NFT Games: Revisited (are we rich yet?)

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  • One year ago, I began scraping the bottom of the gaming industry barrel. I found #crypto and #NFT games. While a common defense for their poor quality may be "it's still early", I've let a year pass. Are we still early? How much progress has been made on these games? Would I have made money had I invested in them?
    In this new video series, I dive back in to my previously reviewed games, giving a second look and seeing how much has or hasn't improved.
    They can't all be bad, right?
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    All views and opinions expressed in this video are solely my own and do not reflect the views or opinions of anyone else. All game footage and information is used for the purpose of review and commentary, and falls under the fair use doctrine. Video game reviews are subjective, and what I don't like, you might love. These videos are not intended to defame or harass anyone, nor are they made with any malicious intent. They are simply intended to provide entertainment. All information presented is based on my own research and understanding, and as such, there is always a chance I got something wrong. Always make sure to form an opinion of your own based on your own experience and research.
    Do what you want with your money, and if you enjoy the games, feel free to support the creators!
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    1:07 Robotera
    8:09 Tamadoge
    15:16 Game of Silks
    22:00 Battle Infinity
    24:38 Lucky Block
    29:20 Outro
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ความคิดเห็น • 972

  • @jauwn
    @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +638

    Happy New Year everyone! Here’s a long anticipated follow up to some of the first NFT games reviewed on the channel.
    Hope you all had a great year, and here’s to a 2024 full of “good crypto games” 😂

    • @highgeneralkage2748
      @highgeneralkage2748 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      "Uh, sir, are we rich yet with this asset flip?"
      "Nope, still hemorrhaging money."
      "But sir, we will get rich eventually right?"
      "Definitely. Just gotta wait for them to come flocking."
      They never, in fact, came flocking.

    • @Tortellia
      @Tortellia 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      The hours I have spent watching your channel have been a better investment. Thanks. I’m ready for the real world thanks to your content

    • @prince_of_cats
      @prince_of_cats 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Happy New Year dude, thanks for the many magnificent hours of work that you've put out over the year!

    • @DarkOmegaMK2
      @DarkOmegaMK2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Happy new year!

    • @l-l
      @l-l 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Happy New Year broski

  • @LeafseasonMagbag
    @LeafseasonMagbag 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2452

    “Terms and Conditions will be coming soon” is such a nuclear red flag what the hell.

    • @eviljoel
      @eviljoel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +354

      The next evolution of misleading fine print: making up the fine print after you've already signed it.

    • @MrTheil
      @MrTheil 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The fact that the Terms and Conditions aren't even there yet just screams "SCAM" in big red Impact font letters. Capitalized and Bold.

    • @NoxDolore
      @NoxDolore 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

      It's not a flag it's the entire flag factory ffs

    • @SpaceManRD
      @SpaceManRD 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +119

      Cryptobros were grown in vats and have no lived experience whatsoever. It's the only explanation.

    • @blakksheep736
      @blakksheep736 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      Side note: using "nuclear" to describe a colour is one of my favourite uses of the word. Because fluorescent simply isn't vivid enough.

  • @christyioran2969
    @christyioran2969 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1773

    "Also, fix the dead horse issue" is such a beautiful line

    • @lesigh3410
      @lesigh3410 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      I feel horrible for how hard I laughed

    • @erlanddrow7950
      @erlanddrow7950 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      When I read that first, I thought it would be a "Beating a dead horse" joke, not an actual thing 😅

    • @enzoqueijao
      @enzoqueijao 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      - Fixed bug where horses dying would lead to bankruptcy

    • @tobubiify
      @tobubiify 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Peta, the horse is here

    • @Swolecoffee
      @Swolecoffee 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      They'll fix the dead horse issue, after they stop profiting from the beatings.

  • @rainbowdice1366
    @rainbowdice1366 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3968

    I always love how crypto people say they want decentralization and for no one group to have control over the ecosystem, and then immediately try to recreate centralized authorities anyway, like those “verifier” services. Because shockingly it turns out you need centralized nodes of decision making and trust for a system to function on any level. Almost like organizing resources and people into centralized groups is necessary to achieve goals? Nah, that can’t be it.

    • @MiG-21bisFishbedL
      @MiG-21bisFishbedL 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +182

      Nature abhors a vacuum, basically.

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +440

      Down with the system! Yeah!
      Wait... why is everything on fire?
      Maybe we should get a fire service, and you know, some police would be nice as I haven't felt very safe lately... and you know what would be really handy, a bank...

    • @theoneandonlyartyom
      @theoneandonlyartyom 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +312

      "decentralized" crypto fans when a whale sells all the coins they held (the coin now went down by 90%)

    • @DarkOmegaMK2
      @DarkOmegaMK2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's almost like crypto bros are all imbecilic, morons that can somehow accumulate money to invest on this shit.

    • @LadyAlriandi
      @LadyAlriandi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +132

      Don't forget that centralise systems also are safer and give more protections from scammers, but no they don't want protection from scammers because" No regulations and laws are really good people, believe me"

  • @Crowley9
    @Crowley9 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1614

    "It'll get better. We're just early."
    It has been _fifteen years_ since cryptocurrency got started. Let's make a comparison. World Wide Web entered public use in 1991. Fifteen years later, Facebook and TH-cam had recently gotten started. Cryptocurrency seems to be going backwards, having largely abandoned aspersions of setting up its own system of economy and is instead largely used for extremely volatile investments and outright scams.

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +131

      blockchain is over 30 years old tech and hasn't improved

    • @zeelyweely1590
      @zeelyweely1590 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      ​@@toomanyaccounts Real world usage of blockchain as tech (completely decoupled from crypto) is still largely theory but actually has some very great uses in manufacturing and the like. Crypto on the other hand... they're... definitely not even trying 😂

    • @leeverguy
      @leeverguy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      @@zeelyweely1590 If you don't mind me asking, how can blockchain be used in manufacturing? I'm curious, since the concept has some merit. The customer-side execution is... well, we're both watching the same video.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +300

      I've seen the argument for blockchain in manufacturing and it still never made any sense to me. The Oracle Problem is always an issue - the blockchain only enures that the blockchain itself is secure. It doesn't inherently make the real-world product any more legitimate, since if a change is made and not pushed to the blockchain, then the blockchain will be wrong forever, making the entire reason to use it a moot point.

    • @jazzwilliams7040
      @jazzwilliams7040 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

      @@jauwn”Scratches off serial number” Trust me guys this is the product that this specific blockchain is referencing and is totally legit! 😂

  • @Feuerhamster
    @Feuerhamster 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1004

    Ironically, Jauwn is probably one of the very few people profiting from NFTs

    • @psychocrysis2
      @psychocrysis2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +129

      It's hilarious. Jauwn legitimately makes a profit from effectively shorting on NFTs, except the cause-and-effect is backwards. What a chad and he can't lose since 99.999% of NFT projects are red downward arrows on the chart.

    • @rowmacnezumi8953
      @rowmacnezumi8953 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe not, after all, there's still the people pulling the rug. I bet they made off with a killing.

  • @totalphantasm
    @totalphantasm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1244

    Silks is such a BAFFLING contradiction to the idea of an NFT. It’s value doesn’t come from the owning of the horse, it doesn’t give you exclusive betting right or real royalties from the horse. It’s only value is exactly what the company that sold it to you agreed to give you for it. If they chose to stop giving the royalties, it’s worthless and no different from if you were just using a normal form of data storage.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +397

      Exactly. They’re just an unregistered sports betting service. And a shitty way to bet on a horse, too

    • @Milosz0pl
      @Milosz0pl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

      ​@@jauwn But that makes sure that each horse is unique! As certainly other data storages are not ,,advanced'' enough to make something like - giving only a single unit.

    • @adamsayer11
      @adamsayer11 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@jauwn The only way I could see it being worth it is if you happen to get the next Secretariat for cheap and then it pays itself off?

    • @phealy3330
      @phealy3330 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yea! Just bring back OTBs next to bus stations. This is just a worse bus station OTB!!

    • @StevenZephyc
      @StevenZephyc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      ​@@adamsayer11you just described gambling

  • @CambriaBold
    @CambriaBold 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1008

    I'm genuinely impressed that Tamadoge turned into anything. Sure, all it became was a collection of generic, mediocre-at-best ripoffs of more popular mobile games, but all the games and their crypto integration is entirely functional!
    Kinda sad that this is arguably the high-water mark for crypto in gaming.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +192

      Still early

    • @bigbananabill
      @bigbananabill 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      its so free

    • @jjcoola998
      @jjcoola998 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jauwn🫨

    • @zeelyweely1590
      @zeelyweely1590 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jauwnLMFAOOO

    • @Wyzai
      @Wyzai 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      I'm sort of genuinely impressed by it.
      In a landscape filled with scams and rugpulls it's managed to be an actual game, crypto and play-to-earn successfully. Seemingly it will also continue to do so. Passing marks in every category.
      Compare it to Silk, which is what I expect from a released crypto game (which is already top 20%).
      Expecting anything to meet the hype of crypto-NFT-games is insane, since the hype was overblown by a hundred times. It's physically impossible to meet more than 1% of it.

  • @gundulfthegruy782
    @gundulfthegruy782 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +511

    i keep thinking about what the silk thing must be like for the irl horse's owners? imagine having random people contact you to ask if your pet has died yet omg

    • @HadleyCanine
      @HadleyCanine 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +123

      I wonder how many times they tried convincing the callers that any service that lets them bet on dead horses is a scam before they realised that trying to explain this to the callers was a lost cause.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +215

      Well if you've seen my Bed Bath and Beyond video then you might realize that might be one of the least frightening encounters with meme investors

    • @HadleyCanine
      @HadleyCanine 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@jauwn I have not! (yet, working on rectifying this immediately)
      That said, I will say it's both amusing and horrifying that anytime I try to imagine a worst case for comedic purposes with these groups, someone who knows more details always comes by to explain how the reality is so much worse than I could possibly imagine.

    • @macaronitony93
      @macaronitony93 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      unfortunately i wouldnt be surprised if racehorse owners didnt see their horses as pets and instead saw them as objects. there was a whole scandal in the 90s in the show jumping horse scene where when a horse stopped performing well and was no longer profitable, its owner would hire a horse killer to make the death look like an accident so they could collect the insurance money. theres a great episode about this in the netflix show Bad Sport that documents the whole thing with excellent storytelling, i really recommend it (if youre not sensitive to animal death)

    • @lesigh3410
      @lesigh3410 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​@Red-de5xp this crypto stuff is scummy but that's plain evil. I hope that bastard got locked away.

  • @SecondBestArtMuseum
    @SecondBestArtMuseum 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +334

    Remember when one of the biggest arguments for NFTs in games was that you could transfer game items, like bringing a Diamond sword from minecraft into Call of Duty? We had that before, and it was called Garry’s Mod. But now with Fortnite, we have a game with every IP and item in one game without any NFTs.

    • @ethanstyant9704
      @ethanstyant9704 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      B b b b but it's an investment 😢

    • @thesledgehammerblog
      @thesledgehammerblog 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      Puzzle and Dragons (one of the least exploitive gacha games out there but a gacha game nonetheless) had that covered years ago. With all the various collabs they've done over the years you could theoretically go into a dungeon with a team consisting of of Goku, Batman, Hello Kitty, and Cloud Strife, and have the whole bunch being led by a bowl of udon.

    • @nobodyinparticular9640
      @nobodyinparticular9640 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      Until eventually forknife will shut down when the game's popularity dies 'cus of the next big thing. Then all the stuff you had there? Gone, all the skins, characters, IPs, whatever.
      Meanwhile, Gmod? All the mods are still there, guess unless you lose the files, you'll always have them. Or can create any, too.
      Also, the people that claimed about bringing items from one game to another, hah, clueless little naives that don't know nothing about how the game industry and corporations work, eh.

    • @themightycaolf6549
      @themightycaolf6549 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nobodyinparticular9640 Yeah but consider, people will still have the files. Plenty of games that've gone down are still kept alive in some form because people ripped all the files and can set them up to run again. Dragon's Dogma online, FF11, The original demon's souls(because the remake is shit), a bunch of apps.
      It's not an official solution, granted, but it's a pretty convenient one.

    • @Nick-ue7iw
      @Nick-ue7iw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      @@nobodyinparticular9640 Forget corporations, anyone who makes such claims doesnt understand basic game design. Owning an NFT does not make an asset from one game appear in another. Garry's mod has other games assets because they have either been modded in or are from one of valve's many properties that all run on the same game engine.

  • @benjaminmatheny6683
    @benjaminmatheny6683 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +168

    Just so you know, it doesn't matter if Lucky Block was headquartered in the Cayman Islands if they were allowing entries from US customers. They would still be subject to US law for doing business in the US. To avoid being liable to US law they would require a good faith effort to exclude prospective US customers. However, they wont get in trouble if the victims don't contact law enforcement to report the scam and get the ball rolling.

  • @con10pt
    @con10pt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +691

    Man the silks thing is just ludicrous, don’t know how anyone can justify spending money on stuff like that
    Love the new visuals btw

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

      It’s cheaper then buying a real horse though! How can you argue with that?

    • @Doub1eSpark
      @Doub1eSpark 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      They're trying to draw in both the crypto crowd and the absolutely desperate horse game crowd. People looking for horse games right now will play anything since most games in the genre are just Star Stable clones.

    • @knightsurda
      @knightsurda 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      @@Doub1eSpark Never doubt Horse Girls and their determination for owning a horse.

    • @Doub1eSpark
      @Doub1eSpark 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@knightsurda As a semi-horse girl, I agree. I only play the ones with magic though lol

    • @darkunykorn404
      @darkunykorn404 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@Doub1eSparkas a crazy horsegirl... honestly it doesn't seem immersive enough to tickle my horsegirl senses :p

  • @Varg84
    @Varg84 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +363

    Jauwn gotta be rich AF by now playing all these NFT games.

    • @llewelynshingler2173
      @llewelynshingler2173 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      For many games, either the NFTs are optional, free or non-fuctional

    • @TheAdmantArchvile
      @TheAdmantArchvile 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

      He's getting upwards of 5 to 10 cents!

    • @LoFi_Punk
      @LoFi_Punk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      He filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, and his husband is divorcing him.

    • @Digicoree
      @Digicoree 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      you know what they say, the h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ jauwn always wins

    • @thescout6063
      @thescout6063 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      unfortunately he lost it all paying for parking space for all the lambos he won

  • @greenhowie
    @greenhowie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +238

    Really good to get a follow-up to these, most channels point and laugh at an obvious scam then move on. Genuinely reveals how blatant the corruption is through other media outlets.
    Don't forget to keep doing a few fun retro reviews alongside these, they're bloody good as well

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      Yes, my next video is a retro review. I just wanted to do a crypto video for my 1 year anniversary since that’s my roots

  • @Elvan-Lady
    @Elvan-Lady 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +176

    Love the followup. On some level it's nice to see that some of these aren't COMPLETE scams, but also I'm still never putting a penny into NFT "games".

    • @tylern6420
      @tylern6420 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      same

  • @Tortellia
    @Tortellia 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

    What I love most about watching this channel is that the ads whilst watching these videos are all about earning “passive income on the internet” in the most dubious and stupidest ways possible, like Amazon dropshipping, shopify smth smth, audible audiobooks, etc etc.

    • @yurifairy2969
      @yurifairy2969 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They are literally just selling you scams that no longer work. If they still made money that way, they wouldn't tell you how to do it.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      I saw one that was a course on how to make and sell courses, lol. Using AI to write the script for the course and to voice the videos. Crazy how far humanity has fallen

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@jauwn Course on how to sell courses might be the only honest one, as in, all other "get rich quick" courses only make more coaches selling these useless courses, even though charging people not even for a script but for telling them to use AI is still ridiculous.

    • @ARStudios2000
      @ARStudios2000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@jauwnit's even more depressing when I see those scams rolling around on job boards online here in Pakistan

    • @liamneedsauniquehandle
      @liamneedsauniquehandle 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@KasumiRINA yeah well what if those people make courses on how to make courses? at some point it manages to become a pyramid scheme somehow

  • @dr.cornwater2886
    @dr.cornwater2886 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +225

    Been awesome watching you grow over the year. Hope 2024 is even bigger for you Mr. Jauwnathan. Hope to see a Kryixsiva revisit at some point lmaoooo

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      I’m excited to see which premade RPG asset pack they’ll purchase next 😂

  • @Huffmanxd
    @Huffmanxd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

    I like when you said people say the games might get better over time and things chances but “crypto bros always say we just got here early” actually made me laugh lol.

    • @sealeo5772
      @sealeo5772 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Crypto will always be the future because it will never be the present.

    • @Rodri34451
      @Rodri34451 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I literally saw a comment like you mentioned on another video of this dude.
      It's impressive the amounts of excuses they give to not accept they wasted money on it.

    • @zend666
      @zend666 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      well the one who got early always silent, once the hype start its always too late and you be come exit liquidity

    • @Gmann2021
      @Gmann2021 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@sealeo5772 like graphene!

  • @stockicide
    @stockicide 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Those flat-lining value graphs are so satisfying to see.

  • @Doub1eSpark
    @Doub1eSpark 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Tamadogi is literally just a pay to win version of My Tamagotchi Forever. As someone who collects digital pets, it's just a bad game when you look at the competition.
    Heck, the Tamagotchi resale market is technically more profitable than Tamadoge even if I don't like resellers.

    • @Doub1eSpark
      @Doub1eSpark 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Also, calling it Tamadoge makes no sense other than connecting it to Tamagotchi. Since Tamagotchi is Japanese for "egg watch", meaning Tamadoge means "egg doge"?

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      It’s the most low level form of copy pasting. No originality or effort

    • @FuckYourSelf99
      @FuckYourSelf99 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Doub1eSparkBrilliant!!! That's just the curdled, expired icing on the whole scammy low effort cake

  • @certainperson
    @certainperson 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    17:26 "doesn't seem fair to be selling a horse that died"
    That made my day. It's something that makes sense in context, but it's hilarious outside of it.

  • @WESP-Claim-Airdrop-Tokens-Here
    @WESP-Claim-Airdrop-Tokens-Here 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

    Love the honesty in this video! NFT games have been a rollercoaster, and your revisit is exactly what we need.

    • @BlackfeatherMain
      @BlackfeatherMain หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      can you really call it a rollercoaster if there's never been any ups to go with the downs?

  • @cinnamonrolls4life677
    @cinnamonrolls4life677 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Dude... Those cutscenes between games are amazing. I've been watching your channel since about a month after it was made, I love your aesthetic. Keep it up!

  • @setlerking
    @setlerking 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    found this channel around the middle of the year and gotta say it's one of the highlights on youtube for me this year. A thoroughly entertaining channel and I hope even more people find your stuff next year. From the memestock investor video to the never ending lyra nft clones and the exploration of weird forgotten video games everything has been interesting, hilarious and a great resource to showcase just how failed the 'crypto gaming' market really is.
    Also it's a minor point but the surreal intros and general aesthetic is great. It's cool and unique but also perfectly complements the equally surreal video topics. It's a minor detail all things considered, but when the fundamentals are this solid the details get to stand out and bring such delight.

  • @KristofskiKabuki
    @KristofskiKabuki 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    The thing with Crypto games is the only way I can think of that they would actually be profitable for anyone is if there was a substantial number of people playing it solely for fun who were happy to spend money on more content (apart from the ones that are just gambling). If people are playing solely to make money and selling NFT assets to other players who are also just there to try and make money it's not gonna work.

    • @noctotainlowry9246
      @noctotainlowry9246 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And that will never happen cause normal people avoid crypto and NFT's like they carry the plauge. Just the mere suspicion a game might include them has tanked interest in said games. I have seen it happen. Thankfully for once unlike with lootboxes consumers in general are not buying the Bullshit crypto-shits are putting out and it is not catching on relegated to weird offshoot genre made by people trying to get rich off gamers they see as too stupid to realize the scam

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's how many MMOs also work (people sell items and stuff for real money.) It was like that with paid mod initiative was SUPPOSED to work in Skyrim but Bethesda got greedy and decided to paywall stuff and turn it into a bigger cash cow for themselves than it already is instead of just letting one kind of people earn and the other spend more.

    • @110montauk8
      @110montauk8 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Such is the basis for RMTs. People buy something because they WANT to actually use them. Maybe in some games they can resell those items, but unless you can predict the fluctuating trend of the price then youre not exactly making profits out of reselling, youre just getting some of the money back.
      Nobody buys crypto for collection. And if a game's entire catch is that it's a "play to earn" game, then the only one that would play are grifters. No one would buy things because they want to, they just wanna pass it to other grifters until the price gets too high to justify purchase.

  • @Mosz
    @Mosz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I almost expected this video to be 30 seconds long and just be "everything shut down and is worth zero, happy new year!" Quite surprised some things got released and still exist.

  • @marxisttheoryandlore
    @marxisttheoryandlore 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    For Robot Era being the #1 best NFT game to play in 2022 it feels like this is a the only way to win is not to play type situation, so maybe it does work after all

    • @grimgrahamch.4157
      @grimgrahamch.4157 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      #1 NFT game is like #1 school teacher in the Falklands.

    • @noctotainlowry9246
      @noctotainlowry9246 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@grimgrahamch.4157number one nft game is like being Paitent zero for a sickness

  • @kyuboxincubox7556
    @kyuboxincubox7556 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Couldn't you just, bet on horse racing normally instead of buying an NFT to bet on horse racing? Like what's the value add of having your bet be done as an NFT?

  • @GiggsVids
    @GiggsVids 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    Happy new year, Jauwn! Love the video to cap off the year, and im glad to support your channel. You are favorite of mine, keep doing you, crypto games or retro games. As long as you are invested i'll be here to watch.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Thanks Giggs!! Appreciate the long term support

  • @killmace
    @killmace 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Crazy how much your channel has improved in just one year

  • @Everdistance
    @Everdistance 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The funniest thing about this is that all these videos had omments going 'heh, have fun being POOR' from people who had invested in these games.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Actually not my first two videos, as I think everyone agreed they were trash, even crypto bros. It starts to get juicy starting with The Sandbox, that had some serious rage in the comment section. I think they're still arguing to this day, in a thread with over 350 comments

  • @do3807
    @do3807 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Man I'll say it again, although that chapter where your channel was at risk may have been a pain... That Sidalpha shout out got me here, and you've become a favourite channel for me. Thanks for the content, and happy new years to ya, sir

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Eh whatever that drama ended up helping me go viral so clearly can't complain in the long run

    • @do3807
      @do3807 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jauwn that's a fact jack

  • @GyroCannon
    @GyroCannon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Tamadoge actually has a real business model, which I can respect.
    I've said this before - with crypto "play-to-earn" games, the people behind it can make the game be either:
    1. profitable for people who play it at the cost of the team behind it (the usual tech company playbook),
    2. profitable for the team behind it at the cost of players (the way most businesses are run),
    3. pay profits to early players without paying a cent by using the money coming in from new players (ponzi scheme).
    2 is the only one that leads to sustainable business. The quality of the games may be mediocre, but at least it's not a scam. In theory, there's a road to profitability here.

  • @TheGallicWitch
    @TheGallicWitch 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    The entertainment value I get from your deep dives is through the roof. Thanks for the hard work, it's so fun to watch this but I would not want to be the one doing all the research.
    Also, because it made me laugh so hard: Slimane is a relatively common name in my country (France) because we have a bunch of people who came from the Maghreb countries (like Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia for ex). It is very funny to hear it pronounced like a lion with a sly mane. It's pronounced closer to "Sl-ee mann", the letter "i" in arabic and French is pronounced like the letter "e" in English. The letter "a" is always exclusively pronounced like the "a" in Minnesot-a or Algeri-a. So "Sleemann". Anyway that was the linguistic second of the program. Happy New Year!

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Yeah haha I totally definitely knew that and umm actually I mispronounce names on purpose so people comment to correct me to boost engagement

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Is Slimane just another way to spell "Suleiman" or "Solomon"

    • @prexot2341
      @prexot2341 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@williamdrum9899 Yes, it's an alternate version of Suleiman, which is the Arabic version of Solomon.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@prexot2341 I thought so. Remove the vowels and it looks similar

  • @opshredderytp
    @opshredderytp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I hope the Mateverse always stays shitty, so that we're safe from it and you can make fun of it EVEN MORE.

  • @Lunamowon
    @Lunamowon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I've been watching you since your "were so close to 500 subs" video. Love the videos. You're amazing and I'm excited to watch you grow like crazy next year

  • @CainXVII
    @CainXVII 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I think your wacky animations are genius. It really makes your videos stand out, and even if you watch one and click off, if you see another you will instantly go "hey, it's that guy!"
    I never saw the sidalpha video, but I think I got you recommended at the same time. So TH-cam probably noticed everyone going over from there and just put you in the recommended for everyone who likes this kind of stuff. Happy to be here.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Thank you! I use these videos as an excuse to practice and improve my animation / editing / whatever skills, since it forces me to just wrap it up and get it shipped out instead of just having a ton of half-baked projects lying around.

  • @funkerd
    @funkerd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    my favorite lucky block slot machine was the one just called "mexico dude"

    • @Jarrod_kane
      @Jarrod_kane 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They don't make any of those games, they're just plugged into some providers who then would just interest that game into the webpage with an etc. This site is just another rip off of Stake, you can even see their "Lucky Block Classics" which are not even their own content

  • @GrampaSheevie
    @GrampaSheevie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "What if the horse dies?"
    Dont worry bro, its on the blockchain! The horse is therefore immortal. What crypto is doing with our conception of horses is truely revolutionary!

    • @CainXVII
      @CainXVII 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Especially the comment from someone saying "fix the dead horse issue"...

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@CainXVII IRL race horses have life insurance

  • @the_newt_nest
    @the_newt_nest 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Thanks for your videos this year! You're a great writer and I love your animations. You deserve more subs.

  • @Businessgoose124
    @Businessgoose124 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Holy crap, has it only been a year? Cool to see you come so far so quickly!

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      isn't it crazy? I can hardly believe it myself

  • @Solinaru
    @Solinaru 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    amazing follow up! Here's looking to see which ones survive next year without getting visited by the FBI lol

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I’m excited too! Not sure if I’ll continue this series as a main channel series or if I’ll bring it over to the new 2nd channel, but we’ll see how the reaction to this is tomorrow

  • @Dajudge06
    @Dajudge06 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Thank you Jauwn, exposing these con artists, gamers dont need EVEN MORE people trying to take advantage of them, though some of them seem to like the abuse xD
    Have a happy New Years bud

  • @draconis17
    @draconis17 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    so Silks is just an obscenely expensive fantasy sports league, but with a bunch of ways for the system to get screwed up. Also, what's the point of the avatars again? do you actually need one, or is it just a $500 charge for randomly generated aesthetics?

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's even worse than fantasy sports, since at least in fantasy you can change your players each season (depending on the rules you play by). With Silks you're stuck with a dead horse forever.
      Regarding the avatars, afaik it's required to own one to be able to play the game at all, I think. Like I said, it's kind of confusing what exactly you need to buy to be able to play, but they make it seem like you need both.

  • @nathanglasser6845
    @nathanglasser6845 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    From watching your NFT game series, I was inspired to go through all the NFT/crypto games in the Epic games store and laugh.

  • @v0id525
    @v0id525 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thanks for a good video to end 2023 with! Also, those transitions were slick. I hope next year proves to be even more interesting for Jauwn. Cant wait to see the absurd cyrpto games and what old actual games you end up bringing to the public consciousness!

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Big things ahead!

  • @gunmunz
    @gunmunz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Coinsniper advertising a 'gigachad' ai chat bot is all I need to see for their legitimacy and target base. Its like walking in for a divorcee attorney (cause you've been taking advice from a meme AI) and finding marriage counseling with Skibbidi Toilet

  • @keneor4468
    @keneor4468 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Heeey, happy channel birthday and new year Jauwn. Aside from the topics you present I relaly wanna command your editing and your diligence/thoroughness when making these videos. You often pull of some funky effects that really adds value to the whole, and your dedication to explore as thoroughly as possible (without burning your bank account) those projects is impressive. I think the video I enjoyed the most was the one about Entropia Universe (to be fair the subject matter was pretty dense)
    Anyways here's to a great 2024!

  • @ligadin4i20
    @ligadin4i20 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    16:30 ''read the white paper'' omg I laughed so fucking hard

  • @x-x
    @x-x 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Awesome recap of the crypto year, I actually did not expect so many projects to deliver anything, so that's kind of good (I guess?). Thanks for your videos and can't wait for another year of videos!!!

  • @TheBlackAbyss1
    @TheBlackAbyss1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Loved the ytp bit at 15:23

  • @fatersteve
    @fatersteve 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The only Crypto TH-camr I watch. Unless you count CoffeeZilla.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd say he counts as a crypto TH-camr

  • @noitev8636
    @noitev8636 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Great video. Like your wacky graphics as usual. Have you ever considered doing twitch live reactions to games I think that might be fun

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I have done some in the past, all my VODs are available to members so should be able to go back and watch them.
      But I will be doing more live streams next month, since that’s gonna be my “low effort” content month to avoid burning out from making these long, researched videos

  • @darkunykorn404
    @darkunykorn404 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh and happy new year Jawn! It was lovely meeting this channel, here's to an even more prosperous year!

  • @Fuilinski
    @Fuilinski 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Just yesterday I was rewatching some of your first videos, and saw you mention looking back at the development of one of the games, peaked my interest, and now this video exists! Excellent, my year is complete, now lets see what trash 2024 brings.

  • @tintedglass
    @tintedglass 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Awesome!! I'm excited for next year for the updates on bigtime and illuvium, the "AAA" games 🙄🙄. Love your videos (I've watched all of them at least twice 😂), keep it up next year!!

  • @Yazawa-Nico
    @Yazawa-Nico 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Awesome video as always Jauwn

  • @novalinnhe
    @novalinnhe 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Congratulations on the amazing growth of your channel - you have really great content and I'm not surprised you grew so quickly! :)

  • @ligadin4i20
    @ligadin4i20 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    why the fixation on all of these games on selling non-existent land?

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Easy money, I assume

    • @SilverDragonJay
      @SilverDragonJay 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      well you see, the concept of owning land irl is also a fantasy these days, so why not go all in on imagination?

    • @wolfgangervin2582
      @wolfgangervin2582 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Because of the perceived inherent value of real estate as an investment irl.

  • @bobafettjr85
    @bobafettjr85 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I've loved this series. Thanks for the wrapup.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you enjoyed! More to come soon

  • @Swqnky
    @Swqnky 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thanks for never taking sponsors you genuinely rock for that

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thanks to donations like this, I don't need to! Thank you!

  • @cheesybrik9073
    @cheesybrik9073 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s been a year and you’re still so underrated. You deserve a million subs and more.

  • @meg1365
    @meg1365 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    All bangers all the time! It's been fun watching your channel grow this past year, glad it's working out well.

  • @thygod4920
    @thygod4920 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Im really enjoying your vids, I've always been interested in learning more abt how much of a scam NFT games are, (coffeezilla vids etc), and the pure stupidity people go through to put their trust in them.
    Your vids sort of give this entertaining mini-documentary on each NFT.

  • @alirosekitty
    @alirosekitty 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I LOVED the "JuawnVPN" joke, I can't believe I haven't really seen other people mention it!
    Also, I legit had a dream last night where you uploaded a video about a game I was playing before I went to bed "My time at Portia", and It was surreal, but it was a good time. I just thought the dream thing was interesting.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s kind of creepy in a weird way but I definitely have had similar dreams about other content creators. From your perspective I’m like a TV show, but from my perspective I’m just some dude that makes videos for fun

    • @alirosekitty
      @alirosekitty 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jauwn I see you as an informative video guy who's also funny lol. Still think that the dream was better than the 3 nights of nightmares before though.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hell yeah then I will make sure to appear in your dreams more often

  • @zorlockthewarlock5961
    @zorlockthewarlock5961 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Been loving your stuff jauwn, heres to another year of meteoric rise, keep up the great game rfocused reporting!

  • @sthegamer1
    @sthegamer1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm glad I found your channel, I like how you put the work and look deeper into some of these games and their bs, I'm trying to convince myself that there is a good NFT game to invest in but I can't find a good one so far

  • @teelerdet
    @teelerdet 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Silks makes very little sense, why not just bet on horse races directly? Is the allure of "passive income" so great that it warrants this stupid middleman?

  • @SamTheApe
    @SamTheApe 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    it takes like 2 google searches to learn how cruel horse racing is

  • @Chron1clers
    @Chron1clers 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Happy New Year jauwn,hope to see more vids from you i watch every vid of your from NFT games to your game review.

  • @nameless5413
    @nameless5413 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yayy Jauwn new years recapitulation!
    Good stuffs on all videos i did see and once again very glad i had been pointed to this channel.

  • @thedezzydez851
    @thedezzydez851 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    jawuan you have satisfied my craving for stuff i didn’t know i need thank you

  • @ValeBridges
    @ValeBridges หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    27:15 For a brief instant, my brain went, "I wonder which one it's gonna be? Nord VPN, Express VPN, Surfshark...?" and then he hit me with that "Jauwn VPN" and I felt like a fool.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No sellout here

  • @bobrys12345
    @bobrys12345 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was so confused when you talked about that horse game, cause i watch all vids and i couldn't remember a single horse ride. Then i realized it was that 5fps demo of guy walking around.

  • @Safersephiroth777
    @Safersephiroth777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hey congrats man! I watched your first video when you had like 2000 subscribers. You are doing really well!
    Also you are an official Cryptobro now? This is so strange to believe!

  • @TheMammoetChannel
    @TheMammoetChannel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Jauwn, I admire you for being able to persevere through crypto trash. Thank you!

  • @Neskess
    @Neskess 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    so NFT games are shovelware tier?

    • @the1stwing
      @the1stwing 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'd argue they're even lower
      At least shovelware doesn't milk you for every cent you have

  • @DoctorPortal_IX
    @DoctorPortal_IX 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how you kicked off a trend with these vids, Jauwn!! Seeing Kira and others picking up on this concept is great for lots of reasons, not _least_ of which is it relieves you of some of the immense burden of suffering through it!

  • @gamingmitnoahd4036
    @gamingmitnoahd4036 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You managing to get almost 100.000 Subs in one year after making your Channel really shows how well produced and good your videos are. I hope that you soon hit the 100k subs you really deserve it❤

  • @ByXWorm
    @ByXWorm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Where could I sign up for JauwnVPN? 😂

  • @sweetbabyalaska
    @sweetbabyalaska 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I really enjoyed your videos this year! Looking forward to more. I also hope you have a chance to try unique stuff that interests you. It's refreshing to see a TH-camr call out bad advertising and scammers. I really liked when you looked at malware too lol

  • @annieshavingthoughtsagain
    @annieshavingthoughtsagain 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great way to end out the year, Jauwn. I look forward to seeing you break a million subs in the coming year!

  • @TMTactics
    @TMTactics 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love this channel man, happy new year everyone

  • @Gatorade69
    @Gatorade69 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A new video by both Jauwn and Sean on the last day of the year, what a good way to end it (with a drink in hand). I'm so glad TH-cam is actually recommending me good smaller creators. Whether it's NFT, bad games or even good games (Like Driver) I'm here for it.
    Edit : I'm glad you use Jauwn VPN instead of Nord VPN. What a good sponsor.

  • @theonlybilge
    @theonlybilge 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sonic CD music is extremely based.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's like he's subliminally messaging us "Play a good game like Sonic CD instead of this NFT crap"

  • @lesigh3410
    @lesigh3410 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for making such outstanding content! Can't wait to see what you have cooking for '24!

  • @leonblack1919
    @leonblack1919 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Didn't think I'd be diving down Crypto video game rabbit hole this evening

  • @Jokoko2828
    @Jokoko2828 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    God, why would anyone want to play Tamadoge survivors when there's dozens of actual good VS clones out there for either next to no money or actually no money(including VS itself).

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's the funny thing, nobody wants to play it

  • @planescaped
    @planescaped 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Battle Infinity's "game" was shat out solely so they could release _something_ and avoid criminal charges most likely.

  • @nicolasgonzalez629
    @nicolasgonzalez629 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your channel man, here's to another year of great content

  • @tivvy2vs21
    @tivvy2vs21 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Ok, you cannot just ignore GIGA CHAD GPT, what the hell is that?

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I have no idea lol I saw that when I was editing but it was far after the script was already done and recorded so I didn't say anything about it

  • @arkhanok6329
    @arkhanok6329 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    We're rich!!!

  • @jacksim5759
    @jacksim5759 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    only found you in the past few months after Dan Olson shared your deep dive on that meme stock cultist, your other stuff is fantastic, excited to see what you'll do in 2024, you've made a fan

  • @DieSerah
    @DieSerah 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your Channel Jauwn Happy New Year!

  • @speed0spank
    @speed0spank 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wah wah wee wah 🎉 it's been so cool to see your channel take off and I'm sure it'll keep going in the coming years. To the moon! Congrats! And also Free Palestine 🇵🇸

  • @cellulanus
    @cellulanus 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Has there ever been an NFT that was minted by one game that ended up being used in a completely different game?
    Because NFT-bros really pushed that as one of the perks of NFTs in gameing. That you could still use your NFT even if the game shut down. I'd say various developers have had ample opportunity to turn this into reality if they actually wanted to.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      By one game and used in another? I don't think so. But I have seen a couple games that allow to use profile picture NFTs as your avatar. Never a game with transferable assets, however.

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      nope! for decades it has been possible to unlock the use of things in certain games if you owned or had the saved data of certain other games. possible doesn't translate to doable. different game engines, rights issues, means it was very incredibly rare and usually only by the same pub/dev on the same or succeeding platform. nft doesn't solve those issues in fact it makes the issue of ip and contracts rights worse

  • @MyDude199
    @MyDude199 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glad to have been part of this channel and can't wait for 2024's content.

  • @burnum
    @burnum 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The horse one feels like a digital version of running the tracks at real Horse Tracks(Just with less than real currency). So, if there were any gameplay, it would just had been a video of the actual race.

  • @julius879
    @julius879 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Why did anyone ever start spending money on this stuff?

    • @aleanddragonITA
      @aleanddragonITA 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think it all started when someone ordered a Pizza with using Cryptocoins
      Because Speculation Bubbles that Pizza ended up costing thousands of money
      So people thought ''Hey, it could be me buying a Thousand Dollars Pizza''
      So Bridge Sellers jumped ship & started selling Crypto-Coins
      Then some Crypto-Entusiast was mad at Copyright Laws & so Bridge Sellers created NFT
      Then Bridge Sellers saw Videogames & "created" Crypto-Games
      Ps: This is a Simplified Explanation of what happened & may contain some errors.
      I take no responsibility for whatever misinformation this comment may cause to people
      😂

    • @Chareddragon
      @Chareddragon หลายเดือนก่อน

      Potentially getting more money

  • @PraetorDragoon
    @PraetorDragoon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Congrats on your frist year on the NFT games. I doubt we have seen the bottom of the barrel yet.
    Its fascinating how I just can't look away.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The bottom of the barrel isn't even interesting, unfortunately, so I often don't cover the truly WORST crypto games.
      I would say a staggering percentage of the NFT games are just like RobotEra - taking peoples money and running away while delivering absolutely nothing. It just becomes repetitive, making the same video over and over again. I have to pick the crypto games that fail in unique or interesting ways

    • @PraetorDragoon
      @PraetorDragoon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jauwn Fair enough.