Took me until the second last sentence to realize this was sincere.
Same. I thought this was like the libertarian police copypasta
Who the fuck wants to grind for the same resources in every game?
I legit thought this was a leftist doing a bit about how the metaverse will just be digital slavery disguised as a video game. Everything even has “chain” in the name, it’s so on the nose! :rosa-shining:
But if I’m the developer of Old School Rune Chains, why would I want to allow players to progress in my game by engaging with someone else’s game you nimrod?
This guy’s buddy spent his time & money on The Elder Chains Online for 2 years and now I’m supposed to let them have all the cool things from my game? I think the fuck not.
I genuinely thought this was a description of a horrifying gaming dystopia hell until the last line. Yeah what if all games were the worst part of intrusive brain hacking mobile games, imagine the power of blockchains. I love it when Raid: Shadow legends has a secondary grindy match 3 minigame. I love it when games not only have ads but also take an entire hydroelectric dam to transfer my 33 flurgle gems to Butthole Quest so I can roll exactly 1 loot box.
This guy is describing games that only investors would care about because they can be proven to become addictive and exploitative. I’m so thankful China took steps to ban this sort of shit. I hope they do more. I’m so mad.
Just let me play Castlevania. Make another Silent Hill. Give me Disco Elysium 2 please.
…Then I realized this is really dull so I just used my USD to pay some dude in the 3rd world to grind my resources for me. But other wealthier groups of people already realized they could do this and were able to rush and acquire all of the limited issue resources. Now I try to do dull repetitive grinds to get resources to give to those groups since they control every game world and I am only allowed to exist by their consent.
Way to go you turned the escape from imperialist capitalist hellscape into an imperialist capitalist hellscape
me an aspiring game dev: i’m going to make a new game!!!
crypto game police: ok cool! first you need to plan how to incorporate all these 89073465983745 different blockchain items and how they will fit and function within your game and correspond to every other game in existence, past and future.
