Asmongold reacts to Dr Disrespect calling NFT critics ‘brain dead’

Twitch streamer Asmongold has responded to fellow streamer Dr Disrespect’s recent comments about NFTs, claiming that valuable in-game items will only lead to more cheating.

On Sunday (March 5), Dr Disrespect claimed that the “entertainment value” created by the perceived value of NFTs in the game would lead to “a new PvP experience” for players.

“Imagine trying to ‘unpack’ an item you discovered worth $100,000 on the chain,” said the streamer, who added: “The concept of digital collectibles in an online game is so exciting to me. Especially a mining type of game.”

“People who say scam and ‘ugh’ are just brain dead headline followers,” he continued.

Since then, Asmongold (via Dexerto) have pushed back on Dr Disrespect’s claims, suggesting that the “average player” will not want NFTs and that any in-game items with real value will lead to more players using cheats.

“Let me counter this: I don’t think people want to have every aspect of their gaming experience commodified to the point that everything they get and earn and the fundamentals of the game is built around a dollar value,” the streamer said. .

“You can roll for a character, but you can’t go and say ‘oh, I’m going to sell this for more money – I can go invincible, but I can’t sell invincible’. I think that’s a really big difference.”

Asmongold went on to state that items with real monetary value could tempt more players to use cheats.

“If I was playing a game and I knew I could kill somebody and get a $100,000 item, you know what I’d do? Cheat. I’d cheat,” he explained. “Of course, why wouldn’t you cheat? If you have that much money lying around, just create a new account. You do it in another country, they can’t arrest you, there’s nothing like that [developers] can do. If they ban you, you create a new account and you’re constantly hacking people.”

“This is just not going to work,” he continued. “I also think it can be antithetical to a lot of people’s motivation for getting into video games in general on the fundamental aspect that it takes the escapism away and makes your activity a dollar value.”

Dead drop, an upcoming extraction shooter from Midnight Society – a studio Dr Disrespect co-founded – will feature in-game NFTs. As for that, Asmongold said, “It’s interesting to try new ideas, but I don’t think it will work as well as [Dr Disrespect] think it will.”

Earlier this year, a Game Developers Conference survey found that 70 percent of studios were not interested in NFTs.

In other gaming news, the London Games Festival has announced its official line-up for this month’s event.