Team17, publishers of Worms, Overcooked, and Aggro Crab, recently decided to get into the NFT racket. Even more recently, it decided to pull out of this racket after discovering that everyone hates NFTs and also they suck. It took around 24 hours for the complete flip flop, around the same time the Stalker 2 team decided to go back on its decision to include NFTs. Troy Baker, who tried to offset criticism of his own NFT partnership by calling critics “haters” in the announcement, took a little longer, but eventually backed out too and apologised for the haters remark. Why does this keep happening?
Information on NFTs is freely available. On the one hand, the idea that you can take a gun from one game to another is ludicrous and infeasible, while they cause huge environmental damage and are partly responsible for the current hard drive shortage. They’re also leading to stolen art being minted and sold without the artist’s permission, and are a Ponzi-scheme style scam designed to scam people. On the other hand, they can make you a lot of money.
That’s all there is to it. Making money is the only reason to get into this business. We’ve seen claims you’ll be able to copyright and own a colour on the blockchain, with royalties due to you for every use. I respect such an open grift far more than I do the claims NFTs will be revolutionary in some vague, undefinable way. You…
