Indignant avid gamers have overview bombed Storybook Brawl on Steam over fears of potential NFT and blockchain integrations following crypto change FTX’s acquisition of its builders Good Luck Video games, LLC.
Storybook Brawl is a free-to-play auto-battle card recreation that was launched on on-line gaming platform Steam in mid-2021. The sport’s overview 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 destructive” standing with 600 out the final 761 opinions being destructive. Whereas it’s doable for anybody who hasn’t performed the sport to go away suggestions as a result of it doesn’t require a purchase order, lots of the opinions are from gamers who’ve spent lots of time on the sport.
“We do not help NFTs on this family. Tragic finish for an incredible 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 strategy to ‘assist crypto make inroads with avid gamers.’ I need no a part of that and I do not need crypto ‘making inroads’ in issues I am curious about. Uninstalled.”
As a part of the acquisition, Storybook Brawl might 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 finished on this house.”
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 deliver the sport to a triple A degree.
It might do little to quash the considerations of the sturdy 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 truly 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 now have to do it.”
Whereas NFTs, crypto and blockchain have been extensively adopted by each artists and avid gamers, there are nonetheless massive numbers of skeptics in each communities.
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Main sticking factors for a lot of anti-crypto avid gamers typically revolve round perceived scams, money grabs and the environmental impression of crypto — regardless of there being extra energy environment friendly blockchain options obtainable for gaming than Proof of Work chains.
To this point, many conventional video games and firms have copped the brunt of shock over potential integrations, together with Ubisoft, Discord (a social media platform widespread amongst avid gamers), Digital Arts and Worms builders Team17.
