Multiplayer games used to be decentralized with dedicated servers you could host yourself, crypto people just dont seem to value actual decentralization or open source principles
The funniest thing about the Decentraland DAO is the time when they voted on whether they should address the fact that rich people can overrule the popular vote. The vast majority of people voted to change the system but like only 4 users with tons of tokens were able to overrule the vote…
Dude these games are lowkey kind of haunting because they're like authentic simulators of the worst possible outcome of capitalism. Nothing is for fun, everything is for "profit" and ownership, and democracy is controlled exclusively by the wealthy.
There's a reason no one is talking to you. Imagine excitedly running around a slave labour camp asking people what's up and dancing. You probably would just get some sad, confused glances as they continue to toil
Actually, most of the people in there are either focusing on something else since the meteors drop at determined intervals or are bots setup by players to mine the meteors since they also drop at very specific locations. So it's possible to create a bot to do all of the prison work for you.
I have a feeling because of this once a game finally does come out thats good that involves relatively cheap NFTs people are going to eat it up and slowly ensure NFTs become the norm.. Because they will be so tired of this other shit. Thats essentially how microtransactions started it.. people slowly started raising them and disregarding the issue.
They're designed to look like games to people who don't know that much about games. You know when you watch a movie and there's kids playing a video game, and no one wanted to pay to feature a real game so it's just some blippy-bloppy nonsense? They're like that. Like, they're for people who've never played a 3D game at all.
12:40 I think they had heard the expression "eye of newt", designed the quest around the idea of obtaining an eye of newt, realised they didn't have any assets like that, so they just used something with a big eye because that's close enough?
Could be, but I think it has more to do with it running in a browser. That prevents Decentraland from being able to actually fully utilize your system resources.
@@sodapone I doubt it. That game doesn't look particularly graphically intensive, and browsers expose plenty of APIs that can utilize hardware accelerated graphics rendering. It definitely has more overhead than natively running a game, but not enough to cause chugging for ugly garbage like this. It's either the background crypto mining thing or incompetent devs
@@BierBart12 In the possibility that they did include a miner in the game, it's worth it for the Decentraland devs because all the winning hashes to add a block get sent to those devs, and the devs can use the hash to take the reward. All the electricity cost is incurred by the player, while all the compute power benefits the devs, so it's always worth it to sneak bitcoin miners into things In the normal world, software providers don't do this because it's bad business. But this is crypto, so anything goes as long as you dangle crypto riches in front of users' faces lol
that's because conceptually it's the same exact thing, only executed worse. cryptobros don't like to talk about alphaworld or second life for two reasons. 1st. they're noobs on the internet so they don't remember any of that and 2nd it makes metaverse stuff look like something that was tried 25 years ago and reminder that a normal website is better than a vrml hellscape.
The fact that this cryptocurrency thing has a not only a policeman system but a corrupt and oligarchic political system actually fascinates me. What they need is some Tribunes of the Plebs.
What would be even funnier is a game that's basically GTA where before you spawn you decide how much money you're willing to lose. You're given a pistol and you're dropped into a city full of players. Anyone you kill in the game, you take all the money they wagered at the start. And that's it.
I don't get how they can claim to be decentralized while wanting to implement a police system. Clearly these people need to do more research on what a decentralized economic society would entail. It's like nfts are just becoming capitalism 2 at this rate.
A Tribune of the Plebs would actually massively improve this due to one of the unofficial, but historically verifiable, powers of "the crowd" in Roman politics. If a large crowd of commoners (Plebians) assembled outside the home of an important political figure, broke in, and ripped him limb from limb, the Roman state did nothing. No investigations of instigators (unless the crowd was suspected to have been created by a fellow Patrician). No executions of random members of the crowd to "send a message." They just let it happen and let everyone off. They did this because they figured anyone who got enough people angry at him to form a mob, overwhelm any posted guards on his villa, and kill him, had probably done something to deserve it. Worse, he had done it in a way which was visible to the Plebians. The mob was basically seen as the magistrate in a case against him, with a lawful sentence of death for the finding of guilt. This would massively improve the Decentraland experience. If a 75% vote of all users (for instance, numbers could be changed) could "execute" a massive whale, forcing them to return all their assets and blocking their wallet from the site permanently, their activities would be more constrained and they would need to vote in ways that most of the community didn't hate.
@@GalaxiaStarsthey don’t actually care about decentralization. it’s a buzzword they throw around while they all grift off each other like an alabama orgy
@@jauwnhow do these people believe having this many zeroes means they'll get rich? I don't understand how crypto-bros don't understand this basic math concept.
Haha yeah I have seen these same assets appear in other games ever since I made this. Like the dude from the weird RPG game is just a Mixamo default model
I could not tell you what game it was but I distinctly remember someone who played like, gamejolt games finding a game that included a museum of all the creators favorite art they did. It was not good art, it had nothing to do with the game except sometimes featuring a game character, but it was funny. And free.
Anything being "decentralized" as a concept is so funny to me. The whole thing just screams "we have no good ideas, you come up with something, good luck"
I think my favorite part about watching these old videos is going through the comments and reading all of the crypto bro's trying to stand up for NFT's and crypto still.
@@jauwn Someone I know IRL was one of the unsuspecting gamers who was hyped for No Man's Sky. All the regular traits you'd imagine from such an individual. Met them again, turns out they're now NFT-bros. Libertarian, of the crypto-fascist variety. There exist many drains that people will get sucked down into on the internet, and they all have the same roots, and they all target similar minds, and the end effects trend in certain directions.
This reminded me of a guy I saw on the news where he bought some land for a crap ton of money and was like: "I'm not gonna sell it until it hits 10 million". He later sold the land for 900 bucks or something two years later lol
Btw dunno if you'll read this, but when they mentioned a "delegator", that's usually someone who will give you assets or crypto/money so you get into the game, and the idea is that you will play the game for the to make money. It was rampant in axiinfinity, where people would buy, sell, trade axis, give them to people who couldn't afford them, and make them play and reap a portion of the profit to get back the principal they spent on giving the players their first teams. Also, absolutely heinous that to play poker, you had to buy a $250 jacket in order to get crypto by playing "free" poker, ensuring the creator of the game gets his cut no matter how well or badly you do. And I doubt 99% of the players ever made it back.
@@Levyafan yeah you get it lol. A friend of mine from Brazil wanted me to sponsor him a team but when I looked at the payouts from UA-cam players, it would have taken him a year with perfect play to make back that initial team.
Many whales misused their power, for example demanding that players who lend axis had to play more hours than in most jobs and send nudes before even getting axis to play...
Dark souls game play at the end was a breath of fresh air! Well narrated, funny content. I’ve never payed much interest to nfts but I find the series quite entertaining regardless.
10:35 hearing the "curator on the decentraland wearable committee" drone on about making wearables convinced me to go all in on Decentraland. Having that randomly pop up in a "game" is a truly unique experience, you can't deny that.
All these Play to earn games have the most ridiculous hoops and nonsense to go through to "earn" anything from them. You'd earn more money collecting cans.
That's the thing. The hoops are there to make sure you put money in before you can get any money out. Not only it's ponzi-like economy; but also try to incentivize your participation with some upfront monetary cost to start sinking cost into the game.
@@arturoaguilar6002pay to win is already bad enough but at least the company gets revenue for items that have in-game utility. These play to earn games don't make sense economically because there's no inward flow of cash or crypto other than from digital land buyers. Incoming investors paying returns to existing investors? That's a Ponzi scheme.
4:27 The positional audio problem might be the fault of the map maker? I don’t know a single thing about mapmaking in Decentraland though, so maybe the tools are so bad they just don’t have an option for 2D audio.
I happen to know this and want to put it out in fairness: In the Silly Moustache Name proposal, it wasn't rejected because people didn't want it on the names list, it was rejected because it was already there. I guess the guy making the proposal missed it, but either way I find it perfectly reasonable not to add it to the list twice, especially since that won't make it "more banned" or something.
This is actually really important. It doesn't make the... game? Service? Any better, but there is a HUGE difference between "lol they didn't ban funny mustache from the list because they're Nazti's" and "they rejected the suggestion because it was already done and somebody was taking the piss".
It’s crazy how many people think they can just make their own Roblox. VRChat (and maybe Rec Room or Fortnite Creative, but I haven’t really touched those so idk) is the only one I’ve ever seen manage to do it and even then they have a big enough difference that you could easily consider it a completely different thing
Those games actually give their modders devel9pment tools and create the experience with modders in mind. This game expects modders to develop the game for them
Shameless plug for Folding Ideas’ Future is a Dead Mall video; covers this in particular in excellent detail along with a ton of other metaverse-related stuff.
@@jauwnfunnily enough, i think the pokemon games have a system to transfer pokemons from older games to the new games, without the nft bs, BUT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO TRANSFER THEM TO CALL OF DUTY RIGHT? HAHAHAHA NFT BROS STILL BETTER. And delusional.
As a player of both Roblox and Second Life, this seems hilariously bad. Over my 5+ years on Roblox, I've seen that even some of the worst games on the platform have better performance and playability (Prison Life, Adopt me, Etc.). Over my 2+ years of being on Second Life, I've seen the potential and creativeness of the community, from a game that hasn't changed alot since its inception in 2003, and somehow even the worst launchers have better performance than what Decentraland offers, despite launchers basically being browsers with extra features and polish.
damn it’s crazy seeing your first few videos only having a couple dozen views during this time period. glad youve been able to find success with this series
It's like VRchat, except not in VR, and you have to pay to play, and you can't make friends in it. Or chat. Metaverse is such a stupid marketing strategy that so obviously targets kids with a flashy name and brightly-colored, pricey images. Just call it virtual reality, "metaverse" appeals to no-one older than 12.
Why make a worse version on secondLife? And the graphics, and easy to use for ppl without powerful gaming riggs leaves much to be desired. (I am still talking about second life)
Man when I first saw what the Metaverse was I joked that it was just a shittier second life without furries, and the more I see of the game the more that rings true. So many of the issues with the game are also present in Second Life, a game that came out in -2003- and, apparently, can somehow run better than Decentraland even when you've got a dozen people with the most unoptimized, absurdly high poly count avatars you've ever seen. The way plots are given out, how they can be blocked off, even people's attempts to create actual games using a horribly ill-fitting engine and having to brute force a bunch of stuff with the base engine's barebones features. I've seen every single one of those games, down to the grind-and-earn mechanics, done way way better in Second Life, too.
I know this video is old at this point - but i have to point it out. The cryptobros can only make money when new players join. You, as a new player, asked a group of cryptobros how to start playing. Their answer is "go figure it out on the discord, i aint helping."
Decentraland was already by necessity going to be garbage. The very idea that land ownership is a thing and that the land is the real estate of the game means that every game blocks every other game, gives hard limits to each game's size, so even if Decentraland devs were competent (which they are not, they're less competent than first time solo devs on steam) these limits alone would make good games impossible. Even the games that utilize teleporters for their maps are hilariously awful. The very visible box they're in gives the whole "game" less of an immersion factor than a cheap ride at a local fair, and the area limits for the portals constrain them to the point of uselessness. You cannot make anything good in something like this, even if you wanted to put effort in. And then the "you need X nft to play" on top for some of them.
Hey, sorry I didn't see your comment earlier. Thanks for commenting! I definitely applaud you guys for putting that together, it's got to be a challenge to work within the limitations of the game's engine. As someone who is more involved in Decentraland, where do you see the game going in the future? Do you think that my opinion on the game is common, or am I just overly cynical?
@@jauwn If everything goes well people will keep building games and experiences, learning from previous mistakes. The client will keep improving and new clients will pop (desktop, VR, retro 2D). Some entry barriers will be lowered, for example no needing land to build (Decentraland Worlds). At some point the creator tools will be good enough to attract more devs, and the entry barriers low enough to catch more users. Being an open source project may help to make it more resilient than closed projects. I think everything you said was on point, and many of the issues are regular food for discussions on DCL Discord and Forum. But is nice to have an outsider view. Thanks to you I learned that DCL needs more tutorials and introductions!
@@seventeenraccoonsinatrenchcoat Hi!Yes, there are 6 clients in development right now, 1 "official" and the others made by the community. Decentraland Worlds launched allowing to host scenes just by owning a DCL name, or by running a server. And a new Software Developers Kit was released (SDK7) alongside a GameJam. Userbase is still low, but stable at 3700 average daily users. Open Source is clearly the strong side, with people contributing features and building tools for the ecosystem. No sign of slowing down in the building side.
no away, the Wilderness P2E npc hillbilly model is the SAME ONE used in a crappy gta mobile clone that was in Jerma's Grab That Auto V vid. even on the thumbnail... from 7 years ago 💀
There are two obvious metrics one could use to define a company's success: Does it provide a valuable good/service to people that improves the human condition; 2) gibe money. It would be great if any of these projects cared about the first definition at all.
Wow, it crashed when it ran out of memory. And even says that one solution is to compile it with a bigger memory cap. The memory cap shown is 2 GiB - 4.25 MiB. It simply ran out of the non-LAA memory limit for 32 bit processes.
Hey, Decentraland, I remember that "game". Folding Ideas called it: A Dead Mall. Yeah, the game sucks, the administration sucks and to tie it with the crypto/nft phase just makes it unappealing.
This has been being recommended to me by youtube for a while, but when Hannah Reloaded gave you a shoutout, I decided to finally give in and give you a shot. I don't regret it.
Don't forget the sandbox it's just as bad and overhyped I'm building a Game and I'm just a roofer who taught myself to code and its far better than the crap games released that I have seen and I'm doing it with zero budget after work .they forgot the main part to a game fun
Same bullshit, different goggles with which to see it. Twitter is amazing for the aware, those who are interested in how other minds (attempt) to work. Greatest invention humanity ever made for the curious.
the fact that the clothes are gender locked is hilarious. tech bros are really like "you can be whatever you want in the metaverse" and then if you create a male character they straight up don't allow you to wear anything remotely feminine. beyond parody.
Bruh they literally just took random Synty character assets and threw them next to other styled assets. (Also the performance was probably affected by playing in browser)
Crypto as a whole can basically be explained by that scene in Spongebob where Mr. Krabs says “EVERYONE’S money is good here!” and it cuts to a literal burglar.
21:38 - I maybe misunderstanding something here, but.. How is this definition of "interoperability" not the opposite of "non-fungible"? Oh, also.. Video Is Good!
Wemade has you verify a qr code from your mobile device linked to your account to prevent someone from hacking it. Not sure how hard it is to bypass something like that though.
Their website alone is draining my mobile data by redownloading a horribly compressed 140 MB video over and over again for no reason, if they cannot optimize their website no wonder the game is slow
22:47 God, who made that? that is a terrible representation of currency use! The canadian and american dollar aren't interchangable, same goes for the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, or islandic crown. They might as well be Euros and rubles for how different they are.
It's a map based on the origin of the word used for that areas currency. Now does it make sense in relation to my video, no, but it was the first google result and I guess I was lazy 🤣
The golf minigame looked kind of fun with custom obstacles like the loop-a-round. If there were more fun minigames like that I can imagine people legit playing or even paying for skins, but you don't really need crypto for any of that.
Thanks for watching, everyone! Suggestions for the next game to play are welcome!
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@@ninjamalec your wish has been granted. Jauwn just posted an update for this game.
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No way! Cool!
Cornucopias!!!!!
>decentraland
>look inside
>centralized
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Every video game is centralized by definition.
@@williamdrum9899 Except self-hostable open-source games or the few fully-on-chain games.
@@qfrax I don't think "fully-on-chain" games are technologically achievable
@@qfraxYou know, things you made up in your head don't count as actual examples
Multiplayer games used to be decentralized with dedicated servers you could host yourself, crypto people just dont seem to value actual decentralization or open source principles
The funniest thing about the Decentraland DAO is the time when they voted on whether they should address the fact that rich people can overrule the popular vote. The vast majority of people voted to change the system but like only 4 users with tons of tokens were able to overrule the vote…
What a terrible system
Everything you have to know about how "decentralized" these DAOs are.
Looks like real life
Dude these games are lowkey kind of haunting because they're like authentic simulators of the worst possible outcome of capitalism. Nothing is for fun, everything is for "profit" and ownership, and democracy is controlled exclusively by the wealthy.
But this is crypto and we are of course still early. Right now we are at feudalism, which took humanity tens of thousands of years to reach.
love how this went from "fully decentralized and community-run" to "oligarchy" within the span of a single sentence.
Well, that's what "libertarians" are. They haven't got a problem with the oligarchy or the system per sé, they just want to be on the top.
@@youtube-kit9450 Pretty much this. The only reason they claim to hate those things is because they aren't in control of those things.
There's a reason no one is talking to you. Imagine excitedly running around a slave labour camp asking people what's up and dancing. You probably would just get some sad, confused glances as they continue to toil
Actually, most of the people in there are either focusing on something else since the meteors drop at determined intervals or are bots setup by players to mine the meteors since they also drop at very specific locations. So it's possible to create a bot to do all of the prison work for you.
This is hilarious to
Imagine
Goddamn this is such a funny comment
Mine meteors while your PC mines crypto
All these "games" feel like the developers have heard of the concept of fun maybe once in their life, and immediately forgot what it was all about.
Money = fun, right?
I have a feeling because of this once a game finally does come out thats good that involves relatively cheap NFTs people are going to eat it up and slowly ensure NFTs become the norm.. Because they will be so tired of this other shit. Thats essentially how microtransactions started it.. people slowly started raising them and disregarding the issue.
They're designed to look like games to people who don't know that much about games. You know when you watch a movie and there's kids playing a video game, and no one wanted to pay to feature a real game so it's just some blippy-bloppy nonsense? They're like that. Like, they're for people who've never played a 3D game at all.
@@nwerd7584 Nice fantasy
@@ng.tr.s.p.1254 I remember some dumb loser told me that about microtransactions too.
Since this video, the floor price for wearables has gone from $250 to $5 lol
And $5 is still way too much money for these things.
My five dollars is better spent towards damn vbucks.
Still way too much since they claim they're F2P lol
Remember when people were complaining about 2 dollar skins?
12:40 I think they had heard the expression "eye of newt", designed the quest around the idea of obtaining an eye of newt, realised they didn't have any assets like that, so they just used something with a big eye because that's close enough?
Clearly, they are all just named Newt. And he just killed them. The murderer.
They got turned into newts, but they got better.
this may sound a bit conspiratorial but perhaps the reason it performs so poorly is because it's also mining crypto at the same time.
Could be, but I think it has more to do with it running in a browser. That prevents Decentraland from being able to actually fully utilize your system resources.
@@sodapone Barring those browser issues, I assume it wouldn't even be worth having a bitcoin miner in a browser game?
@@sodapone I doubt it. That game doesn't look particularly graphically intensive, and browsers expose plenty of APIs that can utilize hardware accelerated graphics rendering. It definitely has more overhead than natively running a game, but not enough to cause chugging for ugly garbage like this.
It's either the background crypto mining thing or incompetent devs
@@BierBart12 In the possibility that they did include a miner in the game, it's worth it for the Decentraland devs because all the winning hashes to add a block get sent to those devs, and the devs can use the hash to take the reward. All the electricity cost is incurred by the player, while all the compute power benefits the devs, so it's always worth it to sneak bitcoin miners into things
In the normal world, software providers don't do this because it's bad business. But this is crypto, so anything goes as long as you dangle crypto riches in front of users' faces lol
@@GyroCannonwhy not both?
Man, this really gives me that "playing second life in an internet café in the early 2000's vibe" But somehow even more primitive
At least those players weren't trying to get rich trying to scam you
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that's because conceptually it's the same exact thing, only executed worse.
cryptobros don't like to talk about alphaworld or second life for two reasons. 1st. they're noobs on the internet so they don't remember any of that and 2nd it makes metaverse stuff look like something that was tried 25 years ago and reminder that a normal website is better than a vrml hellscape.
honestly there'd be charm in that vibe if it weren't a scam.
You would think they could at least decentralize the music in their game. Great video!
Appreciate the kind words!
The fact that this cryptocurrency thing has a not only a policeman system but a corrupt and oligarchic political system actually fascinates me. What they need is some Tribunes of the Plebs.
What would be even funnier is a game that's basically GTA where before you spawn you decide how much money you're willing to lose. You're given a pistol and you're dropped into a city full of players. Anyone you kill in the game, you take all the money they wagered at the start. And that's it.
I don't get how they can claim to be decentralized while wanting to implement a police system. Clearly these people need to do more research on what a decentralized economic society would entail.
It's like nfts are just becoming capitalism 2 at this rate.
@@GalaxiaStars You can't be decentralized and have police.
A Tribune of the Plebs would actually massively improve this due to one of the unofficial, but historically verifiable, powers of "the crowd" in Roman politics. If a large crowd of commoners (Plebians) assembled outside the home of an important political figure, broke in, and ripped him limb from limb, the Roman state did nothing. No investigations of instigators (unless the crowd was suspected to have been created by a fellow Patrician). No executions of random members of the crowd to "send a message." They just let it happen and let everyone off.
They did this because they figured anyone who got enough people angry at him to form a mob, overwhelm any posted guards on his villa, and kill him, had probably done something to deserve it. Worse, he had done it in a way which was visible to the Plebians. The mob was basically seen as the magistrate in a case against him, with a lawful sentence of death for the finding of guilt.
This would massively improve the Decentraland experience. If a 75% vote of all users (for instance, numbers could be changed) could "execute" a massive whale, forcing them to return all their assets and blocking their wallet from the site permanently, their activities would be more constrained and they would need to vote in ways that most of the community didn't hate.
@@GalaxiaStarsthey don’t actually care about decentralization. it’s a buzzword they throw around while they all grift off each other like an alabama orgy
"and it's literally a prison labor camp" is hilarious
the wages are about the same too, $.0000001 per rock mined (if you are able to sell that rock)
@@jauwnThat's a big IF! 🤣😂
@@jauwnyour editing is so awesome. Cant wait to see you hit 100k
@@jauwnhow do these people believe having this many zeroes means they'll get rich? I don't understand how crypto-bros don't understand this basic math concept.
Yes, i lolz upon hearing that. Really made my day. 😂
this might surprise you but almost everything in decentraland are built in demo assets for several different engines
Haha yeah I have seen these same assets appear in other games ever since I made this. Like the dude from the weird RPG game is just a Mixamo default model
After the crazy games Josh Strife Hayes played on mmorpg series I thought I’d seen the worst. Crypto games quickly prove that wrong.
Fortnite actually has virtual museums. It's pretty cool. No web3 BS required.
Not to mention it has an actual really fun game attached to the museum
Namco Museum in 1997:
I could not tell you what game it was but I distinctly remember someone who played like, gamejolt games finding a game that included a museum of all the creators favorite art they did. It was not good art, it had nothing to do with the game except sometimes featuring a game character, but it was funny. And free.
Anything being "decentralized" as a concept is so funny to me. The whole thing just screams "we have no good ideas, you come up with something, good luck"
I think my favorite part about watching these old videos is going through the comments and reading all of the crypto bro's trying to stand up for NFT's and crypto still.
You can see where NFTs and crypto started to get less popular by how less people left comments. Now hardly anyone defends crypto
@@jauwn Someone I know IRL was one of the unsuspecting gamers who was hyped for No Man's Sky. All the regular traits you'd imagine from such an individual. Met them again, turns out they're now NFT-bros. Libertarian, of the crypto-fascist variety. There exist many drains that people will get sucked down into on the internet, and they all have the same roots, and they all target similar minds, and the end effects trend in certain directions.
This reminded me of a guy I saw on the news where he bought some land for a crap ton of money and was like: "I'm not gonna sell it until it hits 10 million". He later sold the land for 900 bucks or something two years later lol
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Looks like a "kyari" is an NFT from a Pokemon knockoff NFT game called ethermon. Potentially a future episode on this series?
At least it looks better than Pixelmon (and I'm not talking about the Minecraft mod)
Btw dunno if you'll read this, but when they mentioned a "delegator", that's usually someone who will give you assets or crypto/money so you get into the game, and the idea is that you will play the game for the to make money. It was rampant in axiinfinity, where people would buy, sell, trade axis, give them to people who couldn't afford them, and make them play and reap a portion of the profit to get back the principal they spent on giving the players their first teams.
Also, absolutely heinous that to play poker, you had to buy a $250 jacket in order to get crypto by playing "free" poker, ensuring the creator of the game gets his cut no matter how well or badly you do. And I doubt 99% of the players ever made it back.
I mean that's how all casinos work
so it's basically giving credit to newbies in exchange for indentured servitude?
@@Levyafan yeah you get it lol. A friend of mine from Brazil wanted me to sponsor him a team but when I looked at the payouts from UA-cam players, it would have taken him a year with perfect play to make back that initial team.
Many whales misused their power, for example demanding that players who lend axis had to play more hours than in most jobs and send nudes before even getting axis to play...
Dark souls game play at the end was a breath of fresh air! Well narrated, funny content. I’ve never payed much interest to nfts but I find the series quite entertaining regardless.
Thank you for the kind words, Eric!
10:35 hearing the "curator on the decentraland wearable committee" drone on about making wearables convinced me to go all in on Decentraland. Having that randomly pop up in a "game" is a truly unique experience, you can't deny that.
All these Play to earn games have the most ridiculous hoops and nonsense to go through to "earn" anything from them.
You'd earn more money collecting cans.
Literally
Collecting cans might make a person accidentally breathe fresh air and stretch their muscles.
That's a big no-no.
That's the thing. The hoops are there to make sure you put money in before you can get any money out. Not only it's ponzi-like economy; but also try to incentivize your participation with some upfront monetary cost to start sinking cost into the game.
@@arturoaguilar6002pay to win is already bad enough but at least the company gets revenue for items that have in-game utility. These play to earn games don't make sense economically because there's no inward flow of cash or crypto other than from digital land buyers. Incoming investors paying returns to existing investors? That's a Ponzi scheme.
Not to mention the games youre playing are so simple as to be put to shame by mobile games
I love how the search terms graph for metaverse looks just like a financial bubble
Quality content. Showing us how transparent the Emperor's clothes really are.
More like sack with holes...
4:27 The positional audio problem might be the fault of the map maker? I don’t know a single thing about mapmaking in Decentraland though, so maybe the tools are so bad they just don’t have an option for 2D audio.
Not even 2D, 0D point audio. No dimensions to consider, always the same no matter the position of player or camera.
This game gives me the same feeling as videos about dead malls
Have you seen video of Folding Ideas about metaverses?
Metaverse NFT crypto games going from dead malls to empty billboards.
One might even say the Future is a Dead Mall
12:23 holy s*** that NPC is the same model from Jerma's "Grab That Auto" video, i'd recognize it anywhere lmao
I remember it from one of Vinesauce Vinny's "Worst of Android Trash" streams. It was the model for the neighbor in one of the Hello Neighbor rip-offs.
Pulls the mask off quite well, thanks for enduring it.
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We already have a word for a decentralized area of land: the wilderness. Wonder why most people don't live there...
I happen to know this and want to put it out in fairness: In the Silly Moustache Name proposal, it wasn't rejected because people didn't want it on the names list, it was rejected because it was already there. I guess the guy making the proposal missed it, but either way I find it perfectly reasonable not to add it to the list twice, especially since that won't make it "more banned" or something.
This is actually really important. It doesn't make the... game? Service? Any better, but there is a HUGE difference between "lol they didn't ban funny mustache from the list because they're Nazti's" and "they rejected the suggestion because it was already done and somebody was taking the piss".
It’s crazy how many people think they can just make their own Roblox. VRChat (and maybe Rec Room or Fortnite Creative, but I haven’t really touched those so idk) is the only one I’ve ever seen manage to do it and even then they have a big enough difference that you could easily consider it a completely different thing
Those games actually give their modders devel9pment tools and create the experience with modders in mind.
This game expects modders to develop the game for them
12:06 that's the fucking guy from Jerma's Grab The Auto V video from like 2015, oh my lord
Lol it's the default model that comes with Mixamo animations
to paraphrase king of the hill: 'you're not making nfts better, you're just making gaming worse'
Shameless plug for Folding Ideas’ Future is a Dead Mall video; covers this in particular in excellent detail along with a ton of other metaverse-related stuff.
If I wanted to play a glitchy game, I’d just go play Pokémon S/V
Yeah but are your Pokemon stored on the blockchain? Didn't think so.
Least the gameplay itself is incredibly fun and is a great game overall if you ignore performance issues
@@jauwnfunnily enough, i think the pokemon games have a system to transfer pokemons from older games to the new games, without the nft bs, BUT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO TRANSFER THEM TO CALL OF DUTY RIGHT? HAHAHAHA NFT BROS STILL BETTER.
And delusional.
12:05 thats the model thats used in the mobile gta clone “grab that auto” that jerma played a while ago
Yeah it’s one of the adobe mixamo default models for testing animations
As a player of both Roblox and Second Life, this seems hilariously bad. Over my 5+ years on Roblox, I've seen that even some of the worst games on the platform have better performance and playability (Prison Life, Adopt me, Etc.). Over my 2+ years of being on Second Life, I've seen the potential and creativeness of the community, from a game that hasn't changed alot since its inception in 2003, and somehow even the worst launchers have better performance than what Decentraland offers, despite launchers basically being browsers with extra features and polish.
For those interested in a longer breakdown of Decentraland's failings at a fundamental level, Folding Ideas did a video essay on it too
damn it’s crazy seeing your first few videos only having a couple dozen views during this time period. glad youve been able to find success with this series
Decentraland makes Fallout 76 Camps look more organized with how players build camps all over the map in that.
Nothing says freedom like gender specific clothing.
It's like VRchat, except not in VR, and you have to pay to play, and you can't make friends in it. Or chat.
Metaverse is such a stupid marketing strategy that so obviously targets kids with a flashy name and brightly-colored, pricey images. Just call it virtual reality, "metaverse" appeals to no-one older than 12.
This game is fascinating in how bad it is in EVERY way.
Why make a worse version on secondLife? And the graphics, and easy to use for ppl without powerful gaming riggs leaves much to be desired. (I am still talking about second life)
Watching you shit on NFT games has become my new addiction. You rock!
Any game attached to crypto/NFT, isn't a game... they're all scams.
In these series you are never going to find a game lol
Great video tho
this is like those fake games you see on TV shows like CSI and the like
Man when I first saw what the Metaverse was I joked that it was just a shittier second life without furries, and the more I see of the game the more that rings true. So many of the issues with the game are also present in Second Life, a game that came out in -2003- and, apparently, can somehow run better than Decentraland even when you've got a dozen people with the most unoptimized, absurdly high poly count avatars you've ever seen. The way plots are given out, how they can be blocked off, even people's attempts to create actual games using a horribly ill-fitting engine and having to brute force a bunch of stuff with the base engine's barebones features. I've seen every single one of those games, down to the grind-and-earn mechanics, done way way better in Second Life, too.
The guy at 13:00 is the Grab That Auto default model lmao
Stock rock music is now stuck in my head.
free to play only for only $250
what an absolute steal!!
Your money gets stolen..
I know this video is old at this point - but i have to point it out.
The cryptobros can only make money when new players join. You, as a new player, asked a group of cryptobros how to start playing. Their answer is "go figure it out on the discord, i aint helping."
Sh youre right
In other words, they couldn't be bothered to make their own pyramid scheme work. 😝
Decentraland was already by necessity going to be garbage. The very idea that land ownership is a thing and that the land is the real estate of the game means that every game blocks every other game, gives hard limits to each game's size, so even if Decentraland devs were competent (which they are not, they're less competent than first time solo devs on steam) these limits alone would make good games impossible.
Even the games that utilize teleporters for their maps are hilariously awful. The very visible box they're in gives the whole "game" less of an immersion factor than a cheap ride at a local fair, and the area limits for the portals constrain them to the point of uselessness. You cannot make anything good in something like this, even if you wanted to put effort in.
And then the "you need X nft to play" on top for some of them.
Oh, so the size of the map is based on how much digital land you own? Oh that is bad.
Hey, great video highlighting all the challenges related to Decentraland. Glad you enjoyed our game Golfcraft, at least a little bit XD
Agree, it's a respectful and constructive video
Hey, sorry I didn't see your comment earlier. Thanks for commenting! I definitely applaud you guys for putting that together, it's got to be a challenge to work within the limitations of the game's engine. As someone who is more involved in Decentraland, where do you see the game going in the future? Do you think that my opinion on the game is common, or am I just overly cynical?
@@jauwn If everything goes well people will keep building games and experiences, learning from previous mistakes. The client will keep improving and new clients will pop (desktop, VR, retro 2D). Some entry barriers will be lowered, for example no needing land to build (Decentraland Worlds). At some point the creator tools will be good enough to attract more devs, and the entry barriers low enough to catch more users. Being an open source project may help to make it more resilient than closed projects.
I think everything you said was on point, and many of the issues are regular food for discussions on DCL Discord and Forum. But is nice to have an outsider view. Thanks to you I learned that DCL needs more tutorials and introductions!
@@eibriel any of that happen yet
@@seventeenraccoonsinatrenchcoat Hi!Yes, there are 6 clients in development right now, 1 "official" and the others made by the community.
Decentraland Worlds launched allowing to host scenes just by owning a DCL name, or by running a server.
And a new Software Developers Kit was released (SDK7) alongside a GameJam.
Userbase is still low, but stable at 3700 average daily users.
Open Source is clearly the strong side, with people contributing features and building tools for the ecosystem.
No sign of slowing down in the building side.
no away, the Wilderness P2E npc hillbilly model is the SAME ONE used in a crappy gta mobile clone that was in Jerma's Grab That Auto V vid. even on the thumbnail... from 7 years ago 💀
It’s the default model that comes with Adobe’s Mixamo animations lol
>decentralized
>manage and control by a group
>confuse.jpg
Rule of thumb
If the game has no demo
No executable
Demands money upfront
Its a scam
There are two obvious metrics one could use to define a company's success: Does it provide a valuable good/service to people that improves the human condition; 2) gibe money.
It would be great if any of these projects cared about the first definition at all.
Wow, it crashed when it ran out of memory. And even says that one solution is to compile it with a bigger memory cap.
The memory cap shown is 2 GiB - 4.25 MiB.
It simply ran out of the non-LAA memory limit for 32 bit processes.
the dragon just nopeing out through the wall got me giggling :D
12:21 NO FUCKING WAY THATS THE grab the auto 5 MF
Wow! I love how this game is so "decentralized" they don't explain anything so you won't have a centralized way to know what to do at all!
12:01 woah hold the phone. is that the guy from grab that auto????
The voting system should be one vote per user because right now what you have is whoever has spent the most gets to make all the decisions.
I agree, but what's stopping one person from making multiple accounts?
He was so innocent back then. Now not even the strongest of bad audio equization or asset flips can phase him.
@@embasorangiratina36 😈
You didn't thank the person who answered your questions 😠
Hey, Decentraland, I remember that "game". Folding Ideas called it: A Dead Mall.
Yeah, the game sucks, the administration sucks and to tie it with the crypto/nft phase just makes it unappealing.
This has been being recommended to me by youtube for a while, but when Hannah Reloaded gave you a shoutout, I decided to finally give in and give you a shot.
I don't regret it.
Glad you liked it! Hannah is awesome and she really helped boost my channel in the early days so always happy to see her fans in my comments
Well, that was decentrabland.
So decentraland is just poor man's roblox for crypto bros.
Poor Man's Roblox for rich men
I love the sudden change of tone when you realized the Golf game’s leaderboard was scored by games played.
Don't forget the sandbox it's just as bad and overhyped I'm building a Game and I'm just a roofer who taught myself to code and its far better than the crap games released that I have seen and I'm doing it with zero budget after work .they forgot the main part to a game fun
I actually have a review of that game on my channel! You’re right, it’s absolutely horrible.
"Who in their right mind would pay $250 to play any game?"
Seemingly not Tarkov players anymore LMAO
I don’t get it. These projects are junk piled on junk piled on junk. Who is investing in this trash?
Dummies
scam artists. And either they're damn good at it, or everybody else is just super dumb
Didn't they learn anything from runescape? Having players vote on change is a horrible idea
Love this series idea. Keep it up!
Thanks! Next episode to come soon!
In the world of nft games "it's a playable game" is pretty high praise
The metaverse museum is called "Occupy White Walls". It's actually kind of fun to set up a gallery with whatever art you want.
The prison labor world feels like a punishment from Dante's Inferno.
It warms my heart to see RON top that indie chart
12:06 Heck I saw that model from a video of Jerma playing GTA clones on mobile
Crypto, MLMs, gambling, Ayn Rand... And so on. People won't learn
Same bullshit, different goggles with which to see it. Twitter is amazing for the aware, those who are interested in how other minds (attempt) to work. Greatest invention humanity ever made for the curious.
the fact that the clothes are gender locked is hilarious. tech bros are really like "you can be whatever you want in the metaverse" and then if you create a male character they straight up don't allow you to wear anything remotely feminine. beyond parody.
Bruh they literally just took random Synty character assets and threw them next to other styled assets. (Also the performance was probably affected by playing in browser)
Crypto as a whole can basically be explained by that scene in Spongebob where Mr. Krabs says “EVERYONE’S money is good here!” and it cuts to a literal burglar.
I feel like the reason there's almost no gameplay is because this was yet another nft culture rugpull scam lol
So basically all they did was recreate PlayStation Home from 2008, except much, much worse...😮
21:38 - I maybe misunderstanding something here, but.. How is this definition of "interoperability" not the opposite of "non-fungible"?
Oh, also.. Video Is Good!
Wemade has you verify a qr code from your mobile device linked to your account to prevent someone from hacking it. Not sure how hard it is to bypass something like that though.
Hilarious watching this and knowing that this was when decentraland was doing relatively well.
Their website alone is draining my mobile data by redownloading a horribly compressed 140 MB video over and over again for no reason, if they cannot optimize their website no wonder the game is slow
22:47 God, who made that? that is a terrible representation of currency use!
The canadian and american dollar aren't interchangable, same goes for the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, or islandic crown. They might as well be Euros and rubles for how different they are.
It's a map based on the origin of the word used for that areas currency. Now does it make sense in relation to my video, no, but it was the first google result and I guess I was lazy 🤣
"Hats are never free!"
"Yeah, I thought, that IS a cool hat, and it's free!"
nft game try not to look like flash game from 2010 challenge
Difficulty: Impossible
The origin-centralized plot structure is something I'd find on a 2016-era 1.8-based Minecraft server's creative mode section, not the metaverse...
The golf minigame looked kind of fun with custom obstacles like the loop-a-round. If there were more fun minigames like that I can imagine people legit playing or even paying for skins, but you don't really need crypto for any of that.
"I decided to talk to a woman" wow way to flex on the Web3.0 crowd
Yo this video was thorough and really well done... Nice work!
all the fun of telepresence and all of the excitement of ponzi scheme
12:49 that is literally just an owl bear from phantasy star lmfaooo. How the heck has no one noticed this?