Most young technologies promise more than they can deliver, and the result is underwhelming or disappointing. Nuclear had regulatory and safety concerns that has slowed its adoption, early TVs had nothing to watch, self-driving cars haven't materialized though we can see progress, and machine learning gave us tags for photos.
web3 has given us Ponzi schemes and nothing else. Not decentralized finance, not usable currencies, not "stores of value", not even games that are fun. Cryptokitties was kind of the bright spot.
At least with other technologies, you could imagine benefits, even if they were cost-prohibitive or unlikely to develop soon.
The proponents of web3 cannot articulate any desirable future state that will be brought about by their technology.
Is this an accurate depiction of "web3 proponents" in general or just a case of nutpicking[1]? I've heard of something vaguely similar to the first claim, but I can't remember whether it actually involved NFTs or was standard games-as-a-service rhetoric. For the second claim I heard something adjacent (eg. copy pasters), but I can't tell whether they're representative of the community or extremism/satire, and haven't heard of the specific proposal of browser DRM.
https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/2022/html/a_new_year...
You weren't kidding. They really want people as grunt workers in the virtual world. I guess that's why they are trying to remove any association with the words 'games' and 'fun'.
>I realize that some people who “play to have fun” and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so.
Which seems like the opposite of "mock" to me.
He's saying that the people who play for fun aren't important. The people who play in the hopes of getting money are.
web1 - it's open! web2 - it's open (but really controlled by social media billionaires) web3 - you own digital property but good news, you can be a landlord and get money by leasing out that digital property, or you can be a speculator, or you can be a serf and work in an nft farm. Ignore the wash trading, paid celebrity endorsements, and the rugpulls.