News flash genius, if someone's talking smack its most likely honest, especially if it doesn't grow their channel. And what in the world are you rambling about? "according to channels like this ... will not grow" What will not grow genius? dishonest reviews? Or the channel? I suggest learning English grammar.
I recognized the name of the sandbox and became heartbroken when i heard it was bought out by a nft company,it used to be my favourite game back when i was younger
@@dentheduck2095 excuse me? The old the sandbox (and the old sandbox 2) barely works nowdays, and in android it even crashes on android 10 or newer because they abandoned those games to focus on this garbage "successor"
What’s sad is the people who made this game made another game with the same name (the sandbox) and this game was a fun pixel art simulator where you could make your own pixel worlds.
I was worried when I saw the logo, and I guess it's true... That's really a huge shame, honestly. I loved the original and still have it archived, and Evolution already was hurting me enough. This is just painful.
Sort of, a crypto company bought the studio so probably those are not the same people. Like in most acquisitions they probably just bought it for the brand and kicked out the people who actually get things done.
if the devs themselves are repeatedly replying to every single comment on your video denouncing what's in the video and telling people to "do their own research", then I'm pretty sure the video is factually true from pretty much all angles. like, they wouldn't be trying THIS hard to say it's all fake if it was.
"Do your own research" is such a pointless phrase, it's just showing that her person has no arguments left so he just throws it thinking he won an argument.
@@KajuTheRudeMonke it can be worse than a cop out, I've seen people ask ChatGPT to confirm what they believe and then using the chatbot's answer as a "proof", you know, a program that literally says what you tell it to... This, or going to some conspiracy group... That's "own research", a circlejerk or chatbot to confirm bias.
I remember downloading this when it was advertised to me as a Game Engine. It crashed the second I started playing it, and spam-emailed me with NFT offers for around a year afterwards.
I just looked on their official forums. Its abandoned by players, mods, and developers, but there seems to be people ADVERTISING ILLEGAL DRUGS on there.
I like how since the game engine is so extremely restrictive that their soccer ball kicking game is reduced to carrying the ball from the field to the net
That is just how the creator, which probably wasn't The Sandbox, made it. I have played a pretty good The Sandbox game (two experiences) and I was accidentally kicking wood that you are supposed to pick up. They could have had it move but, I guess, those to have you pick it up which is dumb.
last time i hear he was working with someone on a festival which yk famous because it's fails so really he was draining his public goodwill but not as much as this lol
I work in the game and CG industry, mostly as a 3D artist and shader-wizzard. Hadn't looked into NFT games until now, and somehow it is even worse than I imagined. So thanks for suffering the psychic damage of "playing" those dumpsterfires for us. Like good god, it takes effort and dedication to suck that bad
I heard that a lot of the original devs jumped ship, so depending on where they went and what they're making maybe they didn't fall down the NFT rabbit hole.
Making the "games" single player only was probably the smartest decision they could have made. In Decentraland the double-digit daily playercounts made it inescapably obvious that nobody wants "the metaverse," but Sandbox can hide that by using singleplayer modes.
I tried decentraland a couple days after Folding Ideas made his video. I figured at least people would have tried it or it would be more active after hundreds of thousands/millions watched that video. The player count was actually lower than what he said in the video, it was completely dead. Never saw a single other player and a lot of the places he was referencing had shut down or didn't exist anymore xD
@@felicityc Reminds me of old browser games like Last Stand Dead City. Just instead of predatory microtransaction filled flash games with a slowly dying audience, they are predatory NFT and crypto filled games with a slowly dying audience.
The problem with 'metaverses' is that as long as more than one 'metaverse' exists, their entire purpose is defeated. Metaverse by now is just an empty buzzword that means a game is a MMO or multiplayer.
@@planescapedyou mean Last Stand Dead Zone. I don't know if it was *more* predatory than the other browser-based MMOs at the time. I thought it was decent enough.
While that is a funny point I can't imagine it possibly makes up for the fact that they're attempting to sell a SINGLE PLAYER METAVERSE like lmfao okay
14:53 Most likely nothing. Very common for NFT scammers to not pay their workers properly, especially ones from a country where not paying your workers seems to be the hot new corporate trend.
I watched this video, and went back to watch the rest of the Top Crypto Games, and was slightly surprised to see that the first few videos were of games that didn't exist. I expected the top crypto games you can play in 2022 would've been, well, playable in 2022. That was quite amusing. I look forward to see what you show next! ❤️
Who would've thought that the motivation to make money in the Crypto world is actually higher than the motivation to use the "technology" it's backed by?
glad I found you instead of watching some crypto bro rambling how "cool" this game is and got a more honest and straight forward review, thank you and sorry for the sanity you had to lose through this game
Yeah, it's rare on this site you'll find anyone play a crypto game without having a thumbnail of a wide open mouth and saying "100x IN ONLY ONE DAY!!!"
Thanks for watching, everyone! Which game would you rather see me cover next on this series, Gods Unchained, or Splinterlands? Or, something entirely different?
You know... It still shocks me how the NFTs are the world's most persistent type of crypto scam ever devised. Like seriously, this stuff has a lot of shady stuff backing it up, up to and including people hijacking youtube accounts and social media profiles to promote NFT sales.
SO TRUE! It was revolutionary to me. It was nothing like I'd seen before and was very well made. I had a great time using it and I genuinely feel crushed that the game encountered a downfall such as this.
I remember playing The Sandbox as a kid, it was pretty fun from what i remember. Not sure if that’s just nostalgia though, since the reviews on the PC Port are…not good. Sad to see it go like this though.
Holy shit, this is the people who made the sandbox games? Dude I loved those when I was younger, then they made an update or sequel and made everything shit and pay to win. Fucking wild seeing them here. Even back then I thought "they must be up to something shady", and hey, teenage me was right all along!
@@masako8980The Sandbox Dev Company got bought by another one that started changing the new sandbox game project to what we know now and stopped tending to the older games to prioritize the successor/sequel (I got this from other comments so I have no idea if this is valid or not.) Hope this is correct and helps
The worst part is the ads that are meant to be directed towards developers. As a game developer, getting an ad making fun of programming in general (it literally showed some basic programming from another engine with a poop emoji), I can say these developers have no idea what they're doing.
The guy they paid to make those ads you’re talking about is literally just selling “Roblox hacks” to his subscribers and they’re just malware. Absolute scumbag TH-camr and scumbag company
that same ad also has terrible subtitling, they said janky and the subtitles said junky i want to remove that ad but for some reason youtube just keeps giving it to me THIS IS INFURIATING I HATE IT SO MUCH 😭
Shut up i am a sandbox developer and sandbox is the best metaverse ever because i say it. (Even if roblox has got more than 100M players i will say is trash.)
They always mention that they will surpass roblox and minecraft. They keep mentioning it in the ads. EVEN CALLING ROBLOX STUDIO JANKY AND TRASH WHILE IN THE SANDBOX UR LITERALLY STUCK WITH 3D BLOCKS (roblox has meshes btw)
The effort people put into building these worlds weirdly feels a lot sadder than the effort I put into my Minecraft and Terraria worlds that no one other than me has ever seen. lol
Speaking of Minecraft, I first found out about this game when Mojang announced they're banning 'eneftee' of Minecraft, a lot of cryptobros seething about it and started mentioning that 'game'. But yeah, I kept reminding myself that any games that has crypt0 currency in it are not real games. I am glad I never jumped into that craphole, despite those cryptobros said that 'I will missing out' or 'have fun staying poor.'
You know, when I was in digital media college, it was common to see big project pitches that became a very simple vertical slice for the grade. Except that if you pitch an online metaverse, the teachers would ask to see at least actual online multiplayer functionality, as basic as it could be. This would probably not get a passing grade depending on how nice the teachers were.
I had to work on some stuff for sandbox. I worked for a publishing company that had a deal with one of the companies featured on sandbox and we were trying to make a game for them to put on sandbox. That was like a year ago and from what I've heard (I quit) they since stopped doing an work for sandbox lol My company had me play some roblok for research and when I had to launch sandbox, I was just like "why not just play roblox?" There was NOTHING to do in sandbox. It's been in alpha for years, looks like nothing has changed.
Haha, thanks for sharing that story! Yeah it's hilarious how much nothing they've sold with this game. There's literally NOTHING to do but spend money.
@@jauwn I'm not convinced anyone truly owns their spot in Sandbox either... yes they own a token, but can't Sandbox (the centralized company) just unilaterally decide what that token actually does/gives? And if Sandbox shuts down, the token does nothing.
Ha! I tried to play sandbox and when I had difficulties I started to search on youtube instead. Well here I am. Somehow with 1 Billion USD funding, NFTs and metaverse visions, they forgot how to actually make a game.
It's a shame that we're really close to not having any NFT games for him to review. They've been flogging the dead horse for a while, pretty soon it's going to the glue factory.
Funnily enough, I had 2 ads for sandbox when watching this video. You're literally being paid by the very game you reviewed. Gotta love the advertisment algorithm.
even with how nfts and crypto are more dead than war veteran granny i still get shitty ads for this game, claiming its building tools are, ''better than roblox and minecraft'' and claiming you dont need to code to make games, but you need code to make proper games, and having no codes only limits the amount of stuff you can put in the game, and yet it still has ads like: building in other metaverses: aaa poopoo coding aaaaaa stinky building in the sandbox: WOOOOOW SO AWESOME DOGECOIN WOW SO AWESOME SO EASY IM GONNA BUST A NUT JUST FOR HOW GOOD BUILDING ON IT IS
Yeah, it really seems like before they got taken over by Animoca they were actually doing something cool. Now the only thing that matters is money, money, money. What a shame.
"here take a listen while I play one of the mini game" then an ad just appeared its an world of tanks ad and its like "we know you are hovering to that button" its so perfectly timed that if im not looking at the screen I would though that was the music
love these videos, and it's so crazy to hear at the end that you almost have 100 subscribers looking at your channel now which, as of me writing this comment, has 72k subs less than a year later.
i have recieved several ads for this garbage game, and it sounds just extremely annoying. their ass is comparing themselves to roblox, mf atleast roblox makes their assets free. the sandbox also criticizes real coding and modelling and it sorta pisses me off because most likely "generating" events from words will break everything. the game is horrible. games and nfts dont mix
They don't have a billion dollars though. From what you showed that is just the market cap, there is probably very little actual liquidity. Trying to cash out will just crash the price and that market cap will disappear.
Right, and that same logic can be applied to pretty much any crypto when people say it's "worth $xxx". So certainly there would be not nearly enough liquidity to exit that position. However, and I should've included this in the video, they have actually raised a number well over $500M (as far as I could find, I'm sure they've received more in private funding) in cash, not crypto, from other investment firms such as SoftBank. So they might actually have access to almost $1B in real money in addition to whatever they can get for their funny money, which is even crazier to think about.
Great video. The Sandbox is bullshit from start to finish. It took me quite some time to come to this conclusion, even tough, it would have been an obvious thing right away. (south China morning post wtf...) They made some interesting promises that sounded very appealing, especially to creators. The only fun thing in The Sandbox is the game maker. It's their 'engine' required for building the worlds that should be accessible through the plots of land one day. It's a little bit like playing Lego and you can easily spend hours in it (ignoring the many glitches). Actually, it's not even an engine; it's more like a game itself created with Unity. However, stay away from this stuff people! Keep up the good work. Best, Ben
i keep getting ads of that game, the whole "Ditch roblox and code based game engines cuz we are better" rubbed me the wrong way, good to see it truly sucks lol
A coworker had me go here to check out Snoop Dogg's area (as if Snoop Dogg actually was spending any time in there) and wanted to buy land and... The whole thing chugged like ass. Bear in mind I used a 970, but even if I had a 3080, I'd see similar results.
Before watching this video and during this video, I got the same ad for Sandbox, and I expected this thing to be a multiplayer game with some in-built game modes, but no it just turns out to be a world editor as said by you. Thanks for the honest review.
NFTs, crypto, metaverse and all this crap should never be in a Videogame. If people like this BS, I’m ok with it, take all your money, put it in NFTs and crypto and get scammed. But don’t bother us videogamers. I cannot think of an NFT or metaverse without thinking is a scam or a ponzi scheme anymore… XD
I was very suprised to hear youve only been making videos for a week. This video was really well made, and well edited. You sir have gained another subscriber
I was incredibly curious about the song. I might be a masochist but I have my limits. Best I can tell without directly subjecting myselft to the sandbox, is it appears to be a song made specificly for the anicubeent themed kpop land? world? area. Whatever you call it. The gist is, I couldn't find the song on shazam, soundhound, or a few sketchy thirdparty apps. Even with a longer version of the song pulled from a commentatorless playthrough of the world. Likely too little too late for folks curious but thought I'd throw in what I found for posterity. Love the videos, be them on these dumpster fires, or some old pc games. Diggles is a classic. A dumpster fire, but a classic. You captured its energy perfectly.
Something that stands out to me is how there's no like... graphical consistency. The smooth HUD (which takes up way too much of the screen and is very distracting, not to mention hard to read due to the translucent background) doesn't match the voxel pixel artstyle at all. It feels like they came from two different games entirely.
@@Grayson-tk5hn just saying that you technically own a minecraft world just as much, or even more than an nft. Which is kind of funny. The nft company was talking shit about mc for a sec.
The fact that "The Sandbox" hired a roblox exploiter that is also a youtuber to shit on roblox, meanwhile expecting no criticism at all. The irony is in my veins right now.
Yep I saw that guy. He’s also giving people malware, all the links in his descriptions take you to websites that are filled with pop up ads and surveys and eventually once you get the software it’s just malware. Great reputation, sandbox!
I just saw an ad for this game, and the ad was interesting. I almost downloaded and played the game to give it a chance, but then I realized the site was so odd I had to get a second opinion. Good god im glad I didn't waste my time. thank you. NFT's are so irritating.
it was before this nft shit a good mobile games name the sandbox unironicaly bought by the same company that made this IP into this so in a way yeah it's bad but damn nft ruining indie games although the team behind the games before this jump off ship
I mean Second Life is a sandbox world, it isnt necessarily listed as a game but a virtual chat world, maybe they should have gone with that angle as well instead of calling it a "game"
Well, disrupting some giants like Roblox and Minecraft are quite ambitious... Expect, it'll be much harder to do so with NFTs, so... They are (Sandbox Developers) doomed from the beginning.
Jauwn, thank you for memorializing this for humanity through your videos, this fad will pass and most people will forget these "games" and those behind them. Ever since I understood not only the environmental but also the criminal implications of NFTs/Crypto/Blockchain I always knew to avoid it and to speak out against it, but I never realized the depths of the grifting and scamming perpetrated by these "NFT firms" . It Contributes a lot to the videos that you discuss who is behind these scams.
I played the original moblie game when i was a kid. It was pretty fun, and nothing like what it is now. Monetization was relatively painfull, but eh, it was a moblie game. Playing a version with cheats was fun.
Nothing like seeing an ad for a game that catches your eye, only to look it up and find that it's cryptoshit. Three times this has happened to me, and I feel like it's not going to be the last.
And i like how to this day i am still getting ads about it where they are like "We all know how junky Roblox is" and they are being hypocritic when they say that💀
11 months later. Scam is still alive, and is now being advertised on youtube. Not to mention the current crackdown on adblock. So now the scam is being advertised at peek efficiency
the people calling this a dishonest review is hilarious. NFT games are literally MICROTRANSACTIONS THE VIDEOGAME.... hell even EA one of the biggest game companies in the world barely gets away with actual full size DLC, Ubisoft gets shitted on for any and all microtransactions SO WHAT KIND OF REVERSE EVOLUTION TROGLODYTE do you have to be to think you deserve praise for this pile of actual monetized DOG SHIT SHIT CALLING IT MICROTRANSACTIONS IS LIKE SPITTING ON THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD MICRO BECAUSE NFT's ARE OFTEN SO EXPENSIVE THAT THEY ARE WORTH MORE THEN MOST PEOPLES ENTIRE GAMING SYSTEM!!!
Wild. Until you showed the previous Sandbox games, I would have never guessed it's the same people who made that mobile game of the same name from over a decade ago.
2:35 I used to think most voxel art styles were ugly for this reason as well, until I found out about the Voxel Doom mod. You would think making voxel models using the Doom character sprites as reference would create an incomprehensible mess, but since the mod disables shading on the voxels they actually work very effectively as 3D renditions of the original sprites. While I think the The Sandbox’s presentation is rotten and bland to its core, if they had disabled shading, chosen an alternate to tweening, and got rid of the godawful ambient occlusion the graphics would have been a smidge less ugly.
or do it like minecraft did if they want to destroy minecarft AND roblox then might as well copy some of those aspect or make something similar to those
I think the only way for this to actually work is if they started with a player base and *somehow* managed to add in the NFT stuff without making the player base leave the game. At the very least its clearly impossible for this type of thing to work starting with all this NFT stuff, nobody will play it, everyone just speculates.
Anything that ever associates with nfts in even the slightest should be avoided at all times like the plague it is, there is no exception and not a single half decent thing has ever come from them since they were invented by that scammer.
if meta is gonna call themselves "meta" for going whole hog into VR, then they metaverse has to be VR/AR. Not just a digital game. The fact that crypto people have also taken this "meta" word is so stupid, all I can think of whenever I hear "meta" or "metaverse" is just corporations wanting to make a quick buck but it just happens to be technology related.
To each their own, but the one thing I actually like about The Sandbox Metaverse is the art style. I personally love that extra blocky voxel style. I enjoy the game Staxel, which uses a much more pixellated voxel style which I'm a huge fan of and the SBM art style immediately reminded me of that. I was actually surprised when you said you hated the way it looked because I was immediately admiring the style. Just goes to show that everyone is different and has different taste in art.
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Dishonest reviews, and according to channels like this will not grow
Be specific. What claim did he make that was false?
what a clown... go back to sandbox where u belong
News flash genius, if someone's talking smack its most likely honest, especially if it doesn't grow their channel. And what in the world are you rambling about?
"according to channels like this ... will not grow"
What will not grow genius? dishonest reviews? Or the channel? I suggest learning English grammar.
pin of shame
@@capralmarines4043lmao
I recognized the name of the sandbox and became heartbroken when i heard it was bought out by a nft company,it used to be my favourite game back when i was younger
Same, I found it so fun when I was a kid. It sucks to see it again surrounded by speculative gambling
They still exist... And you can still play it... What are you even talking about?
@@dentheduck2095why play a game now plagued with nft crap?
@@dentheduck2095 excuse me? The old the sandbox (and the old sandbox 2) barely works nowdays, and in android it even crashes on android 10 or newer because they abandoned those games to focus on this garbage "successor"
It has the same executives it even had.
What’s sad is the people who made this game made another game with the same name (the sandbox) and this game was a fun pixel art simulator where you could make your own pixel worlds.
Tbh I thought this game just stole the name but its the same devs, and that hurts my soul in ways I cant describe
I was worried when I saw the logo, and I guess it's true...
That's really a huge shame, honestly.
I loved the original and still have it archived, and Evolution already was hurting me enough.
This is just painful.
I'm so glad someone else remembers this
Bruh you're telling me it's the same peoples? 💀
That's a shame, the original sandbox was fun af.
Sort of, a crypto company bought the studio so probably those are not the same people. Like in most acquisitions they probably just bought it for the brand and kicked out the people who actually get things done.
if the devs themselves are repeatedly replying to every single comment on your video denouncing what's in the video and telling people to "do their own research", then I'm pretty sure the video is factually true from pretty much all angles.
like, they wouldn't be trying THIS hard to say it's all fake if it was.
ogknowbody will be seething so hard when they found out about your comment. Bad thing is, that enefteebro is still out there.
"Do your own research" is such a pointless phrase, it's just showing that her person has no arguments left so he just throws it thinking he won an argument.
@@KajuTheRudeMonke it can be worse than a cop out, I've seen people ask ChatGPT to confirm what they believe and then using the chatbot's answer as a "proof", you know, a program that literally says what you tell it to... This, or going to some conspiracy group... That's "own research", a circlejerk or chatbot to confirm bias.
@@KajuTheRudeMonkeSeriously. I _have_ done my research.
If only they put as much energy into fixing The Sandbox as they do in fighting people in the comments. Maybe it would actually be playable by now.
I remember downloading this when it was advertised to me as a Game Engine. It crashed the second I started playing it, and spam-emailed me with NFT offers for around a year afterwards.
Yup I’m still getting emails from them to this day I had to block their domain because there was no use unsubscribing. Bunch of scumbags
I just looked on their official forums. Its abandoned by players, mods, and developers, but there seems to be people ADVERTISING ILLEGAL DRUGS on there.
oh shit, something more useful than any NFT
based.
so what your saying is the official forums went from bad to great
Yeah, basically.
Heroine withdrawal is still more pleasant than playing an NFT game.
I like how since the game engine is so extremely restrictive that their soccer ball kicking game is reduced to carrying the ball from the field to the net
That is just how the creator, which probably wasn't The Sandbox, made it. I have played a pretty good The Sandbox game (two experiences) and I was accidentally kicking wood that you are supposed to pick up. They could have had it move but, I guess, those to have you pick it up which is dumb.
It's legit depressing seeing Snoop Dogg sell so much of his public goodwill down the river for this nonsense. People *liked* him.
last time i hear he was working with someone on a festival which yk famous because it's fails so really he was draining his public goodwill but not as much as this lol
Let's be real; he's put his name on worse crap than this. Jason Derulo's "Wiggle," anyone?
I work in the game and CG industry, mostly as a 3D artist and shader-wizzard. Hadn't looked into NFT games until now, and somehow it is even worse than I imagined.
So thanks for suffering the psychic damage of "playing" those dumpsterfires for us.
Like good god, it takes effort and dedication to suck that bad
Glad you enjoyed my suffering. Yeah, the quality here is certainly questionable, considering it's the work of a 100+ person team
This review is dishonest. Im a indie game dev in the sandbox. this video was made in bad faith or ill informed. DYOR
@@ogknowbodyThen give a proveable refutation to any one point
@@llewelynshingler2173 DYOR
@@ogknowbody x to doubt
It's so sad to see the original sandbox team that made brilliant mobile games slowly fall into the nft rabbit hole, unable to climb out.
I heard that a lot of the original devs jumped ship, so depending on where they went and what they're making maybe they didn't fall down the NFT rabbit hole.
@@Gatorade69 that's good to hear
Nothing kills an entrepreneur faster than falling for a pyramid scheme
@@ogfloatzel4025I hope we see a movie in the vein of Wolf of Wall Street or American Psycho exposing the inner nature of the crypto community
yeah.
Making the "games" single player only was probably the smartest decision they could have made. In Decentraland the double-digit daily playercounts made it inescapably obvious that nobody wants "the metaverse," but Sandbox can hide that by using singleplayer modes.
I tried decentraland a couple days after Folding Ideas made his video. I figured at least people would have tried it or it would be more active after hundreds of thousands/millions watched that video.
The player count was actually lower than what he said in the video, it was completely dead. Never saw a single other player and a lot of the places he was referencing had shut down or didn't exist anymore
xD
@@felicityc Reminds me of old browser games like Last Stand Dead City.
Just instead of predatory microtransaction filled flash games with a slowly dying audience, they are predatory NFT and crypto filled games with a slowly dying audience.
The problem with 'metaverses' is that as long as more than one 'metaverse' exists, their entire purpose is defeated.
Metaverse by now is just an empty buzzword that means a game is a MMO or multiplayer.
@@planescapedyou mean Last Stand Dead Zone.
I don't know if it was *more* predatory than the other browser-based MMOs at the time. I thought it was decent enough.
While that is a funny point I can't imagine it possibly makes up for the fact that they're attempting to sell a SINGLE PLAYER METAVERSE like lmfao okay
14:53 Most likely nothing. Very common for NFT scammers to not pay their workers properly, especially ones from a country where not paying your workers seems to be the hot new corporate trend.
This honestly just makes me sadder and hate this trash game even more
I watched this video, and went back to watch the rest of the Top Crypto Games, and was slightly surprised to see that the first few videos were of games that didn't exist. I expected the top crypto games you can play in 2022 would've been, well, playable in 2022. That was quite amusing.
I look forward to see what you show next! ❤️
Who would've thought that the motivation to make money in the Crypto world is actually higher than the motivation to use the "technology" it's backed by?
Dude, your channel is going to blow up 100%. Your videos have had more effort put into them than their subjects, its incredible
Wow, thanks for the kind words! It really means a lot :)
You predicted it
I’m new here and I’m staying. the editing + pacing has only improved. Onwards, upwards!
glad I found you instead of watching some crypto bro rambling how "cool" this game is and got a more honest and straight forward review, thank you and sorry for the sanity you had to lose through this game
Yeah, it's rare on this site you'll find anyone play a crypto game without having a thumbnail of a wide open mouth and saying "100x IN ONLY ONE DAY!!!"
Thanks for watching, everyone! Which game would you rather see me cover next on this series, Gods Unchained, or Splinterlands? Or, something entirely different?
I cast my vote for God's Unchained
@@DregoryTerm Your wish might just come true this week 🤫
Man, they turned one of my childhood mobile games into an NFT hell. This sucks.
Agreed. They took an absolutely beautiful gem and corrupted it into an empty shell.
You know... It still shocks me how the NFTs are the world's most persistent type of crypto scam ever devised. Like seriously, this stuff has a lot of shady stuff backing it up, up to and including people hijacking youtube accounts and social media profiles to promote NFT sales.
what a shame that The Sandbox IP ended up in the hands to these fools. The original Sandbox game series was freaking amazing, actually saddening.
True, I loved the Pac-Man DLC on the second mobile game.
SO TRUE! It was revolutionary to me. It was nothing like I'd seen before and was very well made. I had a great time using it and I genuinely feel crushed that the game encountered a downfall such as this.
I remember playing The Sandbox as a kid, it was pretty fun from what i remember. Not sure if that’s just nostalgia though, since the reviews on the PC Port are…not good. Sad to see it go like this though.
Some comments said the earlier versions were fun. Once Animoca bought them it was all downhill from there?
Holy shit, this is the people who made the sandbox games? Dude I loved those when I was younger, then they made an update or sequel and made everything shit and pay to win. Fucking wild seeing them here. Even back then I thought "they must be up to something shady", and hey, teenage me was right all along!
If I trust other comments this shadow trend started since they were bought apparently
@@flyingstonemon3564 what do you mean?
@@masako8980The Sandbox Dev Company got bought by another one that started changing the new sandbox game project to what we know now and stopped tending to the older games to prioritize the successor/sequel (I got this from other comments so I have no idea if this is valid or not.) Hope this is correct and helps
@@flyingstonemon3564 this is has since been validated by jauwn it's self
The worst part is the ads that are meant to be directed towards developers. As a game developer, getting an ad making fun of programming in general (it literally showed some basic programming from another engine with a poop emoji), I can say these developers have no idea what they're doing.
The guy they paid to make those ads you’re talking about is literally just selling “Roblox hacks” to his subscribers and they’re just malware. Absolute scumbag TH-camr and scumbag company
that same ad also has terrible subtitling, they said janky and the subtitles said junky
i want to remove that ad but for some reason youtube just keeps giving it to me
THIS IS INFURIATING I HATE IT SO MUCH 😭
Shut up i am a sandbox developer and sandbox is the best metaverse ever because i say it. (Even if roblox has got more than 100M players i will say is trash.)
@@randoom1539 Oh really? Well, because you say so it *must* be the best!
@@IronBrandon22 At least there is one developer that uses that bullsh1t argument
They always mention that they will surpass roblox and minecraft. They keep mentioning it in the ads. EVEN CALLING ROBLOX STUDIO JANKY AND TRASH WHILE IN THE SANDBOX UR LITERALLY STUCK WITH 3D BLOCKS (roblox has meshes btw)
The effort people put into building these worlds weirdly feels a lot sadder than the effort I put into my Minecraft and Terraria worlds that no one other than me has ever seen. lol
Speaking of Minecraft, I first found out about this game when Mojang announced they're banning 'eneftee' of Minecraft, a lot of cryptobros seething about it and started mentioning that 'game'. But yeah, I kept reminding myself that any games that has crypt0 currency in it are not real games. I am glad I never jumped into that craphole, despite those cryptobros said that 'I will missing out' or 'have fun staying poor.'
Your effort went into something that you can feel proud of. There's nothing sad about that.
i want to see them.
@@CrystalWings12'have fun staying poor' said by the guys throwing their money into something totally worthless, lol
@@KajuTheRudeMonke And now we're laughing at their lost, and it was worth it. Those cryptobros enefteebros deserves to be a lifetime laughing stock.
You know, when I was in digital media college, it was common to see big project pitches that became a very simple vertical slice for the grade.
Except that if you pitch an online metaverse, the teachers would ask to see at least actual online multiplayer functionality, as basic as it could be. This would probably not get a passing grade depending on how nice the teachers were.
I had to work on some stuff for sandbox. I worked for a publishing company that had a deal with one of the companies featured on sandbox and we were trying to make a game for them to put on sandbox. That was like a year ago and from what I've heard (I quit) they since stopped doing an work for sandbox lol My company had me play some roblok for research and when I had to launch sandbox, I was just like "why not just play roblox?" There was NOTHING to do in sandbox. It's been in alpha for years, looks like nothing has changed.
Haha, thanks for sharing that story! Yeah it's hilarious how much nothing they've sold with this game. There's literally NOTHING to do but spend money.
This will age bad
@@ogknowbody 4 months later and it's only aged better, cope harder
@@ogknowbodyhell nah lmfao
cry harder@@ogknowbody
You got to go on the walk of a lifetime and collect a butterfly and you gave it a -16? Sad. This is why you can't get good info from the internet.
So it's a revamp of "The Million Dollar Homepage" where some of the links go to a crappy minigame?
Yes but that wasn't on the blockchain so did you really own your spot?
@@jauwn I'm not convinced anyone truly owns their spot in Sandbox either... yes they own a token, but can't Sandbox (the centralized company) just unilaterally decide what that token actually does/gives? And if Sandbox shuts down, the token does nothing.
@@gateroozeink5061
unironically yes
Ha! I tried to play sandbox and when I had difficulties I started to search on youtube instead. Well here I am. Somehow with 1 Billion USD funding, NFTs and metaverse visions, they forgot how to actually make a game.
Somehow they're even less competent than modern AAA gaming
i remember seeing a ad for this game once, actually being interested, learning that it was a NFT game, and never wanting to even hear about it anymore
It's a shame that we're really close to not having any NFT games for him to review. They've been flogging the dead horse for a while, pretty soon it's going to the glue factory.
Jauwn talking about the latest nft scam game
Me: shaking my head at how hard he got bodied in that Yu-Gi-Oh Duel
Bruh don’t remind me 😂😂🥲
@@jauwn at least you managed to get a monster out lol I've seen duels end before the opponent even got to draw a card x.x
I usually play Dragonmaids so I'm usually the person winning on turn 2, haha
@@jauwn oh dang you're bodying folks too haha what did you play here?
Im watching this video after get extremely tilted playing that game hoping for refreshing, but got jumpscared in the end
3:11 I thought the little voxel chicken suit guy was spelling the n word
I'm absolutely convinced he is. A true testament to the crypto community
@@iamathousandapples its more like being chronically online, not just crypto shills but literally any other community as well tbh
Funnily enough, I had 2 ads for sandbox when watching this video.
You're literally being paid by the very game you reviewed.
Gotta love the advertisment algorithm.
Isn't that awesome
I love how Jauwn went from 65 subs to (as for today) almost 30K subs... excellent content, keep'em coming!!
Of course!
even with how nfts and crypto are more dead than war veteran granny i still get shitty ads for this game, claiming its building tools are, ''better than roblox and minecraft'' and claiming you dont need to code to make games, but you need code to make proper games, and having no codes only limits the amount of stuff you can put in the game, and yet it still has ads like:
building in other metaverses: aaa poopoo coding aaaaaa stinky
building in the sandbox: WOOOOOW SO AWESOME DOGECOIN WOW SO AWESOME SO EASY IM GONNA BUST A NUT JUST FOR HOW GOOD BUILDING ON IT IS
I miss the old the sandbox before it became a stupid fing “meta”
Yeah, it really seems like before they got taken over by Animoca they were actually doing something cool. Now the only thing that matters is money, money, money. What a shame.
@@jauwn yes a very big shame
Coming back to the old videos, it was such a shock to hear you celebrate reaching 100 subs, It must be unreal having grown so fast, love the reviews!
"here take a listen while I play one of the mini game" then an ad just appeared its an world of tanks ad and its like "we know you are hovering to that button" its so perfectly timed that if im not looking at the screen I would though that was the music
The irony of receiving an sanbox add before this video is amazing
Man that dark world opening hand just sad and painfull to watch
"What if the games get shut down?"
[ Laughs in offline Mode on Minecraft. ]
love these videos, and it's so crazy to hear at the end that you almost have 100 subscribers looking at your channel now which, as of me writing this comment, has 72k subs less than a year later.
i have recieved several ads for this garbage game, and it sounds just extremely annoying. their ass is comparing themselves to roblox, mf atleast roblox makes their assets free. the sandbox also criticizes real coding and modelling and it sorta pisses me off because most likely "generating" events from words will break everything. the game is horrible. games and nfts dont mix
They don't have a billion dollars though. From what you showed that is just the market cap, there is probably very little actual liquidity. Trying to cash out will just crash the price and that market cap will disappear.
Right, and that same logic can be applied to pretty much any crypto when people say it's "worth $xxx". So certainly there would be not nearly enough liquidity to exit that position. However, and I should've included this in the video, they have actually raised a number well over $500M (as far as I could find, I'm sure they've received more in private funding) in cash, not crypto, from other investment firms such as SoftBank.
So they might actually have access to almost $1B in real money in addition to whatever they can get for their funny money, which is even crazier to think about.
Great video. The Sandbox is bullshit from start to finish. It took me quite some time to come to this conclusion, even tough, it would have been an obvious thing right away. (south China morning post wtf...) They made some interesting promises that sounded very appealing, especially to creators. The only fun thing in The Sandbox is the game maker. It's their 'engine' required for building the worlds that should be accessible through the plots of land one day. It's a little bit like playing Lego and you can easily spend hours in it (ignoring the many glitches). Actually, it's not even an engine; it's more like a game itself created with Unity. However, stay away from this stuff people! Keep up the good work. Best, Ben
i keep getting ads of that game, the whole "Ditch roblox and code based game engines cuz we are better" rubbed me the wrong way, good to see it truly sucks lol
A coworker had me go here to check out Snoop Dogg's area (as if Snoop Dogg actually was spending any time in there) and wanted to buy land and... The whole thing chugged like ass. Bear in mind I used a 970, but even if I had a 3080, I'd see similar results.
Before watching this video and during this video, I got the same ad for Sandbox, and I expected this thing to be a multiplayer game with some in-built game modes, but no it just turns out to be a world editor as said by you. Thanks for the honest review.
That's kind of annoying because I blocked ads for crypto on my channel, I guess they're allowed because they advertise under "gaming"
@@jauwn Exactly lol, they name it as "Game Maker" whereas it actually isn't working that way
@@jauwn That's strange, I get crypto ads every now and then on your videos, I suppose TH-cam doesn't give a shit anymore
Honest reviews, channels like this will grow
they say "its so simple a kid can play it" in one of their ads,
rip their moms credit card lol
NFTs, crypto, metaverse and all this crap should never be in a Videogame. If people like this BS, I’m ok with it, take all your money, put it in NFTs and crypto and get scammed. But don’t bother us videogamers.
I cannot think of an NFT or metaverse without thinking is a scam or a ponzi scheme anymore… XD
The currency is sand. That's hysterical
I was very suprised to hear youve only been making videos for a week. This video was really well made, and well edited. You sir have gained another subscriber
Well I’ve been making videos for a year now but yeah this was only a week after I started
@@jauwn ah ok, my bad 😅
I was incredibly curious about the song. I might be a masochist but I have my limits. Best I can tell without directly subjecting myselft to the sandbox, is it appears to be a song made specificly for the anicubeent themed kpop land? world? area. Whatever you call it. The gist is, I couldn't find the song on shazam, soundhound, or a few sketchy thirdparty apps. Even with a longer version of the song pulled from a commentatorless playthrough of the world. Likely too little too late for folks curious but thought I'd throw in what I found for posterity. Love the videos, be them on these dumpster fires, or some old pc games. Diggles is a classic. A dumpster fire, but a classic. You captured its energy perfectly.
Yeah I'm surprised multiple people asked where the song came from, but it's definitely a Sandbox original.
Glad you like the videos!
THE FACT THAT PORORO (a south korean kids tv show) OWNED A LAND IN THE SANDBOX
Something that stands out to me is how there's no like... graphical consistency. The smooth HUD (which takes up way too much of the screen and is very distracting, not to mention hard to read due to the translucent background) doesn't match the voxel pixel artstyle at all. It feels like they came from two different games entirely.
Minecraft is decentralized and self hosted
ok so?
@@Grayson-tk5hn just saying that you technically own a minecraft world just as much, or even more than an nft. Which is kind of funny. The nft company was talking shit about mc for a sec.
@@busterdcampbelloh ok
Honestly think the first world looked kind of neat. Idk, there's something really appealing to me about the color scheme of everything.
I hope to see Createra land soon. Their "game" is like a ripoff of these and the "land pieces" are all super pumped up to almost 2eth lol
I just looked at it, there appears to not only be no other users, but the “game” also has no collision detection.
@@jauwn exactly! lol I hopped into a single "game" and what I saw was bad. and the floor price went from 0.3 -> 1.7 ETH - just speculation
The fact that "The Sandbox" hired a roblox exploiter that is also a youtuber to shit on roblox, meanwhile expecting no criticism at all. The irony is in my veins right now.
Yep I saw that guy. He’s also giving people malware, all the links in his descriptions take you to websites that are filled with pop up ads and surveys and eventually once you get the software it’s just malware. Great reputation, sandbox!
@@jauwn then they wonder why their advertisements gain 0 clicks
2:05 lol why do they have the n word on their website
I just saw an ad for this game, and the ad was interesting. I almost downloaded and played the game to give it a chance, but then I realized the site was so odd I had to get a second opinion. Good god im glad I didn't waste my time. thank you. NFT's are so irritating.
So glad that this video I made almost a year ago is still helping people, lol
@@jauwn yep it probably will keep doing that.
I got youtubes ads for it. They were advertising it as an engine to make your own games. Super weird.
Been enjoying this series so far. Hope you keep it going 😊
Glad you enjoy! That's the plan.
I found your channel through Hannah's recommendation and I like what I see so far! Keep at it!
"The Sandbox" is also a port of a mobile game from 2012 that is interesting to play :)
"The Sandbox". What a clever, original game title. Almost as good as "Ice Hockey" or "Pong"!
it was before this nft shit a good mobile games name the sandbox unironicaly bought by the same company that made this IP into this so in a way yeah it's bad but damn nft ruining indie games although the team behind the games before this jump off ship
I mean Second Life is a sandbox world, it isnt necessarily listed as a game but a virtual chat world, maybe they should have gone with that angle as well instead of calling it a "game"
2:45 errrmmmm, technically the Roblox one shown is an R15 avatar, which has 15 cubes per character.
Well, disrupting some giants like Roblox and Minecraft are quite ambitious...
Expect, it'll be much harder to do so with NFTs, so... They are (Sandbox Developers) doomed from the beginning.
As a software developer, why would I ever PAY to be able to participate in the development of the Snoopverse??? I am used to GET PAID for my work.
XD that is hilarious. pay for the privelige of developing the snoopverse. nfts are all a scam.
Jauwn, thank you for memorializing this for humanity through your videos, this fad will pass and most people will forget these "games" and those behind them. Ever since I understood not only the environmental but also the criminal implications of NFTs/Crypto/Blockchain I always knew to avoid it and to speak out against it, but I never realized the depths of the grifting and scamming perpetrated by these "NFT firms" . It Contributes a lot to the videos that you discuss who is behind these scams.
I played the original moblie game when i was a kid. It was pretty fun, and nothing like what it is now. Monetization was relatively painfull, but eh, it was a moblie game. Playing a version with cheats was fun.
remember the sandbox EDU where they gave you stuff for free?
and now you cant buy the things even if you want. i don't think its even listed anymore.
💀
What’s worse is the original the sandbox mobile game was good the devs became a .eth sellout
sandbox 2 sucked don’t lie to yourself
@@OmegaCorsair it doesn't matter if it was good, because this trainwreck is INCOMPARABLY worse anyway
Voxel art is good.
NFTs are bad.
Although I strongly dislike the laziness of not fully committing to voxel art by making the objects wave around without conforming to the grid.
Voxel art is good if it's done right.
0:56 THATS "GRAB THAT AUTO" GUY! FROM THE THUMBNAIL!!!
I rather play my among us susy baka obby in roblox than this
i used to play the sandbox evolution game(the little mobile 2d game) and it was fun, sad how it went to this
yeah i remember the 1st game
You only need half a basketball court if it's a reusable asset.
0:56 ISTG I've seen that old man 3d model before
It’s used in a ton of shovelware games. It’s one of the free models included with adobes Mixamo
Nothing like seeing an ad for a game that catches your eye, only to look it up and find that it's cryptoshit. Three times this has happened to me, and I feel like it's not going to be the last.
And i like how to this day i am still getting ads about it where they are like "We all know how junky Roblox is" and they are being hypocritic when they say that💀
11 months later. Scam is still alive, and is now being advertised on youtube. Not to mention the current crackdown on adblock. So now the scam is being advertised at peek efficiency
im getting so many ads for this game and finding out its a nft game makes it even worse😭
the people calling this a dishonest review is hilarious. NFT games are literally MICROTRANSACTIONS THE VIDEOGAME.... hell even EA one of the biggest game companies in the world barely gets away with actual full size DLC, Ubisoft gets shitted on for any and all microtransactions SO WHAT KIND OF REVERSE EVOLUTION TROGLODYTE do you have to be to think you deserve praise for this pile of actual monetized DOG SHIT
SHIT CALLING IT MICROTRANSACTIONS IS LIKE SPITTING ON THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD MICRO BECAUSE NFT's ARE OFTEN SO EXPENSIVE THAT THEY ARE WORTH MORE THEN MOST PEOPLES ENTIRE GAMING SYSTEM!!!
To build a game, YOU HAVE TO PAY REAL LIFE FUCKING MONEY.
I got an AD for this game while watching this video. Definitely not scummy.
Wild. Until you showed the previous Sandbox games, I would have never guessed it's the same people who made that mobile game of the same name from over a decade ago.
All NFT games are the worst NFT game ever.
nft more like no fun trash
2:35 I used to think most voxel art styles were ugly for this reason as well, until I found out about the Voxel Doom mod. You would think making voxel models using the Doom character sprites as reference would create an incomprehensible mess, but since the mod disables shading on the voxels they actually work very effectively as 3D renditions of the original sprites. While I think the The Sandbox’s presentation is rotten and bland to its core, if they had disabled shading, chosen an alternate to tweening, and got rid of the godawful ambient occlusion the graphics would have been a smidge less ugly.
or do it like minecraft did if they want to destroy minecarft AND roblox then might as well copy some of those aspect or make something similar to those
12:11 i played theese games to death sad to see it went deeper to the drain
I remember seeing some advertisements for this. And nothing showed any gameplay in true crypto gaming fashion!
I think the only way for this to actually work is if they started with a player base and *somehow* managed to add in the NFT stuff without making the player base leave the game.
At the very least its clearly impossible for this type of thing to work starting with all this NFT stuff, nobody will play it, everyone just speculates.
Anything that ever associates with nfts in even the slightest should be avoided at all times like the plague it is, there is no exception and not a single half decent thing has ever come from them since they were invented by that scammer.
2:01 I can't be the only one who thought that one guy on the promo artwork was trying to write the n word
Fun content to watch at late hours, keep up the good work my guy :)
Dude, I used to love the dev’s other games! It breaks my heart to seem them resort to making things like this.
its sad too, i remember the mobile game being a really fun puzzle game
if meta is gonna call themselves "meta" for going whole hog into VR, then they metaverse has to be VR/AR. Not just a digital game.
The fact that crypto people have also taken this "meta" word is so stupid, all I can think of whenever I hear "meta" or "metaverse" is just corporations wanting to make a quick buck but it just happens to be technology related.
Imagine Minecraft getting shut down, it's ridiculous
To each their own, but the one thing I actually like about The Sandbox Metaverse is the art style. I personally love that extra blocky voxel style. I enjoy the game Staxel, which uses a much more pixellated voxel style which I'm a huge fan of and the SBM art style immediately reminded me of that. I was actually surprised when you said you hated the way it looked because I was immediately admiring the style. Just goes to show that everyone is different and has different taste in art.