The Epic Games Store is tragically showing a terrible looking NFT game
Epic Games, the company behind it Fortnite and autumn boys, has unleashed another “F” on the world by adding an NFT-based video game to its online store: Damn, are we still doing this cryptobaby thing?
The early access Blanko’s Block Party is advertised as “a vibrant open-world multiplayer game” on the Epic Games Store, with a “focus on custom art and design, building your own levels, exploring user-created levels, and curating your collection of unique and rare Blankos!” It’s free to play, but collecting “rare Blankos!” – NFT Frankensteins seemingly taken from established collectibles like Legos, Funko Pop! and Kaws figures – will cost you anywhere from under $10 to nearly $150,000. If you prefer to spend even more money, you can buy Blankos accessories, such as these butterflies available for $1,111,111, from Mythical Marketplace, development company Mythical games‘ blockchain-backed storefront.
But that money is a lot of trouble for what is essentially a crypto combination of Autumn boys and Roblox. Blanks‘ Gameplay consists of bouncing around platforms in existing party games, or creating your own levels to play with friends.
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In itself, that’s a nice premise. Blanks‘ graphics are also decent and unremarkable for the genre, with flat terrain that mostly looks like cubes of cheese. And Dclamoring for a lot of money for in-game items is not that different from pay to win games as Diablo Immortal. But all of this is a problem for people who claim crypto has something new to offer gaming.
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Blanks can boast of Epic Games Store’s Fresh Hot “Blockchain/NFT” Tagwhich helpfully indicates that “Epic Games does not encourage the purchase or sale of any cryptocurrency or digital asset” (why is it in your store, then?), but its so-called Web3 premise copies old-school theories like pay-to-win and bounce and down on a cube.
Yeah. I’m sure one of the the other blockchain-based games announced for the Epic Games Store, which Gravelwhich apparently expects players to drop money on unchanged asset turns, will completely regain Web3 gaming on its innovative traces.
