The Crypto Doctrine Is A Very Realistic Art Thief Simulator
Just how fast is the crypto-train moving? It’s not just shitty game companies peddling their own cryptocurrency in the form of in-game currency. They’re already making games that serve as straight-up fronts for Non-Fungible Token markets.
In case you didn’t think the new trend of artists selling NFTs was dumb enough already, better strap in. A game developer has created The Crypto Doctrine, a seemingly neat game where players assume the role of an NFT enthusiast who buys and steals NFTs from other players who share the same poor taste.
The concept is especially great for competitive players, as no one will ever hold all pieces of art because everyone is always stealing from everyone else, and the pieces are all unique. It’s just like the real thing … Because that’s what they are. Yeah, the “NFTs” in the game are actual NFTs, and you’re not playing as a thief; you’re committing actual theft.
Also, the art pieces in the game turned out to be art that the dev just took from numerous artists and decided to sell in NFT format without asking for consent.
A Game Based Its Crypto Economy On Actual Black Markets
Platforms like Valve’s Steam and Activision Blizzard’s Battle.net have long been aware that black markets are a shitty thing and have done all they could to eradicate them. Black markets ruin in-game economies, infamously create shady jobs where people are subjected to awful working conditions, and, possibly worst of all, helped give birth to Steve Bannon.
Valve and Activision are some of the biggest and most successful video game companies in history, so Active Games, the devs behind mobile RPG Lordmancer 2, thought that the best course of action would be to do exactly the opposite of what they’re doing. So, AG devised an economy straight-up based on replicating the shadiest elements of video game black markets. And, on top of that, Lordmancer 2’s economy runs not on fake video game currency but on fake human currency. Yes, Lordmancer wants players to earn and use the company’s very own cryptocurrency: Lord Coin. Aptly named after the definitely not-dead feudal system.
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A Legitimate YouTuber Plugs A Company Co-Founded By A Malware Dude To His Audience
In March of 2021, Linus Tech Tips, a once anti-crypto-mining tech channel on YouTube, posted a jolly video sponsored by crypto company NiceHash. Crypto partnerships usually sound like deals with the devil, but even more so when it’s a pretty influential channel amongst gamers partnering up with a crypto company whose security had already been hilariously undermined by hackers. People tweeted their disappointment and concern, to which Linus replied with an apology that’s somehow both the bare minimum and still somehow too large to fit inside a regular tweet.
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