Crypto-skeptic gamers review bomb Storybook Brawl after FTX buys it
Indignant avid gamers have evaluate bombed Storybook Brawl on Steam over fears of potential nonfungible token (NFT) and blockchain integrations following crypto alternate FTX’s acquisition of its builders Good Luck Video games.
Storybook Brawl is a free-to-play auto-battle card sport that was launched on on-line gaming platform Steam in mid-2021. The sport’s evaluate historical past confirmed an awesome quantity of help till March 22, the precise day FTX US introduced its acquisition.
Since that point, the sport has moved to an “overwhelmingly damaging” standing with 600 out of the final 761 critiques being damaging. Whereas it’s attainable for anybody who hasn’t performed the sport to depart suggestions as a result of it doesn’t require a purchase order, lots of the critiques are from gamers who’ve spent loads of time on the sport.
“We don‘t help NFTs on this family. Tragic finish for a terrific auto battler,” wrote Steam person asnugglekitten, who has logged greater than 130 hours on the sport. One other participant known as King Bear, who has clocked greater than 60 hours wrote:
“Good Luck Video games was acquired by FTX, a cryptocurrency firm, as a option to ‘assist crypto make inroads with avid gamers.’ I would like no a part of that and I don‘t need crypto ‘making inroads’ in issues I‘m thinking about. Uninstalled.”
As a part of the acquisition, Storybook Brawl will likely be built-in into FTX US’s blockchain gaming unit, with FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried outlining the agency’s broader plans to ethically combine “gaming and crypto transactions in a method that hasn‘t but been achieved on this area.”
Talking on the transfer on March 23, Good Luck Video games founder Matt Place additionally emphasised that it was excellent news for the participant and the corporate, because it lastly has the funding to convey the sport to a triple-A stage.
It could do little to quash the issues of the robust variety of crypto-skeptic avid gamers, however Place additionally famous that FTX US hasn’t positioned a requirement that blockchain tech is built-in into the sport:
“We’re going to discover blockchain know-how […] how we are able to really leverage that to make worth, to create enjoyable for gamers. Once we discover that, we’re gonna put it into the sport, and if we don’t, we don’t have a mandate that we’ve to do it.”
Whereas NFTs, crypto and blockchain have been broadly adopted by each artists and avid gamers, there are nonetheless giant numbers of skeptics in each communities.
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Main sticking factors for a lot of anti-crypto avid gamers usually revolve round perceived scams, money grabs and the environmental impression of crypto — regardless of extra power-efficient blockchain options accessible for gaming than proof-of-work chains.
To date, many conventional video games and firms have copped the brunt of shock over potential integrations together with Ubisoft, Discord, a social media platform in style amongst avid gamers, Digital Arts and Worms builders Team17.
