10mo ago

At this moment, the dev company behind EVE Online is euphoric, because they're peddling yet another spinoff. Here's the whitepaper for "Eve Frontiers." OH BOY IT'S A CRYPTO GRIFT

whitepaper.evefrontier.com

EVE Frontier | EVE Frontier

If you dare to read that whitepaper, keep in mind no gameplay is actually talked about. It's not unlike NFT "games" that babble endlessly about what they intend to do with the market and paying customers, but stop there.

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Virtual rand-land, on the Blockchain.
Humans.
- I meant it like when the grifters say "humans" to try to hide the blatant inhumanness of their schemes, like in
  Human Growth from Shared Experiences
They should've got into this earlier, eve players have endless pockets of money and are eager to part with it for space ship pew pew and mining ice rocks
- Announced when BTC hit 13k, small dev team and abnormally toxic corporate culture led to the ten year turnaround.
god I fucking hate these blockchain whitepapers
also what's the over-under on these amazing modding tools just being shitty smart contracts lmfaooo
- wait it's just ethereum lmfaooo
  I couldn't be bothered to read the whole thing and had for some reason foolishly assumed they'd create something to support this "grandiose" vision themselves
Does Blockchain have any use outside of scams? I swear it exists just for techbros to take advantage of bazingbrains with more money than sense.
- imo "censorship resistance" is pretty much the only real use it has, i.e. generally for things outside of or on the edges of the law, such as drug marketplaces or transferring to and from sanctioned countries
  with that though, while it does have some technological benefits to achieve that, imo the main reason it's been good at it is that the space had been kind of ignored by regulators for a long time, and these things have been getting steadily more difficult. Like with exchanges in the EU/US now requiring you to identify yourself etc, it's more difficult to actually get money in and out of the ecosystem anonymously
Last time I paid attention to this game like 15 years ago it had a bunch of unfathomably wealthy digital landlords who possessed the only "master" copies of blueprints of all the components and weapons in the game, and if people wanted to manufacture those things for sale they had to pay the master copy holders for a copy blueprint that was limited to a certain number of uses.

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