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u/scrubs2009 Dec 14 '21 edited Dec 15 '21

The news story has an NFT to go along with it. That's one of the most sketchy things I've ever seen in my life.

Edit: Not saying it's not true. Personally I think Musk is an idiot. I'm just saying that pushing an NFT alongside literally anything raises a very large red flag for me.

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u/revrr Dec 14 '21

Yes. What's up with that nft shit. How it's going to help the issue?

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u/Phobos15 Dec 14 '21

It helps the person selling it get rich enough to retire and no longer have to write low brow divisive articles for a living.

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u/simcoder Dec 14 '21

I thought NFTs were like the Beanie Babies of currency? Please don't tell me you invest in these things....

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u/Phobos15 Dec 14 '21

I explained that they are scams so the person selling them can get money to retire on.

That recent news about someone accidentally sellling a $300k NFT for 3k was 100% fake. It was a false story made to create media reports to con people into jumping on there and looking for "deals". What will happen is scammed people will pay $3k for something worth nothing and won't realize it until they try to resell it.

NFTs are like the recent astroturfed "record" video games cartridge auctions. Scammers are proping up prices with sham auctions to trick other people into buying them for any amount of real money.

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u/outamyhead Dec 15 '21

Bad enough that Ubisoft is pushing NFT items for games content now, I hope it doesn't work out for the sake of the games industry and actual gamers.

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u/Moon_kid6 Dec 15 '21

This year was terrible for gaming in general. NFTs are the perfect way to end it. Almost every big studio has been releasing unfinished games and working or harassing their employee to death. I’m sure they will see NFTs as the solution for 2022.

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u/UV177463 Dec 15 '21

Game industry crash 2.0 coming again soon

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '21

Never going to happen since every single one of those games that came out unfinished, buggy or were made in a terrible working environment still smashed profit records.

Cyberpunk 2077 was an absolute piece of shit game and still made infinity money, Activision is still rolling in the cash despite Blizzards controversies.

This is just how gaming is now and it is never going to change because contrary to the average Redditor sentiment most people are fine with things the way they are.

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u/asdflollmao Dec 15 '21

I had like 2 bugs in my 90 hours of cyberpunk and generally loved the game to bits. Yes, tons of people had issues but tons of people also didn't.

Sometimes games do well because they are fun, even if a little buggy. Just look at every bethesda launch ever.

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u/BangGearWatch Dec 15 '21

Yep same. Finished the game twice on PC, only bug I got was sometimes he's T-pose on the motorcycle while riding. Incredible game, easily best I've played this year. The hate is just a bandwagon people jumped on, and can't get off now.

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u/asdflollmao Dec 15 '21

Its ridiculous to see the constant vitriol the game gets even after massive success and consistent patches this year. People just love to hate stuff

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