We Should All Be Grateful That Blockchain Games Are So Embarrassingly Bad

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Every time I hear about some new NFT game scam, I breathe a huge sigh of relief when I soon discover that it’s a steaming pile of garbage that no one is ever going to play. I know all of these blockchain projects have ludicrous aspirations that fundamentally misunderstand what it takes to make a successful video game, but I don’t expect Johnny Gamer to necessarily understand what they’re signing up for when they click download on a random game that looks like it could be fun. Fortunately, we’re never in a position where we have to talk people out of playing a blockchain game, because the games themselves are driving everyone away by looking like shit.

During their sparsely attended crypto gaming convention this week, GalaGames announced a partnership with Epic to bring its blockchain-based Wild West battle royale called Grit to the EGS, and as you’ve already guessed, it’s embarrassingly bad. It’s little more than a reskinned PUBG with worse assets, animations, sounds, and well, everything. Like every blockchain project, it’s a game second and scam first.

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You can tell by the way everyone talks about it. The developers and the crypto perverts that orbit them have nothing to say about the game itself. All they can talk about is how important this moment is for NFTs, how much money it stands to make, and how many people are going to be exposed to blockchain games through the EGS. Spreading crypto like a disease is their only interest because, like all blockchain BS, it’s nothing more than a pump-and-dump scheme. Bored ape NFTs and Grit’s horses (which were bought from the Unreal asset store, apparently) are the exact same thing. They