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I love how even the author has no idea what they're talking about because it's just a soup of buzzwords.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The metaverse of children stealing their parents' credit cards for in app purchases.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget child labor for in game premium currency, since Roblox.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You know kids today, they yearn for the mines...

I can't get mine to stop mining.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Am I the only one tired by all these franchises constantly rehashed to death?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Nobody is brave enough to spend 8 years and 400 million dollars developing a new IP that may crash.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Let's all be glad so that we may live in concord.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Epic got their big break by ripping off and trying to out-Quake Quake. I'm not sure they were ever brave enough to even have an original idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Still can work, because last time Nintendo dared to do that... We got Splatoon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You know what I liked? That Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie with Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law, where Arthur is raised as a street orphan thug who kind of creates his own little criminal empire.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Not at all. It’s fucking annoying and clearly just cash grabs from the IP owners

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I long for the day when CEOs and companies get their heads out of their asses and stop pushing this “metaverse” nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The idea is to get people into your walled garden and then milk them for everything it's worth. Roblox does a good job gaming wise.. kids spend hours playing many different games but never leave Roblox. So the hunt for the solution that can improve on this, is on. If you can get people to order their groceries from within your walled garden and take a cut.. you're golden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you can get people to order their groceries from within your walled garden and take a cut.. you're golden.

That's what Amazon tried with Alexa, and they still can't figure out how to make it profitable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For sure.. but this is like chasing the dream. And in china they have an everything app.. so .. they keep pooring billions into these bottemless pits.

Edit: I also think most people don't trust corporations to get them the best deal. So if you ask Amazon to get you product X .. they will fuck you on price.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

OP bashed the author/article, but it seems to be a fair synopsis of the Verge article its based on.

This was a cool line from the original article:

The upcoming “persistent universe” Epic is building with Disney is an example of the vision. “We announced that we’re working with Disney to build a Disney ecosystem that’s theirs, but it fully interoperates with the Fortnite ecosystem,”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Whenever Disney is involved in something, you can be 40% sure that it will be shit from the start, or 99% sure it will be shit in a long run.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People can talk shit but I think its cool when games are interoperable. Everyone was hard as fuck for SAO but now its not cool I guess.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Sword Art Online I believe

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Don’t be sorry for asking, he should be sorry for using acronyms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Search Angine Optimization. I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

share vision of a metaverse spanning "Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite"

They'll erode the popularity of all three with this shit. You have a hen that lays golden eggs? We have one too! Let's smash them at the speed of sound and hope it results in a megachicken that lays eggs double in size.