A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster

It's beyond reason how, after so many years, crypto marketing in any positive use cases is still allowed.

How long would it take for people to learn the hard lesson that this is not web3? It doesn't offer any functional innovation over existing solutions and is a waste of words and energy.

>Zirlin said he empathized with people who’d lost money—life-changing sums, in some instances. But he added that a crash that got rid of Axie profiteers could have its upside, too. “Sometimes having to flush out the people who are just in it for the money,” he said, “that’s just the system self-correcting.”

The entire game is about making money, that's what differentiates the game from countless others, and the leadership thinks getting rid of players who are in it for the money will improve things?

They put the horse before the cart when it came to crypto gaming. You are supposed to focus on the gaming part first and make it as fun and addictive as possible. Focusing on the crypto aspect only of course would cause it to fail.

Darn, they didn't have enough suckers buying into their 'cryptocurrency' to make a profit from their ponzi scheme before it imploded..

crypto everything delivers disaster

how is anyone surprised