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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8973416" data-attributes="member: 5948">I'm actually a bit surprised these guys are still around.&nbsp; They got a ... not very enthusiastic reception when they first showed up here, which probably wasn't helped by the fact that their pitch was 'we have blockchain!' rather than 'our game world is cool and interesting because...'&nbsp; How have they stayed alive all this time?&nbsp; They're still not selling much of an actual product, and their overheads would be massively greater than a normal game publisher.&nbsp; I would have thought the (extremely predictable) collapse of the NFT market would have cut off their sources of capital, but i dunno, maybe the chief investor is a True Believer or perhaps this is their last gasp, all-in attempt to generate some hype before the money runs out and the receivers start flogging their office furniture on eBay.I think the crypto incursion into the TTRPG space has largely collapsed under the weight of its own horsecrap at this point.&nbsp; I certainly haven't heard much recently about, for instance, Kickstarter's attempt to 'go on the blockchain,' and I strongly suspect it's either been quietly wound up as a big embarrassing failure, or else is still nominally under development but is actually sputtering along in a neglected corner of the IT department with ever-diminishing resources allocated to it.&nbsp; (I'm in IT.&nbsp; I've been on projects like that.&nbsp; Everyone knows they've failed but the guy who started them has internal political clout and would be humiliated if the project failed so they never ... quite ... formally ... die)The next front of the struggle of course will be beating back the attempt of some awful tech entrepreneur to replace every writer or artist in the field with chatbots and ai image generators.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8973416, member: 5948"] I'm actually a bit surprised these guys are still around. They got a ... not very enthusiastic reception when they first showed up here, which probably wasn't helped by the fact that their pitch was 'we have blockchain!' rather than 'our game world is cool and interesting because...' How have they stayed alive all this time? They're still not selling much of an actual product, and their overheads would be massively greater than a normal game publisher. I would have thought the (extremely predictable) collapse of the NFT market would have cut off their sources of capital, but i dunno, maybe the chief investor is a True Believer or perhaps this is their last gasp, all-in attempt to generate some hype before the money runs out and the receivers start flogging their office furniture on eBay. I think the crypto incursion into the TTRPG space has largely collapsed under the weight of its own horsecrap at this point. I certainly haven't heard much recently about, for instance, Kickstarter's attempt to 'go on the blockchain,' and I strongly suspect it's either been quietly wound up as a big embarrassing failure, or else is still nominally under development but is actually sputtering along in a neglected corner of the IT department with ever-diminishing resources allocated to it. (I'm in IT. I've been on projects like that. Everyone knows they've failed but the guy who started them has internal political clout and would be humiliated if the project failed so they never ... quite ... formally ... die) The next front of the struggle of course will be beating back the attempt of some awful tech entrepreneur to replace every writer or artist in the field with chatbots and ai image generators. [/QUOTE]

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