Worst NFT Game Ever? | KIRAVERSE Beta Gameplay and Review

Today, we'll be playing one of the most anticipated #nftgame and #crypto projects of 2022, the long awaited "Fortnite Killer", #kiraverse.
Kiraverse is an upcoming metaverse third person shooter battle royale JPEG collection deathmatch blockchain crypto economy game made by "triple A" developer Param Labs. The other day, they opened their beta test to the public. I had a chance to give the game a try, and after spending a few hours in the game, I'm unimpressed.
Kiraverse looks and feels like a low effort asset flip, and the version they provided us for the beta is a very incomplete product. Also, it is literally just the Lyra Unreal Engine Starter Project, except somehow even worse. We need to stop accepting unfinished games as "betas". If your game is missing all of the features that you advertise, then you can't say it's in a beta, it's not even close to done!
Today, we also introduce the lore of the GameStop NFT marketplace. We explored another game in the past that was on this marketplace, Gods Unchained, but the volume for that game is so low on the marketplace it wasn't even worth mentioning.
I couldn't prove that Kiraverse is an asset flip, so definitely do your own research there. However, if you do manage to find an example of the assets they have used in game on the Unreal Asset store, I'd definitely be interested in seeing that!
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[@sperglife1748]

The apes noticed you said sponsored by citadel in this video! They are onto you, nothing gets past these genius'

[@kuhboom22]

LOL It's just so funny

[@Sparklefart023]

Especially not the pedos on gme_meltdown. Cant miss them!

[@jeremyusry6705]

Geniuses*** you so smart but try harder.

[@IsaacLightning]

@@jeremyusry6705 a spelling error doesn't change the fact that he's right bud

[@rebewtinydino2572]

Dear stupids you your ugly apes are worthless easily stolen by hackers ,play to earn doesn’t exist. Game don’t need crypto period.

[@Fuckthis0341]

Remember: the (supposed) use case for NFTs in gaming is that they would somehow seamlessly plop your NFT into any game. And the code for any game would supposedly be attached to the NFT. People invested billions believing this when it's pretty easy to research as not possible

[@vizthex]

yeah, every time i remember that was the original proposal i laugh my ass off.

[@liluthealmighty]

I know like, barely anything about game design and even I can say that that is an absolutely ridiculous idea

[@TheSpeep]

Now, I'm not a very good programmer, but I'm pretty sure not all games use the same programming language. Unity, which I'm most familiar with, mostly makes use of C#, Unreal has its own node based system which I wanna say is based in C++, then theres stuff like Godot, Ren'py, RPGmaker and so on... Noone is gonna bother with making every single one of these ugly pictures work properly in every single engine, nvm thr fact that each compatible game would need its own assets for each individual NFT on top of that cuz each engine 1lso handles textures and lighting differently, and thats still before we get to getting it all to fit in with every games own visual style. Shit aint happening is what I'm getting at...

[@siegfread9683]

As a consumer that sounds dope as hell and while im not dumb enough to think it would actually work. But a preset that persisted between all my games would be cool. As an amature code monkey its the best joke ive ever heard

[@crizmeow8394]

So Basically those websites where you could upload any picture and it got pasted on the head a dancing stick figure. Except infinitely more expensive and somehow worse.

[@Wintergael127]

"Just sending the players a Google Drive link to the game files may have been a better choice." is possibly the most devastating statement you could ever say to a software launcher's developer.

[@dizzylilthing]

If someone said this about something I worked on I would need to sit down and have a little cry about it for sure

[@deadwards90]

"run the game as administrator" I'd have noped out at that point, no way am I running some random Crypto game as admin. You are a brave soul.

[@jauwn]

Haha, yeah, I didn't actually run it as admin. I was just running a different game that I had renamed to look like Kiraverse and then spliced the clips, of course I wouldn't actually run this trash as admin

[@oliver_twistor]

It annoys the hell out of me the number of applications that require elevated privilege to run (even those from more reputable sources than NFT world), especially on Windows. That's just lazy development. "Just grab every single permission under the sun in case we'll need it", is probably on their minds. Heaven forbids that a developer has to add the permission further down the line when the need arises. Even if the developers themselves aren't shady, it's probable that there are bugs here and there that malicious hackers can exploit to gain access to customers' systems. I'm a developer myself and I wouldn't be able to sleep knowing that my software could be used to compromise someone's system.

[@shroomer3867]

@@oliver_twistor If the game is grabbing something outside of the game folder then you probably coded something wrong because you're supposed to have all of the dependencies (.dll files, .lib, etc) installed and accessible inside of the game folders. If elevated privilege is required then I'm running because that's a disaster waiting to happen.

[@TylerTMG]

​@@shroomer3867is it's adinatraioler it has access to everything and a hacker could use that

[@TylerTMG]

I'm sleepy I forgot how to spell

[@valivali8104]

"Fortnite killer"... are they hoping that rival game makers die of laughter?

[@venichen1]

Epic Games quaking in fear with their millions of $$ from skins and battlepasses. 🤣

[@williamdrum9899]

Yeah, that's not happening. Any thing made to be an "X killer" is guaranteed to fail. The only thing that can kill a game is its own creators

[@dagda1180]

​@@williamdrum9899Reminds me of supposed TF2 killers (Overwatch specifically). The only thing killing TF2 is Valve's neglience.

[@williamdrum9899]

@@dagda1180 See also: WoW, Guitar Hero, Pokemon

[@Matt_the_pirate]

​@@dagda1180and even they can't kill TF2 it seems

[@DhanteTnT]

Hi Jauwn! First time I saw one of your videos but I wanted to know the opinion of someone about this piece of sh... that's not only an scam for players but for their workers too (Like myself) I worked at Param Labs for abouth 6 months as Character Artist for both Kiraverse and their "new world-changing project" Pixel to Poly (Which is basically, the "make your NFT playeable" but for any jpg image) and as you said on your video, the models were super unfinished (even for people paying) since they only give us 2 DAYS to make a full character ready for animation, a normal model takes about 60h and those guys wanted a team of 30 artist to make 444 characters a month! So they're just bad-make characters, with poor quality. Another point is, they aren't anything similar to a AAA game studio, more a cheap-shitty outsourcing that hired a bunch of 3rd world, low-experience workers, and paid them $500-600 a month and the worse part? They didn't paid on time, and at the end scam all artist more than 2 months of salary. Almost all Kiraverse fans are paybots, or people who invest in the game, as well as the matches has a lot of bots. They will never release a real game, it's just for publicity, and to raise funds, and then everyone will disapear (That's exactly what happened to us, scamming us and not even giving us a contract)

[@jauwn]

Yeah, pretty much exactly as I expected to hear. Shame that you had to work for them, hope you’re at a better job nown

[@lilyofthatvelley]

Shit that sounds terrible. I hope you are working for a nicer place now.

[@azkrouzreimertz9784]

Holy shit dude that sounds like a nightmare, hope you got a better workplace now

[@FTZPLTC]

Jesus, Marantz talking about killing his kids and wife... like, I know he's probably not going to, but I also know that family annihilation by guys who invested way too much of their identity in their financial success is 100% a Thing That Happens.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

It’s unfortunate

[@celestialnull]

Has this happened in the world of crypto? Because I'm curious to read about those cases.

[@hakayonder3396]

@@celestialnull Not sure about whole families but crypto crashes did cause some people to self-delete. Can't think of any big names, it was just some ordinary people.

[@ukaszbabiarz8050]

@@hakayonder3396 Just say ,,did cause some people to kill themselves" or ,,commit cuicide". Using this king od babyfied tiktok speech when discussing really serious issues is both extremely disrespectfull to the victims and makes them appear less serious than they are.

[@IdiotamSpielen]

​​@@ukaszbabiarz8050ah, yes. "Babyfied tiktok speak"... let's just forget that it's KZbin's ad system that has lead to this, shall we? Seriously TikTok is not to blame for everything you don't like.

[@Dargorthverse]

I was so confused. When I heard this game's name, I thought "oh cool, that KiraTV guy is making his own game, probably to make fun of all those NFT scams", but reality of nft "games" never fails to disappoint.

[@snakekingblues3017]

Lol could you imagine He make a 180 and sell nft😂

[@frigingoon]

honestly my fist thought was someone was trying to say FU to kira and make a nft game that is "good" to tell him to shut up... but clearly they had neither kira nor good game in mind when they made this.

[@samamies88]

​@@snakekingblues3017Callum Upton, channel similar to KiraTv also criticizing nft projects, made a game to prove earth2 devs a point. I think he also did smallscale mmo to prove a point to crowdfunding "dev studios" that don't release anything gameplay videos or early access after gaining millions of funding. Sure those games don't have nfts but some mmo projects have been as shady as these nft game studios are and earth2 is linked to crypto. So Kira making nft game as a joke or to prove a point doesn't seem that farfetched to me.

[@Idengard]

@@samamies88 he made fun of the crowdfunding scam/failure „Dreamworld“ by making his own game, „Nightmare World“

[@VGBish]

got a link to uptons projects? id love to see or play em @@samamies88

[@jf6944]

A lot of adjacent gamestop NFT projects used the hype of Kiraverse to induce FOMO into their own projects, by promising their own NFTs could be used in the Kiraverse once it's launched. Of course, months later, that has not happened yet.

[@jauwn]

Yep. It’s all one big ball of hype for what is literally the unreal engine 5 starter project with swapped out assets from the unreal store. It’s borderline a scam, they advertise and sell NFTs for a product that is entirely different than what was delivered.

[@roflBeck]

These nft games are really dumb. But what's even dumber are the people that by into them.

[@MrPBrane]

The downscaled puppet NFTs are such a great example for you point from the last video: No matter what content you NFT links to, how it is represented (if at all) inside the game is entirely controlled by the developers.

[@williamdrum9899]

Now I want a game that is compatible with all NFTs... because the game displays all of them as a poo emoji

[@opshredderytp]

​@@williamdrum9899Or as le necro-skullfuck.jpg

[@ErikratKhandnalie]

Bro, you were so incredibly generous with that score. 3/5 for a basic starter project shooter is wild.

[@jauwn]

i was a different man when I made this video, far too forgiving. This video is my biggest regret and it needs a follow up badly

[@ErikratKhandnalie]

@@jauwn good on you for turning up the heat, man, I look forward to it.

[@alienhatz3265]

you used to be so generous and evenhanded to these scam bullsh games @@jauwn

[@TooFewSecrets]

IMO, *for an NFT game*, where most of them are Facebook browser crap or rugpulls, something that you can at least actually play is a 3/5. For actual video games, probably 3/10. And that's only because now-unplayable dead online-only games fill out the 1/10 score range and even worse asset flips fill out 2/10.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@TooFewSecrets if we go by 3 as "absolutely average" tho... well, Final Fantasy VII is 80 on Metacritic (tho I think that's the Switch version) so 4/5. This is nowhere near a 3.

[@nelsonthen884]

This is the issue with NFTs in gaming: they are a feature seeking a game. They promote the game like the NFT is the main thing, but without the game it doesn't mean anything! And with the bad rep NFTs just further pushes down the game from whatever pedestal is in

[@trevorlamb9324]

Not to mention that it's a solution to something that Steam figured out with their marketplace years ago. They're trying to reinvent the wheel for no other reason than to inflate prices.

[@nelsonthen884]

@@trevorlamb9324 Well said

[@tinyman1144]

@@trevorlamb9324 I mean, the reason is not to inflate prices. The reason is to be the guy standing on the wagon once the wheel has been reinvented, rather than being another random person like the rest of us The inflated prices are just an additional bad side affect

[@KasumiRINA]

NFT isn't even a feature. It's someone wanting your money to sell you the IDEA of owning a single URL. That's it! All NFTs were was a LINK that you didn't even own, as it was on a database, all you got was a questionable digital certificate of "ownership", it's like those "become a Lord" projects but those are at least are backed by real legal documents and a tiny plot of land where they plant a tree in your name. NFTs is like buying a bridge or a title without even getting a bright paper in return. Literally nothing.

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

The smartest move that the Kiraverse made in terms of blockchain gaming was to remove the blockchain from their game.

[@LiilYogurt]

So many of these games that are trying to pretend to be bigger than they are use this neon-super reflective HD style and I don't understand. I've never seen an actually enjoyable game look like this, it doesn't look good, all it does is remind me of the 100s of asset flip games I've seen. It's like they think "good" lighting and HD textures are a replacement for art style

[@Jokoko2828]

Yeah, it just looks really cheap.

[@Nerathul1]

I will never understand who would want to buy one of those NFT Avatars. The appeal is meant to be each of them is "technically" unique, but because they're all generated from a small pool of assets they just all look the same with minor variation, removing the point of them ever being supposed to be unique.

[@Delmworks]

it's like a snowflake. They're all technically unique, but each is still recognisably a snowflake, with the true differences being minimal.

[@emib6599]

Every time I see something promoted as NFT, it's always that "asset pools" So I would like to know. Can I potentially commission an NFT that is highly personalised and unique because it's made by an artist i personally contracted ?

[@Nerathul1]

@@emib6599 in fact you could probably have your own custom made art collection cheaper than what morons paid for a single monkey.

[@sealeo5772]

And they certainly aren't buying a kiraverse avatar because they like the uncanny, procedurally generated look of it.

[@davidlennyman444]

@@emib6599if you can find an artist willing to do so I see no reason why you couldn’t

[@antoniofungairino2799]

HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!!

[@stockicide]

"You'll have to play the game yourself to see what I mean." No, I don't think I will.

[@novaleader7305]

Never ever ever let an app have Admin Privileges ever guys please I'm begging you for yhe safety of your rigs

[@ZW_Zacattack99]

I just binged watched this entire series twice, right as Gamestop is shuttering the NFT marketplace. So "Rest in pieces MOASS Lyra flip with NFTs grafted on, not even the apes could save you or Illulvium"

[@DStecks]

Kiraverse is fascinating because it demonstrates why interoperable game NFTs are nonsense, by showing the one circumstance where developers have an incentive to support it: when they're being financed by NFT trading platforms. Developers patching their game to support new NFT collections makes no sense unless the project is a loss leader, and the point is to boost the value of the NFTs on the backing platform, or NFTs in general.

[@oliver_twistor]

I agree, the Gamestop stock situation is a deep and scary rabbit hole, indeed. That clip you showed was truly terrifying. I wouldn't want to be family or a co-worker when that guy snaps. Given he seems to be American, he probably owns firearms too (I know that not everyone in the US owns guns, but I think it's pretty safe to say that that guy does).

[@rotarydude9737]

Good thing is if the prick tries anything, depending on where he lives most people around him do as well. He won't get far.

[@FullMetalOvercoat]

I'd rather be a Gamestop investor than have your face 😭

[@oliver_twistor]

@@FullMetalOvercoat Not everyone can be as good-looking as you, can they? 😘

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

​@@FullMetalOvercoatman you had two months and the best you could do was that

[@snakewithapen5489]

Correct, not every American owns a firearm. However, there's a pretty simple test to tell! Loud and proudly displayed american flag wall decoration = definitely has at least one gun That guy is the most gaudy example of this I've seen in a while lol

[@Glibbers]

Very interesting video, I was always curious how those NFT games looked. However, I think you are waaaay too lenient with your score. This game looks like something one person made in two weeks, especially considering it's basically a starter project. Also, even if those assets are made by them, they are completely inconsistent. Everything seems randomly thrown together, with no one ever asking the question "why are we placing this here?". This is definitely not a beta as you said, but at most a proof of concept on how a NFT game could look like. My guess is that the devs wasted most of the money to bet on crypto, like it is usually the case.

[@jauwn]

Thanks for the feedback! I agree I was a little bit lenient on the score, and I probably should've given them a little less leeway considering they're selling this as a "beta". But, I wanted to give the game at least some points so I could have room to take points off if I ever re-review the game. However, it seems that after only 1 week of the game existing, the player count has already declined to 3-6 players on average, so I doubt the game will ever see another update. The devs already made a bag off of the GME apes and they don't even want to play the game already 🤣

[@_osrs]

@@jauwn mate i've seen solo roblox developers make something better then this in 1 week this game is terrible and a joke of a beta

[@illford6921]

​@@_osrsI have an old mate who made a whole nightclub with two or three others when he was like 15-16, that comment is too high of a bar for these Devs

[@geisttraft7190]

@jauwn Do you even need to give the game a score? I think we get your overall impressions from the rest of the video, and the scoring section doesn’t tell us anything new aside from a few snippets you add. I noticed you’ve tended away from the scoring system in your more recent videos.

[@snakewithapen5489]

@_osrs the reason for that- roblox game developers are often teenagers who just have a passion to make something fun on a platform they like, not shills who want to gamble with crypto and hope to win big.

[@scribbles24]

Rewatching this because of the announcement of GameStop shutting down their NFT marketplace today, press S to spit on it's grave

[@jauwn]

I forget if it’s this one or the illuvium video where I called the marketplace dead on arrival but man it feels good to always be right

[@littleladybrooks6635]

S

[@germanyballwork5301]

​@@jauwnCommon Jauwn W

[@joemamr710]

I wonder how kiraverse intends to implement such NFTs as the popular astronaut themed 9/11 man falling from the WTC to his death NFT that was released on GameStop’s marketplace?

[@Inthatgoodway]

I’m here for the meltdowns

[@gavinderulo12]

Same lol. Unfortunately their post got removed, so less eyes on this video.

[@gavinderulo12]

So what makes this AAA? Besides the dev's statement? They seem inexperienced, just using a slightly modified unreal engine 5 template and only have a 1 million budget (which is absolutely tiny for AAA game). I wouldn't consider anything under 90million AAA.

[@ShotgunRocket]

I think they're saying that they have AAA experience. But it's more likely to just be marketing, especially because the devs are completely anonymous.

[@jauwn]

I think this is an example of what you might call “lying”

[@williamdrum9899]

AAA hasn't been a good thing for the last 10 years so idk why they're trying to pretend

[@gavinderulo12]

@@williamdrum9899 I disagree. Most of my favourite games of the past decade have been AAA

[@B.L.U.S]

​@@gavinderulo12then indie games might become you favorites x100 DISCLAIMER: B.L.U.S. DOES NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY IN THE CASE OF TERRIBLE INDIE GAMES MADE BY TEENS ON THEIR MOM'S GARAGE

[@MagnusPowerMaus]

Are there any finishing takedown animations? Could I end another players life by pulling a rug from out underneath them? Or dumping a bunch of bags on them until they suffocate? Great content, though! Keep it up!

[@MDLuffy1234YT]

Or maybe have a comically large coin crash from the sky and break the characters back

[@williamdrum9899]

Drop a safe on them, Bugs Bunny style 😂😂😂

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Don't forget to kick them in the crotch so hard, they fly to the moon

[@ChillavaKirby]

damn I never really thought about it but wow I feel bad for the children of these crypto bros so far gone they're trying to convince them to play this instead of fortnite

[@ic3olate]

That will be the least of their concerns, too. Imagine all the insane things these people are teaching their kids, how many broken promises of "daddy's going to be rich one day", how many college savings have been drained to fund their beliefs...

[@ChillavaKirby]

@@ic3olate yeah it’s sad. No kids deserves to suffer from their parents delusions of crypto :(

[@itsa_possum]

It may not be an asset flip entirely. Some of the sets are so aesthetically bland I would believe the devs made it with some Adderall and a blender tutorial series

[@jauwn]

Lol, maybe. The devs claim in their Discord that they didn't use a single Unreal Asset store purchase, and proceed to ban anyone who accuses them of doing so, or just bans anyone who says anything negative.

[@darzeon]

@@jauwn They have original assets, but I gotta ask, is using paid assets a bad thing?

[@jauwn]

@@darzeon It depends on the game, but using paid assets definitely is a very taboo practice among gamers, as it's what we call an "asset flip". Typically the sign of lazy / dishonest developers. Anyway, I can't prove that this is or isn't an asset flip which is why I treated it as if it isn't.

[@Blade2Lore]

@@darzeon Nothing wrong with paid assets if they are used to make something thoughtful and interesting. If they are used to try and disguise a slapped together cash-grab, well, it just makes the lack respect for the audience more obvious.

[@gavinderulo12]

@@jauwn I think the rolling animation is actually free.

[@NotSoMelancholy]

Nothing says quality like being in beta and not having the fundamental feature your game is built around not be functional yet. Not to mention the advertised modes.

[@peger]

it's like releasing beta of mmorpg and don't having multiplayer function :D

[@mentalward718]

>Load into game >import i love amc nft >join match >watch gme bros have an aneurysm

[@ooofsized2036]

Apes not bros

[@joshpatton757]

Honestly, the most reasonable use case for 'use your NFTs in this game!' would be something like giving the ability to tag a wall with your NFT picture, and use the fact that it is an NFT and can be gated by collection to handle any NSFW concerns that could be associated with that. Anything more complicated than that is suspicious at best. But in that space, there is potential to use NFTs. Set them as your character's in-game phone background, put posters on the wall, that sort of thing. It's not anything that you couldn't do with any import-image feature in the game, but still. Untapped potential.

[@jauwn]

Yeah I think that the old HL of TF2 type of spray would be more appealing. Just upload an image. Nowadays they have automated detection systems strong enough to flag/recognize inappropriate content. They could even charge $.99 for you to upload and it would still be a better deal than using an NFT

[@joshpatton757]

@@jauwn Absolutely. I'm almost as offended by the incompetence of the scams as I am by the fact that they are scams, to be honest. Like... it'd be so easy to offer something plausible, and still drum up similar levels of interest and money. Slightly more effort, similar return, way lower risk. But they never do.

[@jackcade8790]

Ngl halfway through I started getting distracted by how everytime you rolled the gun would disappear. Could they not figure out how to make the character roll with the gun? Would it have required a second animation and they were too lazy? I don't know what it is but that and the butt clipping just got to me

[@jauwn]

Wow I actually didn’t notice that, I was too distracted by the nauseating amount of motion blur

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

It would take work to add the gun to the roll animation. And if they do that, they can't just use the default template roll. And yes, the default motion blur in UE4 and UE5 games is absolutely hideous. So much, that I treat it as a graphical negative and every time some demo video of a new project is out that has the default blur on I think "looks interesting, but the graphics are super ugly"

[@TheNightmareAngelYT]

I'm certain GameStop has left the NFT business after they literally became worthless and the crypto currencies for them went belly up.

[@01Naaman]

A minor thing, but why does that respawn timer annoy me so much - you need a leading zero for the seconds!!

[@jauwn]

That bothered me too. That and the fact that the out of ammo text says something like “all out of ammo” instead of “RELOAD”

[@JM_-ix7yh]

how tf does anyone look at a game that looks like it is from 2007 and conclude that nft gaming is the future

[@OurBenefactors]

You'd have to be as stupid as a flat earther, or perhaps a GME bagholder, to think this game looks even remotely good

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

it looks like fortnite lmao i didnt know we had fortnite in 07 damnnnn

[@gavinderulo12]

@@monkeywrenchstudios3590 I'm not a fan of fortnite but if you believe that this is anywhere near fortnite then you are delusional.

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

@@gavinderulo12 it looks like it moron 🤡never said it’s better than Fortnite lmao

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

@@gavinderulo12 ps i played fortnite since it was a tower defense game Save The World. kiera is a beta just like fortnite in its saave the world days. full of bugs/annoying UI etc but that all improved as the game launched and further updates. remember that basically kiera is a save the world beta.. its fortnite without the battle royale if you will.

[@maxm2639]

Appreciated the clear delivery (voice), and articulate and well-organized narrative. Subscribed. I'm so tired of game topic creators shouting "WTF!" about reload animations in their rantvideos.

[@RunnyTinkles]

Can't wait for this game to have support pulled in 3 months. Been modding Skyrim for a couple weeks now, and it's been worth it cause even though I have played the game multiple times, the mods change everything. I say that because there is no way I would have jumped through all those hoops to play this "game."

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

Support pulled? 😂 what it’s a beta dumbass 😂

[@MothFable]

I love that the nft game has in game micro transactions for currency.

[@Adam_U]

Ape numbers must really have fallen, because once upon a time a vid like this would be brigaded like hell. They'd be all over the comments lol

[@jauwn]

They did brigade it, heavily, although many of them went back and deleted their comments or were banned by KZbin for how heinous what they said was. You can browse through the graveyard that is this comment section for some evidence. Thanks to them, this video was by far my most successful and took me from just 350 subscribers to 850 in only a few weeks, so thanks apes!

[@Sean-410]

I mean we have over 80 million shares DRS’D and have been here for 2+ yrs now so I’d say we’re pretty zen.. laugh all you want!

[@snart2195]

all our apes gone

[@Guyote_]

@@Sean-410 lol

[@mattdeaver6850]

​@@Sean-410 watch what is happening with BBBY; that is Gamestop's future.

[@NutyRiver]

20:45 If I was that guy’s wife, I’d be showing that clip in divorce/custody court…

[@kelwdavicuddui5677]

Rag dolls are never a bug, always a feature.

[@skystoyhunts7225]

It sucks that GameStop got into nfts

[@Sauce787]

Gamestop always sucked, they destroyed mom and pop game stores, ripped everyone off on trade ins, destroyed tons of rare retro games when they weren't profitable to sell and always treated their employees and customers like crap. People only like them because of nostalgia, but when we were kids game stop wasn't exactly well liked it was just one of the only places you could go

[@williamdrum9899]

Their business model wasn't profitable any more so they were desperate for cash. I think that's what happened anyway

[@OurBenefactors]

I disagree. It's actually extremely funny

[@Pandamaxx]

even as someone that follows the whole stock debacle closely, as it does still present interesting findings and potential to this day, I find the business decision side of this... hilarious, frankly speaking. Ludicrously blind to the actual ecosystem they stepped into, actually. I find the technical side of it interesting, purely because crypto has so much shit I have yet to understand, like wanting to understand the mind of a psychopath because it's "interesting and weird". but god, all it's used for is scams, scams, cashgrabs, rugpulls, and... *checks notes* scams. oh and a few scams. maaaaybe a little bit of scam sprinkling. and how about some influencer shitcoin icing? I still don't know how they thought that it would be smart to put money into THAT.

[@CheatRecon1]

Plot twist: You posted this in The super stupid ape subreddit to draw attention to your channel. Subbed I still can’t think of a single way play to earn in games would be good short of something literally just like “ready player one”

[@jauwn]

Uh oh! #JAUWNEXPOSED

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

superstonk* lmao see what i mean double standards XD I can't call you idiots out for being idiots but you can call us idiots? damn i love double standards. its like yall are lobotomy patients XD

[@CheatRecon1]

@@monkeywrenchstudios3590 I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

[@Cpt_JackSparrow]

Love the jabs at the meme stonk idiots and solid review overall. Future of gaming my ass, lmao.

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

Dude we have enough bots commenting already ahahaha and meme stock? you mean like Facebook and Tesla? Or ?

[@Cpt_JackSparrow]

@@monkeywrenchstudios3590 You guys are the QAnon of finance. Conspiracy theorist nutjobs spewing delusional nonsense to explain away their poor financial decisions. Just like how people laugh at Flat Earthers, people laugh at you all of the same. Have fun losing all of your money, just understand you only have yourself to blame.

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

@@Cpt_JackSparrow what the fuck is qanon??? And damn you believe the earth is flat ahahaha must be fun.. unfortunately I live in reality where it’s not flat

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

@@Cpt_JackSparrow conspiracy theory would imply it’s not true lmao you do know you can use the word conspiracy without the word theory after it right?? You know that right??

[@Cpt_JackSparrow]

@@monkeywrenchstudios3590 You stonkers misunderstand even the most basic market mechanics and just collectively assert that the market works in magical and utterly nonsensical ways. You are conspiracy theorists because your arguments are based upon conjecture, not established fact. Real data is wrong, and anything that goes against your delusions is dismissed as being in on the conspiracy. You literally can see that you do this by inferring that I'm a bot. Keep it up, it's going to be hilarious when these dogshit companies go bankrupt.

[@lymb3914]

Somewhere, there's a dartboard with your face on it, but I admire your objectivity and I appreciate you talking about these games. Sunlight is a good disinfectant for these kinds of scams.

[@blackhole1376]

"Mom can i have fortnite" "No, we have fortnite at home" Fortnite at home:

[@spinosaurus2001]

Truly the future of gaming

[@Mittens...]

Finally someone understands!

[@KajuTheRudeMonke]

It isn't

[@nutmegdoesstuff1339]

"All hitboxes are the same" is honestly probably worse with different model sizes. How are you going to know where to aim for headshots if the model's head isn't alligned with the hitbox?

[@TheRedOGRE]

Or if the model is larger than the hit box a body shot might just be a miss. Yeah it's stupid. It's been awhile since this games release. Id be interested in seeing where it is now.

[@shadybadger7896]

GameStop basically stole their consumers money as a company, and they'll continue to do it in the stock market. I'm bent between being happy that CryptoBros are willingly giving their chickens to the wolves, and being pissed that GameStop is still out here making money *at all*

[@sheep6665]

I will note that $1M in funding for an "AAA" developer at best gets you half a month of work.

[@ReDsOxFaN4LiFe1]

Damn.. Jauwn really had

[@thevapeisdead]

Lmfao @ the Citadel name-drop. GME bag holders are a very sad bunch

[@jauwn]

They are the smartest investors in the world

[@ShotgunRocket]

@@Evireaa It's funny because the SEC investigated the GME short squeeze and concluded that most of the rise was because of retail buying in, not short sellers having to cover shorts.

[@nikke000]

@@ShotgunRocket No shit, the shorts would have never singlehandedly make the price rocket like that. But shorts wer closed

[@nicholasholden1896]

Everypne i know is in the green with gme

[@Tallcan]

@@nikke000 they just used ftx tokens as locates they never closed

[@LWolf12]

A game requiring admin access to play in itself is a red flag.

[@ziomeknb]

21:44 Sponsored by CITADEL ;)

[@Hairycabbbage]

I seriously need to start calling myself a AAAAA developer with the current state of 'AAA' games...

[@pptemplar5840]

Who wouldn't want to spend 90$ on an ugly skin for a game nobody has heard of? Surely it will be worth the development time.

[@peger]

same type of persons who want spend thousands of $$$ for a hyperlink to jpg

[@nxtmxple]

It isn't a game nobody has heard of.. and it's not a skin, it's an nft that you own when ur not even playing the game.

[@nxtmxple]

There is hundreds of thousands of people in the param labs discord

[@mentarium9741]

@@nxtmxple you are aware you can buy discord members right? online populous is never really a good indicator of popularity. active player count is much better since it is less likely to be influenced by bots. but even then kiraverse has probably around 50 active players if i'm being generous. fortnite is literally just better since it isn't related to scamming people with a jpg. acting like NFTs are still not a scam is being beyond delusional. always love throwing out the word "own" when nothing on the internet is really yours. anybody can just copy paste your NFT anywhere they please with zero repercussions.

[@Grimm_Orlando]

This game makes me appreciate fortnite, this is how deep we've fallen

[@SioxerNikita]

Beta != A few months. A beta is where every major mechanic has been implemented, and the game is generally fully playable from start to finish, it does not mean more mechanics will not be added. This is obviously an alpha, and a terrible one at that.

[@fonesrphunny7242]

Worked at Google ... can't even make a working website or tell what a beta is. That's all I need to know.

[@dinisb]

I love it when you put Kingdom Hearts and Sonic Adventure ost in your videos, their soundtrack is so nostalgic!

[@litarea]

Citadel_KG... lmao. keep it up my philly brethren

[@jauwn]

No shilling here, I'm just a fan of Kevin Garnett and my name is Citadel!

[@vizthex]

honestly impressive that someone somehow made a piece of software less functional than EA's new app, Origin, and Ubisoft Connect combined.

[@LordZarasophos]

You're a hero. Maybe I should start minting NFTs with your profile pic so I can invest in your heroicness and play as you in all my favourite NFT games

[@jauwn]

Lol, thanks. I would be flattered if someone made an NFT of me. Wouldn’t buy it though.

[@TheBerserkerXeno]

"Like Steam but better" that truly is a lovely joke

[@Pipkiablo]

Yeah, I can maybe see the custom NFT avatars working for maybe the first ten or so, but then wait times for your avatar will become longer and longer the more they have to actually make, rig, and test, and pretending there's a reality where this becomes the Fortnite killer they're hoping it to be, wait times for your avatar will probably be months before you can even play as it, and by then you've probably become bored of waiting and just started playing Apex or Fortnite instead. This will probably lead to them rushing it to get them out faster, causing the models to all break or be poorly implemented with ridiculous hit boxes and oversights and they'll probably degrade in quality, just so they can get them made before the player gets bored and goes to a competitor. This is exactly why I've long said NFTs are not the future of gaming that they all think it is.

[@jauwn]

according to them, they're going to be using some sort of AI that can turn a JPEG into a fully rigged UE model. I don't believe it, but they have actually added a decent number of NFTs to their game, so I commend them for actually doing it. It's still not very many, but the fact that they even managed to do one is impressive given how low my expectations were.

[@Pipkiablo]

@@jauwn Yeah, using AI for that is a whole nother can of worms, because I'm pretty sure it would still need a human touch since algorithms aren't perfect and the models are wont to come out janky in some way. This is where the laziness can come in if they get too many of them and start shipping them out the door as is or just don't feel like spending a lot of time on a dying game anymore, though I doubt they'll ever get to the point of being overwhelmed by requests.

[@quiggsy8571]

Almost sad I missed the angry ape comments

[@calsifer666]

You know, this just tells me if I wanna get rich quick I should get into making NFT games.

[@4Bakers]

two things I've unironically seen better trailers for VRChat worlds and this game is so unique looking that KZbin flagged this video as being about Fortnite

[@nxtmxple]

Bro is brainrot

[@nxtmxple]

Why would KZbin flag a video for being about fortnite? You are onto nothing lil bro

[@alexdavidson6937]

I hear that smooth Chris Christodoulou quiet in the background there- good taste!

[@kylehudson5456]

Ape meltdowns 🤤

[@jauwn]

>apes accuse me of being a paid shill making these videos to hurt the game > they retaliate by coordinating a brigade on my channel by downvoting all of my videos and spamming comments, acting out the exact thing they accuse me of doing Can’t make this up folks

[@GuMo822]

@@jauwn Literally the equivalent of real monkeys throwing their own shit. Loved your video btw., I think Kenny G will reward you with a lot of extra short ladders for this 🙏

[@ziomeknb]

@@jauwn u fck with the wrong crowd.

[@AdaTheWatcher]

@@ziomeknb go back to your mom's basement lmao

[@audrey-vale]

@@ziomeknbNha nft bros are the cringe here

[@cptpropane]

"love the scrolling for change weps" bit killed me

[@michaelm7961]

WOO🚨 WOO🚨 WOO🚨 Shill spotted, sending a hit squad to your location

[@vizthex]

since basically every NFT is a pallete swap, you'd only have to make a handful of rigs & animations and just swap out the models/textures - but i doubt the kiravese devs have any idea how to do that. hell, i'm pretty sure fortnite (and others) use the same rig on every skin so they can animate everything with minimal time wasting.

[@jjpaq]

Lots of NFT collections also slightly change the character pose/location within the JPEG, though, so you might have to tweak texture mapping and UVs for each individual NFT even if the model is the same.

[@cpt_nordbart]

Nfts only exist so you and coffeezilla still have something to post on KZbin.

[@LilGawkGawk]

That Elixir launcher reminds me of the EA app the way you described it, it could be EA’s estranged sibling lmao

[@crelb5219]

Decided to look into it: the last post by the official Kiraverse reddit mod got decent traction on /r/superstonk. Eight months ago. They've been radio silents since.

[@AndrewPetersonGameDev]

Just one comment at 3:20 - A million dollars in revenue is not even close to enough for a AAA game, genuinely it's closer to a high-end indie budget than even a AA game. For example, Braid, an indie title, cost $200,000 back in 2008. I hope everyone reading understands that I'm not saying this to defend this crappy NFT game, just trying to make it clear how much it costs to produce a game.

[@jake-wi4gi]

Sponsored by citadel😂

[@zplazma5557]

The plug and play any nft concept could work if all crypto bros weren’t obsessed with “metaverse” and open world mmorpgs. Like you could use any pig as an avatar in a simple 2d platformer or a terraria like. It wouldn’t look good but you could do it

[@error00001]

Should have made the nft a spraypaint like half-life games

[@gwenfranklin8242]

that the twiglight town theme? that lazy afternoon? you chad!

[@vynish4302]

grizzly hills music jumpscared me i was like is my wow open

[@cryptogames299]

He'll yeah, been waiting on this one !

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"You'll have to play it for yourself to see what I mean." Can I just take your word for it instead?

[@nepdisc3722]

I sincerely hope you didn't give that fucking NFT game ADMINISTRATOR LEVEL PRIVELEGES on your own personal computer. If so... quarantine immediately. And contact the FBI before they contact you.

[@Lucyller]

On a side note, the concept might be shitty but the fact they adapted the gameboy-ish nft into wearable baby was actually really smart. Give the option to actually change the "default model" who carry the ntf and it's like a really, really well done adaptation into a playable game.

[@kuba4ful]

9:31 "No ability to choose which drive the game downloads to so I've had to constantly clear my C drive" A tip for the future if you ever find yourself in a similar situation in the future - use symlinks. Symlinks are like shortcuts on your desktop except for programs. 1. Find where the game is being downloaded to 2. Pause the download and move every file to a dummy folder on whatever drive you want 3. Create a symlink on that dummy folder 4. Put the symlink on directory where the game is being downloaded to and name it the same way 5. The software now thinks it's using C directory while actually using the D directory you symlinked I used to have 32GB C drive so I had to use this quite a lot, and it's a very great tool once you get used to it. Almost everything can be symlinked without issues, the only exceptions are system files and drivers.

[@jauwn]

I actually learned how to do this pretty recently when modding Starfield. It's super useful!

[@joemamr710]

Joe Mamr seriously approves of this video.

[@jauwn]

I'm glad you enjoy, Joe!

[@joemamr710]

You for real have serious potential here with this topic. I really do like these videos. These games are all such shit. Checked out this and decentraland. You’d have to be a munky to enjoy or especially think others would enjoy these games or amount to anything important at all.

[@JustAFishBeingAFish]

I just dont get the use case for NFT's in gaming they do nothing that a player would want.

[@mentarium9741]

it's just a worse more expensive microtransaction. it's like the "gaming" keyword that so many companies use to up prices on pc peripherals. take a $40 keyboard, label as "gaming keyboard" and suddenly it's a $60 keyboard. NFT games (and in general) use the keyword "own". you "own" this cosmetic or jpg and so it makes sense to drop thousands on it.

[@ethanreynolds4942]

Edit: you brought up vrchat later in the video. Glad we were on the same page. I am really digging your takes and vibes.

[@DeathMetalDerf]

At first I wasn't totally against what most people would want to call an asset flip, however, having played way too many of them at this point I'm totally sick of them. It feels lazy, and inspires me to spend exactly zero dollars for the game or any of the NFTs they're trying to sell. I'm done with ALL of these crypto/NFT games. I don't have any NFTs, and what little crypto I have is in Bitcoin, and that's where it'll stay until I really need it to make the down payment on my new house.

[@NorthStarBlue1]

Fortunately all the cryptobros seem to be pulling up stakes and running to try and cash in on "AI" while that bubble is still inflating, so I imagine the number of crypto games we'll be seeing in the future is going to fall off very quickly.

[@Rubia376]

@@NorthStarBlue1 that ai bubbles is getting really big and yk ai is expensive so the bubbles whya cause funnier effect or worse

[@AbstractObserver]

Battletech by Harebrain studio, managed to get 2.8 million dollars on kickstarter to make the game, this allowed them to have leverage with publishers to secure funding to ACTUALLY make the game, it costed around 30 million dollars to make and 4 years. I am sorry, but most indie games cost around 1.5 to 3 million dollars to make these days, and some of the good ones are upwards of 10 million dollars, there is no such thing as 1 million dollars and 2 years as being enough to make a AAA game. An AAA game is in the marks of 200 million and up, with development cycles as long as 11 years.

[@warehouselead]

Ragdolls that slump or fly 50ft in the air is actually AAA polish.

[@shrug_shrugsly]

Musings of a Nobody: I’m here bc comments help channel metrics and bc you offered audience the chance to put topics. 😊 it’s cool to see how your videos influence actual change in broken things (in this case, improvements in this game); but even though you influenced change, a pile of crypto feces made to be a smaller pile of feces, is still…crap. You’ve definitely done great work exposing crypto games as piles of shiss and also seen how people will listen to you. These are great videos, but you’ve effectively highlighted their thematic failures. So I’m still a fan of these and will keep watching, but your biopics are great (maybe Marantz?) or whatever you want to change, you do it. This video for exhibit A. Okay that’s ask I’ve got for the SEOs or whatever. Great stuff as always.

[@jauwn]

I'm glad you like the biopic! I am working on another one currently (and by working I mean taking my sweet time) but it probably won't get done until the end of the summer. It's also about a stock cult... one you may have heard of if you're in the loop when it comes to these whackos...

[@shrug_shrugsly]

@@jauwn Oh I love the episodes on whackos!!! And the best thing about you taking extra time to create it, is you get more info from the whackos to add on their episode! 😉 (I’d like to blame the internet for making me such a glutton for shadefreude, but that lie doesn’t even fool me. So delicious 😋 ) I’m not sure if I’d give a good guess on the next subject! I get most of my information from people like you who’ve done the research for me, while I passively listen during artsy art creating. You, Dan Olson, Münecat, etc? You’re the sleuths and I’m the part of your demographic who listens to the well-compiled records you all created, while I simultaneously scream at a MIDI or Adobe-anything for not reading my mind while I break the things. That’s who I am in your audience, haha. So, without you all, I’d be wholly ignorant and where would the world be then? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤔😉

[@jaimeleonlopezbermea7251]

The traile looks an AMV i imagined in recess when i was 9

[@gdenderman985]

I love the ROR2 music in the background.

[@edelzocker8169]

*Run the Game as Administrator* Sounds like running a 20 years old game unable to save without privileges...

[@juanmanuelgiraldo5239]

Damn, brace yourself, because the ape brigade will be at least a hundredfold of what the splinterlands brigade was. They are some of the most deranged bunch of the internet. Still, their rage will bring you views and interaction for The Algorithm™, so that's a positive. Keep fighting the good fight 🫡.

[@jauwn]

Thank you brother. Appreciate the kind words.

[@nicholasholden1896]

Stop spreading FUD, kira is a great game. Only shf spread FUD about it. Go to ss and read the dd and buy and drs gme. Invest your money if you wanna be a bilionair in 2023. This is not financial advise

[@jauwn]

@@nicholasholden1896 sorry! pls don't tell dave lauer!

[@nicholasholden1896]

@@jauwn dont know who that are, just a normal gamer. Gamers love kira

[@monkeywrenchstudios3590]

Holy shit did you run out of gas while lighting that comment? 😂 y’all call us crazy but you assume such nonsense

[@algi1]

You're very brave to run EXEs like this.