Happy New Year everyone! Here’s a long anticipated follow up to some of the first NFT games reviewed on the channel. Hope you all had a great year, and here’s to a 2024 full of “good crypto games” 😂
"Uh, sir, are we rich yet with this asset flip?" "Nope, still hemorrhaging money." "But sir, we will get rich eventually right?" "Definitely. Just gotta wait for them to come flocking." They never, in fact, came flocking.
It's hilarious. Jauwn legitimately makes a profit from effectively shorting on NFTs, except the cause-and-effect is backwards. What a chad and he can't lose since 99.999% of NFT projects are red downward arrows on the chart.
"It'll get better. We're just early." It has been _fifteen years_ since cryptocurrency got started. Let's make a comparison. World Wide Web entered public use in 1991. Fifteen years later, Facebook and UA-cam had recently gotten started. Cryptocurrency seems to be going backwards, having largely abandoned aspersions of setting up its own system of economy and is instead largely used for extremely volatile investments and outright scams.
@@toomanyaccounts Real world usage of blockchain as tech (completely decoupled from crypto) is still largely theory but actually has some very great uses in manufacturing and the like. Crypto on the other hand... they're... definitely not even trying 😂
@@zeelyweely1590 If you don't mind me asking, how can blockchain be used in manufacturing? I'm curious, since the concept has some merit. The customer-side execution is... well, we're both watching the same video.
I've seen the argument for blockchain in manufacturing and it still never made any sense to me. The Oracle Problem is always an issue - the blockchain only enures that the blockchain itself is secure. It doesn't inherently make the real-world product any more legitimate, since if a change is made and not pushed to the blockchain, then the blockchain will be wrong forever, making the entire reason to use it a moot point.
I'm genuinely impressed that Tamadoge turned into anything. Sure, all it became was a collection of generic, mediocre-at-best ripoffs of more popular mobile games, but all the games and their crypto integration is entirely functional! Kinda sad that this is arguably the high-water mark for crypto in gaming.
I'm sort of genuinely impressed by it. In a landscape filled with scams and rugpulls it's managed to be an actual game, crypto and play-to-earn successfully. Seemingly it will also continue to do so. Passing marks in every category. Compare it to Silk, which is what I expect from a released crypto game (which is already top 20%). Expecting anything to meet the hype of crypto-NFT-games is insane, since the hype was overblown by a hundred times. It's physically impossible to meet more than 1% of it.
Silks is such a BAFFLING contradiction to the idea of an NFT. It’s value doesn’t come from the owning of the horse, it doesn’t give you exclusive betting right or real royalties from the horse. It’s only value is exactly what the company that sold it to you agreed to give you for it. If they chose to stop giving the royalties, it’s worthless and no different from if you were just using a normal form of data storage.
@@jauwn But that makes sure that each horse is unique! As certainly other data storages are not ,,advanced'' enough to make something like - giving only a single unit.
i keep thinking about what the silk thing must be like for the irl horse's owners? imagine having random people contact you to ask if your pet has died yet omg
I wonder how many times they tried convincing the callers that any service that lets them bet on dead horses is a scam before they realised that trying to explain this to the callers was a lost cause.
@@jauwn I have not! (yet, working on rectifying this immediately) That said, I will say it's both amusing and horrifying that anytime I try to imagine a worst case for comedic purposes with these groups, someone who knows more details always comes by to explain how the reality is so much worse than I could possibly imagine.
unfortunately i wouldnt be surprised if racehorse owners didnt see their horses as pets and instead saw them as objects. there was a whole scandal in the 90s in the show jumping horse scene where when a horse stopped performing well and was no longer profitable, its owner would hire a horse killer to make the death look like an accident so they could collect the insurance money. theres a great episode about this in the netflix show Bad Sport that documents the whole thing with excellent storytelling, i really recommend it (if youre not sensitive to animal death)
Just so you know, it doesn't matter if Lucky Block was headquartered in the Cayman Islands if they were allowing entries from US customers. They would still be subject to US law for doing business in the US. To avoid being liable to US law they would require a good faith effort to exclude prospective US customers. However, they wont get in trouble if the victims don't contact law enforcement to report the scam and get the ball rolling.
Remember when one of the biggest arguments for NFTs in games was that you could transfer game items, like bringing a Diamond sword from minecraft into Call of Duty? We had that before, and it was called Garry’s Mod. But now with Fortnite, we have a game with every IP and item in one game without any NFTs.
Puzzle and Dragons (one of the least exploitive gacha games out there but a gacha game nonetheless) had that covered years ago. With all the various collabs they've done over the years you could theoretically go into a dungeon with a team consisting of of Goku, Batman, Hello Kitty, and Cloud Strife, and have the whole bunch being led by a bowl of udon.
Until eventually forknife will shut down when the game's popularity dies 'cus of the next big thing. Then all the stuff you had there? Gone, all the skins, characters, IPs, whatever. Meanwhile, Gmod? All the mods are still there, guess unless you lose the files, you'll always have them. Or can create any, too. Also, the people that claimed about bringing items from one game to another, hah, clueless little naives that don't know nothing about how the game industry and corporations work, eh.
@@nobodyinparticular9640 Yeah but consider, people will still have the files. Plenty of games that've gone down are still kept alive in some form because people ripped all the files and can set them up to run again. Dragon's Dogma online, FF11, The original demon's souls(because the remake is shit), a bunch of apps. It's not an official solution, granted, but it's a pretty convenient one.
@@nobodyinparticular9640 Forget corporations, anyone who makes such claims doesnt understand basic game design. Owning an NFT does not make an asset from one game appear in another. Garry's mod has other games assets because they have either been modded in or are from one of valve's many properties that all run on the same game engine.
What I love most about watching this channel is that the ads whilst watching these videos are all about earning “passive income on the internet” in the most dubious and stupidest ways possible, like Amazon dropshipping, shopify smth smth, audible audiobooks, etc etc.
I saw one that was a course on how to make and sell courses, lol. Using AI to write the script for the course and to voice the videos. Crazy how far humanity has fallen
@@jauwn Course on how to sell courses might be the only honest one, as in, all other "get rich quick" courses only make more coaches selling these useless courses, even though charging people not even for a script but for telling them to use AI is still ridiculous.
Couldn't you just, bet on horse racing normally instead of buying an NFT to bet on horse racing? Like what's the value add of having your bet be done as an NFT?
@@kyuboxincubox7556 the idea (at least with how I understand it) is that an NFT (supposedly) allows it to work like royalties and grow proportional to the people that invest in it. So instead of you betting on one horse, you buy a “representation” of that horse and you earn royalties based on that horse’s overall performance continuously. A sort of “buy once, profit forever” scenario. Of course, as Jawun points out, it has a few problems……
Really good to get a follow-up to these, most channels point and laugh at an obvious scam then move on. Genuinely reveals how blatant the corruption is through other media outlets. Don't forget to keep doing a few fun retro reviews alongside these, they're bloody good as well
They're trying to draw in both the crypto crowd and the absolutely desperate horse game crowd. People looking for horse games right now will play anything since most games in the genre are just Star Stable clones.
Tamadogi is literally just a pay to win version of My Tamagotchi Forever. As someone who collects digital pets, it's just a bad game when you look at the competition. Heck, the Tamagotchi resale market is technically more profitable than Tamadoge even if I don't like resellers.
Also, calling it Tamadoge makes no sense other than connecting it to Tamagotchi. Since Tamagotchi is Japanese for "egg watch", meaning Tamadoge means "egg doge"?
17:26 "doesn't seem fair to be selling a horse that died" That made my day. It's something that makes sense in context, but it's hilarious outside of it.
found this channel around the middle of the year and gotta say it's one of the highlights on youtube for me this year. A thoroughly entertaining channel and I hope even more people find your stuff next year. From the memestock investor video to the never ending lyra nft clones and the exploration of weird forgotten video games everything has been interesting, hilarious and a great resource to showcase just how failed the 'crypto gaming' market really is. Also it's a minor point but the surreal intros and general aesthetic is great. It's cool and unique but also perfectly complements the equally surreal video topics. It's a minor detail all things considered, but when the fundamentals are this solid the details get to stand out and bring such delight.
Dude... Those cutscenes between games are amazing. I've been watching your channel since about a month after it was made, I love your aesthetic. Keep it up!
I like when you said people say the games might get better over time and things chances but “crypto bros always say we just got here early” actually made me laugh lol.
I literally saw a comment like you mentioned on another video of this dude. It's impressive the amounts of excuses they give to not accept they wasted money on it.
The thing with Crypto games is the only way I can think of that they would actually be profitable for anyone is if there was a substantial number of people playing it solely for fun who were happy to spend money on more content (apart from the ones that are just gambling). If people are playing solely to make money and selling NFT assets to other players who are also just there to try and make money it's not gonna work.
And that will never happen cause normal people avoid crypto and NFT's like they carry the plauge. Just the mere suspicion a game might include them has tanked interest in said games. I have seen it happen. Thankfully for once unlike with lootboxes consumers in general are not buying the Bullshit crypto-shits are putting out and it is not catching on relegated to weird offshoot genre made by people trying to get rich off gamers they see as too stupid to realize the scam
That's how many MMOs also work (people sell items and stuff for real money.) It was like that with paid mod initiative was SUPPOSED to work in Skyrim but Bethesda got greedy and decided to paywall stuff and turn it into a bigger cash cow for themselves than it already is instead of just letting one kind of people earn and the other spend more.
Such is the basis for RMTs. People buy something because they WANT to actually use them. Maybe in some games they can resell those items, but unless you can predict the fluctuating trend of the price then youre not exactly making profits out of reselling, youre just getting some of the money back. Nobody buys crypto for collection. And if a game's entire catch is that it's a "play to earn" game, then the only one that would play are grifters. No one would buy things because they want to, they just wanna pass it to other grifters until the price gets too high to justify purchase.
I almost expected this video to be 30 seconds long and just be "everything shut down and is worth zero, happy new year!" Quite surprised some things got released and still exist.
When I first heard "NFT Games" I imagined a card game like Heartstone, but each card is an NFT so you can freely trade them and even continue to use them if the original game servers go down. But these NFT scams are beyond wild. Even if the developers legit wanted to deliver what they promise, it's still completely unrealistic and requires large amounts of copium to believe in.
For Robot Era being the #1 best NFT game to play in 2022 it feels like this is a the only way to win is not to play type situation, so maybe it does work after all
Actually not my first two videos, as I think everyone agreed they were trash, even crypto bros. It starts to get juicy starting with The Sandbox, that had some serious rage in the comment section. I think they're still arguing to this day, in a thread with over 350 comments
Tamadoge actually has a real business model, which I can respect. I've said this before - with crypto "play-to-earn" games, the people behind it can make the game be either: 1. profitable for people who play it at the cost of the team behind it (the usual tech company playbook), 2. profitable for the team behind it at the cost of players (the way most businesses are run), 3. pay profits to early players without paying a cent by using the money coming in from new players (ponzi scheme). 2 is the only one that leads to sustainable business. The quality of the games may be mediocre, but at least it's not a scam. In theory, there's a road to profitability here.
Man I'll say it again, although that chapter where your channel was at risk may have been a pain... That Sidalpha shout out got me here, and you've become a favourite channel for me. Thanks for the content, and happy new years to ya, sir
Happy new year, Jauwn! Love the video to cap off the year, and im glad to support your channel. You are favorite of mine, keep doing you, crypto games or retro games. As long as you are invested i'll be here to watch.
The entertainment value I get from your deep dives is through the roof. Thanks for the hard work, it's so fun to watch this but I would not want to be the one doing all the research. Also, because it made me laugh so hard: Slimane is a relatively common name in my country (France) because we have a bunch of people who came from the Maghreb countries (like Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia for ex). It is very funny to hear it pronounced like a lion with a sly mane. It's pronounced closer to "Sl-ee mann", the letter "i" in arabic and French is pronounced like the letter "e" in English. The letter "a" is always exclusively pronounced like the "a" in Minnesot-a or Algeri-a. So "Sleemann". Anyway that was the linguistic second of the program. Happy New Year!
I think your wacky animations are genius. It really makes your videos stand out, and even if you watch one and click off, if you see another you will instantly go "hey, it's that guy!" I never saw the sidalpha video, but I think I got you recommended at the same time. So UA-cam probably noticed everyone going over from there and just put you in the recommended for everyone who likes this kind of stuff. Happy to be here.
Thank you! I use these videos as an excuse to practice and improve my animation / editing / whatever skills, since it forces me to just wrap it up and get it shipped out instead of just having a ton of half-baked projects lying around.
I've been watching you since your "were so close to 500 subs" video. Love the videos. You're amazing and I'm excited to watch you grow like crazy next year
27:15 For a brief instant, my brain went, "I wonder which one it's gonna be? Nord VPN, Express VPN, Surfshark...?" and then he hit me with that "Jauwn VPN" and I felt like a fool.
Thanks for a good video to end 2023 with! Also, those transitions were slick. I hope next year proves to be even more interesting for Jauwn. Cant wait to see the absurd cyrpto games and what old actual games you end up bringing to the public consciousness!
Awesome recap of the crypto year, I actually did not expect so many projects to deliver anything, so that's kind of good (I guess?). Thanks for your videos and can't wait for another year of videos!!!
Silks makes very little sense, why not just bet on horse races directly? Is the allure of "passive income" so great that it warrants this stupid middleman?
"What if the horse dies?" Dont worry bro, its on the blockchain! The horse is therefore immortal. What crypto is doing with our conception of horses is truely revolutionary!
I have done some in the past, all my VODs are available to members so should be able to go back and watch them. But I will be doing more live streams next month, since that’s gonna be my “low effort” content month to avoid burning out from making these long, researched videos
They don't make any of those games, they're just plugged into some providers who then would just interest that game into the webpage with an etc. This site is just another rip off of Stake, you can even see their "Lucky Block Classics" which are not even their own content
Heeey, happy channel birthday and new year Jauwn. Aside from the topics you present I relaly wanna command your editing and your diligence/thoroughness when making these videos. You often pull of some funky effects that really adds value to the whole, and your dedication to explore as thoroughly as possible (without burning your bank account) those projects is impressive. I think the video I enjoyed the most was the one about Entropia Universe (to be fair the subject matter was pretty dense) Anyways here's to a great 2024!
I LOVED the "JuawnVPN" joke, I can't believe I haven't really seen other people mention it! Also, I legit had a dream last night where you uploaded a video about a game I was playing before I went to bed "My time at Portia", and It was surreal, but it was a good time. I just thought the dream thing was interesting.
That’s kind of creepy in a weird way but I definitely have had similar dreams about other content creators. From your perspective I’m like a TV show, but from my perspective I’m just some dude that makes videos for fun
@@jauwn I see you as an informative video guy who's also funny lol. Still think that the dream was better than the 3 nights of nightmares before though.
Awesome!! I'm excited for next year for the updates on bigtime and illuvium, the "AAA" games 🙄🙄. Love your videos (I've watched all of them at least twice 😂), keep it up next year!!
Thank you Jauwn, exposing these con artists, gamers dont need EVEN MORE people trying to take advantage of them, though some of them seem to like the abuse xD Have a happy New Years bud
Just yesterday I was rewatching some of your first videos, and saw you mention looking back at the development of one of the games, peaked my interest, and now this video exists! Excellent, my year is complete, now lets see what trash 2024 brings.
I'm going through a rough time atm, and your videos are comforting. As well as the content, I love the general narration style and personality (can't think of a better way to explain it lol). So I appreciate your efforts and I hope your channel continues to grow! ^^
I’m excited too! Not sure if I’ll continue this series as a main channel series or if I’ll bring it over to the new 2nd channel, but we’ll see how the reaction to this is tomorrow
It seems like everyone involved in developing crypto read the philosophy behind the Nigerian prince scams and thought "I bet we can crank the absurdity up by a thousand fold and still make lots of money." Sadly, it seems like they were right.
Im really enjoying your vids, I've always been interested in learning more abt how much of a scam NFT games are, (coffeezilla vids etc), and the pure stupidity people go through to put their trust in them. Your vids sort of give this entertaining mini-documentary on each NFT.
I love how you kicked off a trend with these vids, Jauwn!! Seeing Kira and others picking up on this concept is great for lots of reasons, not _least_ of which is it relieves you of some of the immense burden of suffering through it!
The horse one feels like a digital version of running the tracks at real Horse Tracks(Just with less than real currency). So, if there were any gameplay, it would just had been a video of the actual race.
only found you in the past few months after Dan Olson shared your deep dive on that meme stock cultist, your other stuff is fantastic, excited to see what you'll do in 2024, you've made a fan
You managing to get almost 100.000 Subs in one year after making your Channel really shows how well produced and good your videos are. I hope that you soon hit the 100k subs you really deserve it❤
so Silks is just an obscenely expensive fantasy sports league, but with a bunch of ways for the system to get screwed up. Also, what's the point of the avatars again? do you actually need one, or is it just a $500 charge for randomly generated aesthetics?
It's even worse than fantasy sports, since at least in fantasy you can change your players each season (depending on the rules you play by). With Silks you're stuck with a dead horse forever. Regarding the avatars, afaik it's required to own one to be able to play the game at all, I think. Like I said, it's kind of confusing what exactly you need to buy to be able to play, but they make it seem like you need both.
Hey congrats man! I watched your first video when you had like 2000 subscribers. You are doing really well! Also you are an official Cryptobro now? This is so strange to believe!
I'm glad I found your channel, I like how you put the work and look deeper into some of these games and their bs, I'm trying to convince myself that there is a good NFT game to invest in but I can't find a good one so far
I was so confused when you talked about that horse game, cause i watch all vids and i couldn't remember a single horse ride. Then i realized it was that 5fps demo of guy walking around.
19:55 "there's no gameplay, what else am I going to put on screen?" I mean hell i rather spend 50 dollars watching a documentary video about horses or donate to a cause rather than spending even a dollar to this silks thing...
"fix the dead horse issue" is such a wild criticism to hear from a video game that i bust out laughing when i read that. It's just even sadder and also somehow funnier knowing these aren't just digital horses they're referring to
I really enjoyed your videos this year! Looking forward to more. I also hope you have a chance to try unique stuff that interests you. It's refreshing to see a UA-camr call out bad advertising and scammers. I really liked when you looked at malware too lol
God, why would anyone want to play Tamadoge survivors when there's dozens of actual good VS clones out there for either next to no money or actually no money(including VS itself).
This one poor soul gives these games far more consideration than they deserve. He gives them every chance to show their value, or lack thereof. I appreciate the preservation of games in this journalistic way. Even bad games should be at least remembered so we can learn from their failures.
It's genuinely really nice to see at least one of these projects deliver on what they promised. Like, as you said, it's not great but it's at least something that clearly has some value. As fun as it is to make fun of web3 bros for pedaling a mostly worthless idea, it's still sad that people are getting scammed.
ok so with silks..... basing the horses off of IRL horses seems iffy to me. Are the owners being asked? Or are they just finding random race horses and plonking them down in their NFT "game" without permission?
The bottom of the barrel isn't even interesting, unfortunately, so I often don't cover the truly WORST crypto games. I would say a staggering percentage of the NFT games are just like RobotEra - taking peoples money and running away while delivering absolutely nothing. It just becomes repetitive, making the same video over and over again. I have to pick the crypto games that fail in unique or interesting ways
Happy New Year everyone! Here’s a long anticipated follow up to some of the first NFT games reviewed on the channel.
Hope you all had a great year, and here’s to a 2024 full of “good crypto games” 😂
"Uh, sir, are we rich yet with this asset flip?"
"Nope, still hemorrhaging money."
"But sir, we will get rich eventually right?"
"Definitely. Just gotta wait for them to come flocking."
They never, in fact, came flocking.
The hours I have spent watching your channel have been a better investment. Thanks. I’m ready for the real world thanks to your content
Happy New Year dude, thanks for the many magnificent hours of work that you've put out over the year!
Happy new year!
Happy New Year broski
“Terms and Conditions will be coming soon” is such a nuclear red flag what the hell.
The next evolution of misleading fine print: making up the fine print after you've already signed it.
The fact that the Terms and Conditions aren't even there yet just screams "SCAM" in big red Impact font letters. Capitalized and Bold.
It's not a flag it's the entire flag factory ffs
Cryptobros were grown in vats and have no lived experience whatsoever. It's the only explanation.
Side note: using "nuclear" to describe a colour is one of my favourite uses of the word. Because fluorescent simply isn't vivid enough.
"Also, fix the dead horse issue" is such a beautiful line
I feel horrible for how hard I laughed
When I read that first, I thought it would be a "Beating a dead horse" joke, not an actual thing 😅
- Fixed bug where horses dying would lead to bankruptcy
Peta, the horse is here
They'll fix the dead horse issue, after they stop profiting from the beatings.
Ironically, Jauwn is probably one of the very few people profiting from NFTs
It's hilarious. Jauwn legitimately makes a profit from effectively shorting on NFTs, except the cause-and-effect is backwards. What a chad and he can't lose since 99.999% of NFT projects are red downward arrows on the chart.
Maybe not, after all, there's still the people pulling the rug. I bet they made off with a killing.
"It'll get better. We're just early."
It has been _fifteen years_ since cryptocurrency got started. Let's make a comparison. World Wide Web entered public use in 1991. Fifteen years later, Facebook and UA-cam had recently gotten started. Cryptocurrency seems to be going backwards, having largely abandoned aspersions of setting up its own system of economy and is instead largely used for extremely volatile investments and outright scams.
blockchain is over 30 years old tech and hasn't improved
@@toomanyaccounts Real world usage of blockchain as tech (completely decoupled from crypto) is still largely theory but actually has some very great uses in manufacturing and the like. Crypto on the other hand... they're... definitely not even trying 😂
@@zeelyweely1590 If you don't mind me asking, how can blockchain be used in manufacturing? I'm curious, since the concept has some merit. The customer-side execution is... well, we're both watching the same video.
I've seen the argument for blockchain in manufacturing and it still never made any sense to me. The Oracle Problem is always an issue - the blockchain only enures that the blockchain itself is secure. It doesn't inherently make the real-world product any more legitimate, since if a change is made and not pushed to the blockchain, then the blockchain will be wrong forever, making the entire reason to use it a moot point.
@@jauwn”Scratches off serial number” Trust me guys this is the product that this specific blockchain is referencing and is totally legit! 😂
I'm genuinely impressed that Tamadoge turned into anything. Sure, all it became was a collection of generic, mediocre-at-best ripoffs of more popular mobile games, but all the games and their crypto integration is entirely functional!
Kinda sad that this is arguably the high-water mark for crypto in gaming.
Still early
its so free
@@jauwn🫨
@@jauwnLMFAOOO
I'm sort of genuinely impressed by it.
In a landscape filled with scams and rugpulls it's managed to be an actual game, crypto and play-to-earn successfully. Seemingly it will also continue to do so. Passing marks in every category.
Compare it to Silk, which is what I expect from a released crypto game (which is already top 20%).
Expecting anything to meet the hype of crypto-NFT-games is insane, since the hype was overblown by a hundred times. It's physically impossible to meet more than 1% of it.
Silks is such a BAFFLING contradiction to the idea of an NFT. It’s value doesn’t come from the owning of the horse, it doesn’t give you exclusive betting right or real royalties from the horse. It’s only value is exactly what the company that sold it to you agreed to give you for it. If they chose to stop giving the royalties, it’s worthless and no different from if you were just using a normal form of data storage.
Exactly. They’re just an unregistered sports betting service. And a shitty way to bet on a horse, too
@@jauwn But that makes sure that each horse is unique! As certainly other data storages are not ,,advanced'' enough to make something like - giving only a single unit.
@@jauwn The only way I could see it being worth it is if you happen to get the next Secretariat for cheap and then it pays itself off?
Yea! Just bring back OTBs next to bus stations. This is just a worse bus station OTB!!
@@adamsayer11you just described gambling
i keep thinking about what the silk thing must be like for the irl horse's owners? imagine having random people contact you to ask if your pet has died yet omg
I wonder how many times they tried convincing the callers that any service that lets them bet on dead horses is a scam before they realised that trying to explain this to the callers was a lost cause.
Well if you've seen my Bed Bath and Beyond video then you might realize that might be one of the least frightening encounters with meme investors
@@jauwn I have not! (yet, working on rectifying this immediately)
That said, I will say it's both amusing and horrifying that anytime I try to imagine a worst case for comedic purposes with these groups, someone who knows more details always comes by to explain how the reality is so much worse than I could possibly imagine.
unfortunately i wouldnt be surprised if racehorse owners didnt see their horses as pets and instead saw them as objects. there was a whole scandal in the 90s in the show jumping horse scene where when a horse stopped performing well and was no longer profitable, its owner would hire a horse killer to make the death look like an accident so they could collect the insurance money. theres a great episode about this in the netflix show Bad Sport that documents the whole thing with excellent storytelling, i really recommend it (if youre not sensitive to animal death)
@Red-de5xp this crypto stuff is scummy but that's plain evil. I hope that bastard got locked away.
Just so you know, it doesn't matter if Lucky Block was headquartered in the Cayman Islands if they were allowing entries from US customers. They would still be subject to US law for doing business in the US. To avoid being liable to US law they would require a good faith effort to exclude prospective US customers. However, they wont get in trouble if the victims don't contact law enforcement to report the scam and get the ball rolling.
Remember when one of the biggest arguments for NFTs in games was that you could transfer game items, like bringing a Diamond sword from minecraft into Call of Duty? We had that before, and it was called Garry’s Mod. But now with Fortnite, we have a game with every IP and item in one game without any NFTs.
B b b b but it's an investment 😢
Puzzle and Dragons (one of the least exploitive gacha games out there but a gacha game nonetheless) had that covered years ago. With all the various collabs they've done over the years you could theoretically go into a dungeon with a team consisting of of Goku, Batman, Hello Kitty, and Cloud Strife, and have the whole bunch being led by a bowl of udon.
Until eventually forknife will shut down when the game's popularity dies 'cus of the next big thing. Then all the stuff you had there? Gone, all the skins, characters, IPs, whatever.
Meanwhile, Gmod? All the mods are still there, guess unless you lose the files, you'll always have them. Or can create any, too.
Also, the people that claimed about bringing items from one game to another, hah, clueless little naives that don't know nothing about how the game industry and corporations work, eh.
@@nobodyinparticular9640 Yeah but consider, people will still have the files. Plenty of games that've gone down are still kept alive in some form because people ripped all the files and can set them up to run again. Dragon's Dogma online, FF11, The original demon's souls(because the remake is shit), a bunch of apps.
It's not an official solution, granted, but it's a pretty convenient one.
@@nobodyinparticular9640 Forget corporations, anyone who makes such claims doesnt understand basic game design. Owning an NFT does not make an asset from one game appear in another. Garry's mod has other games assets because they have either been modded in or are from one of valve's many properties that all run on the same game engine.
What I love most about watching this channel is that the ads whilst watching these videos are all about earning “passive income on the internet” in the most dubious and stupidest ways possible, like Amazon dropshipping, shopify smth smth, audible audiobooks, etc etc.
They are literally just selling you scams that no longer work. If they still made money that way, they wouldn't tell you how to do it.
I saw one that was a course on how to make and sell courses, lol. Using AI to write the script for the course and to voice the videos. Crazy how far humanity has fallen
@@jauwn Course on how to sell courses might be the only honest one, as in, all other "get rich quick" courses only make more coaches selling these useless courses, even though charging people not even for a script but for telling them to use AI is still ridiculous.
@@jauwnit's even more depressing when I see those scams rolling around on job boards online here in Pakistan
@@KasumiRINA yeah well what if those people make courses on how to make courses? at some point it manages to become a pyramid scheme somehow
Couldn't you just, bet on horse racing normally instead of buying an NFT to bet on horse racing? Like what's the value add of having your bet be done as an NFT?
@@kyuboxincubox7556 the idea (at least with how I understand it) is that an NFT (supposedly) allows it to work like royalties and grow proportional to the people that invest in it.
So instead of you betting on one horse, you buy a “representation” of that horse and you earn royalties based on that horse’s overall performance continuously. A sort of “buy once, profit forever” scenario.
Of course, as Jawun points out, it has a few problems……
What is this, the 1800s???
Really good to get a follow-up to these, most channels point and laugh at an obvious scam then move on. Genuinely reveals how blatant the corruption is through other media outlets.
Don't forget to keep doing a few fun retro reviews alongside these, they're bloody good as well
Yes, my next video is a retro review. I just wanted to do a crypto video for my 1 year anniversary since that’s my roots
Love the followup. On some level it's nice to see that some of these aren't COMPLETE scams, but also I'm still never putting a penny into NFT "games".
same
Man the silks thing is just ludicrous, don’t know how anyone can justify spending money on stuff like that
Love the new visuals btw
It’s cheaper then buying a real horse though! How can you argue with that?
They're trying to draw in both the crypto crowd and the absolutely desperate horse game crowd. People looking for horse games right now will play anything since most games in the genre are just Star Stable clones.
@@Doub1eSpark Never doubt Horse Girls and their determination for owning a horse.
@@knightsurda As a semi-horse girl, I agree. I only play the ones with magic though lol
@@Doub1eSparkas a crazy horsegirl... honestly it doesn't seem immersive enough to tickle my horsegirl senses :p
Jauwn gotta be rich AF by now playing all these NFT games.
For many games, either the NFTs are optional, free or non-fuctional
He's getting upwards of 5 to 10 cents!
He filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, and his husband is divorcing him.
you know what they say, the h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ jauwn always wins
unfortunately he lost it all paying for parking space for all the lambos he won
Those flat-lining value graphs are so satisfying to see.
Tamadogi is literally just a pay to win version of My Tamagotchi Forever. As someone who collects digital pets, it's just a bad game when you look at the competition.
Heck, the Tamagotchi resale market is technically more profitable than Tamadoge even if I don't like resellers.
Also, calling it Tamadoge makes no sense other than connecting it to Tamagotchi. Since Tamagotchi is Japanese for "egg watch", meaning Tamadoge means "egg doge"?
It’s the most low level form of copy pasting. No originality or effort
@@Doub1eSparkBrilliant!!! That's just the curdled, expired icing on the whole scammy low effort cake
17:26 "doesn't seem fair to be selling a horse that died"
That made my day. It's something that makes sense in context, but it's hilarious outside of it.
found this channel around the middle of the year and gotta say it's one of the highlights on youtube for me this year. A thoroughly entertaining channel and I hope even more people find your stuff next year. From the memestock investor video to the never ending lyra nft clones and the exploration of weird forgotten video games everything has been interesting, hilarious and a great resource to showcase just how failed the 'crypto gaming' market really is.
Also it's a minor point but the surreal intros and general aesthetic is great. It's cool and unique but also perfectly complements the equally surreal video topics. It's a minor detail all things considered, but when the fundamentals are this solid the details get to stand out and bring such delight.
Been awesome watching you grow over the year. Hope 2024 is even bigger for you Mr. Jauwnathan. Hope to see a Kryixsiva revisit at some point lmaoooo
I’m excited to see which premade RPG asset pack they’ll purchase next 😂
Rewatching old jauwn videos and there is no Kryxivia anymore 🤣
@@CainXVII there is.
Dude... Those cutscenes between games are amazing. I've been watching your channel since about a month after it was made, I love your aesthetic. Keep it up!
I like when you said people say the games might get better over time and things chances but “crypto bros always say we just got here early” actually made me laugh lol.
Crypto will always be the future because it will never be the present.
I literally saw a comment like you mentioned on another video of this dude.
It's impressive the amounts of excuses they give to not accept they wasted money on it.
well the one who got early always silent, once the hype start its always too late and you be come exit liquidity
@@sealeo5772 like graphene!
The thing with Crypto games is the only way I can think of that they would actually be profitable for anyone is if there was a substantial number of people playing it solely for fun who were happy to spend money on more content (apart from the ones that are just gambling). If people are playing solely to make money and selling NFT assets to other players who are also just there to try and make money it's not gonna work.
And that will never happen cause normal people avoid crypto and NFT's like they carry the plauge. Just the mere suspicion a game might include them has tanked interest in said games. I have seen it happen. Thankfully for once unlike with lootboxes consumers in general are not buying the Bullshit crypto-shits are putting out and it is not catching on relegated to weird offshoot genre made by people trying to get rich off gamers they see as too stupid to realize the scam
That's how many MMOs also work (people sell items and stuff for real money.) It was like that with paid mod initiative was SUPPOSED to work in Skyrim but Bethesda got greedy and decided to paywall stuff and turn it into a bigger cash cow for themselves than it already is instead of just letting one kind of people earn and the other spend more.
Such is the basis for RMTs. People buy something because they WANT to actually use them. Maybe in some games they can resell those items, but unless you can predict the fluctuating trend of the price then youre not exactly making profits out of reselling, youre just getting some of the money back.
Nobody buys crypto for collection. And if a game's entire catch is that it's a "play to earn" game, then the only one that would play are grifters. No one would buy things because they want to, they just wanna pass it to other grifters until the price gets too high to justify purchase.
I almost expected this video to be 30 seconds long and just be "everything shut down and is worth zero, happy new year!" Quite surprised some things got released and still exist.
When I first heard "NFT Games" I imagined a card game like Heartstone, but each card is an NFT so you can freely trade them and even continue to use them if the original game servers go down.
But these NFT scams are beyond wild. Even if the developers legit wanted to deliver what they promise, it's still completely unrealistic and requires large amounts of copium to believe in.
I always get a chuckle out of that ytp-esque segment into the Silks game
For Robot Era being the #1 best NFT game to play in 2022 it feels like this is a the only way to win is not to play type situation, so maybe it does work after all
#1 NFT game is like #1 school teacher in the Falklands.
@@grimgrahamch.4157number one nft game is like being Paitent zero for a sickness
The funniest thing about this is that all these videos had omments going 'heh, have fun being POOR' from people who had invested in these games.
Actually not my first two videos, as I think everyone agreed they were trash, even crypto bros. It starts to get juicy starting with The Sandbox, that had some serious rage in the comment section. I think they're still arguing to this day, in a thread with over 350 comments
Tamadoge actually has a real business model, which I can respect.
I've said this before - with crypto "play-to-earn" games, the people behind it can make the game be either:
1. profitable for people who play it at the cost of the team behind it (the usual tech company playbook),
2. profitable for the team behind it at the cost of players (the way most businesses are run),
3. pay profits to early players without paying a cent by using the money coming in from new players (ponzi scheme).
2 is the only one that leads to sustainable business. The quality of the games may be mediocre, but at least it's not a scam. In theory, there's a road to profitability here.
Man I'll say it again, although that chapter where your channel was at risk may have been a pain... That Sidalpha shout out got me here, and you've become a favourite channel for me. Thanks for the content, and happy new years to ya, sir
Eh whatever that drama ended up helping me go viral so clearly can't complain in the long run
@@jauwn that's a fact jack
Happy new year, Jauwn! Love the video to cap off the year, and im glad to support your channel. You are favorite of mine, keep doing you, crypto games or retro games. As long as you are invested i'll be here to watch.
Thanks Giggs!! Appreciate the long term support
Crazy how much your channel has improved in just one year
The entertainment value I get from your deep dives is through the roof. Thanks for the hard work, it's so fun to watch this but I would not want to be the one doing all the research.
Also, because it made me laugh so hard: Slimane is a relatively common name in my country (France) because we have a bunch of people who came from the Maghreb countries (like Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia for ex). It is very funny to hear it pronounced like a lion with a sly mane. It's pronounced closer to "Sl-ee mann", the letter "i" in arabic and French is pronounced like the letter "e" in English. The letter "a" is always exclusively pronounced like the "a" in Minnesot-a or Algeri-a. So "Sleemann". Anyway that was the linguistic second of the program. Happy New Year!
Yeah haha I totally definitely knew that and umm actually I mispronounce names on purpose so people comment to correct me to boost engagement
Is Slimane just another way to spell "Suleiman" or "Solomon"
@@williamdrum9899 Yes, it's an alternate version of Suleiman, which is the Arabic version of Solomon.
@@prexot2341 I thought so. Remove the vowels and it looks similar
I think your wacky animations are genius. It really makes your videos stand out, and even if you watch one and click off, if you see another you will instantly go "hey, it's that guy!"
I never saw the sidalpha video, but I think I got you recommended at the same time. So UA-cam probably noticed everyone going over from there and just put you in the recommended for everyone who likes this kind of stuff. Happy to be here.
Thank you! I use these videos as an excuse to practice and improve my animation / editing / whatever skills, since it forces me to just wrap it up and get it shipped out instead of just having a ton of half-baked projects lying around.
I've been watching you since your "were so close to 500 subs" video. Love the videos. You're amazing and I'm excited to watch you grow like crazy next year
27:15 For a brief instant, my brain went, "I wonder which one it's gonna be? Nord VPN, Express VPN, Surfshark...?" and then he hit me with that "Jauwn VPN" and I felt like a fool.
No sellout here
Holy crap, has it only been a year? Cool to see you come so far so quickly!
isn't it crazy? I can hardly believe it myself
Thanks for your videos this year! You're a great writer and I love your animations. You deserve more subs.
From watching your NFT game series, I was inspired to go through all the NFT/crypto games in the Epic games store and laugh.
Thanks for a good video to end 2023 with! Also, those transitions were slick. I hope next year proves to be even more interesting for Jauwn. Cant wait to see the absurd cyrpto games and what old actual games you end up bringing to the public consciousness!
Big things ahead!
I hope the Mateverse always stays shitty, so that we're safe from it and you can make fun of it EVEN MORE.
Awesome recap of the crypto year, I actually did not expect so many projects to deliver anything, so that's kind of good (I guess?). Thanks for your videos and can't wait for another year of videos!!!
Silks makes very little sense, why not just bet on horse races directly? Is the allure of "passive income" so great that it warrants this stupid middleman?
"fix dead horse issue!" had me rolling
"What if the horse dies?"
Dont worry bro, its on the blockchain! The horse is therefore immortal. What crypto is doing with our conception of horses is truely revolutionary!
Especially the comment from someone saying "fix the dead horse issue"...
@@CainXVII IRL race horses have life insurance
Great video. Like your wacky graphics as usual. Have you ever considered doing twitch live reactions to games I think that might be fun
I have done some in the past, all my VODs are available to members so should be able to go back and watch them.
But I will be doing more live streams next month, since that’s gonna be my “low effort” content month to avoid burning out from making these long, researched videos
my favorite lucky block slot machine was the one just called "mexico dude"
They don't make any of those games, they're just plugged into some providers who then would just interest that game into the webpage with an etc. This site is just another rip off of Stake, you can even see their "Lucky Block Classics" which are not even their own content
Heeey, happy channel birthday and new year Jauwn. Aside from the topics you present I relaly wanna command your editing and your diligence/thoroughness when making these videos. You often pull of some funky effects that really adds value to the whole, and your dedication to explore as thoroughly as possible (without burning your bank account) those projects is impressive. I think the video I enjoyed the most was the one about Entropia Universe (to be fair the subject matter was pretty dense)
Anyways here's to a great 2024!
I LOVED the "JuawnVPN" joke, I can't believe I haven't really seen other people mention it!
Also, I legit had a dream last night where you uploaded a video about a game I was playing before I went to bed "My time at Portia", and It was surreal, but it was a good time. I just thought the dream thing was interesting.
That’s kind of creepy in a weird way but I definitely have had similar dreams about other content creators. From your perspective I’m like a TV show, but from my perspective I’m just some dude that makes videos for fun
@@jauwn I see you as an informative video guy who's also funny lol. Still think that the dream was better than the 3 nights of nightmares before though.
Hell yeah then I will make sure to appear in your dreams more often
Awesome!! I'm excited for next year for the updates on bigtime and illuvium, the "AAA" games 🙄🙄. Love your videos (I've watched all of them at least twice 😂), keep it up next year!!
Thank you Jauwn, exposing these con artists, gamers dont need EVEN MORE people trying to take advantage of them, though some of them seem to like the abuse xD
Have a happy New Years bud
I am excited about how much your channel has grown over the past year. Without you, I never would have known about crypto games. I hope you keep it up
Just yesterday I was rewatching some of your first videos, and saw you mention looking back at the development of one of the games, peaked my interest, and now this video exists! Excellent, my year is complete, now lets see what trash 2024 brings.
I'm going through a rough time atm, and your videos are comforting. As well as the content, I love the general narration style and personality (can't think of a better way to explain it lol). So I appreciate your efforts and I hope your channel continues to grow! ^^
Thank you, and hope things get better for you!
16:30 ''read the white paper'' omg I laughed so fucking hard
I've loved this series. Thanks for the wrapup.
Glad you enjoyed! More to come soon
Watching these videos makes me realize it's not just old people that fall for scams
The only Crypto UA-camr I watch. Unless you count CoffeeZilla.
I'd say he counts as a crypto UA-camr
Thanks for never taking sponsors you genuinely rock for that
Thanks to donations like this, I don't need to! Thank you!
amazing follow up! Here's looking to see which ones survive next year without getting visited by the FBI lol
I’m excited too! Not sure if I’ll continue this series as a main channel series or if I’ll bring it over to the new 2nd channel, but we’ll see how the reaction to this is tomorrow
I'm not gonna lie when you said silks online I thought I heard 'Silksong' for a second which made my heart drop
It seems like everyone involved in developing crypto read the philosophy behind the Nigerian prince scams and thought "I bet we can crank the absurdity up by a thousand fold and still make lots of money." Sadly, it seems like they were right.
It’s been a year and you’re still so underrated. You deserve a million subs and more.
Loved the ytp bit at 15:23
I loved it too
@@TheBlackAbyss1 took me out lol, so unexpected
Oh and happy new year Jawn! It was lovely meeting this channel, here's to an even more prosperous year!
Im really enjoying your vids, I've always been interested in learning more abt how much of a scam NFT games are, (coffeezilla vids etc), and the pure stupidity people go through to put their trust in them.
Your vids sort of give this entertaining mini-documentary on each NFT.
I love how you kicked off a trend with these vids, Jauwn!! Seeing Kira and others picking up on this concept is great for lots of reasons, not _least_ of which is it relieves you of some of the immense burden of suffering through it!
It be the heat death of the universe, and crypto bros be like "its still early".
Man, some people and their cope.
The horse one feels like a digital version of running the tracks at real Horse Tracks(Just with less than real currency). So, if there were any gameplay, it would just had been a video of the actual race.
Jauwn, I admire you for being able to persevere through crypto trash. Thank you!
only found you in the past few months after Dan Olson shared your deep dive on that meme stock cultist, your other stuff is fantastic, excited to see what you'll do in 2024, you've made a fan
jawuan you have satisfied my craving for stuff i didn’t know i need thank you
You managing to get almost 100.000 Subs in one year after making your Channel really shows how well produced and good your videos are. I hope that you soon hit the 100k subs you really deserve it❤
so Silks is just an obscenely expensive fantasy sports league, but with a bunch of ways for the system to get screwed up. Also, what's the point of the avatars again? do you actually need one, or is it just a $500 charge for randomly generated aesthetics?
It's even worse than fantasy sports, since at least in fantasy you can change your players each season (depending on the rules you play by). With Silks you're stuck with a dead horse forever.
Regarding the avatars, afaik it's required to own one to be able to play the game at all, I think. Like I said, it's kind of confusing what exactly you need to buy to be able to play, but they make it seem like you need both.
Hey congrats man! I watched your first video when you had like 2000 subscribers. You are doing really well!
Also you are an official Cryptobro now? This is so strange to believe!
why the fixation on all of these games on selling non-existent land?
Easy money, I assume
well you see, the concept of owning land irl is also a fantasy these days, so why not go all in on imagination?
Because of the perceived inherent value of real estate as an investment irl.
Been loving your stuff jauwn, heres to another year of meteoric rise, keep up the great game rfocused reporting!
Battle Infinity's "game" was shat out solely so they could release _something_ and avoid criminal charges most likely.
I'm glad I found your channel, I like how you put the work and look deeper into some of these games and their bs, I'm trying to convince myself that there is a good NFT game to invest in but I can't find a good one so far
it takes like 2 google searches to learn how cruel horse racing is
I was so confused when you talked about that horse game, cause i watch all vids and i couldn't remember a single horse ride. Then i realized it was that 5fps demo of guy walking around.
19:55 "there's no gameplay, what else am I going to put on screen?"
I mean hell i rather spend 50 dollars watching a documentary video about horses or donate to a cause rather than spending even a dollar to this silks thing...
"fix the dead horse issue" is such a wild criticism to hear from a video game that i bust out laughing when i read that. It's just even sadder and also somehow funnier knowing these aren't just digital horses they're referring to
I really enjoyed your videos this year! Looking forward to more. I also hope you have a chance to try unique stuff that interests you. It's refreshing to see a UA-camr call out bad advertising and scammers. I really liked when you looked at malware too lol
It’s like a childish level of excitement when I see a new upload. And since the last one my work’s hired a NFT/Crypto game enjoyer
I was part of the way through the part of the video on Game of Silks and I was like "that just sounds like a ponzi scheme" and I was right
God, why would anyone want to play Tamadoge survivors when there's dozens of actual good VS clones out there for either next to no money or actually no money(including VS itself).
That's the funny thing, nobody wants to play it
This one poor soul gives these games far more consideration than they deserve. He gives them every chance to show their value, or lack thereof. I appreciate the preservation of games in this journalistic way. Even bad games should be at least remembered so we can learn from their failures.
Where could I sign up for JauwnVPN? 😂
NFTbros and their NFT-related blunders curbed my boredom during lockdown.
It's genuinely really nice to see at least one of these projects deliver on what they promised. Like, as you said, it's not great but it's at least something that clearly has some value. As fun as it is to make fun of web3 bros for pedaling a mostly worthless idea, it's still sad that people are getting scammed.
All bangers all the time! It's been fun watching your channel grow this past year, glad it's working out well.
Ok, you cannot just ignore GIGA CHAD GPT, what the hell is that?
I have no idea lol I saw that when I was editing but it was far after the script was already done and recorded so I didn't say anything about it
This was the best sponsor I've ever seen 10/10 would buy again
Sonic CD music is extremely based.
It's like he's subliminally messaging us "Play a good game like Sonic CD instead of this NFT crap"
Been watching since the kiraverse video. It's awesome to see the channel has grown so much. Definitely the crypto content creator of the year. :)
ok so with silks..... basing the horses off of IRL horses seems iffy to me. Are the owners being asked? Or are they just finding random race horses and plonking them down in their NFT "game" without permission?
17:27
"also, fix the dead horse issue."
comedy gold
Congrats on your frist year on the NFT games. I doubt we have seen the bottom of the barrel yet.
Its fascinating how I just can't look away.
The bottom of the barrel isn't even interesting, unfortunately, so I often don't cover the truly WORST crypto games.
I would say a staggering percentage of the NFT games are just like RobotEra - taking peoples money and running away while delivering absolutely nothing. It just becomes repetitive, making the same video over and over again. I have to pick the crypto games that fail in unique or interesting ways
@@jauwn Fair enough.