Worst NFT Game Ever? | Decentraland Gameplay and Review

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  • čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
  • Yeah.... this one should speak for itself. Episode 3 and we're just finally getting to a game that we can actually launch and play. I wish we couldn't. This video features my first impressions and a full review of one of the largest and most popular Metaverses, Decentraland. In 2022, the term "Metaverse" seems to be thrown around constantly, with even places like Wal-Mart and The UPS Store having shops open within the metaverse. But... what is The Metaverse? What does it look like? Can I play it today?
    I hope to answer all of those questions in more, in today's episode of "Worst Crypto Game Ever?". We take a deep dive into the $1B crypto metaverse of Decentraland and review it from the perspective of a gamer. Gamers are known to be a rather picky bunch, especially when it comes to games that include trendy things like Crypto and NFTs, so it's no surprise that there has been a ton of controversy surrounding Decentraland so far.
    But with the game's poor performance, confusing interface, and overall poor gameplay, Decentraland stands in 2022 as more of a black sheep in the metaverse industry, with player counts hardly reaching over 200 on even the busiest days. How much longer will Decentraland be around, and will the players ever manage to sell the land that they purchased in 2021, hoping to double their money?
    With players still trying to sell land at minimum prices over $1000, there is little volume in this Metaverse's economy, since it is very rare for new people to buy into Decentraland. Additionally, all of the initial plots sold out in the first 30 seconds of the game's first launch, so the land market is completely controlled by the players at this point. The result is the current state of Decentraland, a game with a stagnant economy, a declining playercount, and an overall embarrassing presentation. Buckle up, and enjoy the ride.
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Komentáře • 447

  • @jauwn
    @jauwn  Před rokem +249

    Thanks for watching, everyone! Suggestions for the next game to play are welcome!

  • @BlazeMakesGames
    @BlazeMakesGames Před 10 měsíci +2740

    The funniest thing about the Decentraland DAO is the time when they voted on whether they should address the fact that rich people can overrule the popular vote. The vast majority of people voted to change the system but like only 4 users with tons of tokens were able to overrule the vote…

    • @tc-tm1my
      @tc-tm1my Před 10 měsíci +276

      What a terrible system

    • @norailves778
      @norailves778 Před 10 měsíci +465

      Everything you have to know about how "decentralized" these DAOs are.

    • @lucianofrancesco4742
      @lucianofrancesco4742 Před 10 měsíci +264

      Looks like real life

    • @amelialonelyfart8848
      @amelialonelyfart8848 Před 10 měsíci

      Dude these games are lowkey kind of haunting because they're like authentic simulators of the worst possible outcome of capitalism. Nothing is for fun, everything is for "profit" and ownership, and democracy is controlled exclusively by the wealthy.

    • @gswdeclan
      @gswdeclan Před 10 měsíci +65

      But this is crypto and we are of course still early. Right now we are at feudalism, which took humanity tens of thousands of years to reach.

  • @confusedlocal
    @confusedlocal Před 7 měsíci +428

    >decentraland
    >look inside
    >centralized
    🤔

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před měsícem +2

      Every video game is centralized by definition.

  • @mz-hv2vh
    @mz-hv2vh Před rokem +754

    There's a reason no one is talking to you. Imagine excitedly running around a slave labour camp asking people what's up and dancing. You probably would just get some sad, confused glances as they continue to toil

    • @thesacredlobo
      @thesacredlobo Před 10 měsíci +132

      Actually, most of the people in there are either focusing on something else since the meteors drop at determined intervals or are bots setup by players to mine the meteors since they also drop at very specific locations. So it's possible to create a bot to do all of the prison work for you.

    • @dazerrazer3018
      @dazerrazer3018 Před 7 měsíci +31

      This is hilarious to
      Imagine

    • @Nate-bd8fg
      @Nate-bd8fg Před 2 měsíci +13

      Goddamn this is such a funny comment

    • @jackhazardous4008
      @jackhazardous4008 Před měsícem +2

      Mine meteors while your PC mines crypto

  • @tyrosine87
    @tyrosine87 Před rokem +1320

    All these "games" feel like the developers have heard of the concept of fun maybe once in their life, and immediately forgot what it was all about.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +248

      Money = fun, right?

    • @nwerd7584
      @nwerd7584 Před 10 měsíci +10

      I have a feeling because of this once a game finally does come out thats good that involves relatively cheap NFTs people are going to eat it up and slowly ensure NFTs become the norm.. Because they will be so tired of this other shit. Thats essentially how microtransactions started it.. people slowly started raising them and disregarding the issue.

    • @FTZPLTC
      @FTZPLTC Před 10 měsíci +97

      They're designed to look like games to people who don't know that much about games. You know when you watch a movie and there's kids playing a video game, and no one wanted to pay to feature a real game so it's just some blippy-bloppy nonsense? They're like that. Like, they're for people who've never played a 3D game at all.

    • @ng.tr.s.p.1254
      @ng.tr.s.p.1254 Před 10 měsíci +49

      @@nwerd7584 Nice fantasy

    • @nwerd7584
      @nwerd7584 Před 10 měsíci

      @@ng.tr.s.p.1254 I remember some dumb loser told me that about microtransactions too.

  • @vizthex
    @vizthex Před 7 měsíci +674

    love how this went from "fully decentralized and community-run" to "oligarchy" within the span of a single sentence.

  • @blindmown
    @blindmown Před 8 měsíci +612

    Since this video, the floor price for wearables has gone from $250 to $5 lol

    • @TheSpoonman00
      @TheSpoonman00 Před 7 měsíci +123

      And $5 is still way too much money for these things.

    • @paulsd9255
      @paulsd9255 Před 4 měsíci +32

      My five dollars is better spent towards damn vbucks.

    • @PeterCaptainObvious
      @PeterCaptainObvious Před měsícem +7

      Still way too much since they claim they're F2P lol

    • @jackhazardous4008
      @jackhazardous4008 Před měsícem +10

      Remember when people were complaining about 2 dollar skins?

  • @MatthewEGolden
    @MatthewEGolden Před rokem +681

    Thank God we had a GPU shortage for this. Lose the ability to play real games, so scammers can create grift "games" instead. THe FuTUre.

    • @ricedbroccoli
      @ricedbroccoli Před 10 měsíci +22

      Ay in all fairness tho, from the past two crypto bubbles, when they burst, it made second hand GPU prices tank. You can still reliably find 8gb 580s for like 50 dollars so its absolutely amazing for someone looking to throw together a cheap 300> dollar build.

    • @elitereptilian200
      @elitereptilian200 Před 10 měsíci +116

      @@ricedbroccoli you really want to buy a used gpu that has been running non stop for months mining crypto? I would rather not..

    • @ricedbroccoli
      @ricedbroccoli Před 10 měsíci

      @@elitereptilian200You don't have to buy a mining GPU to get a good deal. Since most people don't give a shit what a card was used for, people with gaming cards have to price match to actually sell their card. and Actually Mining GPUs are usually in better condition.
      The most obvious reason is that miners literally have a financial incentive to keep them in good shape. So they do.
      The next reason is that they have probably been running in more ideal conditions than gaming GPUs. Most people use cases with shitty airflow, and stock voltage which is bad for a card. where as with mining setups, they are usually ran out in the open with tons of box fans circulating air in a climate controlled room to keep them cooler, and they are undervolted to maximize performance and lifespan.
      And the last major, and most important reason is that being under load is better for the GPUs longevity itself. While being on all the time can be bad for the bearing in the fans, that is a relatively easy fix if they do fail. But a GPU gets worn down much in the same way a spring or a battery does. It's the being on load and off of load over and over that does the damage, not just being under load.
      There is an unwarranted stigma around mining GPUs, when you can get crazy good deals on them if you are willing to just crack them open and reapply thermal paste as that's the most repairing they usually need.

    • @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780
      @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 Před 8 měsíci +36

      @@elitereptilian200 that thing has got to be fried from all that mining

    • @My_Old_YT_Account
      @My_Old_YT_Account Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780most of them are fine at stock clocks

  • @mosfet_737
    @mosfet_737 Před rokem +661

    this may sound a bit conspiratorial but perhaps the reason it performs so poorly is because it's also mining crypto at the same time.

    • @sodapone
      @sodapone Před 7 měsíci +90

      Could be, but I think it has more to do with it running in a browser. That prevents Decentraland from being able to actually fully utilize your system resources.

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 Před 7 měsíci +23

      ​@@sodapone Barring those browser issues, I assume it wouldn't even be worth having a bitcoin miner in a browser game?

    • @GyroCannon
      @GyroCannon Před 5 měsíci +22

      @@sodapone I doubt it. That game doesn't look particularly graphically intensive, and browsers expose plenty of APIs that can utilize hardware accelerated graphics rendering. It definitely has more overhead than natively running a game, but not enough to cause chugging for ugly garbage like this.
      It's either the background crypto mining thing or incompetent devs

    • @GyroCannon
      @GyroCannon Před 5 měsíci

      @@BierBart12 In the possibility that they did include a miner in the game, it's worth it for the Decentraland devs because all the winning hashes to add a block get sent to those devs, and the devs can use the hash to take the reward. All the electricity cost is incurred by the player, while all the compute power benefits the devs, so it's always worth it to sneak bitcoin miners into things
      In the normal world, software providers don't do this because it's bad business. But this is crypto, so anything goes as long as you dangle crypto riches in front of users' faces lol

    • @inexistentenouniverso9230
      @inexistentenouniverso9230 Před měsícem +6

      ​@@GyroCannonwhy not both?

  • @teamworm5932
    @teamworm5932 Před rokem +858

    "and it's literally a prison labor camp" is hilarious

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +192

      the wages are about the same too, $.0000001 per rock mined (if you are able to sell that rock)

    • @Nathan_Coley
      @Nathan_Coley Před 11 měsíci +42

      ​@@jauwnThat's a big IF! 🤣😂

    • @deatheternal720
      @deatheternal720 Před 10 měsíci +13

      ​@@jauwnyour editing is so awesome. Cant wait to see you hit 100k

    • @WokioWolfy
      @WokioWolfy Před 9 měsíci +13

      ​@@jauwnhow do these people believe having this many zeroes means they'll get rich? I don't understand how crypto-bros don't understand this basic math concept.

    • @warp9wb
      @warp9wb Před 8 měsíci +1

      Yes, i lolz upon hearing that. Really made my day. 😂

  • @lordedmundblackadder9321
    @lordedmundblackadder9321 Před 10 měsíci +283

    The fact that this cryptocurrency thing has a not only a policeman system but a corrupt and oligarchic political system actually fascinates me. What they need is some Tribunes of the Plebs.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 10 měsíci +27

      What would be even funnier is a game that's basically GTA where before you spawn you decide how much money you're willing to lose. You're given a pistol and you're dropped into a city full of players. Anyone you kill in the game, you take all the money they wagered at the start. And that's it.

    • @GalaxiaStars
      @GalaxiaStars Před 8 měsíci +36

      I don't get how they can claim to be decentralized while wanting to implement a police system. Clearly these people need to do more research on what a decentralized economic society would entail.
      It's like nfts are just becoming capitalism 2 at this rate.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 8 měsíci +20

      @@GalaxiaStars You can't be decentralized and have police.

    • @Frommerman
      @Frommerman Před 7 měsíci +43

      A Tribune of the Plebs would actually massively improve this due to one of the unofficial, but historically verifiable, powers of "the crowd" in Roman politics. If a large crowd of commoners (Plebians) assembled outside the home of an important political figure, broke in, and ripped him limb from limb, the Roman state did nothing. No investigations of instigators (unless the crowd was suspected to have been created by a fellow Patrician). No executions of random members of the crowd to "send a message." They just let it happen and let everyone off.
      They did this because they figured anyone who got enough people angry at him to form a mob, overwhelm any posted guards on his villa, and kill him, had probably done something to deserve it. Worse, he had done it in a way which was visible to the Plebians. The mob was basically seen as the magistrate in a case against him, with a lawful sentence of death for the finding of guilt.
      This would massively improve the Decentraland experience. If a 75% vote of all users (for instance, numbers could be changed) could "execute" a massive whale, forcing them to return all their assets and blocking their wallet from the site permanently, their activities would be more constrained and they would need to vote in ways that most of the community didn't hate.

    • @e7193
      @e7193 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@GalaxiaStarsthey don’t actually care about decentralization. it’s a buzzword they throw around while they all grift off each other like an alabama orgy

  • @Scharrez
    @Scharrez Před 10 měsíci +373

    Man, this really gives me that "playing second life in an internet café in the early 2000's vibe" But somehow even more primitive

    • @tc-tm1my
      @tc-tm1my Před 10 měsíci +64

      At least those players weren't trying to get rich trying to scam you

    • @TomJacobW
      @TomJacobW Před 8 měsíci

      @@tc-tm1myuhm…

    • @lasskinn474
      @lasskinn474 Před 4 měsíci

      that's because conceptually it's the same exact thing, only executed worse.
      cryptobros don't like to talk about alphaworld or second life for two reasons. 1st. they're noobs on the internet so they don't remember any of that and 2nd it makes metaverse stuff look like something that was tried 25 years ago and reminder that a normal website is better than a vrml hellscape.

  • @TheFreepie
    @TheFreepie Před rokem +323

    12:40 I think they had heard the expression "eye of newt", designed the quest around the idea of obtaining an eye of newt, realised they didn't have any assets like that, so they just used something with a big eye because that's close enough?

    • @kharmachaos667
      @kharmachaos667 Před 7 měsíci +30

      Clearly, they are all just named Newt. And he just killed them. The murderer.

    • @FelisImpurrator
      @FelisImpurrator Před 5 měsíci +12

      They got turned into newts, but they got better.

  • @spikedwallman
    @spikedwallman Před 10 měsíci +195

    this might surprise you but almost everything in decentraland are built in demo assets for several different engines

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před 10 měsíci +85

      Haha yeah I have seen these same assets appear in other games ever since I made this. Like the dude from the weird RPG game is just a Mixamo default model

  • @manwichcannon
    @manwichcannon Před rokem +335

    You would think they could at least decentralize the music in their game. Great video!

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +32

      Appreciate the kind words!

  • @TheSpoonman00
    @TheSpoonman00 Před 7 měsíci +56

    Anything being "decentralized" as a concept is so funny to me. The whole thing just screams "we have no good ideas, you come up with something, good luck"

  • @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep
    @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Před rokem +119

    Fortnite actually has virtual museums. It's pretty cool. No web3 BS required.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +73

      Not to mention it has an actual really fun game attached to the museum

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 7 měsíci +10

      Namco Museum in 1997:

    • @PointsofData
      @PointsofData Před měsícem +1

      I could not tell you what game it was but I distinctly remember someone who played like, gamejolt games finding a game that included a museum of all the creators favorite art they did. It was not good art, it had nothing to do with the game except sometimes featuring a game character, but it was funny. And free.

  • @michaelmarlow6610
    @michaelmarlow6610 Před 10 měsíci +102

    After the crazy games Josh Strife Hayes played on mmorpg series I thought I’d seen the worst. Crypto games quickly prove that wrong.

  • @ldmun
    @ldmun Před 10 měsíci +129

    This reminded me of a guy I saw on the news where he bought some land for a crap ton of money and was like: "I'm not gonna sell it until it hits 10 million". He later sold the land for 900 bucks or something two years later lol

  • @asteroidrules
    @asteroidrules Před 10 měsíci +167

    Looks like a "kyari" is an NFT from a Pokemon knockoff NFT game called ethermon. Potentially a future episode on this series?

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 Před 7 měsíci +13

      At least it looks better than Pixelmon (and I'm not talking about the Minecraft mod)

  • @gswdeclan
    @gswdeclan Před 10 měsíci +72

    10:35 hearing the "curator on the decentraland wearable committee" drone on about making wearables convinced me to go all in on Decentraland. Having that randomly pop up in a "game" is a truly unique experience, you can't deny that.

  • @AuthenticHD
    @AuthenticHD Před 9 měsíci +54

    This game gives me the same feeling as videos about dead malls

    • @valivali8104
      @valivali8104 Před 3 měsíci +8

      Have you seen video of Folding Ideas about metaverses?

    • @fallinginthed33p
      @fallinginthed33p Před 2 měsíci +9

      Metaverse NFT crypto games going from dead malls to empty billboards.

  • @Sunflower-vq6vl
    @Sunflower-vq6vl Před 10 měsíci +38

    We already have a word for a decentralized area of land: the wilderness. Wonder why most people don't live there...

  • @williamdrum9899
    @williamdrum9899 Před 10 měsíci +33

    I love how the search terms graph for metaverse looks just like a financial bubble

  • @Kimera_Alternate_Realities
    @Kimera_Alternate_Realities Před 11 měsíci +51

    "Ah yes, the future of gaming, better invest a few million to make a simliar game"
    -Meta

    • @Jakepearl13
      @Jakepearl13 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Horizon worlds is still infinitely better than this actual labor camp of a game,and that’s saying something since meta is like real life IOI

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 7 měsíci +3

      A few billion

  • @ericjohns6534
    @ericjohns6534 Před rokem +87

    Dark souls game play at the end was a breath of fresh air! Well narrated, funny content. I’ve never payed much interest to nfts but I find the series quite entertaining regardless.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +12

      Thank you for the kind words, Eric!

  • @planescaped
    @planescaped Před 10 měsíci +76

    All these Play to earn games have the most ridiculous hoops and nonsense to go through to "earn" anything from them.
    You'd earn more money collecting cans.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před 10 měsíci +34

      Literally

    • @stuflames4769
      @stuflames4769 Před 5 měsíci +18

      Collecting cans might make a person accidentally breathe fresh air and stretch their muscles.
      That's a big no-no.

    • @arturoaguilar6002
      @arturoaguilar6002 Před 4 měsíci +5

      That's the thing. The hoops are there to make sure you put money in before you can get any money out. Not only it's ponzi-like economy; but also try to incentivize your participation with some upfront monetary cost to start sinking cost into the game.

    • @fallinginthed33p
      @fallinginthed33p Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@arturoaguilar6002pay to win is already bad enough but at least the company gets revenue for items that have in-game utility. These play to earn games don't make sense economically because there's no inward flow of cash or crypto other than from digital land buyers. Incoming investors paying returns to existing investors? That's a Ponzi scheme.

    • @jackhazardous4008
      @jackhazardous4008 Před měsícem +1

      Not to mention the games youre playing are so simple as to be put to shame by mobile games

  • @Sinyao
    @Sinyao Před 9 měsíci +30

    Btw dunno if you'll read this, but when they mentioned a "delegator", that's usually someone who will give you assets or crypto/money so you get into the game, and the idea is that you will play the game for the to make money. It was rampant in axiinfinity, where people would buy, sell, trade axis, give them to people who couldn't afford them, and make them play and reap a portion of the profit to get back the principal they spent on giving the players their first teams.
    Also, absolutely heinous that to play poker, you had to buy a $250 jacket in order to get crypto by playing "free" poker, ensuring the creator of the game gets his cut no matter how well or badly you do. And I doubt 99% of the players ever made it back.

    • @juliamavroidi8601
      @juliamavroidi8601 Před 8 měsíci +4

      I mean that's how all casinos work

    • @Levyafan
      @Levyafan Před 7 měsíci +8

      so it's basically giving credit to newbies in exchange for indentured servitude?

    • @Sinyao
      @Sinyao Před 7 měsíci +9

      @@Levyafan yeah you get it lol. A friend of mine from Brazil wanted me to sponsor him a team but when I looked at the payouts from CZcams players, it would have taken him a year with perfect play to make back that initial team.

    • @valivali8104
      @valivali8104 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Many whales misused their power, for example demanding that players who lend axis had to play more hours than in most jobs and send nudes before even getting axis to play...

  • @Btobebone
    @Btobebone Před 10 měsíci +48

    to paraphrase king of the hill: 'you're not making nfts better, you're just making gaming worse'

  • @colinjacobs176
    @colinjacobs176 Před rokem +102

    Quality content. Showing us how transparent the Emperor's clothes really are.

  • @NutyRiver
    @NutyRiver Před 10 měsíci +36

    4:27 The positional audio problem might be the fault of the map maker? I don’t know a single thing about mapmaking in Decentraland though, so maybe the tools are so bad they just don’t have an option for 2D audio.

    • @DeuxisWasTaken
      @DeuxisWasTaken Před 7 měsíci +9

      Not even 2D, 0D point audio. No dimensions to consider, always the same no matter the position of player or camera.

  • @gateroozeink5061
    @gateroozeink5061 Před rokem +38

    Pulls the mask off quite well, thanks for enduring it.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +8

      Thanks for watching! Appreciate the support.

  • @davis3138
    @davis3138 Před 7 měsíci +13

    12:23 holy s*** that NPC is the same model from Jerma's "Grab That Auto" video, i'd recognize it anywhere lmao

    • @OurBenefactors
      @OurBenefactors Před 7 měsíci +7

      I remember it from one of Vinesauce Vinny's "Worst of Android Trash" streams. It was the model for the neighbor in one of the Hello Neighbor rip-offs.

  • @KnakuanaRka
    @KnakuanaRka Před měsícem +4

    Shameless plug for Folding Ideas’ Future is a Dead Mall video; covers this in particular in excellent detail along with a ton of other metaverse-related stuff.

  • @trianglemoebius
    @trianglemoebius Před 8 měsíci +20

    I happen to know this and want to put it out in fairness: In the Silly Moustache Name proposal, it wasn't rejected because people didn't want it on the names list, it was rejected because it was already there. I guess the guy making the proposal missed it, but either way I find it perfectly reasonable not to add it to the list twice, especially since that won't make it "more banned" or something.

    • @jackpijjin4088
      @jackpijjin4088 Před 6 měsíci +4

      This is actually really important. It doesn't make the... game? Service? Any better, but there is a HUGE difference between "lol they didn't ban funny mustache from the list because they're Nazti's" and "they rejected the suggestion because it was already done and somebody was taking the piss".

  • @JackVashko
    @JackVashko Před 8 měsíci +10

    damn it’s crazy seeing your first few videos only having a couple dozen views during this time period. glad youve been able to find success with this series

  • @MrRevolver699
    @MrRevolver699 Před 10 měsíci +7

    12:06 that's the fucking guy from Jerma's Grab The Auto V video from like 2015, oh my lord

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před 10 měsíci +3

      Lol it's the default model that comes with Mixamo animations

  • @LiilYogurt
    @LiilYogurt Před 10 měsíci +19

    It’s crazy how many people think they can just make their own Roblox. VRChat (and maybe Rec Room or Fortnite Creative, but I haven’t really touched those so idk) is the only one I’ve ever seen manage to do it and even then they have a big enough difference that you could easily consider it a completely different thing

    • @jackhazardous4008
      @jackhazardous4008 Před měsícem

      Those games actually give their modders devel9pment tools and create the experience with modders in mind.
      This game expects modders to develop the game for them

  • @Pyrotrainthing
    @Pyrotrainthing Před 3 měsíci +5

    Decentraland makes Fallout 76 Camps look more organized with how players build camps all over the map in that.

  • @Mezbich
    @Mezbich Před 6 měsíci +12

    This game is fascinating in how bad it is in EVERY way.

    • @Espen.Johannesen
      @Espen.Johannesen Před 6 měsíci +4

      Why make a worse version on secondLife? And the graphics, and easy to use for ppl without powerful gaming riggs leaves much to be desired. (I am still talking about second life)

  • @novelezra
    @novelezra Před 5 měsíci +9

    Nothing says freedom like gender specific clothing.

  • @Layonayo
    @Layonayo Před 7 měsíci +7

    The guy at 13:00 is the Grab That Auto default model lmao

    • @glitchedoom
      @glitchedoom Před 3 měsíci

      Stock rock music is now stuck in my head.

  • @SteelRain211
    @SteelRain211 Před 7 měsíci +9

    this is like those fake games you see on TV shows like CSI and the like

  • @imaweiner1293
    @imaweiner1293 Před 10 měsíci +13

    As a player of both Roblox and Second Life, this seems hilariously bad. Over my 5+ years on Roblox, I've seen that even some of the worst games on the platform have better performance and playability (Prison Life, Adopt me, Etc.). Over my 2+ years of being on Second Life, I've seen the potential and creativeness of the community, from a game that hasn't changed alot since its inception in 2003, and somehow even the worst launchers have better performance than what Decentraland offers, despite launchers basically being browsers with extra features and polish.

  • @MeteorologistScottC
    @MeteorologistScottC Před 10 měsíci +10

    Watching you shit on NFT games has become my new addiction. You rock!

  • @ExtraThiccc
    @ExtraThiccc Před 7 měsíci +6

    12:21 NO FUCKING WAY THATS THE grab the auto 5 MF

  • @Janimuso
    @Janimuso Před 8 měsíci +10

    Any game attached to crypto/NFT, isn't a game... they're all scams.
    In these series you are never going to find a game lol
    Great video tho

  • @leeverguy
    @leeverguy Před 8 měsíci +5

    Man when I first saw what the Metaverse was I joked that it was just a shittier second life without furries, and the more I see of the game the more that rings true. So many of the issues with the game are also present in Second Life, a game that came out in -2003- and, apparently, can somehow run better than Decentraland even when you've got a dozen people with the most unoptimized, absurdly high poly count avatars you've ever seen. The way plots are given out, how they can be blocked off, even people's attempts to create actual games using a horribly ill-fitting engine and having to brute force a bunch of stuff with the base engine's barebones features. I've seen every single one of those games, down to the grind-and-earn mechanics, done way way better in Second Life, too.

  • @shadow81818
    @shadow81818 Před měsícem +3

    For those interested in a longer breakdown of Decentraland's failings at a fundamental level, Folding Ideas did a video essay on it too

  • @burgertime6372
    @burgertime6372 Před měsícem +2

    12:05 thats the model thats used in the mobile gta clone “grab that auto” that jerma played a while ago

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před měsícem +1

      Yeah it’s one of the adobe mixamo default models for testing animations

  • @thilsiktonix
    @thilsiktonix Před 10 měsíci +10

    It's like VRchat, except not in VR, and you have to pay to play, and you can't make friends in it. Or chat.
    Metaverse is such a stupid marketing strategy that so obviously targets kids with a flashy name and brightly-colored, pricey images. Just call it virtual reality, "metaverse" appeals to no-one older than 12.

  • @sarah_breezy
    @sarah_breezy Před rokem +23

    If I wanted to play a glitchy game, I’d just go play Pokémon S/V

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +23

      Yeah but are your Pokemon stored on the blockchain? Didn't think so.

    • @questionquestion1
      @questionquestion1 Před rokem +6

      Least the gameplay itself is incredibly fun and is a great game overall if you ignore performance issues

    • @inexistentenouniverso9230
      @inexistentenouniverso9230 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@jauwnfunnily enough, i think the pokemon games have a system to transfer pokemons from older games to the new games, without the nft bs, BUT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO TRANSFER THEM TO CALL OF DUTY RIGHT? HAHAHAHA NFT BROS STILL BETTER.
      And delusional.

  • @--Moonie--
    @--Moonie-- Před 10 měsíci +10

    no away, the Wilderness P2E npc hillbilly model is the SAME ONE used in a crappy gta mobile clone that was in Jerma's Grab That Auto V vid. even on the thumbnail... from 7 years ago 💀

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před 10 měsíci +5

      It’s the default model that comes with Adobe’s Mixamo animations lol

  • @FelisImpurrator
    @FelisImpurrator Před 5 měsíci +6

    Well, that was decentrabland.

  • @ssvensic
    @ssvensic Před 8 měsíci +2

    the dragon just nopeing out through the wall got me giggling :D

  • @Ghost_Matter
    @Ghost_Matter Před 9 měsíci +8

    You didn't thank the person who answered your questions 😠

  • @lcky2993
    @lcky2993 Před 10 měsíci +10

    So decentraland is just poor man's roblox for crypto bros.

  • @elitereptilian200
    @elitereptilian200 Před 10 měsíci +5

    free to play only for only $250
    what an absolute steal!!
    Your money gets stolen..

  • @haruhisuzumiya6650
    @haruhisuzumiya6650 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Rule of thumb
    If the game has no demo
    No executable
    Demands money upfront
    Its a scam

  • @eibriel
    @eibriel Před rokem +18

    Hey, great video highlighting all the challenges related to Decentraland. Glad you enjoyed our game Golfcraft, at least a little bit XD

    • @pahpah
      @pahpah Před rokem +4

      Agree, it's a respectful and constructive video

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +13

      Hey, sorry I didn't see your comment earlier. Thanks for commenting! I definitely applaud you guys for putting that together, it's got to be a challenge to work within the limitations of the game's engine. As someone who is more involved in Decentraland, where do you see the game going in the future? Do you think that my opinion on the game is common, or am I just overly cynical?

    • @eibriel
      @eibriel Před rokem +10

      @@jauwn If everything goes well people will keep building games and experiences, learning from previous mistakes. The client will keep improving and new clients will pop (desktop, VR, retro 2D). Some entry barriers will be lowered, for example no needing land to build (Decentraland Worlds). At some point the creator tools will be good enough to attract more devs, and the entry barriers low enough to catch more users. Being an open source project may help to make it more resilient than closed projects.
      I think everything you said was on point, and many of the issues are regular food for discussions on DCL Discord and Forum. But is nice to have an outsider view. Thanks to you I learned that DCL needs more tutorials and introductions!

    • @seventeenraccoonsinatrenchcoat
      @seventeenraccoonsinatrenchcoat Před 10 měsíci +7

      @@eibriel any of that happen yet

    • @eibriel
      @eibriel Před 10 měsíci

      @@seventeenraccoonsinatrenchcoat Hi!Yes, there are 6 clients in development right now, 1 "official" and the others made by the community.
      Decentraland Worlds launched allowing to host scenes just by owning a DCL name, or by running a server.
      And a new Software Developers Kit was released (SDK7) alongside a GameJam.
      Userbase is still low, but stable at 3700 average daily users.
      Open Source is clearly the strong side, with people contributing features and building tools for the ecosystem.
      No sign of slowing down in the building side.

  • @audreychambers3155
    @audreychambers3155 Před 10 měsíci +35

    The prison labor world feels like a punishment from Dante's Inferno.

  • @Thedownliner2015
    @Thedownliner2015 Před 7 měsíci +4

    The voting system should be one vote per user because right now what you have is whoever has spent the most gets to make all the decisions.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 5 měsíci +2

      I agree, but what's stopping one person from making multiple accounts?

  • @tintedglass
    @tintedglass Před rokem +20

    Love this series idea. Keep it up!

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +3

      Thanks! Next episode to come soon!

  • @mallowhoney
    @mallowhoney Před 4 měsíci +3

    For a game I wish I could forget just so I could experience it again, FFXIV Shadowbringers and Endwalker. What a journey.

  • @CycleMantis
    @CycleMantis Před 7 měsíci +2

    There are two obvious metrics one could use to define a company's success: Does it provide a valuable good/service to people that improves the human condition; 2) gibe money.
    It would be great if any of these projects cared about the first definition at all.

  • @SilverDragonJay
    @SilverDragonJay Před 11 měsíci +5

    This has been being recommended to me by youtube for a while, but when Hannah Reloaded gave you a shoutout, I decided to finally give in and give you a shot.
    I don't regret it.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před 11 měsíci +5

      Glad you liked it! Hannah is awesome and she really helped boost my channel in the early days so always happy to see her fans in my comments

  • @dollarmenuking
    @dollarmenuking Před 22 dny +1

    12:01 woah hold the phone. is that the guy from grab that auto????

  • @marquisoflabyrinths
    @marquisoflabyrinths Před 4 měsíci +3

    Wow! I love how this game is so "decentralized" they don't explain anything so you won't have a centralized way to know what to do at all!

  • @DanielDroegeShow
    @DanielDroegeShow Před rokem +1

    Wemade has you verify a qr code from your mobile device linked to your account to prevent someone from hacking it. Not sure how hard it is to bypass something like that though.

  • @fy8798
    @fy8798 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Decentraland was already by necessity going to be garbage. The very idea that land ownership is a thing and that the land is the real estate of the game means that every game blocks every other game, gives hard limits to each game's size, so even if Decentraland devs were competent (which they are not, they're less competent than first time solo devs on steam) these limits alone would make good games impossible.
    Even the games that utilize teleporters for their maps are hilariously awful. The very visible box they're in gives the whole "game" less of an immersion factor than a cheap ride at a local fair, and the area limits for the portals constrain them to the point of uselessness. You cannot make anything good in something like this, even if you wanted to put effort in.
    And then the "you need X nft to play" on top for some of them.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Oh, so the size of the map is based on how much digital land you own? Oh that is bad.

  • @chasebh89
    @chasebh89 Před 28 dny +1

    In the world of nft games "it's a playable game" is pretty high praise

  • @Linzmaus
    @Linzmaus Před 10 měsíci +1

    12:06 Heck I saw that model from a video of Jerma playing GTA clones on mobile

  • @BobRobinson
    @BobRobinson Před rokem +9

    Don't forget the sandbox it's just as bad and overhyped I'm building a Game and I'm just a roofer who taught myself to code and its far better than the crap games released that I have seen and I'm doing it with zero budget after work .they forgot the main part to a game fun

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +5

      I actually have a review of that game on my channel! You’re right, it’s absolutely horrible.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios
    @HappyBeezerStudios Před měsícem +1

    Wow, it crashed when it ran out of memory. And even says that one solution is to compile it with a bigger memory cap.
    The memory cap shown is 2 GiB - 4.25 MiB.
    It simply ran out of the non-LAA memory limit for 32 bit processes.

  • @Cracker_Smacker
    @Cracker_Smacker Před měsícem +2

    >decentralized
    >manage and control by a group
    >confuse.jpg

  • @Teapose
    @Teapose Před 7 měsíci +7

    I don’t get it. These projects are junk piled on junk piled on junk. Who is investing in this trash?

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 7 měsíci +5

      Dummies

    • @versamax6307
      @versamax6307 Před 7 měsíci +3

      scam artists. And either they're damn good at it, or everybody else is just super dumb

  • @quazzydiscman
    @quazzydiscman Před rokem +1

    Yo this video was thorough and really well done... Nice work!

  • @NotAlterDenny
    @NotAlterDenny Před 2 měsíci

    I love the sudden change of tone when you realized the Golf game’s leaderboard was scored by games played.

  • @mentalward718
    @mentalward718 Před 10 měsíci +3

    It warms my heart to see RON top that indie chart

  • @Teruko666
    @Teruko666 Před měsícem +2

    I know this video is old at this point - but i have to point it out.
    The cryptobros can only make money when new players join. You, as a new player, asked a group of cryptobros how to start playing. Their answer is "go figure it out on the discord, i aint helping."

  • @GalaxiaStars
    @GalaxiaStars Před 8 měsíci +4

    I feel like the reason there's almost no gameplay is because this was yet another nft culture rugpull scam lol

  • @suspecm6316
    @suspecm6316 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Bruh they literally just took random Synty character assets and threw them next to other styled assets. (Also the performance was probably affected by playing in browser)

  • @transgirlgeology2464
    @transgirlgeology2464 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Great video im excited to watch whatever else you have on the channel

  • @Kazuhira2249
    @Kazuhira2249 Před 7 měsíci +3

    its always "buy land in our game"

  • @caesar2185
    @caesar2185 Před 10 měsíci +4

    BadN is the hero we need but don't deserve

  • @vizthex
    @vizthex Před 7 měsíci +3

    i don't know why you didn't just mute the tab if the audio was so soul-drainingly terrible. I'm only hearing it second-hand and still feel like my ears are begging for the sweet release of death lmao.

  • @battlion507
    @battlion507 Před 10 měsíci +6

    Hey, Decentraland, I remember that "game". Folding Ideas called it: A Dead Mall.
    Yeah, the game sucks, the administration sucks and to tie it with the crypto/nft phase just makes it unappealing.

  • @dtharve
    @dtharve Před 3 měsíci +2

    Didn't they learn anything from runescape? Having players vote on change is a horrible idea

  • @kajacx
    @kajacx Před 4 dny

    The golf minigame looked kind of fun with custom obstacles like the loop-a-round. If there were more fun minigames like that I can imagine people legit playing or even paying for skins, but you don't really need crypto for any of that.

  • @dorkenspache8353
    @dorkenspache8353 Před měsícem +1

    5:43 These "kyari" look like just Fakemon they ripped off. I can tell since I have been making Fakemon for like 5 or 6 years now, they match the Pokemon style exactly in art style and design features like eyes

  • @jasoncropley5334
    @jasoncropley5334 Před 11 měsíci

    Love your content dude! Just subscribed!

  • @nevem5216
    @nevem5216 Před rokem +2

    Your reviews crack me up :D! would love to see what you think of VulcanVerse (PYR).

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před rokem +2

      I’ll check it out! Thanks for the suggestion and glad you like the videos :)

  • @r7calvin
    @r7calvin Před 8 měsíci

    Why do some worlds not have skyboxe despite their clearly intending to be outdoors?

  • @justmavi7999
    @justmavi7999 Před 10 měsíci +3

    This thing's gotta be mining crypto on your pc right?

  • @win_ini
    @win_ini Před měsícem

    using positional audio for music is a new one lmao

  • @LethalBubbles
    @LethalBubbles Před 10 měsíci +2

    all the fun of telepresence and all of the excitement of ponzi scheme

  • @andreasottohansen7338
    @andreasottohansen7338 Před 8 měsíci +2

    22:47 God, who made that? that is a terrible representation of currency use!
    The canadian and american dollar aren't interchangable, same goes for the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, or islandic crown. They might as well be Euros and rubles for how different they are.

    • @jauwn
      @jauwn  Před 8 měsíci +5

      It's a map based on the origin of the word used for that areas currency. Now does it make sense in relation to my video, no, but it was the first google result and I guess I was lazy 🤣

  • @robertwildschwein7207
    @robertwildschwein7207 Před 10 měsíci +2

    5:32 this suspiciously looks like stolen Pokemon art cut into pieces and frankensteined back together.

    • @KITSUMOX
      @KITSUMOX Před 10 měsíci

      looks a bit like ai TBH. wouldnt be surprised

    • @robertwildschwein7207
      @robertwildschwein7207 Před 10 měsíci +1

      The one in the big picture clearly has relaxos face. The one on the right is slightly edited Emolga. I am pretty sure, the second one from the right uses Evees body and face. While I can't quite put the finger on it, the other three seem suspiciously familiar too. +They look VERY frankensteined to me.

  • @VirtuaVirtue
    @VirtuaVirtue Před 10 měsíci +1

    the game being roblox in the description is icing on the cake

  • @stephan455
    @stephan455 Před 2 měsíci +1

    hello jauwn? can you please make a reveal about the gaming coin beam? they say they are a gaming dao