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  • Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we focus on the world of gaming that's infested with buzzwords such as Metaverses, Blockchain gaming and "Play-to-earn" and discuss just how much of an attack it is on the world of gaming we all know and love. Thanks for watching!
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  • @SomeOrdinaryGamers
    @SomeOrdinaryGamers  2 ปีที่แล้ว +762

    Sorry for the voice over, throat is completely gone because of the flu.
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  • @jabatheshort660
    @jabatheshort660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2055

    I think we just need to create Grass 2. This way everyone can buy virtual grass and touch it on your virtual land

    • @stellviahohenheim
      @stellviahohenheim 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      I'm going to create virtual 2 which is just real life

    • @vampvhs
      @vampvhs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stellviahohenheim I’ll make an afterlife metaverse, it euthanizes you and sends you to an afterlife, there’s not many testimonies or first hand reviews, but that’s just a small setback for moving to the next dimension, there’s no proof it works, but it’s worth a try. You wouldn’t wanna risk FOMO now would you?

    • @Real-Name..Maqavoy
      @Real-Name..Maqavoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeep. Lets be honest we need this seeing how dumbfounded ppl are getting Each day.

    • @ToasterTR
      @ToasterTR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Someone actually made that i think

    • @dennis07reyes
      @dennis07reyes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Call it Grass 2.0 to make it more attractive sounding.

  • @michaelturk7237
    @michaelturk7237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2170

    When I was a child, I envisioned VR/gaming/simulation as an opportunity to explore new, complex, exotic, and impossible environments. I foresaw it as a chance for doctors to swim around people's bloodstream or airways to see what's wrong, or for the disabled to experience life as we live it, or for robot operators to be able to maneuver drones in safety. Never in a million years did I imagine that they'd transfer the eternal grift of the real estate bubble to the virtual world. Jesus cyberdecking Christ what is this timeline...

    • @CypressDahlia
      @CypressDahlia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      TBF the good people in places like VR Chat are doing that for us. You know, people that care about using VR to its fullest potential.

    • @connorm955
      @connorm955 2 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @Kavetion Ain't true if you have to say it

    • @taumpytears
      @taumpytears 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      @@connorm955 report and move on, dont reply to bots

    • @dakat5131
      @dakat5131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      It's one of those things that has cool or at least fun applications, yet is being overshadowed by scummy entities. Instead of innovating and making it better, they've muscled their way in, taking claim of all the associated language and then try to sell you the bare minimum of effort. And with the rise of more "legit" but controlling companies like Amazon and Meta, even the less scammy ones will be tainted by trying to have control of your life through it. (Can you imagine having to go to work with your VR headset all the time? That you have to buy from them? When a webcam or even just email would have sufficed?)
      Being associated with things like crypto scams and shallow, buzzword filled marketing pushes means that eventually, even trying to develop something for it is going to have to overcome the hurdle of people's reaction being "ugh another one of those things?"
      The last few years they've basically grabbed concepts that have been slowly growing for decades and are trying to speedrun them into the ground.

    • @thedarkdragon1437
      @thedarkdragon1437 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      a dead one. even worse, it has deviated from what it was supposed to be, for the worse direction

  • @FectoElfilin
    @FectoElfilin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1531

    Metaverse moment. Remember, you can always screenshot NFTs. It's always morally correct.

    • @ydid687
      @ydid687 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      fuck spam bots

    • @bigtitmaster
      @bigtitmaster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @YeaMan when you spell right

    • @Riokv
      @Riokv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@bigtitmaster Its on purpose so bots have a harder time recognizing it as spam

    • @rambu3013
      @rambu3013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It's an obligation!

    • @laboskie349
      @laboskie349 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The good thing to do

  • @troubleshootingGG
    @troubleshootingGG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +655

    “Ladies and gentlemen … virtual land is, and always will be - for the most part - a fucking scam”
    This is why I watch Muta

    • @MinerDiner
      @MinerDiner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      also Muta at the beginning of the video: "Nothing in here I'm going to outright say is a scam"

    • @Priest92
      @Priest92 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gay

    • @mineboom7377
      @mineboom7377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Kavetion no you're not

    • @burgerkingfries4941
      @burgerkingfries4941 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mineboom7377 Fact.

    • @scj643
      @scj643 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Buying a house in FF XIV

  • @jacpas2012
    @jacpas2012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    I was not expecting Muta’s Seth Rogan impression 3 minutes into the video. Thanks for the video.

    • @Jordan-ok4yb
      @Jordan-ok4yb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Muta is just an Indian Seth Rogan lmao

    • @Devin7Eleven
      @Devin7Eleven 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@Jordan-ok4yb Nah, he's too good of a person to be a Seth Rogan counterpart

    • @quillclock
      @quillclock 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      sounded more like Alex Jones to me XD

    • @CatFish107
      @CatFish107 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Devin7Eleven Please don't tell me Seth is like the other famous Rogan dude.

    • @CatFish107
      @CatFish107 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Devin7Eleven I'm ignorant of most things, so he just seems like a goofy chubby stoner fella from my neck of the woods. One of the few movie people I enjoy who I haven't learned to be garbage humans.

  • @ktnt100
    @ktnt100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +384

    Dude you don't get it. With NFTs you will be able to [thing that existed since early MMOs], [Second life 2 electric Boogaloo], [VRchat but made so corporate safe to the point of being as bland as porridge], and [thing that could never work unless you turn every game into an extremely unified framework of stats and models].

    • @3xceIIent
      @3xceIIent 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Man you so get it. NFTs are definitely the future. Respect.

    • @Ors1k
      @Ors1k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WAGMI

    • @Fxmbro
      @Fxmbro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Guys I love nfts

    • @skinwalker69420
      @skinwalker69420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      With the way you typed it out, it looks like something spamton would say in deltarune, especially since it's a scam

    • @D44RK_Iced_Yogs
      @D44RK_Iced_Yogs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually! It’s honestly surprising how dumb people are when it comes to gaming. It’s what MMO’s been doing since the existence of that genre! RL, Trove, CSGO, WoW- the list goes on for ages about how traders have made money with in game items.
      It’s nothing new, it’s nothing special and I don’t condone it unless you know how to do it and now if anyone who talks about trading to make money in games are labeled CRYPTO BROS because some dumbass labeled it as a crypto thing. JUST GOD HOW ARE PEOPLE EATING THIS CRAP UP?!

  • @pixelpoppyproductions
    @pixelpoppyproductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +311

    I want to play a “dystopian future” game where your character lives in a crackhouse / slum hellscape, but your character escapes reality by putting on VR glasses to live in the Metaverse.
    Now that’s “meta”.

    • @roninsjourney7560
      @roninsjourney7560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Not to mention that we could already be in a simulation right now..."meta meta".

    • @arthe9555
      @arthe9555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      so basically ready player one

    • @timisthebestboi0
      @timisthebestboi0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      That's a part of ready player one my guy

    • @alinsect
      @alinsect 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      deadass described the current world

    • @blackroberts6290
      @blackroberts6290 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@arthe9555 but that is a novel/movie franchise

  • @sirswagabadha4896
    @sirswagabadha4896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    Still surprising to see how many companies are trying and failing to chase the success CS:GO has. Skins and knives that sell for thousands or in some cases tens of thousands of dollars, and yet they remain relatively stable for close to a decade now. They show that a digital cosmetic can still provide utility and hold value beyond pyramid scheme reselling.

    • @Trashboat4444
      @Trashboat4444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Not just CSGO but TF2 too

    • @freedustin
      @freedustin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      artificial scarcity is no better than pyramid scheme. both are dishonest AF.

    • @Mantulisme
      @Mantulisme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      CSGO skins and TF2 items have a different purpose than just being an investment, people also use them because they look cool in-game.

    • @chickentenderlover2412
      @chickentenderlover2412 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      its weird how when its centralized it seems to be stable

    • @NicoSleepyLeen
      @NicoSleepyLeen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Reason is, CSGO can be an amazing game if you like it, same with TF2, i used to play hours every day, used to bet on matches and everything was fun
      Companies are trying to sell you the lootboxes without the good game, proof they don't understand anything about the customer

  • @HonkeeMcgee
    @HonkeeMcgee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    3:25
    Muta sounds like he took the “snort g fuel” meme seriously and now lives with crippling lung disease

    • @bestledisthe
      @bestledisthe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      His ball dropped

    • @milesipka
      @milesipka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He just had the flu - look up his comment at the top of the comment section. I knew how he felt because I just recovered from "Moronic Rona" and my voice was rough for a while.

    • @benlatin911
      @benlatin911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Solid snake just came out of nowhere

    • @a_smile55
      @a_smile55 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well now we know what happened

  • @robotizedcyborg7788
    @robotizedcyborg7788 2 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Everytime I hear "Play to Earn" on something, the FIRST thing I think of is: "Play so we can steal your data and sell it to fraudulent individuals or ad companies!"

    • @ArmageddonEvil
      @ArmageddonEvil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Play to Earn, More like, "Play to become Broke if the market ever crashes."
      Edit: That actually happened to the Philippines.

    • @jamesrule1338
      @jamesrule1338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Play to earn. Because why not monitize the one thing that brings you joy in life and make it part of the hopeless grind too.

    • @opnumber1973
      @opnumber1973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Me earning 45 cents from google surveys knowing full well they are just selling my info

    • @jornavyr2459
      @jornavyr2459 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Most publishers do that anyway.

    • @corktail7900
      @corktail7900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      play to earn your data back

  • @nicoataiza2855
    @nicoataiza2855 2 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Im surprised Muta didnt mention that P2E is almost always Pay To Win to incentivize users to actually pay more to play

    • @greatone4140
      @greatone4140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      underrated comment

  • @RaidenKaiser
    @RaidenKaiser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +342

    Playing to earn is nothing but a dream, sounds great on paper but the reality of the outcome is far darker than any kind of positive that can come out of this.

    • @achikkun6352
      @achikkun6352 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Honestly I kind of sad that play to earn is fucked by these people...

    • @gloomysunday9836
      @gloomysunday9836 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I mean, if they made a game wherein profit made by your playing was split between you and the company, that would be great but that actually being viable is literally a fantasy. I mean its hard enough for content creators to get paid fairly for getting eyes on ads [which wouldnt watch without them creating said content]
      Honestly, the only way i could see it actually working would be because the game came with a bitcoin miner

    • @jamesrule1338
      @jamesrule1338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      To me, it doesn't even sound great on paper. I can't imagine wanting every aspect of my life dedicated to making money. Somethings should be just for fun.

    • @mineboom7377
      @mineboom7377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Kavetion who asked

    • @Cheapducky
      @Cheapducky 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It doesn't even sound great on paper if we're being real here.

  • @Blace1018
    @Blace1018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I still can't believe companies managed to make something worse than loot boxes.

    • @TarregorsSrb2Channel
      @TarregorsSrb2Channel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      give it another 10 years and they'll make something worse than virtual asset-flipping "games"

    • @jonusaguilar8156
      @jonusaguilar8156 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don’t forget the concept of charging a dollar to reload a gun was a thing too, and based on that, I’m not surprised anymore.

  • @TonyB369
    @TonyB369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I believe these absolutely are scams. That being said, if someone is dumb enough to spend 5k on a cosmetic, that's on them and I don't feel bad in the slightest.

    • @taahasiddiqui1071
      @taahasiddiqui1071 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      video isn't about cosmetics buddy

    • @Smithor
      @Smithor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      An item without utility is purely cosmetic. The land in a game without content is only a name and an icon; cosmetic by the very definition.

    • @Sebastianator01
      @Sebastianator01 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@taahasiddiqui1071 and?? He’s still talking about idiots who dump their money on worthless crap

    • @yunggopnikdaballr
      @yunggopnikdaballr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I mean in csgo someone spend 300k on a cosmetic knife and was then offered 1.2 million soooooo

    • @captainvimes6079
      @captainvimes6079 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@yunggopnikdaballr touché, goddamn that's a lot of money for a fake knife lol

  • @hibiku757
    @hibiku757 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Busdriver always said, "If you want to piss of your parents, buy real-estate in an imaginary place."

  • @pastlifeofficial
    @pastlifeofficial 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    3:22 damn Muta, I didn't know you hired Santa as a voice actor! Awesome!

    • @naga_serpentis
      @naga_serpentis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @ahhhcool what is wrong with you

    • @realClumsyDrawer
      @realClumsyDrawer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@naga_serpentis just some bot trying to gain attention into their videos. Simply report both their comment and channel and let TH-cam do the rest.

    • @limesodagod
      @limesodagod 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@naga_serpentis i reported it,

    • @MadMasterPorkey
      @MadMasterPorkey 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It almost sounds like a voice he'd do when reading trollpastas

    • @clownsforclowningaround
      @clownsforclowningaround 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@limesodagod thank you for doing your part to remove parasites from the internet.

  • @appellsauce
    @appellsauce 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    If that person accepts the $45 bid, it realistically might be the most money ever made on Earth 2

    • @jesusramirezromo2037
      @jesusramirezromo2037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The poor sucker is probably waiting for that thousand dollar bid, $45 is already a big profit

  • @WLS_Churchill
    @WLS_Churchill 2 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    Anytime i heard "play to earn" i think about the bot farms for RMT. There's more money to make boosting people on MMOs than in all of these blockchain game.

    • @CrystalWings12
      @CrystalWings12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It's really annoying to see those cryptobros kept saying stuff like 'why don't these games has play to earn mechanic in it?' or 'they will missed the opportunity of a lifetime if they don't applying blockchain on their games'.
      It's like they knew everything about video game industry, yet all they want to do is to suck all the money from everyone's pocket through their Ponzi's pyramid.
      Also what's up with the two bots above me.

    • @D44RK_Iced_Yogs
      @D44RK_Iced_Yogs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly! It’s honestly surprising how dumb people are when it comes to gaming. It’s what MMO’s been doing since the existence of that genre! RL, Trove, CSGO, WoW- the list goes on for ages about how traders have made money with in game items.
      It’s nothing new, it’s nothing special and I don’t condone it unless you know how to do it and now if anyone who talks about trading to make money in games are labeled CRYPTO BROS because some dumbass labeled it as a crypto thing. JUST GOD HOW ARE PEOPLE EATING THIS CRAP UP?!

    • @D44RK_Iced_Yogs
      @D44RK_Iced_Yogs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It sucks even more because it’s honest fun. Most don’t do trading in game for money but being able to label your account so just makes you feel gratified. Trading in game items(not shitty nft’s or whatever you want to cal block chain crap) is great if done right and the shit hole block chain is making for young teens trying to start buying and selling is BS.

    • @Sebastianator01
      @Sebastianator01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CrystalWings12 there’s only one now.

    • @CrystalWings12
      @CrystalWings12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Sebastianator01 I think the other one got deleted.

  • @justinruiz5054
    @justinruiz5054 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The amount of times where play to earn ads show up is a constant reminder of why ad blocker exists. Ad settings are completely useless and requests to opt out and even have your ad data deleted only encourages these ads to appear more (even with ad personalization turned off). Even when I do get a response, they only give a generic, yet evasive answer that only makes them sound like they care. Basically, they say "no" while pretending to say "yes". Some ads even force open the play store, which has the potential to spread malware considering that it has to open your web browser first. This is a major scam issue in soo many levels. What's stopping someone from creating an ad with the sole purpose of spreading ransomware?

  • @kefnettheuseless7627
    @kefnettheuseless7627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Games with NFTs as an currency is just a dumb idea. It’s sad how many people fall for these scams

  • @ChrisTanner1983
    @ChrisTanner1983 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Never forget that the head dev on Earth 2 once challenged a single dev (Callum Upton, who was critical of Earth 2) to recreate part of their game, and when he succeeded in doing so, the Earth 2 chucklehead moved the goalposts just so he could save face and not pay out 10K.

    • @pauls5745
      @pauls5745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      and the trailers they ever have shown are just Unity

    • @FrazierDanger
      @FrazierDanger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Callum legit lost that challenge. He didn't recreate Earth, he just made a random planet. I know Callum, have spoken to him, and he has been in and around the Earth 2 community for a hot minute.

    • @hackdesign
      @hackdesign 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha, He succeeded at nothing, besides twisting words to make it look like he did.

    • @justinwyllie3359
      @justinwyllie3359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@FrazierDanger Read the rules laid out in the challenge. Not a single part of it states that the planet has to be earth. The only thing close to that is that it must use heightmap data which it does

    • @valletas
      @valletas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@FrazierDanger thing is the rules have never stated that it needed to be earth
      They only said that after the challenge was over and callum had already made the planet

  • @CookiePieMonster
    @CookiePieMonster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    3:24 Who tf is that?! Alternate dimension 30yr Smoker Muta? Muta's got more varients than a marvel hero.

  • @charlesfuzak
    @charlesfuzak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    The problem with that empty 3D version of the world they were flying around in, is it doesn't exist. The "players" can't even do that. It was just their devs flying around in Unity.

    • @gamrknight8060
      @gamrknight8060 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I could make that in five minutes on Hammer editor I swear

    • @sup.
      @sup. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@gamrknight8060 funny thing is that a developer named "Callum Upton" that kept showing how much of a scam earth 2 is, got challenged by the earth 2 creator to "Remake what we have shown within 7 days and we will give you 10000$" and after he easily did the challenge the earth 2 creator changed the meaning of his own vague rules in order to not pay Callum

    • @Runk3lsmcdougal
      @Runk3lsmcdougal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah look up callun uptons video, he did exactly this. He got called out by the cult leader himself

  • @RaptorZefier
    @RaptorZefier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    What's sad is there's a genuinely interesting game concept there if you take the monetary BS out of it? Maybe like a PokemonGo esque thing with an RTS/TBS flair where you build up a base and try to take and develop land around you. Make a sort of 'World at war' or 'Civilization' over the backdrop of our world? Make the monetization selling new architecture and unit skins.
    There's *something* there if you take out the cancerous play to earn and crypto BS.

    • @EliteEaterCRV
      @EliteEaterCRV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Kinda like " Rust " currently, but with no timer?

    • @alexoxo1
      @alexoxo1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      this is kinda what minecraft earth tried to be but everyone forgot abiout that instantly. Did it even come out? The idea was you could build stuff in your neighborhood and then if someone with their phone came across your neighborhood they could see your creation.

    • @The88shrimp
      @The88shrimp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Remember as a kid whenever a new GTA game was being hyped and the rumour was always: "The next GTA world will be the whole actual world" this reminded me of that.

    • @desensitized
      @desensitized 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      sounds like yr describing rust lol

    • @Arcx_zero
      @Arcx_zero 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alexoxo1 yeahh, plus ar glass will probably placing our phone in future so this might still quite interesting concept

  • @HomuraAkemiHQ
    @HomuraAkemiHQ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Second Life did everything these games are trying to do long ago, and not only does SL do it better, they're still going strong to this day.

    • @ToyokaX
      @ToyokaX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Basically this. Either the people making "play to earn" now know about things like SL and choose to ignore it, or they are so ignorant they haven't done their research to know things like SL even exist. Both are equally bad in the eyes of the end user/consumer.

    • @Turbo_Toad
      @Turbo_Toad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yup second life predates 90% of metaverses and is in my opinion still the best. Community has died out alot from the 2000s but it's still there. Not even vr chat can touch its creativity.

    • @makeritualnoise
      @makeritualnoise 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      my thoughts exactly watching this. buying land in SL is expensive, but you can actually DO things with it. you can make a club, a mall, a museum, all sorts of things. Even become a virtual landlord (ugh). But there's certainly ways to also make some money on that content since you can turn lindens into real currency. Not to mention how LL controls the economy so while there are fluctuations, they're not huge with the bust/boom we see in actual economies. Even then, if you don't own land, you can still work for places as a host or dj or other things, or create things, and still earn money for your labor.

  • @john_toss
    @john_toss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I’d rather buy land in the middle of “nowhere” than buy virtual land

    • @keithkelso9872
      @keithkelso9872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People are buying virtual land buying?

  • @ryank16
    @ryank16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    One of my good friends tried to get me to play this play to earn game called big time and "the devs have a really good idea and it's still in development so we can get in early" huge red flags..so I checked out a trailer and the game was so pointless and the devs sounded like 16 year olds. It's sad because he bought 2 passes for like 600$ and now they're essentially worthless, all these nft play to earn games are nothing but scams preying one people hoping to hit the next big thing when it's just not gonna happen lol

  • @jamesrule1338
    @jamesrule1338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Remember when the guys that wanted to add crypto to minecraft basically wanted to add the ability to sell worlds that you generate.
    You know, the world seed. The thing you can just give people. To as many people as you want.
    The idea that adding digital scarcity and monitization to gaming somehow adds quality of life to gamers is the stupidest shit ever.

    • @RedMarbles_
      @RedMarbles_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      and if that ever happened the seed of the most expensive ones would be cracked in a few hours

    • @guydude7550
      @guydude7550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@RedMarbles_ hours is generous. those people have gotten REALLY good at seed cracking and finding. really happy minecraft said no to the bullshit.

    • @RedMarbles_
      @RedMarbles_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@guydude7550 yep they can just crack a 1000 seeds with good photos in an hour

    • @escman1999
      @escman1999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@RedMarbles_ some youtube guys literally found the seed for a painting

  • @sprintstothebathroomdaily2429
    @sprintstothebathroomdaily2429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This all boils down to people thinking there's an easy way to get rich.
    That mindset turns you into a sucker and easily exploited

    • @freedustin
      @freedustin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      But there is. Just be born rich, couldn't be easier.

    • @Akira-kd6us
      @Akira-kd6us 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@freedustin Yeah it's so easy idk why these people are having a hard time I think they have 1 IQ. Just become an oil daddy's sperm and there you go, jeez.

  • @mino_dev
    @mino_dev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love that you casually started calling them "multiversus" halfway through

  • @dakat5131
    @dakat5131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The thing about Earth 2 is that all the "new and exciting" future updates are all just ways to get players to give them more money. They're announcing new tiers of systems they don't even have available for "players" to interact with yet. Despite the claims of being a game that accurately replicates Earth (it won't), even the gameplay that it will have is just a series of hoops to jump through in order to cash out. You're not earning a single cent from those resources until you've done those steps- and then you have to hope that other players will want to buy it for some reason.
    And they seem more focused on keeping players from bailing, than actually developing any kind of game.

  • @militantpacifist4087
    @militantpacifist4087 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Take a shot every time Mutahar says “of course”.

    • @laboskie349
      @laboskie349 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your liver would be a shriveled raisin by the end

  • @TarosTheVoid
    @TarosTheVoid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Always laugh at cryptobros and NFT shills, it is morally acceptable. I'm so glad I never gotten into the metaverse nonsense, I rather live some where tangible and not soulless

    • @TarosTheVoid
      @TarosTheVoid 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dontreadmyprofilepicture5585 ay yoo fuck off bot

    • @CrystalWings12
      @CrystalWings12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Even if we're trying to avoid it, the cryptobros will always mocking us like 'you're just too stupid to understand the blockchain!' or 'you will missed the chance and we're so early!'.
      Those losers...

    • @TarosTheVoid
      @TarosTheVoid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@CrystalWings12 cryptobros mocking us is the equivalent of saying "oh I've shitted my pants and you didn't so who's the winner here?" Like seriously I never taken any cryptobro seriously bc they always have the intention to scam, I'd rather be poor and broke than accept a crypto scam. Even then you're literally losing money.
      I just find it funny, and some go with the humiliation like if it's a fetish for them or something.

    • @CrystalWings12
      @CrystalWings12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@TarosTheVoid Involving yourself in a crypto thingy is like you're doing gambling. You never knew whether it could bring you to your fortune or leading you to bankruptcy. I mean, just look at those cryptobros' reaction on Luna's (one of the crypto currency) fall.

  • @TheCandidFool
    @TheCandidFool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Damn, Muta aged like 25 years in the span of 3 minutes at 3:30

  • @Dantarn
    @Dantarn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I can't wait for the Metaverse to get Gacha games like Genshin Impact on board so it's a double whopper of the biggest industry scams

    • @whatisahandle_69
      @whatisahandle_69 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think "4x" war games are even worse on mobile. Gacha commander mechanics plus permanent troop loss and Perma pvp 24/7 😂

  • @FinntheSquire
    @FinntheSquire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    3:23 I did not expect that change. It sounds like muda wants to hurt me

    • @markusk1015
      @markusk1015 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He sounded very spooky and demonic

  • @drewvolker3791
    @drewvolker3791 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As someone who was born in and has lived their whole life in Nebraska- I can say I am proud my state was mentioned by one of my favorite youtubers.

  • @TheBlackSpartan103
    @TheBlackSpartan103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    3:22 I didn't know you hired Batman to be in the video.

  • @olliehe9972
    @olliehe9972 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hate those ads that say something along the lines of "stop gaming! in 2022, it doesn't make sense to game without getting something back" or some absurd stuff like that.

  • @surpriseraisin5892
    @surpriseraisin5892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sick Flu Muta is such a vibe. I wasn't expecting that voice, but I kinda dig it haha

    • @shogunpug4071
      @shogunpug4071 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What

    • @CatFish107
      @CatFish107 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shogunpug4071 see Muta's recent video about spam bots in the comments

  • @kmmmsyr9883
    @kmmmsyr9883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    We really need someone selling virtual IQ points

  • @celticlightning9703
    @celticlightning9703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Kira really goes all in on the E2 debunk. 😂

    • @TheYungKingz
      @TheYungKingz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nft this, nft that, nft these muthafookin nuts

  • @thatguyintherain3168
    @thatguyintherain3168 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The thing that makes me furious off the top of my head would have to be when people DONT PUT THEIR SHOPPING CARTS BACK!!! I can literally rant for an hour about how mad it makes me to see someone leave their cart somewhere in the way just because they're too lazy to put it up.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This is not a suprise Muta, everyone has heard of an Activision and EA game

    • @SinAster_19
      @SinAster_19 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The guy on the bottom of me likes macaroni salad

    • @holdenwitherow727
      @holdenwitherow727 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @UnfaithfulEvil 🅥 go back to your Minecraft child

    • @Cerenedy
      @Cerenedy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SinAster_19 Macaroni in a pot?

    • @doublinx2
      @doublinx2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's just bot city, damn

  • @donarnold4959
    @donarnold4959 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a lifelong resident of that state, Nebraska deserves every bit of scorn that you're able to heap upon it (and more).

  • @Prengle
    @Prengle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I would love one of these games if they weren't, well, scams. Earth 2 launching as a real game with a playable first come first serve landgrab would be crazy. People would be coming up with plans to beeline straight to a plot of interest and coordinate with other players to secure game resources.
    Instead we get snakeoil

  • @Coxick
    @Coxick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Basically everyone wants to have their own Steam market, many games tried it after CS:GO success, but none managed to do it

  • @Dadallas805
    @Dadallas805 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A bigger scam is the Gran Turismo 7 economy

    • @ST8MENTZ
      @ST8MENTZ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a shame too. Because it's a beautiful game but the economy setup is trash.

  • @aalhard
    @aalhard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At around 12:45 You were describing how Amazon already works with small vendors. EXACTLY

  • @radicaIized
    @radicaIized 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Wait it’s not roblox this time?

    • @imbeast90
      @imbeast90 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao swear to god I be seeing so many fake Roblox videos with muta in em

    • @imbeast90
      @imbeast90 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s hilarious too cuz they always use the same clip regardless of what’s happening in game😂

  • @pixelpuppy
    @pixelpuppy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    you summed it up correctly with one word "belief".
    just like ANY economy, including real life money economies, it's all 100% BELIEF. We believe that little piece of paper is worth what's written on it. We believe a company will do well, so we put those little pieces of paper into it. The same applies here. And just like with real economies, as soon as we stop believing it's worth anything, it comes crashing down.

    • @John-wb1ny
      @John-wb1ny 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      paper money is backed by international banks and exchanges. When you invest in apple you have a track record of apple delivering products and you invest in where you see their trajectory.
      Both the examples have real world interactions and products. Belief doesn’t come into terms for an apple.
      Any comparison to crypto or NFTs to markets that offer physical goods is just incorrect.

  • @mexahy
    @mexahy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    25 minutes of quality content just when I needed it

  • @camelsouttahere.
    @camelsouttahere. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw something like this named "revv racing" where you need to buy an nft car to play

  • @silenceoftheyams7647
    @silenceoftheyams7647 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    blackchain gaming... not gonna lie. I love watching all these stupid scams play out. it's very cathartic.

    • @Calamity_Jack
      @Calamity_Jack 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, it's all very funny until the day when every new game release uses the same scammy, scummy, money-grubbing techniques that only a few bad apples do now. I mean, look at the Diablo: Immortal PTW fiasco. I think we're going to see more and more of these and blockchain/NFT/play-to-earn "games" coming out in years to come, until it makes us all want to throw our computers in a dumpster, Ron Swanson-style.

  • @bsupremeking
    @bsupremeking 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    that voice switch up caught me off-guard LOL

  • @steagle2592
    @steagle2592 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    3:20 Hey Muta, be careful because I think someone hacked into your channel, watch out, they guy who hacked you sounds a lot like Ursula from The Little Mermaid, ironically enough

  • @DarkSideKyp
    @DarkSideKyp 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the part of the article bragging about people getting paid $500 a month to work 4 hours a day, because they (correctly) assume anyone seriously interested in this kind of thing won’t have the basic concept of understanding basic things like math to figure out how insanely little pay that is… that’s like $4 an hour…

  • @kamikadze2185
    @kamikadze2185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Josh 'Strife' Heyes did a good video about Earth2 and the ways how the company behind did their homework and they dont even need to run away with money!

  • @sgtkeebler
    @sgtkeebler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What I will thoroughly enjoy is when they companies go out of business or decided to take their money and run, then they will essentially just own $3,000 receipts.

  • @Marco_Onyxheart
    @Marco_Onyxheart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Someone get this man on Josh Strife Hayes' livestreams

  • @VERYSTINKYBOY
    @VERYSTINKYBOY 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You know, I was thinking the other day “where’d all the nft bros go?” Haven’t heard anything about them since the big crash. I found it, they ascended to nft gaming. We’ve been blessed

  • @mudmudmudmudmud7605
    @mudmudmudmudmud7605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'm always late to the party when it comes to these things. I don't get it and by the time I go into the metaverse there will be a meta-metaverse. I think I should just stick to my favorite toy the stick and hoop.

  • @alphaomegaalines5935
    @alphaomegaalines5935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    fun fact, in all of these metaverse buy land ToS it alwase state that you do not own the land itself, you buy a license that let you use that land, but they have the right to take it away from you, even going so far as to be able to delete your account without reason, without consent

  • @tw0_th3rty
    @tw0_th3rty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love the long videos

  • @graumail
    @graumail ปีที่แล้ว

    As a Nebraskan, i’m just happy someone from Canada has heard of us.

  • @Vanguard1262
    @Vanguard1262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “Deep voice muta isn’t real he can’t hurt you”
    Deep voice muta: 3:22

  • @dflameX
    @dflameX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Even as someone from Nebraska..... I totally called the nowhere state you were going to name ahead of time.

  • @norvarg712
    @norvarg712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    How delusional do you have to be to buy digital land

  • @TrueUnderDawgGaming
    @TrueUnderDawgGaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When NFT's first came out, it reminded me of this...

  • @Marco_Onyxheart
    @Marco_Onyxheart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You mentioned NFTs, but last I checked, Earth-2's implementation of NFTs is not even blockchain-based. Just an ordinary database with blockchain talking points behind it. I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

    • @LampcTG
      @LampcTG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      worse, somehow

  • @Jolis_Parsec
    @Jolis_Parsec 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is stupidity at its most basic. As a certain newspaper magnate falsely attributed to P.T. Barnum in order to sell more newspapers, “There’s a sucker born every minute!”

  • @jaysteelsun
    @jaysteelsun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Muta: we're gonna talk about THE BIGGEST scam in gaming
    Me: do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

  • @nabusvco
    @nabusvco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Muta voice suddenly became a heavy italian smoker for a whole minute.

  • @model2654
    @model2654 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Finally, was waiting for something to watch. Thank you Muta!

  • @Treedodger
    @Treedodger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All storage drives take up physical space and things stored on those drives are either written onto hard drives or stored as a string of electrons in certain configurations. That means your virtual land occupies physical space however that physical space is tiny so I think that it should be worth its size- very little

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "There's 2 types of land. Physical and virtual"
    So there's only one type.

  • @kinsan89
    @kinsan89 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:26 As a Nebraskan, I can confirm, land is worthless if you don't use it for corn or cattle

  • @sumfgg0tt678
    @sumfgg0tt678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ah yes NFTs that have zero value and can easily be screenshoted

  • @dark_fire_ice
    @dark_fire_ice 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well that comparison was hilarious, as someone from SoCal now living in Nebraska; Sun and Surf, to Corn and Cattle

  • @picahudsoniaunflocked5426
    @picahudsoniaunflocked5426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s fine that financialization + speculation merged with tech + info-marketing. No bad incentives here, folks!

  • @The_Petrichor
    @The_Petrichor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's organized crime. That's all that it is. Someone looked at the dude who sold bricks disguised as DVD players, in the boxes and even the cellophane wrap and everything, to unsuspecting tourists in Times Sqr, and thought to themselves, "How do I format this under a customer driven enterprise?"

  • @tanork47
    @tanork47 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ah yes, digital scarcity. The biggest scam of our generation and some people really are defending it. I can't afford buying a house yet alone buying a infinitely spawning pool on a BlOCkChAiN.

  • @UrMomsKid42069
    @UrMomsKid42069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Nebraskan no offense taken, you were spot on. We got nothing out here 😩

  • @ThaAftrPartie
    @ThaAftrPartie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Muta I know you literally just dropped the video, but I gotta say I appreciate your content more than you realize. Much love brother.
    (Edit): I’ve made more money off survey taking websites than I have off stuff like this

    • @elongatedcarrot3704
      @elongatedcarrot3704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's barely any money but yeah it's still actual money... eventually.

    • @ThaAftrPartie
      @ThaAftrPartie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@elongatedcarrot3704 $70 is better than losing money 🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @nickbensema3045
    @nickbensema3045 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    every time I see a story about Earth 2, I think about that part at the end of Dan Olson's "Line Goes Up" video where the twitch streamer says "we have bought arctic laaaaaand"

  • @scruffycat
    @scruffycat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    i hate that modern games are all scams and nobody realizes it

  • @rustymustard7798
    @rustymustard7798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nearly every evening, when he posts a vid i spend 10-20 minutes or so in the Mutaverse before going out to touch grass.

  • @CypressDahlia
    @CypressDahlia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Even buying virtual land in "video game worlds" made more sense than this. Buying a plot of land in, say, a strategy game actually has some type of meta effect. This is literally just buying an expensive plot of IRL land in a virtual world just to say that you own it? This model should be called Pay2Flex.

  • @dawndishsoap3398
    @dawndishsoap3398 ปีที่แล้ว

    In schemes like this, once you start hearing about "how much money you can make!" you've already missed the chance to make anything.

  • @echoden_
    @echoden_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Play to earn was a flawed concept from the beginning. You play to have fun, you work to earn.
    I personally believe in blockchain technology, and I believe NFTs will find their use cases, in technology, and gaming alike - but not in this form that USA VCs are trying to shove down our throats.

  • @TheCandidFool
    @TheCandidFool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    21:37, aye tho fr, hope Muta gets some sleep in cuz he sounds TIRED AF and looks more tired than usual too

  • @Bittrio
    @Bittrio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Woah! Pretty awesome you're covering Evaverse! Even if it is negative, that's cool, I understand the concerns. Here's my take as a player in Evaverse.
    No game has figured out a successful real money economy in the history of gaming. So why the hate for gaming studios trying? I guess because there's a lot of scams out there. OK true.
    You create TH-cam videos for a living. There's a lot of scam videos out there, so should no one be able to make videos for a living?
    Why can't people play video games for a living? Only through TH-cam, Twitch or other streaming platforms is acceptable for you?
    It would be awesome if Evaverse can be the 1st to build a sustainable economy, that is the goal. This game is not a pump and dump from my perspective. Of course I could be wrong.
    Do a little research into the gaming studio Battlebound and the developers behind it. They come from popular games and are all doxed.
    NFT's create barrier to entry same as the $60 price tag on traditional games that create barrier to entry.
    You have a problem with the high cost of items. $60 barrier is cool, $5k is not. Don't buy them, you can play for free. High price cosmetic in game items people are willing to buy.
    People have a ton of money in crypto, that's one of the reasons along with demand for why things are expensive. And yes the expectation that it will be worth more in the future.
    There's a boat load of money floating around on the internet. The market is setting the price.
    I see a lot of channels white knighting for the players about high cost NFT items. While also being multi millionaires like yourself from the internet.
    Muta doesn't have a problem with affiliate marketing. Use promo code SOG at gfuel plastered all over.
    Does gfuel make money from selling their products? It's ok for me to buy an extremely unhealthy energy drink that costs $0.30 to make for $20, but you draw the line at NFT's.
    Yes, some of the NFT's are expensive, but The NFT's are products as well. It's all a market, there's risk in everything. Spend your money on what you choose.
    You pose the questions: What do these items do that you couldn't have already done in game before? What actual value does any of this crap provide?
    They are simply in game items just like traditional in game items. The difference with NFT's are the players can personally hold them and trade them outside of the game.
    They are provably limited to a certain amount and you can see who has what and the history of the items. You can know that a certain item is truly rare and flex in game with it.
    There's really not much to it, people spend money on video game items, a lot of money!

  • @briannunnenkamp2254
    @briannunnenkamp2254 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a Nebraskan, I agree. Our state motto is "Honestly, we're not for everyone."

  • @iron_side5674
    @iron_side5674 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Damn! Sick Muta sounds pretty HOT i gotta say.
    I sound like a dying grandpa when i´m sick, this man sounds like a Dirty Harry type character.
    That being said, i am strongly AGAINST calling this crap "Meta"-verses, because META actually means that something is of a higher order.
    That is evidently not true since those universes only exist because our physical universe exists, which means that the word IntraVerse would be ultimately the only correct description.

  • @phantomkelgar3704
    @phantomkelgar3704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can just see his faith in humanity draining away with every new video about scams. Your doing God's work Muda 👍

  • @kupokinzyt
    @kupokinzyt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    5:21 as a multi-millionaire investor, I have just purchased this plot of land. Mutahar, I know your balls are worth much more.

  • @Luvutoo
    @Luvutoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Funny you mention SoCal land being better value than Nebraska- with Lake Mead and the Colorado River drying up the west coast is in deep troubles for farmers and infrastructure. Lot of the northern Midwest land is gonna be valuable for farmers who need to move

  • @ratclo
    @ratclo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    an old fb game i used to play (monster galaxy, awesome theme, awesome concept, kinda like pokemon) basically daily pre 2016ish and the servers were up for a tiny bit more after that, got bought by this shitty nft company and the same "mogas" (captured creatures) got turned into P2E :(( obviously not gonna give it attention since it's the worst type of game now lol

  • @nafizhuq5657
    @nafizhuq5657 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've got this idea for a game called China 2. It's where you take massive loans from virtual banks that have no money to buy houses that don't exist on virtual land that no one actually owns.