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I mean, given that Atari's terrible business practices ended up playing a huge part in the crash of the videogame market that pretty much killed gaming at the time, it actually seems like these new owners are absolutely honouring the history of the Atari name.
The new owners are Infogrames, btw. In fact, they are essentially wearing Atari's rotting skin for years. Yong, you need to start referring to this company as Infogrames' Atari.
@@kamildrews3517 Wait, Infogrames is a bad company? I actually thought they died a long time ago.... this makes me sad, because my first video game I ever seriously played, Driver 2 on the PS1, was made by Ubisoft Reflections (and Sennari, but I cant find much about them) and Published by Infogrames. For a while I thought Infogrames was the developer, but I recently found out thats not the case, but I thought all 3 studios involved in that game were gone. Except Ubisoft Reflections, I just thought it was just called "Reflections" and had no idea Ubisoft was ever involved.
@@Boomstickfan495 Well, Infogrames was responsible for the horrible Fantasia game, as well as being responsible for the Driv3rgate scandal, giving two indie mags about Xbox and PS2 (Xbow World and PSM2) exclusivity in exchange for high reviews. Yes, Infogrames, pretending to be Atari, literally bribed gaming journalists to give the broken mess a near perfect score.
It wasnt exactly their fault the market for console games at that time crashed, although they did saturate the market with fairly low quality games. There's the famous story of the E.T. cartridges buried in a desert landfill, but it was actually a lot of different games not just that one. Funny story though, around that time a group of Atari programmers broke off from the company to become the first real 'third party' console game developers and get more of the credit & reward for creating the games, so Atari sued them to get them to stop, but they ultimately settled the suit to receive royalties for the games they produced for their system. That company that was formed by a few dissident Atari programmers was Activision, which is now a greedy, horrible corporate giant (possibly about to be gobbled up by an even larger corporation).
If I recall correctly, wasn't the whole technicality, which got loot boxes off the hook from some gambling regulations, that the random prizes supposedly had no real world value? So now they are upfront pairing up these loot boxes with crypto-currency, if my understanding is correct. It makes me wonder what these companies' next plans are, for how they will get around the legal system.
"Atari back in the day used to be like the cool DJ at the party that has the hottest tunes and cheers up the teens, but now they sorta aged into that fat old geezer at the party who's out of touch, bragging with his past glory and scares the youngsters away as they don't know how things work these days and keep bothering everyone with their inappropriate behaviour!" That's how I once described Modern Atari versus Retro Atari to a person who never interacted that much with video games and thus didn't grasp the concept & the problems of modern monetization systems xD Edit: I hope I didn't subconsciously steal that quote from someone, because now that I think about it, k am not sure whether or not I heard it somewhere else before, so please tell me if that's the case lol.
@@kobra6660 “thank you everyone for celebrating this monumental day with us where we manage to mess up again and ruin our reputation beyond what was believed to be possible, we just don’t seem to wi- sorry i meant lose!!”
Atari already ruined their reputation decades ago when their ET game helped to nearly destroy the entire gaming industry. Atari is all but completely forgotten these days.
. . . Ya know, that would actually be an impressive feat...and yet, somehow, Atari fucking did it...they combined the two biggest plagues on the gaming industry, and combined them into one super shit pile and said "happy anniversary to us!" I am genuinely impressed
@@Molund "Vocal minority" ah yes, the delusions of virtue signalers, thinking every loud voice is just a few people and that surely you must have the voice of reason. Cope and seethe.
You know, I’ve heard from time to time that it’s possible the gaming industry will suffer a second crash, just like in 1983. It’s stuff like this that will make that happen.
Honestly, this is the least surprising company to jump on NFTs. The more you look into Atari's history, the more apparent it becomes that they've been run by grifters at literally every point of their existence. Even in their golden age, they were so exploitive of their developers that many of them left to form Activision. So, thanks for indirectly bringing us Bobby Kotick, Atari!
This Atari isn't even a shell of it's former self. In the late 2000's it was bought up by a French company formerly known as Infogrames with basically no continuity of personnel. That one went into bankruptcy in the early 2010's and got completely gutted: they sold off most of their valuable IPs, shuttered or sold most subsidiaries and gutted the internal corporate structure to the point that it was lead by like 10 people after the 2014 restructuring. The Atari after that point started off its "life" by creating an Atari Casino, some shitty cashgrab versions of the series they still owned, and they were involved with multiple infamous hardware Kickstarters that dangerously hover between rip-off and scam (eg. the Atari VCS is just a decent but criminally overpriced Linux box, but the Atari Gameband was a straight up scam).
The only notable thing about Atari to me these days is that they published the masterfully done Neverwinter Nights. That is literally it. And that was 20 fucking years ago.
Yeah, we should honestly not even be talking about them anymore. They are history but completely irrelevant on today's gaming industry. We just waste our time giving them a platform to exist instead of being utterly forgotten
@@anzakhan253 For me it's Roller Coaster Tycoon World. The game that literally everybody hated and shit on the phenomenal legacy of RCT. At least we also got Planet Coaster, a game that actually functions.
This. This is the most perfect thing they could've done. It perfectly captures what became of this company after all these years, so much desperation from them to try and stay relevant after like 30 after their spotlight has ended.
"They're the ultimate gift!" Wow I love getting literally nothing as a gift, really shows that the person cares about me and totally isn't a slap in the face.
A wise man once said "Is this an out of season April's fool's joke...?" If it wasn't so scummy, it would be perfect satire. It's like a meme built out of everything people hate.
Every day, I feel like the industry and hobby I love is slowly killing itself in an effort to convert goodwill into money. I’m so sick of monetization, of buggy messes shat out for contracts, of studios being shut down for actually breaking the mold, of hearing every week that it’s only getting worse, and never better. I used to love Atari. I used to love Konami. I used to love EA. Now, I don’t give any company any sympathy. I just go for indie games that the devs actually care about making.
I distrusted triple a titles since Bugout 76 and Support only indie titles, because every recent triple a game is just about graphics and not gameplay.
@@metaloverlord7465 from software hasn't released a game since fallout 76 tho. So his comment stands (at least for a few more weeks) Then again from software's not in top shape rn with their terrible online security issues
@@dmitrisemenoff6455 You are right, they HAVEN'T churned out a new game every three months like some god awful FPS multiplayer saltfest. You know WHY? Because they actually care about the games they make. Now, that's not to say every From Software game is perfect! Sometimes they stumble in the last leg of a game (Lost Izalith in Dark Souls 1) and sometimes they reuse too many assets or make wierd gameplay choices (Dark Souls 2) but the bottom line is they CARE.
Gamers need to stand together and not buy NFTs or games with NFTs. The only language these companies speak is money. Lets send them the only message they can understand.
"What better way to commemorate Atari's 50th anniversary..." I can think of 17 off the top of my head, and I'm half asleep right now. To be honest, at this point this is no longer an anniversary celebration. It's a wake.
NFT Lootboxes are like the idiot test of the gaming world. They already know the only people who would buy these are also the ones the least likely to cause any damage to them after the fallout.
There are going to be a lot (and I mean hundreds of thousands at least) of broke, desperate people holding the bag after NFT's are either phased out due to sheer public hatred or become used for actually useful things unlike the shitty "art" that they are used for now.
@@Mac_Omegaly Your symbol is backwards. Greater than 1%. The way I was taught it in elementary school, is to think of it as a shark or dolphin, trying to eat the most fish. If the chance of making money is less than 1%, then you face the mouth towards the 1%.
Gaming has been on a consistent decline for the last decade. I’m not talking about hardware or gameplay but rather the marriage of mass corporations and a legitimate art form in video games. I often find there is a triangle in the gaming world represented by share holders/corporate interests, developers and their vision, and then the player base and their wants. It is not an equal 33% it feels like we the gamers are getting shit on and encouraged to buy into shady business practices for the sake of a really pretty yet predictable and vapid experience rather than getting to see the product of a group of beautiful minds producing a labor of love. That’s why so many people play indie titles now. TLDR: corporations see how much gd money video games make and are fucking it up just like how they fuck up the world for the sake of profits. Labors of love are rare to find in the AAA genre, but they definitely exist.
I can’t wait til the next trend like this in which we all take our money and throw it into a pretty colored trash can. The color of the can changes colors and whatever color you throw your money in on will last for one second longer for the rest of the day
@@davidgouyaie8027 Its this stuff like the Bored Ape NFT's i find absolutely laughable. People like Jimmy Fallon and Eminem spending hundreds of thousands on these is just nuts. You hit a certain level of wealth where you just burn your money on stuff like that. Just a scam on a whole other level
Any company that deals in NFT's, just gets added to my permanent boycott list. I won't ever buy one of their products for any reason. I consider them "no longer a legitimate business". And since their new business is openly scamming people, I have no moral issue with pirating their products.
Man gaming has just been the most educational industry for unchecked greed, once starting from a beautiful and pure artist's industry to this. Almost every possible anti-consumer practice that's ever existed in all other industries have all been ham-fisted in this industry. It's so strange how much blatant destructiveness is done with games or products that are really "markets" dressed up as games. What a trip to have seen the birth and death of the purity of this art form.
I would be much more depressed if I haven't been enjoying lots of AA and Indie games. It's mostly simple, if a game has reoccurring microtransactions it simply dosnt exsist. More DLC then the cost of the game itself? Nope, ignored, unless it goes on sale, or is actually worth the price. (SMASH)
Well said. It’s quite disheartening to see my favorite hobby being destroyed in such a way. That being said, I’ve been playing more indie games and older titles as well. I just finished Star Wars KOTOR1 and am about to start KOTOR2. It blows my mind to see how a game almost 20 years old seemed to be made with so much passion, which seems to be lacking in many of the games I see today. Probs need to find another hobby too because all the gaming news recently is depressing and exhausting lol. Cyberpunk 2077 really put me in place in terms of being excited for new titles
@@Eggsecuter indie titles are the only thing that keep me a classifiable gamer at this point. i think most of my interest has moved to the niche world of interactive fiction now. the gaming industry just seems hopeless now. i think my big disillusionment was when I first started paying rent and realized just how much cash The Sims 4 demanded of me just to have a somewhat tolerable experience 🙄
I will never comprehend this. Loot boxes got their day in court (literally) and lost. Why would you combine something despised, with something even further despised and consider that a good plan? Who gets paid for these terrible ideas?
@@ahmataevo 'too complicated for a population with an average 75 iq'. In the movie nfts are the electrolyes in the water :completely useless but idolatrized.I suspect that most of people even today doesn't understand what nft.Most of them are investors.Nfts try to deceive people in thinking that an infinite repicable digital item can be unique only because it has an unique digital sign. It seems so dumb that we think nobody will buy the idea...but after all...we all believe in 'money' since thousand of years. A thing become a socially accepted norm when it is socially normalized.They have the money to normalize nfts as much as they have already done with lot crazy things in our human life...
So it is just a lottery ticket. I have a feeling it is about time we should start shorting game publishers doing NFTs and selling new shares at the same time to con investors.
Atari: "We're celebrating our 50th anniversary!" >Audience seems happy and curious. Atari: "By selling Loot Boxes!" >Audience groans in disappointment. Atari: "NFT Loot Boxes!" >The audience proceeds to create such a massive charge of negative energy that all of matter turns into anti-matter, evaporating all of the known universe in an instant.
Well its quite understandable that they are trying to push it down everyones throat. Its a pyramidscheme. In order for you to make a profit, you need to get in even more people. Rich folks invest their money into nfts, then sell them of to other people who hope to make money of those nfts. At some point the bubble burst and the ones who are holding the nfts then will be the ones that get the losses while the people who started it will be laughing all the way to the bank.
So, good news about this: You're now able to cash out on these NFT Lootboxes. Which means they now classify as gambling by most governments. Silver linings my friends, silver linings
I feel like creating a character in a fighting game named "NFTs", and then I can just start beating the everlasting crap out of them to channel my anger.
its called punchbags, every boxers likely has one in their house. its not an mental illness. Its stress reliefing to punch or swing your hands same as you jog in outside with fresh air. I don't have any fighting sport hobby tho, my friends from east turkistan does.
i had a gathering of about 50 people, in central London today, all "connecting" and "making MILLIONS". So much that they invited US (the stuff in the pub) to join them and start earning.....MILLIONS!!!!!
@@moderatingmoderation1699 because they keep pushing them down our throats in an attempt to normalize them, also, since they decided they corporate goals are tied to crypto investments, they will incorporate them into their products, just as we saw with microtransactions, pay-to-win schemes, and then with loot boxes, even if just 0.01% of players were to invest in them, many companies design their game economies on hunting whales even at the expense of the rest of the ecosystem. This companies will continue to push the envelope until they recieve backlash, and even them they just slow down and lay low until we get distracted and then they keep pushing again. Just because you don't interact directly with the system doesn't mean it won't change or that it cannot affect you later down the line.
This explosion of worthless NFTs makes me want to start selling "NFT Pictures" for exorbitant prices, and give anyone who pays me an imgur link to an image that says "NFT" on it. It will be basically exactly the same as buying an actual non-fungible token.
If I had the money, I would buy 3 of these things, then make HQ physical prints of them to sell at like $20 (if I am locked out of it I will find someone to figure it out) then see how much value these things quickly lose if possible. However I dont have the money nor the desire to execute this plan
at this point i'm actualy concidering creating and selling nfts. if people do buy in into the scams they only have to blame themself knowing it is a scam and people who do buy nfts seem to be loaded anyways
Does no one see how absolutely hilarious this is? It's fucking genius in its own evil way. Loot boxes already make a shit ton of money, now throw NFTs in there and make bank off absolutely zero effort. Fucking incredible. Congrats to the absolute scumbags in Atari, you've done the most degenerate thing I've seen all day.
This is the most disgusting thing I've seen come from any gaming company. I'm surprised it didn't come from Konami... The sad part is, you have to sign up on the "whitelist" if you want a CHANCE to purchase these. And it's already full...
Do these companies not look around and see how hostile everyone is with this fad? I mean if Ubisoft can't pull a fast one on us, how will Atari expect us to fall for this!
Atari destroyed the gaming industry in the 1980s with their lack of Quality Control. Now they are trying to destroy it again with NFTs. What a tradition!
PLEASE keep clapping back on these NFT bro corporations. I swear, Total Biscuit is about to rise from his grave (rest his amazing soul that fought for consumer advocacy until the end ;
This is a good thing. This is what we need. The more NTFs can be vilefied, the better. They should have something where the seller shoots a puppy for every NFT purchased.
I think these new GFTs are gonna be a great thing for the gaming space and the economy. You guys remember a year or so back when the big gaming company’s just barely avoided serious legislation on loot boxes, because loot box’s “technically” don’t have a built in way to exchange the items for real world value and are therefore “technically” not gambling. Well here come big dick Ubisoft with the biggest “hold my beer” moment of 2022, maybe all time, and put out loot boxes that contain items explicitly designed to be traded for real world money. Just wow, there must be a legislator some were creaming his pants right now.
Atari is long gone. Today's "Atari" is merely the result of people buying the leftover assets of a dead company. I'm not surprised that they would do something like this.
@@kamildrews3517 more like deadgrames. did Frederic Chesnais even work at old infogrames? says here he was only involved after they bought atari from hasbro. i don't think infogrames has had any people in there for a while now.
Bungie when doing an Anniversary: “hey here’s some cool stuff for one of our biggest games, looking back to all our memories we shared!” Atari when doing an Anniversary: *here’s a straight up scam.*
Knowing the legacy of the true pioneer, Atari…. This is genuinely gross. Gaming now-a-days feels like a fever dream and feels so soulless at this point. The only true game I am looking forward to at the moment is Elden Ring because I KNOW its going to be amazing. I KNOW Fromsoft cares about there fans.
You know, I'm actually feeling mildly optimistic with how all these shit companies are jumping on the NFT bandwagon. Because when the bottom falls out, they won't be able to avoid being associated with it. We need to take note of who's doing this shit. Make sure they don't get away with it when the inevitable happens.
I would really love to believe that I really would but I still remember the outrage about Oblivion Horse Armor and that is something that is now considered totally normal
by 2030 cryptos will be multi upon multi trillion dollar market caps. you will be absolutely lost and confused for awhile on how this is happening, and then you will buy ethereum.
Yeah yeah, 4D chess, tick tock, am I right? 🙄 Get real, the only thing stopping this is government intervention. Barring that, you will not be able to separate NFTs from gaming in only a year or two.
"Celebrating the brand that launched the modern video game industry" You're also the brand that would've killed it had Nintendo not stepped in. Should have added E.T. to your list as a reminder.
As much as I hate this whole situation, part of me can't help but smile knowing that this is the sort of thing that Bobby Kotick would love yet he has been put in a position in which he can't take advantage of it. Oh, he must be gritting his teeth at knowing that if he even mentions the letters N, F and T too close to each other people will be gunning for him. It's just beautiful.
Lol, someone at Atari must have been high when they thought of this. “Hey, I know what would bring us in some cash!” “What is it Simpkins?” “We combine the two worst scams in the gaming industry!” “Simpkins, you are a genius.”
I imagine a mysterious little old man in a suit going round all these game companies, selling the idea of NFT’s. He walks in unannounced and unseen by the receptionist. He finds the executives available and with a click of his finger, they blindly follow him into the board room. He sits them down and then wheels in an old 90’s tv and turns it on. The white noise has a hypnotic effect that makes the executives slowly start to smile. The little man starts to chuckle as he watches their reaction. He waddles over to them and whispers in their ear, then unplugs the tv and walks out trying to contain his laughter. The executives still slumped in their leather chairs crack their necks to look to each other. In the coming week, the company releases an interview with a news outlet to the public, as well as a couple of media posts about their upcoming NFT plans. Their reputation has been completely destroyed and they are ridiculed by the gaming community. The little man moves onto the next one.
This is actually worse than lootboxes looking at that roadmap. You see, with lootboxes you stop buying when you get the item/items you wanted. But with this, even after buying you don't know whether you got a good one. You have to wait. So you'd be buying a bunch of them only to maybe realize the first one was what you were looking for.
Yong, I'm confused on the legality of NFT Lootboxes. One of the cornerstone of defenses has always been the digital items within a lootbox has been they have no inherent value. Now, that no longer applies with NFTs. That is just gambling in its purest, indefensible sense. What do you think?
A bit late, but I just finished the first part of the new Jojo, decided to watch the scenes with Pucci in English. Just wanted to say you did amazing Yong. You fit perfectly and it's amazing to hear you in such a large role, congrats man.
Okay, here's a question: If every NFT is unique, how can you have rarities? That's a contradiction if I've ever heard one. Or is that just flat-out acknowledging that they are using miniscule variants of the same shitty .jpg? Or is it even simpler - people hear "this shit is rare, gotta buy it?" I don't get all these get-rich quick schemes, especially if they need a roadmap to explain how exactly they will be shafting you. Screw these guys.
It's like NFT nowadays are the game company equivalent of Darksign: "It signifies an accursed game company. Those branded with it are reborn after company restructuring, but will one day lose their mind and go hollow (shell of their former selves). Greed triggers the Darksign, which returns its CEO to the absolute goal the company being founded at, but at the cost of all humanity and souls (of their staffs) and reputation." It's interesting how NFT exposes who's the darkest and greediest of game companies out there. Just look at those who jumped into NFT bandwagon
I'd argue that Nintendo launched modern gaming as we know it, Atari fucking killed videogames as a market and Nintendo brought it back with Famicom/NES Atari is in some really really super epic mega deep denial aren't they?
Of course greedy game companies are already eager to combine gambling with NFTs.
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NFT lootboxes. Now you don't just get to buy nothing, now you get to gamble over nothing.
Since nfts are ment to hold value and can sell for actual money does that not make that literal gambling? Its a literal slot machine.
The Quakers betting over who's raindrop hits the windowsill first in Totally Triffic[sic] Chocolate were gambling over more stuff.
Implying you weren't gambling for nothing in the first place
We used to be able to gamble for a virtual gun
Now, we gamble for the promise of a virtual gun
We live in a society
I made a joke about this on Yongs last video and it's already become true lmao. The games industry is trash.
I mean, given that Atari's terrible business practices ended up playing a huge part in the crash of the videogame market that pretty much killed gaming at the time, it actually seems like these new owners are absolutely honouring the history of the Atari name.
The new owners are Infogrames, btw. In fact, they are essentially wearing Atari's rotting skin for years. Yong, you need to start referring to this company as Infogrames' Atari.
@@kamildrews3517 Wait, Infogrames is a bad company?
I actually thought they died a long time ago.... this makes me sad, because my first video game I ever seriously played, Driver 2 on the PS1, was made by Ubisoft Reflections (and Sennari, but I cant find much about them) and Published by Infogrames.
For a while I thought Infogrames was the developer, but I recently found out thats not the case, but I thought all 3 studios involved in that game were gone. Except Ubisoft Reflections, I just thought it was just called "Reflections" and had no idea Ubisoft was ever involved.
@@Boomstickfan495 Well, Infogrames was responsible for the horrible Fantasia game, as well as being responsible for the Driv3rgate scandal, giving two indie mags about Xbox and PS2 (Xbow World and PSM2) exclusivity in exchange for high reviews. Yes, Infogrames, pretending to be Atari, literally bribed gaming journalists to give the broken mess a near perfect score.
Old Amiga user .....just like EA UBISOFT and ROCK STAR.
It wasnt exactly their fault the market for console games at that time crashed, although they did saturate the market with fairly low quality games. There's the famous story of the E.T. cartridges buried in a desert landfill, but it was actually a lot of different games not just that one.
Funny story though, around that time a group of Atari programmers broke off from the company to become the first real 'third party' console game developers and get more of the credit & reward for creating the games, so Atari sued them to get them to stop, but they ultimately settled the suit to receive royalties for the games they produced for their system. That company that was formed by a few dissident Atari programmers was Activision, which is now a greedy, horrible corporate giant (possibly about to be gobbled up by an even larger corporation).
"People hate loot boxes and people hate NFTs, let's put them together!"
Two negatives makes a positive, success is assured...right? *LOGIK stonks ↗*
If I recall correctly, wasn't the whole technicality, which got loot boxes off the hook from some gambling regulations, that the random prizes supposedly had no real world value? So now they are upfront pairing up these loot boxes with crypto-currency, if my understanding is correct. It makes me wonder what these companies' next plans are, for how they will get around the legal system.
What could go wrong?
@@jackhazardous4008 where do you sell a screenshotted NFT ? open sea ? immutable x ? rarible ? explain
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Write that down
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I'm honestly impressed. Atari managed to hit the trifecta of hated gaming trends (loot boxes, nfts, metaverse) - and all at the same time!
now all we need is NFTs with DLC and microtransactions lol
lmao cry me a river then pay nft to keep playing your little jumpin marioos
"Atari back in the day used to be like the cool DJ at the party that has the hottest tunes and cheers up the teens, but now they sorta aged into that fat old geezer at the party who's out of touch, bragging with his past glory and scares the youngsters away as they don't know how things work these days and keep bothering everyone with their inappropriate behaviour!"
That's how I once described Modern Atari versus Retro Atari to a person who never interacted that much with video games and thus didn't grasp the concept & the problems of modern monetization systems xD
Edit: I hope I didn't subconsciously steal that quote from someone, because now that I think about it, k am not sure whether or not I heard it somewhere else before, so please tell me if that's the case lol.
There's only 1 good thing I can say about modern gaming: is that we have 4 decades worth of backlog games when games were actually games.
This. Old consoles, old games, and the god-given gift of emulators. This, and indie devs.
“For our 50th anniversary we’re ruining our reputation, thank you everyone for celebrating this day with us!!”
@@kobra6660 And considering next year will be the 40th anniversary of the video game crash
How to ruin the legacies more!
@@kobra6660 “thank you everyone for celebrating this monumental day with us where we manage to mess up again and ruin our reputation beyond what was believed to be possible, we just don’t seem to wi- sorry i meant lose!!”
Atari already ruined their reputation decades ago when their ET game helped to nearly destroy the entire gaming industry. Atari is all but completely forgotten these days.
. . .
Ya know, that would actually be an impressive feat...and yet, somehow, Atari fucking did it...they combined the two biggest plagues on the gaming industry, and combined them into one super shit pile and said "happy anniversary to us!"
I am genuinely impressed
"You know how everyone loves loot boxes, and everyone loves NFTs?"
"No, nobody likes those things-"
"We're going to combine them"
@@Molund /\someone bought into the scam
@@Molund
@@Molund "Vocal minority" ah yes, the delusions of virtue signalers, thinking every loud voice is just a few people and that surely you must have the voice of reason. Cope and seethe.
@@Molund Most people don't like this shit.
A handful of Whales like you do, but you're the minority, vocal or otherwise.
@@SolidStateSimulations He thinks the "silent majority" are eagerly awaiting throwing money away on random monkey jpeg, lel.
-NFTs
-Lootboxes
-Artificial rarity
-Private discord
-Metaverse
Everything everyone hates in one single place.
good luck w the future bb
exactly exactly.
Watch their private discord server members only have 3 lmao
They really said, “If you buy 4 you unlock the ability to buy a 5th.”
They did it. They rebranded counting.
You know, I’ve heard from time to time that it’s possible the gaming industry will suffer a second crash, just like in 1983. It’s stuff like this that will make that happen.
Honestly, this is the least surprising company to jump on NFTs. The more you look into Atari's history, the more apparent it becomes that they've been run by grifters at literally every point of their existence. Even in their golden age, they were so exploitive of their developers that many of them left to form Activision. So, thanks for indirectly bringing us Bobby Kotick, Atari!
@@RomnysGonzalez I won that bet of the next gaming company to push loot boxes on gamers.
That… explains so much actually….
Holy shit dude.
This Atari isn't even a shell of it's former self. In the late 2000's it was bought up by a French company formerly known as Infogrames with basically no continuity of personnel. That one went into bankruptcy in the early 2010's and got completely gutted: they sold off most of their valuable IPs, shuttered or sold most subsidiaries and gutted the internal corporate structure to the point that it was lead by like 10 people after the 2014 restructuring. The Atari after that point started off its "life" by creating an Atari Casino, some shitty cashgrab versions of the series they still owned, and they were involved with multiple infamous hardware Kickstarters that dangerously hover between rip-off and scam (eg. the Atari VCS is just a decent but criminally overpriced Linux box, but the Atari Gameband was a straight up scam).
atari so fucked up the development of star trek online.
The only notable thing about Atari to me these days is that they published the masterfully done Neverwinter Nights.
That is literally it. And that was 20 fucking years ago.
Atari in name only!
Yeah, we should honestly not even be talking about them anymore. They are history but completely irrelevant on today's gaming industry. We just waste our time giving them a platform to exist instead of being utterly forgotten
InfogRames? What the hell is a grame?
Atari, I loved you in Blade Runner. That’s about it.
That glowing sign in Blade Runner 2049 is about the biggest thing that Atari has done in the past 20 years
@@Akirex5000 Well if Atari wanna ruin their 50-year legacies, so be it! NFTs greed
@@Akirex5000 I was thinking this exact same thing. That neon logo is the most recent thing that I can associate with that brand.
@@anzakhan253 For me it's Roller Coaster Tycoon World. The game that literally everybody hated and shit on the phenomenal legacy of RCT. At least we also got Planet Coaster, a game that actually functions.
i loved them in Blood
This.
This is the most perfect thing they could've done. It perfectly captures what became of this company after all these years, so much desperation from them to try and stay relevant after like 30 after their spotlight has ended.
It is genuinely impressive that they've managed to create the most exploitative product in all of gaming
Other publishers: "For now."
Atari: "Its a surprise!"
A knife in the back is a surprise, it doesn't make it good.
Exsactly! It's a prank, and only they are going to be laughing in the end.
More like us, when we don't buy that garbage and they go bankrupt, again
Sir, I didn't put a knife in his back, I surprised him.
(Get it? It's like "They aren't loot boxes, they're surprise mechanics)
He could be you He could be me He could even be........................................
Right behind you
"They're the ultimate gift!"
Wow I love getting literally nothing as a gift, really shows that the person cares about me and totally isn't a slap in the face.
Forgetting someone's birthday would be the better gift than NFTs.
I think you missed a letter "r"
Ultimate grift
Ok is every game company just competing to be the most hated now?
Just because this guy is always crying about it doesn't mean the criers are in control
Support indie devs. There are some masterpieces out there
Feels like it
@@globster222 Choose the right indie devs to support! Not Peter Molyneux
Clearly they're all trying to drive their prices low enough to get bought by Microsoft.
That's got to be one of the worst sales pitches ever.
"Why should we buy it?"
"It's cool at the moment"
A wise man once said "Is this an out of season April's fool's joke...?"
If it wasn't so scummy, it would be perfect satire.
It's like a meme built out of everything people hate.
If they follow this trend, Soulja Boy might even buy them.
They Can’t be Worth Much in 2022 Right?
he can call himself the first rapper to waste money on an nft lootbox
Well, Waka Flocka did get his NFT wallet ripped off, so....
Or Microsoft.
You mean Solja Boy selling Solja Boy NFT
Every day, I feel like the industry and hobby I love is slowly killing itself in an effort to convert goodwill into money. I’m so sick of monetization, of buggy messes shat out for contracts, of studios being shut down for actually breaking the mold, of hearing every week that it’s only getting worse, and never better. I used to love Atari. I used to love Konami. I used to love EA. Now, I don’t give any company any sympathy. I just go for indie games that the devs actually care about making.
I distrusted triple a titles since Bugout 76 and Support only indie titles, because every recent triple a game is just about graphics and not gameplay.
@@hydrolox3953 From Software begs to differ.
@@metaloverlord7465 from software hasn't released a game since fallout 76 tho. So his comment stands (at least for a few more weeks) Then again from software's not in top shape rn with their terrible online security issues
@@dmitrisemenoff6455 You are right, they HAVEN'T churned out a new game every three months like some god awful FPS multiplayer saltfest. You know WHY? Because they actually care about the games they make.
Now, that's not to say every From Software game is perfect! Sometimes they stumble in the last leg of a game (Lost Izalith in Dark Souls 1) and sometimes they reuse too many assets or make wierd gameplay choices (Dark Souls 2) but the bottom line is they CARE.
@@metaloverlord7465 yeah I know. And I agree. Just that it wasn't a good example of recent releases is all.
Ubisoft: "Gamers don't understand NFTs."
Atari: "But we do!"
Gamers need to stand together and not buy NFTs or games with NFTs. The only language these companies speak is money. Lets send them the only message they can understand.
"What better way to commemorate Atari's 50th anniversary..." I can think of 17 off the top of my head, and I'm half asleep right now. To be honest, at this point this is no longer an anniversary celebration. It's a wake.
The one good thing coming out of all this is that we get more great Yong videos, keep 'em coming! :)
I really hate lootboxes, and I really hate NFTs. If only there was a way I could hate both at the same time...
Today is your lucky day!
oh boy have we got a thing for you~!
I appreciate them making our hatred efficient at least!
NFT Lootboxes are like the idiot test of the gaming world. They already know the only people who would buy these are also the ones the least likely to cause any damage to them after the fallout.
There are going to be a lot (and I mean hundreds of thousands at least) of broke, desperate people holding the bag after NFT's are either phased out due to sheer public hatred or become used for actually useful things unlike the shitty "art" that they are used for now.
Oh goodie, somehow they made NFT's even more insidious and exploitative.
How Corporations view humans: "I require bored monkey NFT. Give bored monkey NFT. Take money."
All other human beings: ⚠
@@serketenglish5963 sadly I think people are willing going down that rabbit hole.
Le Gasp
Chance of making money off this as a consumer >1%
@@Mac_Omegaly Your symbol is backwards.
Greater than 1%.
The way I was taught it in elementary school, is to think of it as a shark or dolphin, trying to eat the most fish.
If the chance of making money is less than 1%, then you face the mouth towards the 1%.
Gaming has been on a consistent decline for the last decade. I’m not talking about hardware or gameplay but rather the marriage of mass corporations and a legitimate art form in video games. I often find there is a triangle in the gaming world represented by share holders/corporate interests, developers and their vision, and then the player base and their wants. It is not an equal 33% it feels like we the gamers are getting shit on and encouraged to buy into shady business practices for the sake of a really pretty yet predictable and vapid experience rather than getting to see the product of a group of beautiful minds producing a labor of love. That’s why so many people play indie titles now.
TLDR: corporations see how much gd money video games make and are fucking it up just like how they fuck up the world for the sake of profits. Labors of love are rare to find in the AAA genre, but they definitely exist.
I can’t wait til the next trend like this in which we all take our money and throw it into a pretty colored trash can. The color of the can changes colors and whatever color you throw your money in on will last for one second longer for the rest of the day
This NFT bull is going too far now. We need to stop this before this becomes the norm, big time
Thats what they want. At this rate their surely must be a business corporation or something that is pulling the string.. To this its so weird.
@@davidgouyaie8027 Its this stuff like the Bored Ape NFT's i find absolutely laughable. People like Jimmy Fallon and Eminem spending hundreds of thousands on these is just nuts. You hit a certain level of wealth where you just burn your money on stuff like that. Just a scam on a whole other level
Any company that deals in NFT's, just gets added to my permanent boycott list. I won't ever buy one of their products for any reason. I consider them "no longer a legitimate business". And since their new business is openly scamming people, I have no moral issue with pirating their products.
@@StormsparkPegasus Good on ya, if more people did that we could make sure NFT's don't become the norm.
@@MrTibster Yep, these are a scam that no legitimate business would be involved in.
Man gaming has just been the most educational industry for unchecked greed, once starting from a beautiful and pure artist's industry to this. Almost every possible anti-consumer practice that's ever existed in all other industries have all been ham-fisted in this industry. It's so strange how much blatant destructiveness is done with games or products that are really "markets" dressed up as games. What a trip to have seen the birth and death of the purity of this art form.
I would be much more depressed if I haven't been enjoying lots of AA and Indie games. It's mostly simple, if a game has reoccurring microtransactions it simply dosnt exsist. More DLC then the cost of the game itself? Nope, ignored, unless it goes on sale, or is actually worth the price. (SMASH)
I think about this constantly. It really is just... fascinating. in a uniquely grotesque, soul-crushing way.
Blame day traders
Well said.
It’s quite disheartening to see my favorite hobby being destroyed in such a way. That being said, I’ve been playing more indie games and older titles as well. I just finished Star Wars KOTOR1 and am about to start KOTOR2. It blows my mind to see how a game almost 20 years old seemed to be made with so much passion, which seems to be lacking in many of the games I see today.
Probs need to find another hobby too because all the gaming news recently is depressing and exhausting lol. Cyberpunk 2077 really put me in place in terms of being excited for new titles
@@Eggsecuter indie titles are the only thing that keep me a classifiable gamer at this point. i think most of my interest has moved to the niche world of interactive fiction now. the gaming industry just seems hopeless now. i think my big disillusionment was when I first started paying rent and realized just how much cash The Sims 4 demanded of me just to have a somewhat tolerable experience 🙄
I feel like every corporation is hastily embracing these in one last cash grab attempt before the inevitable collapse.
I will never comprehend this. Loot boxes got their day in court (literally) and lost. Why would you combine something despised, with something even further despised and consider that a good plan? Who gets paid for these terrible ideas?
How is Atari even still around? I feel like they’ve gone bankrupt nine times over by this point. Financially _and_ morally.
Look up Rerez' video on Atari. You'll see what really is going on.
It's called Atari, but it is just a name.
the brand has been traded off a bunch of times. it's best to think of it as a license rather than a company.
The most unrealistic thing about Idiocracy was apparently the lack of NFTs.
Too complicated for a population with an average IQ of 70.
Ah yes the movie where Beavis and Butthead become the new norm for the IQ level
I was literally watching that yesterday, absolutely hilarious lmao
Don’t be talking bad about our generation’s greatest documentary.
@@ahmataevo 'too complicated for a population with an average 75 iq'. In the movie nfts are the electrolyes in the water :completely useless but idolatrized.I suspect that most of people even today doesn't understand what nft.Most of them are investors.Nfts try to deceive people in thinking that an infinite repicable digital item can be unique only because it has an unique digital sign. It seems so dumb that we think nobody will buy the idea...but after all...we all believe in 'money' since thousand of years. A thing become a socially accepted norm when it is socially normalized.They have the money to normalize nfts as much as they have already done with lot crazy things in our human life...
Atari: “We’re celebrating our 50th anniversary-“
Everyone: *arrives*
Atari: “…..by selling NFTs!”
Everyone: *leaves in a fast pace*
*comes back with pitchforks in hand*
@@kobra6660
It is likely the latter
If the cause even was stable to begin with
Nononono
You just don't get it
They are not NFTs they are GFT's
TOTALLY different thing
Double time! Quick March there!! We need torches, pitchforks, kindling and plenty of oil!
@@widdershins5383 I prefer tar and feathers
I feel like it was inevitable that one of these companies would create the abomination of the NFT/lootbox fusion.
So it is just a lottery ticket. I have a feeling it is about time we should start shorting game publishers doing NFTs and selling new shares at the same time to con investors.
Atari: "We're celebrating our 50th anniversary!"
>Audience seems happy and curious.
Atari: "By selling Loot Boxes!"
>Audience groans in disappointment.
Atari: "NFT Loot Boxes!"
>The audience proceeds to create such a massive charge of negative energy that all of matter turns into anti-matter, evaporating all of the known universe in an instant.
All these companies pushing for NFT's SO HARD when they know EVERYONE don't want it!
This is something new? People get rich selling NFTs, any company that's money hungry will be all over this fad and more like it.
Well its quite understandable that they are trying to push it down everyones throat.
Its a pyramidscheme. In order for you to make a profit, you need to get in even more people.
Rich folks invest their money into nfts, then sell them of to other people who hope to make money of those nfts. At some point the bubble burst and the ones who are holding the nfts then will be the ones that get the losses while the people who started it will be laughing all the way to the bank.
I really hope this whole NFT thing doesn't stick around, because I am getting so sick and tired of people touting about it.
Oh boohoo
This is like his 20th video talking about NFT's
It's only the morons who love mtx as well
@@moderatingmoderation1699 Jesus you are like in every comment threads defending nft ,calm down man
"I really hope this whole NFT thing doesn't stick around" oh boy, you know *nothing*
Truly a bold move for Atari to look at something bad and go "Okay, how can we make this worse?"
So, good news about this: You're now able to cash out on these NFT Lootboxes. Which means they now classify as gambling by most governments. Silver linings my friends, silver linings
I feel like creating a character in a fighting game named "NFTs", and then I can just start beating the everlasting crap out of them to channel my anger.
Lets see what mugen has to offer.
😂
mental illness
its called punchbags, every boxers likely has one in their house. its not an mental illness. Its stress reliefing to punch or swing your hands same as you jog in outside with fresh air. I don't have any fighting sport hobby tho, my friends from east turkistan does.
Who the hell is even buying these NFT’s? You know, outside of the investors/staff/management trying to inflate the prices of non-existent 0’s and 1’s.
If no one buys them then why are you crying about it
@@moderatingmoderation1699bot?
i had a gathering of about 50 people, in central London today, all "connecting" and "making MILLIONS". So much that they invited US (the stuff in the pub) to join them and start earning.....MILLIONS!!!!!
@@StudioKudos Value fetishism is a hell of a scam.
@@moderatingmoderation1699 because they keep pushing them down our throats in an attempt to normalize them, also, since they decided they corporate goals are tied to crypto investments, they will incorporate them into their products, just as we saw with microtransactions, pay-to-win schemes, and then with loot boxes, even if just 0.01% of players were to invest in them, many companies design their game economies on hunting whales even at the expense of the rest of the ecosystem.
This companies will continue to push the envelope until they recieve backlash, and even them they just slow down and lay low until we get distracted and then they keep pushing again.
Just because you don't interact directly with the system doesn't mean it won't change or that it cannot affect you later down the line.
This explosion of worthless NFTs makes me want to start selling "NFT Pictures" for exorbitant prices, and give anyone who pays me an imgur link to an image that says "NFT" on it. It will be basically exactly the same as buying an actual non-fungible token.
If I had the money, I would buy 3 of these things, then make HQ physical prints of them to sell at like $20 (if I am locked out of it I will find someone to figure it out) then see how much value these things quickly lose if possible. However I dont have the money nor the desire to execute this plan
at this point i'm actualy concidering creating and selling nfts. if people do buy in into the scams they only have to blame themself knowing it is a scam and people who do buy nfts seem to be loaded anyways
Considering most of the NFT images are stolen artwork in the first place...
They need to bury NFTs in the desert with all those copies of E.T.
“You’ll own nothing” - And “you’ll be happy about it.”
Does no one see how absolutely hilarious this is? It's fucking genius in its own evil way. Loot boxes already make a shit ton of money, now throw NFTs in there and make bank off absolutely zero effort.
Fucking incredible. Congrats to the absolute scumbags in Atari, you've done the most degenerate thing I've seen all day.
Atari doing this is just so on brand honestly. I’m shocked they didn’t do it earlier tbh.
You had to be honest twice? Who asked you to lie?
Atari: "Wanna see a cool trick?!"
*proceeds to shoot itself in the foot*
Atari died a very long time ago, the "Atari" we know is only a desecrated corpse
"Atari is combining NFT's and loot boxes."
EA: Write that down! Write that down!
This is the most disgusting thing I've seen come from any gaming company. I'm surprised it didn't come from Konami...
The sad part is, you have to sign up on the "whitelist" if you want a CHANCE to purchase these. And it's already full...
Ah yes, combining two of the hated things in the gaming community at once, well done
Kinda expecting either 2K, EA or Ubisoft
Do these companies not look around and see how hostile everyone is with this fad? I mean if Ubisoft can't pull a fast one on us, how will Atari expect us to fall for this!
But Ubisosft says that we just don't know how fun and cool NFTs aer and are doing it for us! PFFFTTTT That interview was so insulting.
"That is like combining hepatitis B and AIDs," - Pyrocynical
Cancaids
Atari destroyed the gaming industry in the 1980s with their lack of Quality Control. Now they are trying to destroy it again with NFTs. What a tradition!
GFTs won't be delayed by Amazon. They won't be damaged by UPS.
In fact it's almost as if you didn't receive anything for your money at all.
PLEASE keep clapping back on these NFT bro corporations. I swear, Total Biscuit is about to rise from his grave (rest his amazing soul that fought for consumer advocacy until the end ;
This is a good thing. This is what we need. The more NTFs can be vilefied, the better.
They should have something where the seller shoots a puppy for every NFT purchased.
I think these new GFTs are gonna be a great thing for the gaming space and the economy. You guys remember a year or so back when the big gaming company’s just barely avoided serious legislation on loot boxes, because loot box’s “technically” don’t have a built in way to exchange the items for real world value and are therefore “technically” not gambling. Well here come big dick Ubisoft with the biggest “hold my beer” moment of 2022, maybe all time, and put out loot boxes that contain items explicitly designed to be traded for real world money. Just wow, there must be a legislator some were creaming his pants right now.
EA after hearing the news: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
Atari is long gone. Today's "Atari" is merely the result of people buying the leftover assets of a dead company. I'm not surprised that they would do something like this.
And those people? They were Infogrames.
@@kamildrews3517 more like deadgrames. did Frederic Chesnais even work at old infogrames? says here he was only involved after they bought atari from hasbro. i don't think infogrames has had any people in there for a while now.
Atari fell into obscurity for a reason, let it continue to fade into the abyss.
I thought it already was.
Exactly, Atari has been irrelevant for decades
Everyone: When will they learn! When will they learn their actions have consequences 😭
Corporations: when there are consequences
the last time Atari did something succesful was the Atari 2600 back then in 1977
Man, a pair of socks wrapped as a gift sounds really good right about now
Bungie when doing an Anniversary: “hey here’s some cool stuff for one of our biggest games, looking back to all our memories we shared!”
Atari when doing an Anniversary: *here’s a straight up scam.*
Bungie’s scam was Destiny. Which I would argue was a lot worse than this.
Bungie didn't celebrate Halo.
@@Mangopawsss that's not celebrating Halo. They celebrated Destiny and put homages of a good game into their bad game.
"What better way to commemorate the 50th anniversary?"
Literally anything
NFT loot boxes, eh? Sounds like a greedy corporation’s wet dream, and…literally everyone else’s worst gaming nightmare.
Yes I am pretty sure some of those execs came hard from this
Sounds exactly like the legal definition of gambling.
"just in case you didn't know, my birthday is coming up and I'm cool with you just giving me cash as a present."
Knowing the legacy of the true pioneer, Atari…. This is genuinely gross. Gaming now-a-days feels like a fever dream and feels so soulless at this point. The only true game I am looking forward to at the moment is Elden Ring because I KNOW its going to be amazing. I KNOW Fromsoft cares about there fans.
You know, I'm actually feeling mildly optimistic with how all these shit companies are jumping on the NFT bandwagon. Because when the bottom falls out, they won't be able to avoid being associated with it.
We need to take note of who's doing this shit. Make sure they don't get away with it when the inevitable happens.
I would really love to believe that
I really would but I still remember the outrage about Oblivion Horse Armor and that is something that is now considered totally normal
by 2030 cryptos will be multi upon multi trillion dollar market caps. you will be absolutely lost and confused for awhile on how this is happening, and then you will buy ethereum.
Yeah yeah, 4D chess, tick tock, am I right? 🙄 Get real, the only thing stopping this is government intervention. Barring that, you will not be able to separate NFTs from gaming in only a year or two.
@@Daralyndk Not that many people actually cared, just journalists and online commenters. This is much bigger.
@@RobotMasterSplash yes because back then it was something unheard of
Now f you buy skin a in game you usually don't even think about it.
Everything is a shell of their former selves lately. That's the tragedy.
Rockstar, Konami, Square Enix, Atari, the list goes on... Rest in peace.
FromSoftware and Nihon Falcom the only companies I care about
Blizzard... But there is hope from Microsoft.
"Celebrating the brand that launched the modern video game industry"
You're also the brand that would've killed it had Nintendo not stepped in. Should have added E.T. to your list as a reminder.
As much as I hate this whole situation, part of me can't help but smile knowing that this is the sort of thing that Bobby Kotick would love yet he has been put in a position in which he can't take advantage of it. Oh, he must be gritting his teeth at knowing that if he even mentions the letters N, F and T too close to each other people will be gunning for him. It's just beautiful.
Lol, someone at Atari must have been high when they thought of this.
“Hey, I know what would bring us in some cash!”
“What is it Simpkins?”
“We combine the two worst scams in the gaming industry!”
“Simpkins, you are a genius.”
Wow, NFTs *AND* lootboxes?!
Atari here showing EA, Ubisoft, Activision/Blizzard how greed is really done!
Square Enix too.
I never thought I would miss the days of 2016-17 where the biggest complaint in the industry were loot boxes. This NFT craze has to die soon.
They just keep pushing the envelope of what
they can get away with
"Horse armor was a mistake"
-Hayao Miyazaki probably
Imagine being a person that actually *buys* the box..
They'll mostly be bought by cryptobro's trying to make money.
Also kids who have their parents credit card details saved to their computer or phone or whatever
@@Drosera420 yep and they will make a lot while you guys dont
@Fat Albert completely forgetting that the point of playing a game is to relax and have fun.
I imagine a mysterious little old man in a suit going round all these game companies, selling the idea of NFT’s. He walks in unannounced and unseen by the receptionist. He finds the executives available and with a click of his finger, they blindly follow him into the board room. He sits them down and then wheels in an old 90’s tv and turns it on. The white noise has a hypnotic effect that makes the executives slowly start to smile. The little man starts to chuckle as he watches their reaction. He waddles over to them and whispers in their ear, then unplugs the tv and walks out trying to contain his laughter. The executives still slumped in their leather chairs crack their necks to look to each other.
In the coming week, the company releases an interview with a news outlet to the public, as well as a couple of media posts about their upcoming NFT plans. Their reputation has been completely destroyed and they are ridiculed by the gaming community. The little man moves onto the next one.
Souljaboy would never have allowed this to happen!
This is actually worse than lootboxes looking at that roadmap. You see, with lootboxes you stop buying when you get the item/items you wanted. But with this, even after buying you don't know whether you got a good one. You have to wait. So you'd be buying a bunch of them only to maybe realize the first one was what you were looking for.
"Atari couldn't just sit there and look pathetic!.. They were Atari!" - Scott the Woz
Yong, I'm confused on the legality of NFT Lootboxes. One of the cornerstone of defenses has always been the digital items within a lootbox has been they have no inherent value.
Now, that no longer applies with NFTs. That is just gambling in its purest, indefensible sense. What do you think?
0:58 that Atari ad legit reminds me of the scammers that are typing on your computer trying to make you think it's the computer lol
A bit late, but I just finished the first part of the new Jojo, decided to watch the scenes with Pucci in English. Just wanted to say you did amazing Yong. You fit perfectly and it's amazing to hear you in such a large role, congrats man.
They managed to make lootboxes and NFTs even worse
That is quite the feat
What a milestone
This is, honestly, not very surprising to see, coming from the company that almost singlehandedly caused the great gaming crash of the early 80s.
EA: Write that down! Write that down!
Okay, here's a question: If every NFT is unique, how can you have rarities? That's a contradiction if I've ever heard one. Or is that just flat-out acknowledging that they are using miniscule variants of the same shitty .jpg? Or is it even simpler - people hear "this shit is rare, gotta buy it?"
I don't get all these get-rich quick schemes, especially if they need a roadmap to explain how exactly they will be shafting you. Screw these guys.
2:15
I knew it. I FUCKING **KNEW** this was going to happen, and was surprised I didn't come across anyone else mention it.
It's like NFT nowadays are the game company equivalent of Darksign: "It signifies an accursed game company. Those branded with it are reborn after company restructuring, but will one day lose their mind and go hollow (shell of their former selves).
Greed triggers the Darksign, which returns its CEO to the absolute goal the company being founded at, but at the cost of all humanity and souls (of their staffs) and reputation."
It's interesting how NFT exposes who's the darkest and greediest of game companies out there. Just look at those who jumped into NFT bandwagon
So NFTs were the First Sin... Damn, Gwyn.
I'd argue that Nintendo launched modern gaming as we know it, Atari fucking killed videogames as a market and Nintendo brought it back with Famicom/NES
Atari is in some really really super epic mega deep denial aren't they?
NFT lootboxes? It's official, we've hit the sub-basement of the bottom of the barrel.
The people who invented NFTs should be jailed for creating this scam
This is a new low.
The companies we grew up with aren't the same.
The games aren't the same.
This is so upsetting
Stay far far away when a corporation says "Surprise!"