Worst NFT Game Ever? | The Sandbox Gameplay and Review

[@laruku898]

Dishonest reviews, and according to channels like this will not grow

[@antondovydaitis2261]

Be specific. What claim did he make that was false?

[@TheOdkaz]

what a clown... go back to sandbox where u belong

[@rogomerlinthegamer8305]

News flash genius, if someone's talking smack its most likely honest, especially if it doesn't grow their channel. And what in the world are you rambling about? "according to channels like this ... will not grow" What will not grow genius? dishonest reviews? Or the channel? I suggest learning English grammar.

[@capralmarines4043]

pin of shame

[@TylerTMG]

​@@capralmarines4043lmao

[@chessemchesse3676]

I recognized the name of the sandbox and became heartbroken when i heard it was bought out by a nft company,it used to be my favourite game back when i was younger

[@softgender]

Same, I found it so fun when I was a kid. It sucks to see it again surrounded by speculative gambling

[@dentheduck2095]

They still exist... And you can still play it... What are you even talking about?

[@CybulDot]

​@@dentheduck2095why play a game now plagued with nft crap?

[@feefre]

@@dentheduck2095 excuse me? The old the sandbox (and the old sandbox 2) barely works nowdays, and in android it even crashes on android 10 or newer because they abandoned those games to focus on this garbage "successor"

[@ogknowbody]

It has the same executives it even had.

[@blacktoast5288]

What’s sad is the people who made this game made another game with the same name (the sandbox) and this game was a fun pixel art simulator where you could make your own pixel worlds.

[@feefre]

Tbh I thought this game just stole the name but its the same devs, and that hurts my soul in ways I cant describe

[@lostglaceon9274]

I was worried when I saw the logo, and I guess it's true... That's really a huge shame, honestly. I loved the original and still have it archived, and Evolution already was hurting me enough. This is just painful.

[@bonkmaykr]

I'm so glad someone else remembers this

[@tezereth]

Bruh you're telling me it's the same peoples? 💀 That's a shame, the original sandbox was fun af.

[@whome9842]

Sort of, a crypto company bought the studio so probably those are not the same people. Like in most acquisitions they probably just bought it for the brand and kicked out the people who actually get things done.

[@pillowmint4622]

if the devs themselves are repeatedly replying to every single comment on your video denouncing what's in the video and telling people to "do their own research", then I'm pretty sure the video is factually true from pretty much all angles. like, they wouldn't be trying THIS hard to say it's all fake if it was.

[@CrystalWings12]

ogknowbody will be seething so hard when they found out about your comment. Bad thing is, that enefteebro is still out there.

[@KajuTheRudeMonke]

"Do your own research" is such a pointless phrase, it's just showing that her person has no arguments left so he just throws it thinking he won an argument.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@KajuTheRudeMonke it can be worse than a cop out, I've seen people ask ChatGPT to confirm what they believe and then using the chatbot's answer as a "proof", you know, a program that literally says what you tell it to... This, or going to some conspiracy group... That's "own research", a circlejerk or chatbot to confirm bias.

[@scottydu81]

@@KajuTheRudeMonkeSeriously. I _have_ done my research.

[@emilyofjane]

⁠​⁠If only they put as much energy into fixing The Sandbox as they do in fighting people in the comments. Maybe it would actually be playable by now.

[@SirRoboB0b]

I remember downloading this when it was advertised to me as a Game Engine. It crashed the second I started playing it, and spam-emailed me with NFT offers for around a year afterwards.

[@jauwn]

Yup I’m still getting emails from them to this day I had to block their domain because there was no use unsubscribing. Bunch of scumbags

[@camera2178]

I just looked on their official forums. Its abandoned by players, mods, and developers, but there seems to be people ADVERTISING ILLEGAL DRUGS on there.

[@felicityc]

oh shit, something more useful than any NFT

[@olivercharles2930]

based.

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

so what your saying is the official forums went from bad to great

[@camera2178]

Yeah, basically.

[@squallstrife-v5g]

if that is true then it mean it has a value in real life whether it's legal or not

[@FTZPLTC]

It's legit depressing seeing Snoop Dogg sell so much of his public goodwill down the river for this nonsense. People *liked* him.

[@unknowngod8221]

last time i hear he was working with someone on a festival which yk famous because it's fails so really he was draining his public goodwill but not as much as this lol

[@Jaceblue04]

Let's be real; he's put his name on worse crap than this. Jason Derulo's "Wiggle," anyone?

[@JohnDolehi]

I like how since the game engine is so extremely restrictive that their soccer ball kicking game is reduced to carrying the ball from the field to the net

[@DavidKrout]

That is just how the creator, which probably wasn't The Sandbox, made it. I have played a pretty good The Sandbox game (two experiences) and I was accidentally kicking wood that you are supposed to pick up. They could have had it move but, I guess, those to have you pick it up which is dumb.

[@itsa_possum]

I work in the game and CG industry, mostly as a 3D artist and shader-wizzard. Hadn't looked into NFT games until now, and somehow it is even worse than I imagined. So thanks for suffering the psychic damage of "playing" those dumpsterfires for us. Like good god, it takes effort and dedication to suck that bad

[@jauwn]

Glad you enjoyed my suffering. Yeah, the quality here is certainly questionable, considering it's the work of a 100+ person team

[@ogknowbody]

This review is dishonest. Im a indie game dev in the sandbox. this video was made in bad faith or ill informed. DYOR

[@llewelynshingler2173]

​@@ogknowbodyThen give a proveable refutation to any one point

[@ogknowbody]

@@llewelynshingler2173 DYOR

[@bigbananabill]

@@ogknowbody x to doubt

[@5spec]

It's so sad to see the original sandbox team that made brilliant mobile games slowly fall into the nft rabbit hole, unable to climb out.

[@Gatorade69]

I heard that a lot of the original devs jumped ship, so depending on where they went and what they're making maybe they didn't fall down the NFT rabbit hole.

[@5spec]

@@Gatorade69 that's good to hear

[@ogfloatzel4025]

Nothing kills an entrepreneur faster than falling for a pyramid scheme

[@lesigh3410]

​@@ogfloatzel4025I hope we see a movie in the vein of Wolf of Wall Street or American Psycho exposing the inner nature of the crypto community

[@xxsuperproductionsxx138]

yeah.

[@asteroidrules]

Making the "games" single player only was probably the smartest decision they could have made. In Decentraland the double-digit daily playercounts made it inescapably obvious that nobody wants "the metaverse," but Sandbox can hide that by using singleplayer modes.

[@felicityc]

I tried decentraland a couple days after Folding Ideas made his video. I figured at least people would have tried it or it would be more active after hundreds of thousands/millions watched that video. The player count was actually lower than what he said in the video, it was completely dead. Never saw a single other player and a lot of the places he was referencing had shut down or didn't exist anymore xD

[@planescaped]

@@felicityc Reminds me of old browser games like Last Stand Dead City. Just instead of predatory microtransaction filled flash games with a slowly dying audience, they are predatory NFT and crypto filled games with a slowly dying audience.

[@Nico78Not]

The problem with 'metaverses' is that as long as more than one 'metaverse' exists, their entire purpose is defeated. Metaverse by now is just an empty buzzword that means a game is a MMO or multiplayer.

[@Penguinmanereikel]

@@planescapedyou mean Last Stand Dead Zone. I don't know if it was *more* predatory than the other browser-based MMOs at the time. I thought it was decent enough.

[@ChillavaKirby]

While that is a funny point I can't imagine it possibly makes up for the fact that they're attempting to sell a SINGLE PLAYER METAVERSE like lmfao okay

[@romancatholicgameing]

14:53 Most likely nothing. Very common for NFT scammers to not pay their workers properly, especially ones from a country where not paying your workers seems to be the hot new corporate trend.

[@lesigh3410]

This honestly just makes me sadder and hate this trash game even more

[@fr34k09]

glad I found you instead of watching some crypto bro rambling how "cool" this game is and got a more honest and straight forward review, thank you and sorry for the sanity you had to lose through this game

[@jauwn]

Yeah, it's rare on this site you'll find anyone play a crypto game without having a thumbnail of a wide open mouth and saying "100x IN ONLY ONE DAY!!!"

[@DregoryTerm]

I watched this video, and went back to watch the rest of the Top Crypto Games, and was slightly surprised to see that the first few videos were of games that didn't exist. I expected the top crypto games you can play in 2022 would've been, well, playable in 2022. That was quite amusing. I look forward to see what you show next! ❤️

[@jauwn]

Who would've thought that the motivation to make money in the Crypto world is actually higher than the motivation to use the "technology" it's backed by?

[@LordZarasophos]

Dude, your channel is going to blow up 100%. Your videos have had more effort put into them than their subjects, its incredible

[@jauwn]

Wow, thanks for the kind words! It really means a lot :)

[@Shakshuk]

You predicted it

[@FruitPuppyYT]

I’m new here and I’m staying. the editing + pacing has only improved. Onwards, upwards!

[@bonkmaykr]

Man, they turned one of my childhood mobile games into an NFT hell. This sucks.

[@pizzaguy1343]

Agreed. They took an absolutely beautiful gem and corrupted it into an empty shell.

[@jauwn]

Thanks for watching, everyone! Which game would you rather see me cover next on this series, Gods Unchained, or Splinterlands? Or, something entirely different?

[@DregoryTerm]

I cast my vote for God's Unchained

[@jauwn]

@@DregoryTerm Your wish might just come true this week 🤫

[@IronBrandon22]

The worst part is the ads that are meant to be directed towards developers. As a game developer, getting an ad making fun of programming in general (it literally showed some basic programming from another engine with a poop emoji), I can say these developers have no idea what they're doing.

[@jauwn]

The guy they paid to make those ads you’re talking about is literally just selling “Roblox hacks” to his subscribers and they’re just malware. Absolute scumbag KZbinr and scumbag company

[@DccToon]

that same ad also has terrible subtitling, they said janky and the subtitles said junky i want to remove that ad but for some reason youtube just keeps giving it to me THIS IS INFURIATING I HATE IT SO MUCH 😭

[@randoom1539]

Shut up i am a sandbox developer and sandbox is the best metaverse ever because i say it. (Even if roblox has got more than 100M players i will say is trash.)

[@IronBrandon22]

@@randoom1539 Oh really? Well, because you say so it *must* be the best!

[@randoom1539]

@@IronBrandon22 At least there is one developer that uses that bullsh1t argument

[@dangerouslysafe3]

You know... It still shocks me how the NFTs are the world's most persistent type of crypto scam ever devised. Like seriously, this stuff has a lot of shady stuff backing it up, up to and including people hijacking youtube accounts and social media profiles to promote NFT sales.

[@jessyle8743]

I had to work on some stuff for sandbox. I worked for a publishing company that had a deal with one of the companies featured on sandbox and we were trying to make a game for them to put on sandbox. That was like a year ago and from what I've heard (I quit) they since stopped doing an work for sandbox lol My company had me play some roblok for research and when I had to launch sandbox, I was just like "why not just play roblox?" There was NOTHING to do in sandbox. It's been in alpha for years, looks like nothing has changed.

[@jauwn]

Haha, thanks for sharing that story! Yeah it's hilarious how much nothing they've sold with this game. There's literally NOTHING to do but spend money.

[@ogknowbody]

This will age bad

[@felicityc]

@@ogknowbody 4 months later and it's only aged better, cope harder

[@zerbutterftw]

​@@ogknowbodyhell nah lmfao

[@Brickcyn]

cry harder@@ogknowbody

[@thecreatorofpc7929]

I remember playing The Sandbox as a kid, it was pretty fun from what i remember. Not sure if that’s just nostalgia though, since the reviews on the PC Port are…not good. Sad to see it go like this though.

[@Gatorade69]

Some comments said the earlier versions were fun. Once Animoca bought them it was all downhill from there?

[@michel0dy]

You know, when I was in digital media college, it was common to see big project pitches that became a very simple vertical slice for the grade. Except that if you pitch an online metaverse, the teachers would ask to see at least actual online multiplayer functionality, as basic as it could be. This would probably not get a passing grade depending on how nice the teachers were.

[@planescaped]

The effort people put into building these worlds weirdly feels a lot sadder than the effort I put into my Minecraft and Terraria worlds that no one other than me has ever seen. lol

[@CrystalWings12]

Speaking of Minecraft, I first found out about this game when Mojang announced they're banning 'eneftee' of Minecraft, a lot of cryptobros seething about it and started mentioning that 'game'. But yeah, I kept reminding myself that any games that has crypt0 currency in it are not real games. I am glad I never jumped into that craphole, despite those cryptobros said that 'I will missing out' or 'have fun staying poor.'

[@thegrouchization]

Your effort went into something that you can feel proud of. There's nothing sad about that.

[@doflamingo57]

i want to see them.

[@KajuTheRudeMonke]

@@CrystalWings12'have fun staying poor' said by the guys throwing their money into something totally worthless, lol

[@CrystalWings12]

@@KajuTheRudeMonke And now we're laughing at their lost, and it was worth it. Those cryptobros enefteebros deserves to be a lifetime laughing stock.

[@FunkyStudios]

what a shame that The Sandbox IP ended up in the hands to these fools. The original Sandbox game series was freaking amazing, actually saddening.

[@RustyLeguito]

True, I loved the Pac-Man DLC on the second mobile game.

[@pizzaguy1343]

SO TRUE! It was revolutionary to me. It was nothing like I'd seen before and was very well made. I had a great time using it and I genuinely feel crushed that the game encountered a downfall such as this.

[@masako8980]

Holy shit, this is the people who made the sandbox games? Dude I loved those when I was younger, then they made an update or sequel and made everything shit and pay to win. Fucking wild seeing them here. Even back then I thought "they must be up to something shady", and hey, teenage me was right all along!

[@flyingstonemon3564]

If I trust other comments this shadow trend started since they were bought apparently

[@masako8980]

@@flyingstonemon3564 what do you mean?

[@flyingstonemon3564]

@@masako8980The Sandbox Dev Company got bought by another one that started changing the new sandbox game project to what we know now and stopped tending to the older games to prioritize the successor/sequel (I got this from other comments so I have no idea if this is valid or not.) Hope this is correct and helps

[@unknowngod8221]

@@flyingstonemon3564 this is has since been validated by jauwn it's self

[@ripHaHaYes]

They always mention that they will surpass roblox and minecraft. They keep mentioning it in the ads. EVEN CALLING ROBLOX STUDIO JANKY AND TRASH WHILE IN THE SANDBOX UR LITERALLY STUCK WITH 3D BLOCKS (roblox has meshes btw)

[@RubenMoor]

Ha! I tried to play sandbox and when I had difficulties I started to search on youtube instead. Well here I am. Somehow with 1 Billion USD funding, NFTs and metaverse visions, they forgot how to actually make a game.

[@ARStudios2000]

Somehow they're even less competent than modern AAA gaming

[@CJ-wh7ik]

Once I wanted to play a metaverse game out of curiosity and I tried googling "how to play metaverse" and literally they wouldn't let me know how. Till this day I've no idea how to start one or login to metaverse xd

[@Bizerro2000]

i remember seeing a ad for this game once, actually being interested, learning that it was a NFT game, and never wanting to even hear about it anymore

[@teamworm5932]

You got to go on the walk of a lifetime and collect a butterfly and you gave it a -16? Sad. This is why you can't get good info from the internet.

[@dhrumildave4221]

Before watching this video and during this video, I got the same ad for Sandbox, and I expected this thing to be a multiplayer game with some in-built game modes, but no it just turns out to be a world editor as said by you. Thanks for the honest review.

[@jauwn]

That's kind of annoying because I blocked ads for crypto on my channel, I guess they're allowed because they advertise under "gaming"

[@dhrumildave4221]

@@jauwn Exactly lol, they name it as "Game Maker" whereas it actually isn't working that way

[@mapytrix3982]

​@@jauwn That's strange, I get crypto ads every now and then on your videos, I suppose KZbin doesn't give a shit anymore

[@gswdeclan]

It's a shame that we're really close to not having any NFT games for him to review. They've been flogging the dead horse for a while, pretty soon it's going to the glue factory.

[@IzEDraGoN]

I love how Jauwn went from 65 subs to (as for today) almost 30K subs... excellent content, keep'em coming!!

[@jauwn]

Of course!

[@theh5099]

Funnily enough, I had 2 ads for sandbox when watching this video. You're literally being paid by the very game you reviewed. Gotta love the advertisment algorithm.

[@jauwn]

Isn't that awesome

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

A coworker had me go here to check out Snoop Dogg's area (as if Snoop Dogg actually was spending any time in there) and wanted to buy land and... The whole thing chugged like ass. Bear in mind I used a 970, but even if I had a 3080, I'd see similar results.

[@VinceLikesTacos]

They don't have a billion dollars though. From what you showed that is just the market cap, there is probably very little actual liquidity. Trying to cash out will just crash the price and that market cap will disappear.

[@jauwn]

Right, and that same logic can be applied to pretty much any crypto when people say it's "worth $xxx". So certainly there would be not nearly enough liquidity to exit that position. However, and I should've included this in the video, they have actually raised a number well over $500M (as far as I could find, I'm sure they've received more in private funding) in cash, not crypto, from other investment firms such as SoftBank. So they might actually have access to almost $1B in real money in addition to whatever they can get for their funny money, which is even crazier to think about.

[@gateroozeink5061]

So it's a revamp of "The Million Dollar Homepage" where some of the links go to a crappy minigame?

[@jauwn]

Yes but that wasn't on the blockchain so did you really own your spot?

[@gateroozeink5061]

@@jauwn I'm not convinced anyone truly owns their spot in Sandbox either... yes they own a token, but can't Sandbox (the centralized company) just unilaterally decide what that token actually does/gives? And if Sandbox shuts down, the token does nothing.

[@3u-n3ma_r1-c0]

@@gateroozeink5061 unironically yes

[@yalva3607]

11 months later. Scam is still alive, and is now being advertised on youtube. Not to mention the current crackdown on adblock. So now the scam is being advertised at peek efficiency

[@cindysuryani5194]

"here take a listen while I play one of the mini game" then an ad just appeared its an world of tanks ad and its like "we know you are hovering to that button" its so perfectly timed that if im not looking at the screen I would though that was the music

[@Redshirtgaming96]

I miss the old the sandbox before it became a stupid fing “meta”

[@jauwn]

Yeah, it really seems like before they got taken over by Animoca they were actually doing something cool. Now the only thing that matters is money, money, money. What a shame.

[@Redshirtgaming96]

@@jauwn yes a very big shame

[@Ewnothank]

The irony of receiving an sanbox add before this video is amazing

[@ouchisstinky]

even with how nfts and crypto are more dead than war veteran granny i still get shitty ads for this game, claiming its building tools are, ''better than roblox and minecraft'' and claiming you dont need to code to make games, but you need code to make proper games, and having no codes only limits the amount of stuff you can put in the game, and yet it still has ads like: building in other metaverses: aaa poopoo coding aaaaaa stinky building in the sandbox: WOOOOOW SO AWESOME DOGECOIN WOW SO AWESOME SO EASY IM GONNA BUST A NUT JUST FOR HOW GOOD BUILDING ON IT IS

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

Honestly think the first world looked kind of neat. Idk, there's something really appealing to me about the color scheme of everything.

[@3DGladiator]

Great video. The Sandbox is bullshit from start to finish. It took me quite some time to come to this conclusion, even tough, it would have been an obvious thing right away. (south China morning post wtf...) They made some interesting promises that sounded very appealing, especially to creators. The only fun thing in The Sandbox is the game maker. It's their 'engine' required for building the worlds that should be accessible through the plots of land one day. It's a little bit like playing Lego and you can easily spend hours in it (ignoring the many glitches). Actually, it's not even an engine; it's more like a game itself created with Unity. However, stay away from this stuff people! Keep up the good work. Best, Ben

[@fangofshadows5371]

Jauwn talking about the latest nft scam game Me: shaking my head at how hard he got bodied in that Yu-Gi-Oh Duel

[@jauwn]

Bruh don’t remind me 😂😂🥲

[@fangofshadows5371]

@@jauwn at least you managed to get a monster out lol I've seen duels end before the opponent even got to draw a card x.x

[@jauwn]

I usually play Dragonmaids so I'm usually the person winning on turn 2, haha

[@fangofshadows5371]

@@jauwn oh dang you're bodying folks too haha what did you play here?

[@vyrax401]

Im watching this video after get extremely tilted playing that game hoping for refreshing, but got jumpscared in the end

[@dsfisher]

Coming back to the old videos, it was such a shock to hear you celebrate reaching 100 subs, It must be unreal having grown so fast, love the reviews!

[@DerpyEinstein]

3:11 I thought the little voxel chicken suit guy was spelling the n word

[@iamathousandapples]

I'm absolutely convinced he is. A true testament to the crypto community

[@DerpyEinstein]

@@iamathousandapples its more like being chronically online, not just crypto shills but literally any other community as well tbh

[@smugshrug]

love these videos, and it's so crazy to hear at the end that you almost have 100 subscribers looking at your channel now which, as of me writing this comment, has 72k subs less than a year later.

[@rendy1222]

Man that dark world opening hand just sad and painfull to watch

[@pumpkinicing]

Something that stands out to me is how there's no like... graphical consistency. The smooth HUD (which takes up way too much of the screen and is very distracting, not to mention hard to read due to the translucent background) doesn't match the voxel pixel artstyle at all. It feels like they came from two different games entirely.

[@manelcolomer9044]

NFTs, crypto, metaverse and all this crap should never be in a Videogame. If people like this BS, I’m ok with it, take all your money, put it in NFTs and crypto and get scammed. But don’t bother us videogamers. I cannot think of an NFT or metaverse without thinking is a scam or a ponzi scheme anymore… XD

[@dombuscus4783]

I was very suprised to hear youve only been making videos for a week. This video was really well made, and well edited. You sir have gained another subscriber

[@jauwn]

Well I’ve been making videos for a year now but yeah this was only a week after I started

[@dombuscus4783]

@@jauwn ah ok, my bad 😅

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

I played the original moblie game when i was a kid. It was pretty fun, and nothing like what it is now. Monetization was relatively painfull, but eh, it was a moblie game. Playing a version with cheats was fun.

[@josh6or7]

remember the sandbox EDU where they gave you stuff for free?

[@DiamondKittyCat]

and now you cant buy the things even if you want. i don't think its even listed anymore. 💀

[@half_lifescientist]

i have recieved several ads for this garbage game, and it sounds just extremely annoying. their ass is comparing themselves to roblox, mf atleast roblox makes their assets free. the sandbox also criticizes real coding and modelling and it sorta pisses me off because most likely "generating" events from words will break everything. the game is horrible. games and nfts dont mix

[@TalkernateHistory]

The currency is sand. That's hysterical

[@BhiPho]

THE FACT THAT PORORO (a south korean kids tv show) OWNED A LAND IN THE SANDBOX

[@reknostarfox4690]

Well, disrupting some giants like Roblox and Minecraft are quite ambitious... Expect, it'll be much harder to do so with NFTs, so... They are (Sandbox Developers) doomed from the beginning.

[@Bavid_Doughie]

Jauwn, thank you for memorializing this for humanity through your videos, this fad will pass and most people will forget these "games" and those behind them. Ever since I understood not only the environmental but also the criminal implications of NFTs/Crypto/Blockchain I always knew to avoid it and to speak out against it, but I never realized the depths of the grifting and scamming perpetrated by these "NFT firms" . It Contributes a lot to the videos that you discuss who is behind these scams.

[@Labergemusic]

I hope to see Createra land soon. Their "game" is like a ripoff of these and the "land pieces" are all super pumped up to almost 2eth lol

[@jauwn]

I just looked at it, there appears to not only be no other users, but the “game” also has no collision detection.

[@Labergemusic]

@@jauwn exactly! lol I hopped into a single "game" and what I saw was bad. and the floor price went from 0.3 -> 1.7 ETH - just speculation

[@commenteroftruth9790]

I just saw an ad for this game, and the ad was interesting. I almost downloaded and played the game to give it a chance, but then I realized the site was so odd I had to get a second opinion. Good god im glad I didn't waste my time. thank you. NFT's are so irritating.

[@jauwn]

So glad that this video I made almost a year ago is still helping people, lol

[@commenteroftruth9790]

@@jauwn yep it probably will keep doing that.

[@HannahReloaded]

Been enjoying this series so far. Hope you keep it going 😊

[@jauwn]

Glad you enjoy! That's the plan.

[@speed0spank]

I found your channel through Hannah's recommendation and I like what I see so far! Keep at it!

[@ricks5756]

"The Sandbox" is also a port of a mobile game from 2012 that is interesting to play :)

[@MrSoup1]

Honest reviews, channels like this will grow

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

what is funny is that, ripping models from games to put them in other games has been a thing for years, it's called modding. If I make something in minecraft and minecraft servers get shut down, I can still host my own servers or play singleplayer. Non ownership is an artificial issue.

[@Baekstrom]

As a software developer, why would I ever PAY to be able to participate in the development of the Snoopverse??? I am used to GET PAID for my work.

[@InternetZeitgeist-ky7iy]

XD that is hilarious. pay for the privelige of developing the snoopverse. nfts are all a scam.

[@EdKolis]

"The Sandbox". What a clever, original game title. Almost as good as "Ice Hockey" or "Pong"!

[@unknowngod8221]

it was before this nft shit a good mobile games name the sandbox unironicaly bought by the same company that made this IP into this so in a way yeah it's bad but damn nft ruining indie games although the team behind the games before this jump off ship

[@Yipper64]

I think the only way for this to actually work is if they started with a player base and *somehow* managed to add in the NFT stuff without making the player base leave the game. At the very least its clearly impossible for this type of thing to work starting with all this NFT stuff, nobody will play it, everyone just speculates.

[@fireraid9173]

Anything that ever associates with nfts in even the slightest should be avoided at all times like the plague it is, there is no exception and not a single half decent thing has ever come from them since they were invented by that scammer.

[@xaviaugusto2288]

I have been following the Sandbox YT channel since The Sandbox Evolution (I have played this game on PC version since 2018, which it doesn't work anymore). Once I got notified on the new Sandbox game, I was upset and disappointed, because I noticed the game has been released as a NFT. I prefer playing The Sandbox Evolution, because I enjoyed this game, but they would never fix the issue of the game crash whenever I start building the world when it got an update, which is why it got negative reviews. It is a shame that this game was released as a NFT, which thank god I never played their poorly made game. Glad I found your game review, really well explained.

[@Gingersauwce]

I mean Second Life is a sandbox world, it isnt necessarily listed as a game but a virtual chat world, maybe they should have gone with that angle as well instead of calling it a "game"

[@beamcrash35]

they say "its so simple a kid can play it" in one of their ads, rip their moms credit card lol

[@ShapesWithoutColors]

You only need half a basketball court if it's a reusable asset.

[@Angellirav]

i keep getting ads of that game, the whole "Ditch roblox and code based game engines cuz we are better" rubbed me the wrong way, good to see it truly sucks lol

[@coldReactive]

"What if the games get shut down?" [ Laughs in offline Mode on Minecraft. ]

[@Yipper64]

if meta is gonna call themselves "meta" for going whole hog into VR, then they metaverse has to be VR/AR. Not just a digital game. The fact that crypto people have also taken this "meta" word is so stupid, all I can think of whenever I hear "meta" or "metaverse" is just corporations wanting to make a quick buck but it just happens to be technology related.

[@oldmanboone]

I was incredibly curious about the song. I might be a masochist but I have my limits. Best I can tell without directly subjecting myselft to the sandbox, is it appears to be a song made specificly for the anicubeent themed kpop land? world? area. Whatever you call it. The gist is, I couldn't find the song on shazam, soundhound, or a few sketchy thirdparty apps. Even with a longer version of the song pulled from a commentatorless playthrough of the world. Likely too little too late for folks curious but thought I'd throw in what I found for posterity. Love the videos, be them on these dumpster fires, or some old pc games. Diggles is a classic. A dumpster fire, but a classic. You captured its energy perfectly.

[@jauwn]

Yeah I'm surprised multiple people asked where the song came from, but it's definitely a Sandbox original. Glad you like the videos!

[@עומרשטיין-ג1ד]

i found this kzbin.info/www/bejne/poPYhGhpmNtqoq8si=347BaGVlLM5GyxYV its not a name but its play for 15 min

[@johnclark926]

2:35 I used to think most voxel art styles were ugly for this reason as well, until I found out about the Voxel Doom mod. You would think making voxel models using the Doom character sprites as reference would create an incomprehensible mess, but since the mod disables shading on the voxels they actually work very effectively as 3D renditions of the original sprites. While I think the The Sandbox’s presentation is rotten and bland to its core, if they had disabled shading, chosen an alternate to tweening, and got rid of the godawful ambient occlusion the graphics would have been a smidge less ugly.

[@unknowngod8221]

or do it like minecraft did if they want to destroy minecarft AND roblox then might as well copy some of those aspect or make something similar to those

[@bhopVACR]

The fact that "The Sandbox" hired a roblox exploiter that is also a youtuber to shit on roblox, meanwhile expecting no criticism at all. The irony is in my veins right now.

[@jauwn]

Yep I saw that guy. He’s also giving people malware, all the links in his descriptions take you to websites that are filled with pop up ads and surveys and eventually once you get the software it’s just malware. Great reputation, sandbox!

[@bhopVACR]

@@jauwn then they wonder why their advertisements gain 0 clicks

[@WipZedKay]

I remember seeing some advertisements for this. And nothing showed any gameplay in true crypto gaming fashion!

[@flagstaffinstituteofbuisne1034]

I understand its a NFT game but I cannot believe you would brutally assault John Honda like that..

[@zephyrprime8]

2:01 I can't be the only one who thought that one guy on the promo artwork was trying to write the n word

[@EdKolis]

I actually like the voxel avatars. That's not done much so it's actually kind of creative!

[@flyingstonemon3564]

Same, It reminds me of cube land or if some of those 2d platformer games went 3d

[@momothebug]

To each their own, but the one thing I actually like about The Sandbox Metaverse is the art style. I personally love that extra blocky voxel style. I enjoy the game Staxel, which uses a much more pixellated voxel style which I'm a huge fan of and the SBM art style immediately reminded me of that. I was actually surprised when you said you hated the way it looked because I was immediately admiring the style. Just goes to show that everyone is different and has different taste in art.

[@ryoma107]

its sad too, i remember the mobile game being a really fun puzzle game

[@MasonTheGamer2022]

Imagine you’re a small mobile game company doing perfectly well, then all of a sudden, another company swoops in, takes your game, and slaps pop-ups, crypto, and other garbage to the games you’ve made, causing the game to die and be passed aside. That’s not even funny, it’s just tragic.

[@PlayerZeroStart]

Nothing like seeing an ad for a game that catches your eye, only to look it up and find that it's cryptoshit. Three times this has happened to me, and I feel like it's not going to be the last.

[@RomanCigić]

And i like how to this day i am still getting ads about it where they are like "We all know how junky Roblox is" and they are being hypocritic when they say that💀

[@ZacBobisKing]

What’s worse is the original the sandbox mobile game was good the devs became a .eth sellout

[@OmegaCorsair]

sandbox 2 sucked don’t lie to yourself

[@CryptGirl38]

@@OmegaCorsair it doesn't matter if it was good, because this trainwreck is INCOMPARABLY worse anyway

[@MrCanberry]

0:56 THATS "GRAB THAT AUTO" GUY! FROM THE THUMBNAIL!!!

[@Rissoe_Really]

Fun content to watch at late hours, keep up the good work my guy :)

[@sinwithagrin4243]

I honestly think this is the future of gaming. Boring, tasteless, run off of greed and soulless. Sounds likea triple A game to me.

[@Nikos_Bin]

i used to play the sandbox evolution game(the little mobile 2d game) and it was fun, sad how it went to this

[@josh6or7]

yeah i remember the 1st game

[@kuznetsov9471]

I don't have anything against a company that doesn't really believe in taking NFT seriously and is just doing it profit out of idiots who think NFT's are not a joke. In fact, scamming people who are into NFT's is a good thing.

[@kdawg2468]

I got youtubes ads for it. They were advertising it as an engine to make your own games. Super weird.

[@Mike14264]

Man, I loved the OG Sandbox, and the sequel looked really fun too... this is just heartbreaking.

[@miopyox]

I got an AD for this game while watching this video. Definitely not scummy.

[@dianaarroyo4617]

man, Sandbox is like that game that gets 1000+ million dollars of advertisement but that it doesnt even promises a crap

[@donkers2705]

Imagine Minecraft getting shut down, it's ridiculous

[@keithxx]

The ads saying roblox is trash 💀 atleast we got call of duty looking game like sandbox is a literal block game

[@ZBrown-k7b]

To build a game, YOU HAVE TO PAY REAL LIFE FUCKING MONEY.

[@ramuzaru1657]

I find funny how their ads are literally some guy looking at the camera talking some stuff, and they just added some other voice that says that it's one of the best things he's ever experienced 💀

[@SneedFeedAndSeed]

2:05 lol why do they have the n word on their website