<story><title>Game Studios Are Turning Play into Work</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/game-studios-turning-play-into-work-crypto-nfts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Look to Vegas to see how grinding for money works out. Especially slot machines. There&amp;#x27;s a fraction of the population that will play slot machines for long periods. This despite it being a net lose. This is the population that falls for Axie Infinity.&lt;p&gt;Axie Infinity was, at peak, about half the NFT market. It is now a Ponzi in the final stages. Here&amp;#x27;s the chart for Smooth Love Potion token, the one players grind for.[1] Down from $0.35 to $0.018. How low can it go? That one suckered a lot of poor people in the Philippines.&lt;p&gt;From the discussions on Reddit, it looks like people are wising up about NFTs. For a while, there were two new wannabe NFT metaverses a day. That&amp;#x27;s stopped. Most NFT comments are now negative.&lt;p&gt;Roblox may get in trouble for using child labor to implement games on their platform.[2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;coinmarketcap.com&amp;#x2F;currencies&amp;#x2F;smooth-love-potion&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;coinmarketcap.com&amp;#x2F;currencies&amp;#x2F;smooth-love-potion&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;games&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;jan&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-trouble-with-roblox-the-video-game-empire-built-on-child-labour&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;games&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;jan&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-trouble-wi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Game Studios Are Turning Play into Work</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/game-studios-turning-play-into-work-crypto-nfts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>me_me_mu_mu</author><text>I miss when games were for fun.&lt;p&gt;Now, games are filled with pay-items which I guess some people enjoy, but it leads to not a lot of fun in some cases. For example, some games sell tokens that you can convert to in-game money. That essentially translates into a boring grind for 100 hours or pay X amount to skip that by getting enough money to buy the items you need to skip that content.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t bought a new game since 2016, and I&amp;#x27;ll never support the *AAA gaming industry ever again :)</text></comment>