyPollyPal both of them are from 14 hours ago

[@parallelogrum7967]

@@jauwnme when I don’t have $100k to burn in my furnace daily

[@tverdyznaqs]

Sorry little Timmy, mommy is too busy GAMING trying to earn ONE DOLLAR and if she doesn't get it she will have to SELL YOU

[@f.m.3421]

i have to confess that i've seen all your videos hundreds of times because they're somehow simultaneously very entertaining and informative while also great for background noise while i sleep. looking forward to seeing this one hundreds of times too! thanks jauwn.

[@jauwn]

Keep watching Jauwn

[@Snarf679]

I have a playlist of videos I use as background noise, and over the past year, Jauwm videos are starting to dominate the list lol

[@Numbabu]

I agree pretty much. Easy to watch good to watch

[@odester]

i thought i was the only one 😭😭 they truely knock me out

[@jauwn]

@@odester I’m gonna make a “crypto games to sleep to” compilation that is 10 hours long for you guys to watch in your sleep

[@mimivrc4148]

0:28 I wasnt paying attention well enough and thought you said it was your sponsor. was really shocked. had to listen again!

[@puzza0]

I had no idea that Raid is made by a company which also makes slot machines... I always felt that many mobile games are just gambling with a different coat of paint, but I never knew that the connection is so blatant. Really gross tbh. And makes me distrust KZbinr shilling even more. Anyway, am still watching, and I'm loving this vid Jauwn!! Thanks these deep dives and scam criticisms. And for being one of the few popular KZbinrs I can watch on my phone without needing to skip in-video ads about VPNs, meal kits, or... y'know, Raid 🤣 Hope you're having a great day, man.

[@jauwn]

Thanks! I hope you’re having a great day too

[@hihi123hiful]

@@puzza0 i mean they’re not gambling because you have no chance of not losing money when you get addicted to its slot machine

[@planescaped]

Raid Shadow legends notoriously pays up to 10k for a plug. I don't blame youtubers for getting that bag, especially since it is such common knowledge that Raid is hot garbage.

[@chcc12]

If I remember correctly they also run prison slave labour camps

[@softreyna]

@@planescaped If it's such common knowledge that Raid isn't worth playing, why would Raid pay any money for an ad spot? If nobody plays, they're just throwing the money away...

[@turlough2]

Love the subtitles and the videos bro, keep it up!

[@jauwn]

Glad you like them!

[@qubeh1203]

just like my dad, you keep leaving, but always come back with bangers, can't wait to watch.

[@jauwn]

Well unlike your dad im actually working while I’m gone

[@Foscko]

Is the joke that your father is a loser? I don't get it. As someone whose dad left this isn't funny and is triggering. The fact that this was replied by juawn with a joke is disgusting. Reported

[@gagbum]

your dad keeps coming back with suasages?

[@nicholasleclerc1583]

@@qubeh1203 "banger", huh ? 😳

[@TomJakobW]

@@Foscko lol The essence of comedy is pain. Jokes about meaningless things are also meaningless.

[@benathan6239]

It is insane how Peter Molynoux lurks behind every curtain

[@tamanoirkiller8998]

Naming your company Gamedia is certainly interesting, especially the way Jauwn says it.

[@Darkfyyre]

omg i was like, "wait what's wrong with gamedia- oh. gay. media. yeah i can see how that might be confusing." i can guarantee you, we queers can make far better content than this crypto slop!

[@valivali8104]

It also sounds too similar to clamydia 🤭

[@Rippertear]

@@valivali8104 Have I been pronouncing chlamydia wrong? I thought it was pronounced "cl" like "claw", "uh" like "sun", "mid" like "middle", "ee" like "free", and "uh" like "son".

[@valivali8104]

@@Rippertear 🤷🏼‍♀️ maybe in your dialect it’s right?

[@jackalo34]

@@valivali8104 hes correct tho bc the a in claymydia is short so it's pronounced like cluh instead of clay and is cluh mid dee uh.

[@SHDW-nf2ki]

Learning that Forever Winter, a game with a mandatory "win a match every single day or loose your progress" mechanic was supposed to have NFTs in it explains SO MUCH.

[@Shaggyladd]

I imagine they're going to change that in the future. From what I heard they released it for those who are really into it and said if you aren't you shouldn't buy it in it's current state.

[@qaulthir4894]

Given that you can stockpile over a month worth of water there's really no need to "play a mission every day".

[@thaddeussharp1]

LOL "win a match every single day or loose your progress" For anyone who does their research or plays the game, knows that very inaccurate. Getting & stockpilng water is easy. A week or of water in a couple of hours of casual play is the norm. Personaly, almost 2 months worth of water in my game and I am playing other games right now with ZERO worries.

[@thaddeussharp1]

@@qaulthir4894 Ya, I chuckle at the embelishment.

[@lukepaule6004]

That's not even how the game works. Your uneducated about the game entirely.

[@kraosdadafusfus8034]

I am glad Fun Dog turned their back on Gala and NFTs, as it allowed Forever Winter to flourish. It's a great and quite unique game, from what I've seen so far. Definitely in my radar.

[@h0gz1lla40]

I suspect the crazy water mechanic was a relic from Gala.

[@h0gz1lla40]

@@kraosdadafusfus8034 once I started scrolling through the chats I realized almost everyone realized the same thing 😆

[@soup9911]

@@kraosdadafusfus8034 wait what, that used to be an NFT game? I had no idea.

[@madisjanno8314]

I would like to point out that despite so many NFT based games by the same makers shown here, none of the NFTs are transferable between games, showing just how incredibly bullshit that whole topic was.

[@Rainbro359]

If cryptobros were thinking critically about this, or thinking, they wouldn't need examples to see that. The bottleneck on inter-game operability was always the games themselves wanting to devote dev time to supporting someone else's stuff that they don't control. Blockchain solved the problem of "how could these games communicate if they did", which...was already solved better, by something called The Internet.

[@madcreeps9614]

big fan of caddicarus & peanut butter gamer & im very tickled to see them here. I know it was just to show them advertising raid shadow legends but ill take what i can get loving the new video so far!! I could watch a new video of yours everyday & never get bored lol

[@1998_MIN]

I think Caddy in particular is well aware that the products he advertises are mostly mediocre, hence why he frames them with Spons

[@holotori_senior_admin_teno]

Nonono... we're ALLOWED to scam you. You checked the box saying we're legally allowed to do so. Also, didn't expect to hear Peter M. come up here >,>

[@Sorrelhas]

It's funny because Gala is slang in certain parts of Brasil for semen

[@TomJakobW]

but unlike the Brazil one, this one didn’t bear fruit.

[@sinners_nsfw]

Lembro dos meus amigos no discord em 2021: OLHA A GALA SUBINDO!!!!

[@Plaalt]

Male Discharge Games

[@TheSunkenShipWreck]

I have no words to say. Just laughter

[@cryptokoosha]

explains a lot

[@mhc706]

“real time tactical turnbased” they are literally just saying keywords so their scam pops up when someone searches any word

[@Jester23456]

I really was not expecting forever winter to be a former gala game. Wow those devs really dodged a bullet

[@avalokiteshvara113]

idk I think that just makes it forever tainted for me

[@Shaggyladd]

@@avalokiteshvara113 from what I hear you can see where gala meddled. Specifically the water system but as fun dog has said they only released it for those really into the idea and you shouldn't buy it currently if you aren't.

[@pencilcase8068]

I'm honestly glad you haven't ran out of crypto games to cover. Yours is a channel of guaranteed quality and I don't want you to go away

[@tylermaccallum3529]

Damn it it jauwn, I want to watch it now.. not in 35 minutes.. now im upset. Please apologize.

[@jauwn]

No you're lying you're not upset you're in the chat having fun

[@hoshi314]

the funniest thing about the mobile gacha games is that i have been playing a lot of gacha games for a long time and i can immediately see that Gala's offerings are....... immediately identified as bad game when compared to what i used to play back then and even so i'm not sure the comparison is warranted. Comparing Gala's offerings to GBF, FGO, and Mihoyo stuffs are unwarranted since none of Gala's offerings are at the same quality

[@WakenWanangi]

Man, Jauwn's production quality just keeps increasing every video!

[@jauwn]

This will be Jauwn in 2013

[@Frommerman]

Unlike the games he reviews, which seem to only get worse. From this we can conclude Jauwn is a psychic vampire consuming the minds of all crypto dev teams. There is no other possible explanation for why every single one of them is singularly incompetent and venal.

[@greyarea6688]

You briefly covered Ghosts of Ruin, and one thing to note there is that one of the producers of that show is the same guy who made that generative AI remake of the trailer for Princess Mononoke in recent weeks. I've long suspected an overlap between the worlds of AI slop, crypto scams and sheer bloody desperation for money and investment from some of the most creatively bankrupt people on the planet and it kind of confirmed it for me.

[@sweethysteria8737]

I’m looking forward to a Kiraverse performance report! That was my fav review ngl but I can imagine with how fed up you must be with Lyra Asset flips you’ll be less kind for it being a Lyra Asset flips

[@jauwn]

I’m gonna do it in the final video that will just be all the loose ends we have left to revisit. Almost done

[@dlog]

Is Kiraverse made by the same guy who goes on KZbin by "KiraTV"? He used to make videos where he shat on AI, NFT and Metaverse projects. It's funny that a whole project has his name lol.

[@jauwn]

No it has nothing to do with him and he even made multiple videos about the game making fun of them

[@dlog]

@@jauwn thanks for clearing it out! I've missed those videos then :(

[@medea27]

@@dlog He still covers heaps of Web3 & MMO/gaming stories, it's just on his 2nd channel called 'Kira' where he posts more informal videos... he uses the main 'KiraTV' channel for the higher production videos on cybercrime, scams, the games industry, etc. His videos on Kiraverse are on the 2nd channel - if you search for 'kira kiraverse' his latest video should come up along with Jauwn's beta review.

[@gowanlore2434]

Someone in the mirandus discord genuinly using term 'landed gentry' for the whales who wasted millions on in-game geometry💀

[@snazzybull]

Thanks for all the high-quality, funny content Mr. Jauwn. It really makes the long, slow hours at work go by a little faster.

[@muurten]

Been a follower for a while, and it's not often when I feel inclined to comment on a video, but i just have to say i fully love your work and what you do. Not many people make videos that I can just watch five times over and not be less entertained when watching a vid again. Seeing you grow and evolve from when you had around 10k subs has just been great. Keep up the supreme entertainment and crypto slop reviews!

[@jauwn]

Wow, thank you!

[@capitalex5422]

wow, cannot believe it's been two years. I love watching people reviewing weird niche things that are often outside the interest of most reviewers.

[@gangstaboy9387]

Your audio, compared to so many other streamers(absolutely not all), is so good for my sensory autism-thingy. I can listen to you talk without feeling like someone is cutting my ear drum with a scalpel

[@YoungClarke]

Gala reminds me of the old flash games websites, where there would be a hundred different games to choose from, 99 of them being enjoyable for maybe five minutes and the whole experience leaving you feeling like you should run a deep clean of your hard drive with a virus scanner afterwards.

[@friendlyoctopus3512]

If you are making money playing a game then it is no longer a game.....its a fucking job. We will never see play to earn get accepted by the mainstream in any of our lifetimes.

[@idlegameplayer3756]

the closest anyone is ever gonna get to an actual functioning play-to-earn game is tf2

[@DSPsWifesBF]

It’s funny how a few will act like they play for fun, but it’s really just cope. I’ve seen web3 “gamers” say they’re on “vacation” from playing the game.

[@Delmworks]

I mean, it exists- it’s called streaming. At best, video game reviewing or QA testing. They are trying to reinvent it and are instead making worse

[@ferociousfeind8538]

not only is it a job, but now where players would normally be supplementing development and upkeep by paying microtransactions, the players want a slice of the pie too! So if you're really planning on giving out a dollar per week to your players, you now have a new unexpected (totally unforeseen) expense on your bill of $1/week/player! That's frankly a staggering amount of money compared to, say, server costs, where I have found a link from amazon which purports to advertise $1/month/user. So, you've sucked the fun out of it, and also players are trying to suck money out of it now, because you've decided to attach a financial angle to it

[@snil4]

​@@Delmworks Those are still jobs, all of these have skills outside of gaming which are being used for said jobs (maybe except for streaming where you have to either very entertaining or extremely good at a specific game, and in both cases still manage the marketing and technological aspect of streaming mostly on your own).

[@Anon_Spartan]

I messed up and bought Gala apples instead of Gala coin, but I still got more use out of them.

[@sinners_nsfw]

Perfect timing, I just got a pizza to properly appreciate a new Jauwn video.

[@hdslave]

I love this channel lol. Found it randomly and didn't expect to be so entertained

[@jjoshaugh]

29:45 Meow match is actually a rip off of a 2012 PC game called "Kitten Sanctuary." Which absolutely rocked. My Nephew and I must have spent 100 hours playing it together. Kitten Sanctuary probably was a Candy Crush clone (dunno, never played CC) but if it was it was a good one. Check it out if you want to support an indie dev, a good game and if you can find it. And no, I'm not a fake account shilling for them :P

[@Jayther-f3m]

Say 'Beep' to prove your innocence.

[@NickiRusin]

my guy this is an atrocity of a typo please fix

[@flamingdog9207]

Oh holy shit, I remember that game from when I was a kid!

[@FluffinWasntHere]

Candy Crush clones? When did we stop calling those Bejeweled clones?

[@jjoshaugh]

@@NickiRusin Ya, I'm Dyslexic. Sorry about that. I never notice these things till I come back the next day and go "oh God".

[@satorukuroshiro]

Yeah that no refund policy would not hold up in court, especially when they have previously offered refunds that were never honored.

[@3oI8kinG]

just got back from school with mc donalds and a Jauwn premier is running, monday is not so bad afterall...

[@jauwn]

Sunshine on rainy days are the best

[@geems5028]

The most interesting part of this video was the end where Jauwn said he uploaded his music to Spotify. I love the Jauwn theme, I just wish it was longer cause it's such a vibe.

[@ThinkTank541]

Everything at Gala was hype sales, promises of AAA games then delivering Minimal Viable products.

[@charchar635]

I can't count how many times I've seen this I keep rewatching your videos randomly and it's honestly great

[@PaperFaceMedia]

Forever Winter's Early Access just released recently on steam and there's no mention of NFTs. I assume because of the steam release they completely cut ties with Gala and abandoned NFTs altogether but the game still retained some of the issues that a game trying to get you to be addicted to playing (the water mechanic).

[@thaddeussharp1]

The water mechanic one forgets about real quick. While playing the fun game loop and immersing yourself, you stockpile water rather easily without really trying. The gameplay has been the only addicting part, for some, so far., With neat 2 months worth of water, I'm already playing other games since the water issues is a non-issue.

[@ansleyp001]

I've also been playing it and find that it's imperfect but promising, the current state seems like really early access with some things reminding me of early "Payday 2", The decisions are hopeful but the implementation might need to stretch further than the current design (the home base looks too similar to what payday did in the first years of the game and it took years and drastic updates to change). Hopefully the game goes from functional to successful over 2025.

[@ColoredCadence]

The peek into the inner turmoil of Gala was simultaneously surprising and unsurprising. Their business practices seemingly do reflect the character of those at the top. Thanks for a other one Jauwn! Your vibes and content are peak.

[@solidmage]

I voted you for best web3 creator in web3 games awardshow, i hope you win

[@dirtybombshelter]

I'm sure it has been mentioned before in these comments but there is more sincerity and creative intent in a single one of your videos than there is in the cumulative efforts of all the games you have reviewed on this channel. Keep up the good work!

[@fish2759]

Been here since, I think 50k? It's been awesome to see you grow and I hope these videos can spread some awareness, maybe some people who would've "invested" were swayed.

[@rzjennings]

it's not an investment!!

[@fntthesmth423]

@@rzjennings yeah, that's why they put it in scare quotes :)

[@yannickgrignon2473]

Imagine being $1 a week away from needing to sell your kid and the first thing you think of to make that dollar is playing crypto games

[@lloxtanridges3010]

@@yannickgrignon2473 you could probably find that dollar on the ground somewhere and that'd be a more reliable way of making money

[@jixxen]

Crazy that Forever Winter was associated with Gala.

[@jauwn]

Only briefly, so I wouldn't put any blame on them.

[@thaddeussharp1]

@@jauwn Facts

[@pctrainor]

I was there in the audience at galaverse in Malta when it was announced. Eric Schiermeyer trying to get the audience to throw down 20k on the forever winter “bunker” nft was one of the most bizarre 3 minutes of my life.

[@therealchriscunningham]

Laughed out loud IRL when Molyneux came in. There are cigarette company executives and asbestos salesmen whose reputations have held up better over the last twenty years.

[@GarroThposer]

Cant wait to listen to this video 20 times in the first 3 days of this video coming out

[@jauwn]

Hell yeah thanks

[@melissa-hadfield]

Seeing Molyneux brings out my worst impulses... like the $50mil+ from Legacy doesn't appear in any of his company records, so I figured I'd best report it to the tax office as he declared it multiple times to media outlets just not to them. Wouldn't want him to get caught for tax fraud after all.

[@l-l]

It has been 2 years? Man time flies.

[@jauwn]

Yeah, it really has. Who would've thought that the channel I started for fun cause I was working a soulless corporate job with lots of free time would turn into the equivalent of a small business for myself

[@TheRealColBosch]

@@jauwn All the best KZbinrs started either with "this is neat, I should show it off" or "my real job sucks."

[@zenkresnik]

There's something really messed up in someone's head when they say a dollar a day can save a child's life, but their solution is "let's turn them into (exploitable) labor for a crypto game (that we'll get rich off of)".

[@finalfantasy50]

@@zenkresnik we will give you a dollar a day to save you from starvation, all you need is to buy a server for a thousand dollars and pay for the increased electricity bill to keep it running and you will be in the black in 3-4 years! what a steal

[@spaghetti0356]

AI games are the new NFT games, that were the new Mobile Slop games, That were the new Movie Tie-In games, that were the-

[@BushMermaid1394]

You have truly done a good service to the world of gaming, and I praise your efforts... and pray you have any sanity left.

[@DarknessDShadow]

"listen to music to earn" is the most dystopian thing

[@golfknut777]

The new editor does good work! Love the visuals

[@SILZZURP]

NOTHING better than a new jauwn video

[@QuintusCunctator]

I was just drawing a mental comparison to the Concord debacle watching your video, and there you go, you dropped a reference! If anything, this shows that 1) the Concord managers were a bunch of amateurs, in comparison to our friends at Gala 2) public perception and outrage are quite fickle, considering the amount of documented development schemes and failures happening on the daily. As always, thank for these videos, and for shouldering the review and study of this kind of slop!

[@EphemeralTao]

I wonder how many of those 6 and 7 figure purchases are actually legit crypto whales, and how many are just the usual wash trading to drive FOMO.

[@ferociousfeind8538]

the longer this crypto game sham goes on, the less likely there are any whales willing to toss tens of thousands around for a shiny new NFT

[@boomkruncher325zzshred5]

So, Forever Winter almost got snookered into the Gala games mess huh? Glad they pulled out of that partnership without too much fuss and trouble.

[@Hifuutorian]

Agreed. It's amazing.

[@MasterOfTheCh1ef]

How the hell could a game as rad as The Forever Winter even have a tangential link to a company like Gala? My mind was actually blown. Support the game, it's sick. Good save on Fun Dogs part for escaping Gala's clutches lol.

[@TheFool471]

I really waited for this exact video! Thank you

[@aaronfoster5680]

My favorite ad for Raid is the one Caddicarus did as Spons. He threw a line in there I can’t believe actually got through. “RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS! Never heard of it? … Where have you been? Can I join you?”

[@WizardCraft-ox4pe]

or him subtly saying his favorite feature is the autobattle feature, and basically saying he doesn't spend any time on that product

[@wirb3859]

Seeing Forever Winter on here was such a jumpscare. I love the game, even though it’s current early access state is a bit undercooked. I had no idea they were originally partnered with Gala. Maybe that explains the extremely aggressive mechanic of all your progress being at risk of being lost because your water drains in real time.

[@aprilderg7241]

I feel a big shoutout is deserved for all the great work put into these games So here: massive shoutout to all the unity store creators for making these amazing assets!

[@Haamflaagon]

Just wanna say that i really enjoyed the music that played at the end, it made for a nice ending to a great video.

[@TommyCrosby]

Chilian dev team is their "girlfriend from Canada"

[@twelve1844]

Love it when you used Ram Ranch on the Spider Tanks section. Keep doing bangers

[@lcky2993]

Now they are rugpulling with asset flip games and not facing repercussions, the web3 scenery seems to improve the more I hear about it.

[@GreenShark4]

Genuinely one of my favorite KZbinrs, keep it up man!

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

"Play-to-earn is the future!" "Where is the money they earn from playing coming from?" "Look! Squirrels!"

[@ANGGELAful]

This company HAS to be a money laundry scheme

[@misterputin8898]

It has to be. There is no fucking way in this world that such pieces of dogshit could get $50 million of dollars in funding. Not even my dad would say these "games" are good, and he hasn't played a game in his entire life lmao

[@Ariamaki]

Hey, they were probably being honest about the "additional 1 dollar per week", since I bet that's what they pay the Chilean developers. 🤣

[@l0rf]

1 dollar per week for the studio though. Gotta learn austerity some way, right?

[@binchsoda]

Ur vids are great, ur one of my fav youtubers atm

[@ngwoo]

Seeing all these dead games gives me a newfound appreciation for Concord because at least it had the grace to go away and give back everyone's money

[@ARStudios2000]

That and there was an actual GAME in there. It wasn't an original game and the character designs+ first impressions is one of the worst I've ever seen but AT LEAST they had the decency to just suck it up and refund

[@kurenokojima4997]

I had to say this. Your intros have always been my favourite. Such a unique colourful style, and reminds me a bit of Cruelty Squad. Keep creating, dude. I will always love your videos, even if they are not always crypto related.❤‍🔥

[@maus6199]

joke's on you, I didn't make it to the end, I fell asleep midway and woke up for the last 3 minutes

[@jauwn]

Yes i know i called you out in the video

[@LiamTHEgr8lurk]

I love these videos, especially love any video exposing the sandbox!

[@swaggerdagger8976]

cant believe Concord's corpse catching strays in a Jauwn video 😭 also at 25:35 i recognize this background music and i got immediate PTSD

[@Jennn]

Gah, I've watched all these videos like 2 or 3 times each.. Always such a treat when a new one drops.