And ironically it has no micro transactions at all, just a purely free game involving people using credit cards as weapons and throwing money based projectiles at a dev self insert.
These days people buy anything so honestly it would still probably make money some how. Especially if they got enough youtubers to shill for them like they do with all these Pay to win mobile games.
You know the game's gonna be a banger when it starts with telling you that you own nothing, all payments are final, there are no refunds, you can be banned for anything, and they don't have to pay you a goddamn thing if they don't feel like it even though this is apparently a game about earning money while you play it.
And the plethora of spelling errors, definitely not a giant red flag about the quality of detail in a game! Clearly no lawyer actually reviewed that ToS.
That's pretty much all games if you actually read the fine print when you buy them and create an account. For real, like 95% of games have clauses in their user terms saying that you can't get refunds, you don't own the game, you give up your legal rights to sue the company, etc. It's not a NFT game thing, it's just a immoral business person thing that most businesses do because of shareholders and dodgy legal teams.
@@blindmownPretty sure most games don't go "hey we can access your computer whenever we want without your knowledge." Even fucking genshin turns off it's Chinese spyware when the game isn't running.
@@blindmown Several problems there. Most games don't come built in with features and expectations of allowing you to earn money. In fact, in most games, it's the opposite of that. You willingly give up your money to purchase entertainment. If a game advertises itself as a genuine money making method, you can't just slap such a vague and wide reaching clause over it. Obviously that's ignoring steam marketplace and similar systems which do often allow you to cash out even in games that aren't strictly designed around that. As far as ToS, games usually have a clause stating they can ban you for any reason, generally due to edge case offences that aren't permitted, but don't specifically fall under any stated ToS violation. Refunds are usually handled by the game publisher or publishing platform, not the developers themselves, so the conditions tend to be fairly universal, but you generally can't get refunds once you've actually used the game for its intended function of entertainment, yes (steam's policy is actually fairly forgiving in comparison). That's in line with how most products work. Giving up your legal rights to sue the company, while I can't say I've personally ever seen it stated in a ToS, is not admissible in court. In many legislations, especially in the states, you can sue essentially anyone for essentially any reasons. Whether you'll win a lawsuit or not is debatable, since the technicalities regarding digital material like video games are still largely non specific, but ToS are generally not legally binding as far as a court of law is concerned, and nobody is going to take a blanket "can't sue" clause seriously. As for owning a game, obviously you don't, yea. The owners are the people who hold the IP, which is usually the developers. What you pay for when you buy a game is an individual copy that gives you the license to use a product. All of these are fairly normal things. What CryptoFights does, which includes *unathorized remote access to your device at any time* is not normal and is, in fact, very worrisome.
@@joshuaporterfield6774 ("owner" clicks a link that promises a new NFT airdrop in your wallet, but guess what, it doesn't) Oh, you don't own it any more, the code that is law moved it to someone else.
Me too! But it seems that even when they have 0-10 players they keep the servers running so just based on that track record the games might be around longer than the NFTs are!
@@jauwnYeah, discovering you and just starting to watch your stuff made the creative side of me start turning, I just got an idea for a potential NFT game that ISN’T just a pyramid scheme…but it took less than five minutes before the ways even my idea could be made scammy and predatory screamed out at me. Think that’s a sign NFT games as a concept are scams by nature. Still like the positives of my idea, though: a job RPG where the NFTs (or just tradables, in case this ever gets made in a way that isn’t scammy and energy wasteful) are the jobs. It would still function as a game whether you had them or not, so long as someone actually designed and wrote a good RPG. Furthermore, making the jobs themselves the tradables, while being the main source of the problems, mainly exists to A) make each player’s run different by nature of having access to different jobs, and B) allowing players to trade jobs with each other (or if we’re still going full NFT, that’s the player market). Ultimately, the concept is an attempt to take the broken, pyramid scheme style nature of NFT games as a whole, and use that framework to promote unique experiences and community interaction in something trying to be a legitimate game. And yet ultimately I hope this doesn’t ever happen. I like this idea a lot, but I also think NFTs and crypto as a whole are massive scams that nobody should buy into. This whole thing was just the inner entropy of a mind that likes to take broken ideas and imagine ways for them to work.
This might be the most interesting one you've covered simply because it seems as if, unlike all the others, the devs here actually believe fully in blockchain gaming...... and it completely falls flat on every level as a concept and they're losing a ton of their own money instead of grifting it from others.
I'm convinced that blockchain gaming is an inherently flawed concept. You're taking a decentralized, trustless ledger and using it as the backbone of an online game (which is inherently centralized.) This is basically the same situation as Greece and the Euro; the game devs have no way to fix their game's economy when (not if) something goes wrong. And sure, the blockchain may not be hackable, but the game itself certainly is. Ever wonder why duping bugs just won't go away? Well they're basically impossible to get rid of completely, no matter what game you're playing. It's just a limitation of computers that they can't truly "move" things, they can only duplicate and delete the original, and if that process is interrupted... bam, duping bug. And the blockchain simply doesn't care, because it only ensures the integrity of the data on it. It does not (and cannot) prevent incorrect data from being put onto it.
@@williamdrum9899Blockchain gaming may work... something like one hundred years later when computers will be so powerful and energy (presumably from cold fusion) so cheap that it will be possible to shove entire game in the blockchain and just shrug off the operating costs but right now blockchain and games wont go along, its just bs to lure not smart investors, this is why 99% nft games not even use blockchain innately. This game do and it burn million $ operating costs every year for nothing because of it LOL
@@williamdrum9899 If anything, the blockchain would just make duped/exploited items immutable, wouldn't it? Assuming that the blockchain can *actually* do that. Crypto talk is so deep in "in theory" and "best case scenario" that I might be overestimating it to begin with.
@@williamdrum9899 It's more like trying to play chess by scribbling moves on the back of unique supermarket receipts so that you have to purchase an item every time you make a new move. Because that's exactly what's going on: People taking a receipt system and thinking it does anything more than that.
1:55 can we just appreciate the irony of "you dont own these virtual assets" when the most basic pitch for NFTs (not getting into the weeds of it) is that you own them? That is just *chef's kiss* delicious.
This is actually the perfect example of why blockchain games will never work, even if they were made by devs who knew what they were doing and wanted to make a good game. Adding in the blockchain means the game has to be always online even in single player, it means everything is slower, and it's extremely expensive. The blockchain makes the game worse for players AND for the company selling the game, the only reason to do it is to use buzzwords to scam investors.
So every Human who played the game, played it for 8.25 battles. But the bots played more they managed 17 before they gave up playing. Even the bots gave in after 17 games. Hats off to the 200 Humans who actually stuck out 8 battles
Thats really weird, including single player in the blockchain surely means they lose money assuming they dont charge per match. Seems like someone could set up a bot to play single player matches continuously just to force them to pay tons of gas fees.
i thought the single player being required before doing online battles was to prevent botting, and then they added an autoplay... what's the point then!!!
Classic crypto gaming: having worse gameplay than Club Penguin's Card-Jitsu. The best part about CryptoFights is the roadmap vaguely stating METAVERSE, it gave me a chuckle at least.
You really thought i wouldn’t notice that outer wilds music in the background and realize 10min later that I hadn’t heard anything you’d said cuz I was too busy thinking about angler fish and banjos? You can’t get that past me!
At this point, I expect every crypto game to be a pyramid scheme ("spend $10 to start earning!") or a VRChat clone. This one was different! It appears to be a game designed to inflate volume on a chain. I'm not sure you've covered any like this before.
I know! It was so weird. The BSV rabbit hole goes so deep, I barely even scratched the surface. There are hundreds of what appear to be fake companies that have websites that claim they're using BSV to power their inventory systems, or using BSV to track food through the logistics system, it's just wild. Not to mention that the system is so centralized that people have theorized it's possible for Craig to just instantly move all coins into his wallet with the press of a button. All of this is just hearsay though, please do not sue me Mr. Nakamoto
@@jauwn Holy shit, this is from *Craig*? There's an episode of a podcast called ALAB (All Lawyers Are Bad) where they deep-dive on a multi-billion lawsuit against him and it's great.
Man, it genuinely seems like so many of these "play-to-earn" crypto games never even went through BETA testing before shamelessly being pushed out to the public. It isn't uncommon that I try these games out only to discover that the website/domain is no longer available the next day 🤣
It's not just like that at all. No game in early gaming made the false claims that it would earn people money, plus the technology they were boxed in with was extremely limited. Now we have a virtually limitless ocean of readily available technology to use and still most companies are making cheap, redundant copies of games that have already been made, or just straight up copying Fortnite in an uncreative way to compete. I'd take old games over new ones any day. New games are programmed for kids with ADD.
@@blightedgrounds Yeah I was being sarcastic. Totally agree. Early gaming had access to less and yet the best games were freeware, devs creating something amazing fueled by nothing but passion and donations. Now anyone can make a beautiful game with no programming experience, yet we still see unpolished and soulless trash being sold. "New tech" is less of an important factor in game design nowadays and more of an importance in marketing buzzwords.
Only commenting because video said you were on the path to 1,000 subscribers and you are at 158,000 now. Pure inspiration here. I will keep trucking to get there.
hell yeah :) if i can offer any suggestions, you should change your youtube name to something more catchy. Your name is really long and I don't think it makes for a catchy channel name
Not only are the mechanics based on D&D… but those enemies are literally just ripped from the 5th Edition Monster Manual. Like they just straight up stole the quasit and doppelganger. They’re lucky they didn’t make it big, or else they might be in trouble.
@@0XenonPL0 Not the concept of one, obviously, but the specific design is. If it was called a doppelganger and looked like anything else I wouldn’t be saying this- but if you search up “5e doppelganger” you’ll see that they just stole the design entirely.
@@someperson8885 The doppelganger is a creature from folklore, so it can't be copyrighted anyway even if it weren't SRD. I suppose the quasit on the other hand was definitely copied from D&D.
Laughed out loud at that "NO" and the final score. A perfect review through and through. Also, thanks to u/itsnotlupus for their contribution. Please, don't sue Jauwn.
As you seem to be on the elbow of the UA-cam subscriber curve, I should mention that using watermarked stock footage doesn't actually absolve you from having to get a license! The Spiffing Brit found this out that bad way when they suddenly became popular...
Haha thanks for the heads up! I know I'm no better than the NFT art thieves by stealing stock images... I'll probably stop using them now that I'm getting more eyes on my videos.
@@jauwn He got copyright claimed for a bunch of videos and his channel very nearly got deleted completely until he came to some agreement. Which probably involved paying them money, whoever it was. Entertainingly even after getting a license his viewers demanded he put fake watermarks on all the stock photos from then on.
This one's fun. I actually designed (just for fun, I have nothing working) a game that essentially worked like this but instead with demo files. The idea was that players could play 1v1 without needing any external server. The two players where able to verify each others actions, including those that where done in secret and revealed later (like some actions in a card game) and each would produce a demo file where both parties essentially have signed off that the game happened exactly like that including who won.
Damn, I would have never expected them to make a crypto game that pays for the unnecessary blockchain transactions. How generous of them! I wonder how easy it is to break this system.
Realized I never seen this one so of course I had to watch and my mind was BLOWN realizing this was just 11 months ago and your channel EXPLODED. Very happy for you man! You deserve it 100% and im looking forward to seeing what else you got in store for us this year ❤️
Man those Vietnamese comments are hilarious. They were people looking for mates like a dating app(?). Did they buy the wrong botting service or something? Edit: also Outer Wilds is indeed the best game ever made.
As if people wouldn't notice the hyper-stylized models just casually being slapped in their shitty NFT game, I did a double take when I saw the faces for the elves lol.
Having an NFT game sneaking in the fact that you don't own anything in their game is officially the dumbest thing I've seen yet. That's LITERALLY the point of NFTs...
To be fair, when you buy nft you actually buy place in line which goes nowhere and picture, video, music, etc. is just accessory to make place in line to look better.
There is a new game call Paima (on milkomeda) that tracks every action on chain, then update the nft. Gameplay is boring but potential is you can upgrade your nft character through all the on chain transactions.
5:27 theres an icon on the skill tree that is just green spectre's cowl from league of legends. ...when you steal assets, you usually do it from small games, not the worlds largest.
3:00 Well, species is the correct word for what it shows. Elves, humans and dwarves are separate species, they aren't different races of the same species. But yeah, it is odd for them to not follow the norm of using the term "race."
I know this is the least of the issues presented here, but like… “Woodland Forest” is a ridiculous level name? A woodland IS a forest. These devs, presumably IN EARNEST, just named an area the Forest Forest. 😂
Was anyone else thinking that at the very least, they could have had the game be about cryptids fighting each other and at least make the game kind of not suck for just that one little reason?
While wathing the video, I keep thinking that "CryptoFights" is a name that Jauwn made up to mock the game. I keep looking at the title to make sure it is the actual name... I still can't believe it.
Spamming the blockchain with singleplayer combat logs is hilarious because if it were on a "legit" blockchain, people would be sending these game devs death threats for, you know, pointlessly spamming the service that all of their stuff runs on! But because it's not even a legitimate blockchain everyone is fine with it because an inflated log makes it look like people use it which boosts the resale value. TL;DR this isn't even a video game, it's a pump and dump
At least the game gives some sort of tutorial I guess. That's better than most, honestly that might be a good category to rate it on, just how hard/easy it is to learn the game
Honestly, it's extra disappointing for me personally because i hate even idea of fantasy races being represented as difficulty levels. Especially because i love dwarfs and often look specifically for them in any fantasy media (they seem to be a good test subject at how much author thougt beyond basic tropes), and linking them to easy difficulty only? That's just disrespectful. And then there is some Baggage in making traditionally milktoast humans "hard" dificulty.
Market with free items could potentially work but it needs much more development. In Guild Wars 2, first of all it's an actual game, there is player market where people trade items that they can get for free form monster drops. Sure they trade fake money but still they trade and they do this because of crafting system, to craft good gear you need materials so you can either grind those materials or you can throw your fake money and buy hundreds of materials you need And to post items on a market you need to pay small fee, my point is cryptofights could have done it this way but they need actual game with crafting system (so people want to obtain materials) but I'm not sure how well it would work with real money
The terms say you don't own the assets? Isn't that the entire POINT of NFTs? That you're supposed to have "true ownership?" Isn't that what's *supposed* to differentiate an NFT item from a game from the usual micro-transaction item? wtf?
Very minor detail compared to all the other crap, but the way the bows and arrows look in the game is offensively bad. The string's longer than the bow itself, and the arrows are gigantic.
To be fair, the "not owning assets" part of the ToS is fairly standard for games. It basically says that any files are still under ownership of the original holder, hence I can't do something like rip a model from GTA and legally use it in a game I would make/sell. This just makes the crypto staple-on more hilarious if you really think about it.
Hey there, I would love for you to do a review of a few GALA titles like Spider Tanks or Legends Reborn, Im afraid I drank too much Koolaid and def want this style of review for those games!
Spider tanks is on my list and it's one I might actually do sooner rather than later. Not sure I've heard of Legends Reborn, I'll have to check it out! Edit: just checked out Legends Reborn, looks like a token presale with no playable game, so I'm not going to be reviewing that until they actually have a game to play.
@@jauwn it is their hearthstone like title basically. I played the beta, seemed not bad, but im sure there are balance issues, or it might be pay to win on some level
My only thoughts throughout this is how a free mobile game I played years ago was superior in every way to this game, and it's pretty widely regarded as a bad and predatory game with how their gacha was so p2w
Oh man, this has to be one of the WORST games you have reviewed. (And I'm talking about actual games that you could play) Like, with some of the others even if they looked boring, I could at *least* see something that could be fun to someone, maybe. But this looks so... Boring and bland, and totally unfun to play. Worse than most games with an auto battle system, because in most of those you can at least do other things. And adding to that, the whole fact that the Blockchain is absolutely pointless just adds more to the pile of questions for this game. Like, I almost can't believe it's real! Either way, excelent video as always, dude. Can't wait until you finally get 1k subs!
Glad you liked it! Yeah, this game sucked. I can't believe I actually played it for almost 3 hours, I really wanted to try and get to level 10 but it was just taking way too long, I had to give up.
Yeah... It clearly seems like a proof-of-something. They can spam a blockchain and make it look like it kind of works while they pay heavily lowered prices because the owner of the blockchain is involved. I guess the project is now practically abandoned since the main/only dev has left it as far as I understood.
is it bad that I really wanted this to be like. an actual nft/crypto based fighting game? like, c'mon with a name like crytofights, how can you NOT immediately think 'cryto-based fighting game'. Sure, there is a turn-based combat system, but it's not a fighting game in the traditional sense :/ then again this is a cryto game, my expectations should have NEVER been high to begin with.
It's to reduce bot spam, otherwise you could make 10,000 accounts and start grinding without any effort at all. Putting in a small barrier to automation is often enough to stop it from destroying the game outright.
Actually, that was on the list I was covering in my first videos but I discovered that it has actually already been rugged, it seems. The ability to access the marketplace has been removed from the iOS app to comply with their ban on NFTs, so there's no way to buy or sell your shoes that you purchased if you're an Apple user. Also, there is no way to play the "game" without buying a shoe. The whole thing was a ponzi scheme from the start, it's actually insane that they got as much money as they did. You know what they say though, if you're not smart and you can't cheat, then you better be first!
Imagine if a game studio released a game called Credit Card Fights: Give Us Money
You mean Diablo Immortal?
And ironically it has no micro transactions at all, just a purely free game involving people using credit cards as weapons and throwing money based projectiles at a dev self insert.
These days people buy anything so honestly it would still probably make money some how. Especially if they got enough youtubers to shill for them like they do with all these Pay to win mobile games.
@@nintendoboy3605Sounds like Dante's Fourth Circle of Hell
This is one of my favorite comments of all time. Thank you.
You know the game's gonna be a banger when it starts with telling you that you own nothing, all payments are final, there are no refunds, you can be banned for anything, and they don't have to pay you a goddamn thing if they don't feel like it even though this is apparently a game about earning money while you play it.
Also the whole "Give us remote access to your computer"
And the plethora of spelling errors, definitely not a giant red flag about the quality of detail in a game! Clearly no lawyer actually reviewed that ToS.
That's pretty much all games if you actually read the fine print when you buy them and create an account.
For real, like 95% of games have clauses in their user terms saying that you can't get refunds, you don't own the game, you give up your legal rights to sue the company, etc.
It's not a NFT game thing, it's just a immoral business person thing that most businesses do because of shareholders and dodgy legal teams.
@@blindmownPretty sure most games don't go "hey we can access your computer whenever we want without your knowledge."
Even fucking genshin turns off it's Chinese spyware when the game isn't running.
@@blindmown Several problems there. Most games don't come built in with features and expectations of allowing you to earn money. In fact, in most games, it's the opposite of that. You willingly give up your money to purchase entertainment. If a game advertises itself as a genuine money making method, you can't just slap such a vague and wide reaching clause over it. Obviously that's ignoring steam marketplace and similar systems which do often allow you to cash out even in games that aren't strictly designed around that.
As far as ToS, games usually have a clause stating they can ban you for any reason, generally due to edge case offences that aren't permitted, but don't specifically fall under any stated ToS violation. Refunds are usually handled by the game publisher or publishing platform, not the developers themselves, so the conditions tend to be fairly universal, but you generally can't get refunds once you've actually used the game for its intended function of entertainment, yes (steam's policy is actually fairly forgiving in comparison). That's in line with how most products work. Giving up your legal rights to sue the company, while I can't say I've personally ever seen it stated in a ToS, is not admissible in court. In many legislations, especially in the states, you can sue essentially anyone for essentially any reasons. Whether you'll win a lawsuit or not is debatable, since the technicalities regarding digital material like video games are still largely non specific, but ToS are generally not legally binding as far as a court of law is concerned, and nobody is going to take a blanket "can't sue" clause seriously.
As for owning a game, obviously you don't, yea. The owners are the people who hold the IP, which is usually the developers. What you pay for when you buy a game is an individual copy that gives you the license to use a product.
All of these are fairly normal things. What CryptoFights does, which includes *unathorized remote access to your device at any time* is not normal and is, in fact, very worrisome.
NFT bros: "NFTs are the future, you actually own your items in the game!"
CryptoFights: "Lol no. You own nothing."
NFT Games: Rugpull or Let the Stock die, pick a choose.
"you own NFTs but you don't"
“You actually OWN the link to a thing that you don’t own!”
@@joshuaporterfield6774 ("owner" clicks a link that promises a new NFT airdrop in your wallet, but guess what, it doesn't) Oh, you don't own it any more, the code that is law moved it to someone else.
Also, we want to take a look at your computer, please!
Ah, single player auto-battler that burns the environment for each fight
The future of gaming
NFTs don't cause environmental damage, that is just a lie made up by auth-lefters to demonize non-materialist technology.
I hope that NFT games don't die any time soon, so that the Jauwn videos keep on coming.
Me too! But it seems that even when they have 0-10 players they keep the servers running so just based on that track record the games might be around longer than the NFTs are!
To the moooon ~~ Jauwn, probably, I think..
@@jauwnYeah, discovering you and just starting to watch your stuff made the creative side of me start turning, I just got an idea for a potential NFT game that ISN’T just a pyramid scheme…but it took less than five minutes before the ways even my idea could be made scammy and predatory screamed out at me. Think that’s a sign NFT games as a concept are scams by nature.
Still like the positives of my idea, though: a job RPG where the NFTs (or just tradables, in case this ever gets made in a way that isn’t scammy and energy wasteful) are the jobs. It would still function as a game whether you had them or not, so long as someone actually designed and wrote a good RPG. Furthermore, making the jobs themselves the tradables, while being the main source of the problems, mainly exists to A) make each player’s run different by nature of having access to different jobs, and B) allowing players to trade jobs with each other (or if we’re still going full NFT, that’s the player market).
Ultimately, the concept is an attempt to take the broken, pyramid scheme style nature of NFT games as a whole, and use that framework to promote unique experiences and community interaction in something trying to be a legitimate game. And yet ultimately I hope this doesn’t ever happen. I like this idea a lot, but I also think NFTs and crypto as a whole are massive scams that nobody should buy into. This whole thing was just the inner entropy of a mind that likes to take broken ideas and imagine ways for them to work.
i hope one day jauwn is freed from his labors
@@Khandrake One must imagine Jauwn happy
This might be the most interesting one you've covered simply because it seems as if, unlike all the others, the devs here actually believe fully in blockchain gaming...... and it completely falls flat on every level as a concept and they're losing a ton of their own money instead of grifting it from others.
Exactly. It was too strange to not do an episode on
I'm convinced that blockchain gaming is an inherently flawed concept. You're taking a decentralized, trustless ledger and using it as the backbone of an online game (which is inherently centralized.) This is basically the same situation as Greece and the Euro; the game devs have no way to fix their game's economy when (not if) something goes wrong. And sure, the blockchain may not be hackable, but the game itself certainly is. Ever wonder why duping bugs just won't go away? Well they're basically impossible to get rid of completely, no matter what game you're playing. It's just a limitation of computers that they can't truly "move" things, they can only duplicate and delete the original, and if that process is interrupted... bam, duping bug.
And the blockchain simply doesn't care, because it only ensures the integrity of the data on it. It does not (and cannot) prevent incorrect data from being put onto it.
@@williamdrum9899Blockchain gaming may work... something like one hundred years later when computers will be so powerful and energy (presumably from cold fusion) so cheap that it will be possible to shove entire game in the blockchain and just shrug off the operating costs
but right now blockchain and games wont go along, its just bs to lure not smart investors, this is why 99% nft games not even use blockchain innately. This game do and it burn million $ operating costs every year for nothing because of it LOL
@@williamdrum9899 If anything, the blockchain would just make duped/exploited items immutable, wouldn't it? Assuming that the blockchain can *actually* do that. Crypto talk is so deep in "in theory" and "best case scenario" that I might be overestimating it to begin with.
@@williamdrum9899 It's more like trying to play chess by scribbling moves on the back of unique supermarket receipts so that you have to purchase an item every time you make a new move. Because that's exactly what's going on: People taking a receipt system and thinking it does anything more than that.
1:55 can we just appreciate the irony of "you dont own these virtual assets" when the most basic pitch for NFTs (not getting into the weeds of it) is that you own them?
That is just *chef's kiss* delicious.
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@@Random.Lobsterwhat bot??
This is actually the perfect example of why blockchain games will never work, even if they were made by devs who knew what they were doing and wanted to make a good game. Adding in the blockchain means the game has to be always online even in single player, it means everything is slower, and it's extremely expensive. The blockchain makes the game worse for players AND for the company selling the game, the only reason to do it is to use buzzwords to scam investors.
as an attempt to prove a use case for the blockhain it's an impressive failure lol
So every Human who played the game, played it for 8.25 battles. But the bots played more they managed 17 before they gave up playing. Even the bots gave in after 17 games. Hats off to the 200 Humans who actually stuck out 8 battles
I didn't think bots could give up on a task they're programmed for 😂
Thats really weird, including single player in the blockchain surely means they lose money assuming they dont charge per match.
Seems like someone could set up a bot to play single player matches continuously just to force them to pay tons of gas fees.
i thought the single player being required before doing online battles was to prevent botting, and then they added an autoplay... what's the point then!!!
Classic crypto gaming: having worse gameplay than Club Penguin's Card-Jitsu. The best part about CryptoFights is the roadmap vaguely stating METAVERSE, it gave me a chuckle at least.
It doesn't even have a date 🤣 they couldn't even be bothered to make one up, they knew they weren't ever delivering that one
You really thought i wouldn’t notice that outer wilds music in the background and realize 10min later that I hadn’t heard anything you’d said cuz I was too busy thinking about angler fish and banjos? You can’t get that past me!
Would've been so much better if they had made CryptidFights instead. Jersey Devil vs. Mothman, let's go.
Jersey Devil wins. Mothman is a lover, not a fighter.
Honestly an amazing idea for a game lol
I was going to say Darkstalkers but the only one that really counts as a Cryptid is the Sasquatch.
Gives me memories of Clay Fighter. I love it!
At this point, I expect every crypto game to be a pyramid scheme ("spend $10 to start earning!") or a VRChat clone.
This one was different! It appears to be a game designed to inflate volume on a chain. I'm not sure you've covered any like this before.
I know! It was so weird. The BSV rabbit hole goes so deep, I barely even scratched the surface. There are hundreds of what appear to be fake companies that have websites that claim they're using BSV to power their inventory systems, or using BSV to track food through the logistics system, it's just wild. Not to mention that the system is so centralized that people have theorized it's possible for Craig to just instantly move all coins into his wallet with the press of a button.
All of this is just hearsay though, please do not sue me Mr. Nakamoto
@@jauwn juicy, feel free to make some videos on this tea
@@jauwn Holy shit, this is from *Craig*?
There's an episode of a podcast called ALAB (All Lawyers Are Bad) where they deep-dive on a multi-billion lawsuit against him and it's great.
Man, it genuinely seems like so many of these "play-to-earn" crypto games never even went through BETA testing before shamelessly being pushed out to the public. It isn't uncommon that I try these games out only to discover that the website/domain is no longer available the next day 🤣
Remember back in early gaming when 99% of games were vaporware trash or scams? It’s just like that!
It's not just like that at all. No game in early gaming made the false claims that it would earn people money, plus the technology they were boxed in with was extremely limited. Now we have a virtually limitless ocean of readily available technology to use and still most companies are making cheap, redundant copies of games that have already been made, or just straight up copying Fortnite in an uncreative way to compete.
I'd take old games over new ones any day.
New games are programmed for kids with ADD.
@@blightedgrounds Yeah I was being sarcastic. Totally agree. Early gaming had access to less and yet the best games were freeware, devs creating something amazing fueled by nothing but passion and donations. Now anyone can make a beautiful game with no programming experience, yet we still see unpolished and soulless trash being sold.
"New tech" is less of an important factor in game design nowadays and more of an importance in marketing buzzwords.
@@jauwn yeah, i agree. And sorry, it's not easy to pick up sarcasm through text!
@@blightedgrounds No problem! Sorry for the misunderstanding!
Only commenting because video said you were on the path to 1,000 subscribers and you are at 158,000 now. Pure inspiration here. I will keep trucking to get there.
hell yeah :) if i can offer any suggestions, you should change your youtube name to something more catchy. Your name is really long and I don't think it makes for a catchy channel name
@@jauwn I really appreciate the feedback. I’m gonna ponder this.
Not only are the mechanics based on D&D… but those enemies are literally just ripped from the 5th Edition Monster Manual. Like they just straight up stole the quasit and doppelganger. They’re lucky they didn’t make it big, or else they might be in trouble.
I mean, doppelganger isnt really creation of wotc.
@@0XenonPL0 Not the concept of one, obviously, but the specific design is. If it was called a doppelganger and looked like anything else I wouldn’t be saying this- but if you search up “5e doppelganger” you’ll see that they just stole the design entirely.
Both the Doppelganger and the Quasit are on the SRD, which means anyone can use it in their projects without paying anything to WotC iirc
@@someperson8885still showcases a lack of creativity when everything else is ripped wholesale from D&D
@@someperson8885 The doppelganger is a creature from folklore, so it can't be copyrighted anyway even if it weren't SRD. I suppose the quasit on the other hand was definitely copied from D&D.
Laughed out loud at that "NO" and the final score. A perfect review through and through.
Also, thanks to u/itsnotlupus for their contribution. Please, don't sue Jauwn.
Theres absolutely no way that putting a remote access trojan into your EULA holds water in a legal case
Denuvo: "Hold my rootkit"
Web3 is unparalleled in it's ability to turn money into vapor
Ironic, since their goal was to print money out of thin air
Objectively false. Web3 turns money into unnecessary carbon emissions.
Once again you have played this for waaaaay longer than I would!! Real patience, which is very much appreciated
As you seem to be on the elbow of the UA-cam subscriber curve, I should mention that using watermarked stock footage doesn't actually absolve you from having to get a license! The Spiffing Brit found this out that bad way when they suddenly became popular...
Haha thanks for the heads up! I know I'm no better than the NFT art thieves by stealing stock images... I'll probably stop using them now that I'm getting more eyes on my videos.
@@jauwn He got copyright claimed for a bunch of videos and his channel very nearly got deleted completely until he came to some agreement. Which probably involved paying them money, whoever it was. Entertainingly even after getting a license his viewers demanded he put fake watermarks on all the stock photos from then on.
16:12 I love how “wtf” has a dash before it, like one of the problems of the ToS is just “wtf” in of itself lmao
“This is stupid” the best clear cut criticism of UI I’ve ever heard
Is the 1,000 subscriber special some self care where you don't play a crypto "game" and do something less stressful?
This one's fun. I actually designed (just for fun, I have nothing working) a game that essentially worked like this but instead with demo files. The idea was that players could play 1v1 without needing any external server. The two players where able to verify each others actions, including those that where done in secret and revealed later (like some actions in a card game) and each would produce a demo file where both parties essentially have signed off that the game happened exactly like that including who won.
Here's the ultimate inditment possible to give a game while on YT: I'd rather play Raid Shadow Legends than this.
Damn, I would have never expected them to make a crypto game that pays for the unnecessary blockchain transactions. How generous of them!
I wonder how easy it is to break this system.
Some supervillain: * makes a billion email accounts *
@@williamdrum9899 would they be villain?
"I'm waiting in queue to play a singleplayer game"
I don't play crypto games but as a Payday 3 player I do feel this.
me: fake crypto baldurs gate can’t hurt you
fake crypto baldurs gate:
As a native Vietnamese, 14:29 is absolute gibberish nonsense in vietnamese and has nothing to do with the NFT game
Haha that’s what someone commented yesterday, said it looks like they hired the wrong type of bot 😂
When you look at the talent tree, I instantly recognized one of the icons is literally a stolen asset from League of Legends called the Spectre’s Cowl
3:09 the default models here look exactly like WoW's blood elves lol
Watching at now 45k subs, glad to see your channel blew up, your vids rock
8 months now with nearly 40k subs nice work man
Hell yeah
It's kind of amazing looking back at these early videos and seeing how far the channel has come - well done!
Finding a good use of the blockchain in video games is like finding a definitive reason why the Earth is flat.
Realized I never seen this one so of course I had to watch and my mind was BLOWN realizing this was just 11 months ago and your channel EXPLODED. Very happy for you man! You deserve it 100% and im looking forward to seeing what else you got in store for us this year ❤️
Man those Vietnamese comments are hilarious. They were people looking for mates like a dating app(?). Did they buy the wrong botting service or something?
Edit: also Outer Wilds is indeed the best game ever made.
I like how they just casually stole models from WoW. Is Blizzard even awere of that?
As if people wouldn't notice the hyper-stylized models just casually being slapped in their shitty NFT game, I did a double take when I saw the faces for the elves lol.
@@thecatboy7494 I asked about Blizzard - the company that made WoW, not average players.
Having an NFT game sneaking in the fact that you don't own anything in their game is officially the dumbest thing I've seen yet. That's LITERALLY the point of NFTs...
To be fair, when you buy nft you actually buy place in line which goes nowhere and picture, video, music, etc. is just accessory to make place in line to look better.
"We have Ganondorf at home"
16:10 is that the Chao garden theme?
😁 yes, one of my favorite games of all time
Wow, just 9 months ago you didn't even have 1000 subscribers and now you have nearly 52k (as of writing this comment). I'm glad for you!
Yeah the growth has been insane!
It's always a nice touch when the game let's your allocate your points before even explaining what they do😂
There is a new game call Paima (on milkomeda) that tracks every action on chain, then update the nft. Gameplay is boring but potential is you can upgrade your nft character through all the on chain transactions.
Pay-ma, that's a bit on the nose. Is it dead yet?
5:27
theres an icon on the skill tree that is just green spectre's cowl from league of legends.
...when you steal assets, you usually do it from small games, not the worlds largest.
A lot of these games seem like they could be good if the makers just tried a *little bit harder than that*
3:00 Well, species is the correct word for what it shows. Elves, humans and dwarves are separate species, they aren't different races of the same species. But yeah, it is odd for them to not follow the norm of using the term "race."
That ToS makes me think this is a cryptominer.
I know this is the least of the issues presented here, but like… “Woodland Forest” is a ridiculous level name? A woodland IS a forest. These devs, presumably IN EARNEST, just named an area the Forest Forest. 😂
🤣🤣🤣
To be fair not very far off from real life
9:00 realized u were playing Outer Wilds music. Easy sub
It’s the best game of all time, in my opinion at least.
@@jauwn cant argue with that. Keep up the great work!
"Remote access to your machine to update the SDK"
OH MY GOD WHAT IN THE ACTUAL
Could you IMAGINE a steam game that includes “this is just malware, we can remotely access your pc for any reason if you download this” in its TOS
Was anyone else thinking that at the very least, they could have had the game be about cryptids fighting each other and at least make the game kind of not suck for just that one little reason?
I really love the fact you used the Chao garden music that hit me right where my nostalgia hides deep inside my brain.
While wathing the video, I keep thinking that "CryptoFights" is a name that Jauwn made up to mock the game. I keep looking at the title to make sure it is the actual name... I still can't believe it.
Damn.... I missed the 1000 subscriber milestone! what a pity!
Wake up honey new Jauwn video just dropped.
Babe, babe he's gonna destroy this crypto game
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!
And just a year later over 200k subs. Insane and still underrated
Hey dude did you ever reach 1000 subs? good luck fam
10:30 - Wow, is this music from Outer Wilds? Now I understand why nostalgia hit me so hard!)))
Super monkey ball adventure ost did not go unnoticed
I haven’t put any super monkey ball music in any of my videos, I usually use music from Sonic. Maybe super monkey ball had music from Sonic?
@@jauwn Chao Garden and Jungle Island OST from SM Adventure sound super similar in some parts.
I remembered in the south park game that when you pick your race, the more difficult the game is.
And true to life, it had no actual effect. (Except for how useful it was to feed Dovahkiin to Shub-Niggurath)
@@KopperNeoman it makes certain scenes harder, mostly when interacting with the police department
Spamming the blockchain with singleplayer combat logs is hilarious because if it were on a "legit" blockchain, people would be sending these game devs death threats for, you know, pointlessly spamming the service that all of their stuff runs on! But because it's not even a legitimate blockchain everyone is fine with it because an inflated log makes it look like people use it which boosts the resale value. TL;DR this isn't even a video game, it's a pump and dump
16:50 the battles look like the ones in raid shadow legends
At least the game gives some sort of tutorial I guess. That's better than most, honestly that might be a good category to rate it on, just how hard/easy it is to learn the game
A fraction of the depth of dungeons and dragons combat? Might as well not bother at that point. Just pick whoever has the bigger number.
Honestly, it's extra disappointing for me personally because i hate even idea of fantasy races being represented as difficulty levels. Especially because i love dwarfs and often look specifically for them in any fantasy media (they seem to be a good test subject at how much author thougt beyond basic tropes), and linking them to easy difficulty only? That's just disrespectful.
And then there is some Baggage in making traditionally milktoast humans "hard" dificulty.
Market with free items could potentially work but it needs much more development. In Guild Wars 2, first of all it's an actual game, there is player market where people trade items that they can get for free form monster drops. Sure they trade fake money but still they trade and they do this because of crafting system, to craft good gear you need materials so you can either grind those materials or you can throw your fake money and buy hundreds of materials you need
And to post items on a market you need to pay small fee, my point is cryptofights could have done it this way but they need actual game with crafting system (so people want to obtain materials) but I'm not sure how well it would work with real money
2:21 "13 years or older"
This should be fucking illegal. Crypto-Games should be 18+(or 21+ where that applies)
The terms say you don't own the assets?
Isn't that the entire POINT of NFTs? That you're supposed to have "true ownership?" Isn't that what's *supposed* to differentiate an NFT item from a game from the usual micro-transaction item? wtf?
First time I've seen a game with actual illegal TOS
Very minor detail compared to all the other crap, but the way the bows and arrows look in the game is offensively bad. The string's longer than the bow itself, and the arrows are gigantic.
I got an Axie Infinity ad on this video
Cryptofights 2.0 is out next week - please could you review that too?
Im late to this but i was sponsore by them when they first came out and omgggg the things i could tell you guys about it
'Attack, Hide of Blue'
???
Nice Mattel HyperScan graphics.
To be fair, the "not owning assets" part of the ToS is fairly standard for games. It basically says that any files are still under ownership of the original holder, hence I can't do something like rip a model from GTA and legally use it in a game I would make/sell.
This just makes the crypto staple-on more hilarious if you really think about it.
Hey there, I would love for you to do a review of a few GALA titles like Spider Tanks or Legends Reborn, Im afraid I drank too much Koolaid and def want this style of review for those games!
Spider tanks is on my list and it's one I might actually do sooner rather than later. Not sure I've heard of Legends Reborn, I'll have to check it out!
Edit: just checked out Legends Reborn, looks like a token presale with no playable game, so I'm not going to be reviewing that until they actually have a game to play.
@@jauwn it is their hearthstone like title basically. I played the beta, seemed not bad, but im sure there are balance issues, or it might be pay to win on some level
@@Dangles1337 Maybe! I can't play though since I'm not in the beta. If I could get a key I would do a review
Spider Tanks review is live! Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm almost certain that the Quasit and Doppelganger model designs were lifted directly from the 5E Monster Manual.
My only thoughts throughout this is how a free mobile game I played years ago was superior in every way to this game, and it's pretty widely regarded as a bad and predatory game with how their gacha was so p2w
Which game was it
@@ARStudios2000 it was summoners war. I wouldn't recommend getting into it tbh
did anyone on this project ever have any thoughts
Thanks for the content! Most entertaining. Yours truly, QM2
Glad you enjoy it! Hope to see you at the next company trip to Disney World!!
@@jauwn your reviews are fair and worth a retwach. I honestly would rather play real life D&D than this game too. Kenny said so too.
Oh man, this has to be one of the WORST games you have reviewed. (And I'm talking about actual games that you could play)
Like, with some of the others even if they looked boring, I could at *least* see something that could be fun to someone, maybe. But this looks so... Boring and bland, and totally unfun to play. Worse than most games with an auto battle system, because in most of those you can at least do other things.
And adding to that, the whole fact that the Blockchain is absolutely pointless just adds more to the pile of questions for this game. Like, I almost can't believe it's real!
Either way, excelent video as always, dude. Can't wait until you finally get 1k subs!
Glad you liked it! Yeah, this game sucked. I can't believe I actually played it for almost 3 hours, I really wanted to try and get to level 10 but it was just taking way too long, I had to give up.
@@jauwn nobody is blaming you.
Yeah... It clearly seems like a proof-of-something. They can spam a blockchain and make it look like it kind of works while they pay heavily lowered prices because the owner of the blockchain is involved. I guess the project is now practically abandoned since the main/only dev has left it as far as I understood.
is it bad that I really wanted this to be like. an actual nft/crypto based fighting game? like, c'mon with a name like crytofights, how can you NOT immediately think 'cryto-based fighting game'. Sure, there is a turn-based combat system, but it's not a fighting game in the traditional sense :/ then again this is a cryto game, my expectations should have NEVER been high to begin with.
Crypto games suck because crypto sucks
Few understand
Is this game dead? I mean it was already dead when you reviewed this, but at this point it has to be 6 feet under right?
Definitely
a judge in England recently made the verdict that Craig Wright (due to overwhelming evidence) is not the creator of bitcoin.
Ha ha, I saw
Crazy this video marked ALMOST 1k subscribers...look at us now baby 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Sonic adventure 2 battle chao music??? 16:45
whats with nft games and having to complete the single player to play online
It's to reduce bot spam, otherwise you could make 10,000 accounts and start grinding without any effort at all. Putting in a small barrier to automation is often enough to stop it from destroying the game outright.
As soon as “Timber Hearth” started playing I knew this man is going to be extremely based
I work for money so I can relax to play good games. Last thing I need is a game that's really a job.
You should review all the “games” that pay you for walking. Mostly STEPN
Actually, that was on the list I was covering in my first videos but I discovered that it has actually already been rugged, it seems.
The ability to access the marketplace has been removed from the iOS app to comply with their ban on NFTs, so there's no way to buy or sell your shoes that you purchased if you're an Apple user.
Also, there is no way to play the "game" without buying a shoe. The whole thing was a ponzi scheme from the start, it's actually insane that they got as much money as they did. You know what they say though, if you're not smart and you can't cheat, then you better be first!
Those usually have steep entry prices it would be cruel to ask Jauwn to pay up without a chance of getting the money back lmfao
Do you wanna kill Jauwn with boredom?
This game was actually ahead of its time! D&D moved away from the word "race" for things lole dwarves and elves, leaning more toward species.
Nft games take everything you hate about bad video games and makes it even jankier, outdated, and way way more expensive.
I am SO glad NFTs and especially NFTs in gaming fell off. Thank god it was just a fad