It's pretty telling that, despite Jim constantly implying the entire industry is rife with lootboxes and pay-to-win garbage he still has to go back to the same old wells for examples. Battlefront II (4 years old), Shadow of War (4 years old), and Marvel's Avengers, a game so utterly dead and crushingly boring even Square Enix's repeated free weekends have done nothing to improve a free-falling playercount that makes Jim's sub bleed look enviable by comparison.
As for the NFT shit, I don't know enough about it to give an opinion beyond no one is forcing you to buy that dumb shit so who cares; 'fools and their money' etc. And it continues to be peak irony whenever Jim complains about people getting paid for doing fucking nothing.
And not a single new argument against NFT as well, Sterling pretty much repeated what twitter said about this, even the "nft is killing the planet" utter bullshit, my god. Wanna save the planet Jim? ask for twitter and youtube take down their servers.
I don't know much about NFT as well, but from what I've read, people see it as a novelty, something as a conversation piece, or some venture capitalist deal for people who do have money in taking chances in new markets.
But I don't see any promisses that might be regarded as a "scam", something like"buy this pixel art and in 10 years you can buy a house on it" as it was with comic book back in the early 90's.
And Sterling did so little research about the subject (again, he just read twitter) that midway into the video he gives up and falls back into bitching about lootboxes and pay to win.
One thing that Sterling forgets to mention is that it isn't just the "triple AAA" guy being big meanies and doing blockchain games, not, there is a bunch of small devs for mobiles that are already making bank with this new market, because one thing Sterling refuses to mention is that the axis of capitalism is supply and demand, and supply can't exist without a demand, as in, people WANT to pay money for it.
I'm sure in Sterling fantasy land it is all about evil executives in ther board room manipulating the very will of these poor neurodivergent cosumers, but in the real world people seem to like the idea of buying and owning a digital property, as weird and intangible as it sound, and big companies like EA and Ubisoft should indeed try their hands in this new market, because it ain't just about making profit, it is about staying alive if the blockchain games really turn out to be a game changer.
You know the abused workers that Sterling keeps championing on his videos, yeah, it would be worse for them if they lost their jobs due their companies not being able to keep up with the market trends.
This fatass keeps talking about executives and CEOs being evil and only caring about money for investors, but it is the investors money that keeps the companies solvent and thus have the money and profit to hire people, they need to keep pushing for said profits to keep people's jobs, being a CEO has a lot of perks, but also a ton of responsabilities that few can handle or have the acumen to do a good job. A bad art director means you can have a unpolished game, a bad CEO mean thousands are out of a job.
Dumbest take on video: "NTFs are an ingenious way that capitalism has been able to double dip on other people' labor, by selling the rights to artistic works "
