Someone finally figured out a good use for NFTs: Peter Molyneux is using 'land' sales from his failed blockchain game to fund the development of his new project

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So no, he didn’t figure out a good use for NFTs, he just scammed people

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the same use everyone else has “found”…

    Getting people to give you money for it

    But why not just sell pre-orders like a Kickstarter game?

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    • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cause he did that for his last game, Godus in 2013 and it still isn’t finished

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So the normal use for NFTs

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Correct. The same old “viRtUaL LAnD” shtick.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We already know good use for nfts, money laundering.

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And in typical molyneux fashion, he will promise the world and deliver 1% of it

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  • ormr@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t follow everything he’s been doing but I don’t understand the negative sentiment. Populous and Black & White were fantastic games IMO. But these games are old so maybe this view of him as a liar is more recent development.

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    • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Black and White were fantastic.

      Also many decades ago now. He went on to make massive promises for the Fabe series - and while I enjoyed them, they absolutely did not meet what he had described. Hence his reputation these days of over promising and under delivering

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    • wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Besides the other games mentioned here, there’s also en.wikipedia.org/…/Curiosity:_What's_Inside_the_C… . Read the completion section to see just how bad it was.

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    • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He created a literal scam game; Legacy. They had an NFT land ruse where you could buy high value land for your in-game business.

      When the game released no one played it and the “NFT land l” turned out to be worthless (Molyneux did get to keep the money though).

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    • Lanusensei87@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One his first gigs was when a software company mistakenly contacted his business to make a program of sorts, and rather than explaining the situation, he was like “Who? Oh yeah, sure, we are definitely that company you were looking for, we totally know the thing you’retalking about, we’lldo it!”. He was a liar from the very start, it just took some time, and a handful of overhyped (by him) games for people to catch on.

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• Venicon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had thought there was a Fable coming out soon, there was an ad at the last Gamescom before this one. Unless Molyneux isn’t involved in it?

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  • peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He is not

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• Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  5 min intro video on Molyneux’s new game, Masters of Albion.

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  • beepnoise@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    NGL I was quite sold on the daytime building the town up, nighttime prevent it from being destroyed,

    But then it went into customising clothes, food, houses, etc and it just lost me. I don't care about that. I don't want to micro-manage each aspect of my citizens down to the individual clothes/ingredient/brick etc.

    I never understood why Molyneux is so big on the idea of customisation - it seems to get in the way of the games grander vision...

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    • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Customisation is hardly the biggest problem with Molyneux; I mean he literally developed a scam game, Legacy with its NFT land scheme.

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