a blockchain-based business sim

Sorry Pete but blockchain is so 2020. Everyone knows AI is the new hotness in tech buzzwords.

"Ownership and creativity take center stage as you get the chance to build and manage your business on your very own land!"

What happens if/when the servers your business is located on are switched off?

It's all just buzzwordsalad at this point.

Who the fuck genuinely cares about a digital plot of land? The only reason stuff like this attracts people is the hope to make money, and therefore only people who only care about the monetary aspect play games like Legacy.

I highly suggest the YouTube channel "Jauwn"! The dude plays nft games "frome the perspective of a gamer", so he tries to give those games a fair shot (although he is clearly biased against nfts in general). To no one's surprise each and every nft game is just a grift to mine money in the pockets of idiots who think they are smarter than the rest.

Pete in June:

"I do think, though", he concedes, "we have stumbled, and it feels like stumbling on a mechanic that has never been seen in a game before."

"And a lot of this is very mystical because I'm trying to avoid to tell you what it's like. But it's going to be a lot more like a kind of Fable - Black and White - Dungeon Keeper kind of experience"

Of course it was blockchain bullshit.

Only this motherfucker could make a blockchain based product in 2023 and think he's still ahead of the curve (and not, y'know, turning up to buy tickets on the Titanic after it hit the iceberg).

Molyneux's great sin is the inability to shut the fuck up while he's ahead. lt's hard to explain how much weight this guy carried in the 90s/very early 00s but he was the guy that did Populus, Dungeon Keeper, and Syndicate. And then he just kept over-promising and fucking up for a whole decade.

If he'd kept it reasonable he might still carry some of that weight but he cannot stop promising the moon and then delivering mediocre shit. It would be like Miyamoto releasing flappy bird with NFTs instead of the next Zelda game. God he's so frustrating.

I just want a proper Black and White sequel, not this crap. A man can dream.

What does it even mean?

Get monetization and crypto out of games. Sell complete entertainment products!

cant be disappointed without any expectations

No need to buy it. I'm already disappointed.

But why though?

You can't keep a good grifter down.

Molyneux is the Shyamalan of video games. He’s done a couple of brilliant things, some decent stuff, and a lot of batshit crazy cringe-fests.

New titles are like Christmas poppers. You look forward to them because you remember that first time they were fun, but then you crack one and remember they’re mostly a mix of disappointment and the faint waft of gunpowder.

He's sticking to what he knows.