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He mentions s&dbox, his new engine/gmod spiritual successor. They maintain an interesting devblog over at https://sbox.game/news if you are interested in how the sausage is made.

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It feels like his new goal is directly challenging the niche that Roblox sits in. They have their work cut out for them if they hope to pull people away from that ecosystem.

The other https://sandbox.game have been trying to do exactly that for about 7 years and haven't managed it with hundreds of millions of investment and many large IP partnerships. Roblox and Fortnite are hard to fight.

Probably because thats more about crypto/NFT trash than games.

Crypto/NFTs are a means to an end for Sandbox. They were used in the hope that it would make things better, not worse, by allowing users to freely sell their in-game assets on the open market. Unlike, say, Fortnite, where if you get banned all your assets are burned too.

I know it's a terrible argument but just don't get banned? Anyone that cares about the financial aspects of their assets shouldn't be doing things that could get themselves banned. Sure, false bans can happen, but is going crypto/NFT the solution?

Honestly, I like that the assets are freely tradeable on the open market. It's kind of a fun addition that you can on OpenSea and buy a new character to play with, or buy a bunch of buildings or NPCs to drop into your game.

I still think it was a good idea in theory. Crypto is a pain, though. It adds an annoying step to everything.

Probably a bad idea to use that name considering https://sandbox.game have been around for over a decade now, and despite this week's management shake-up they still have about $300m in funds in the bank.

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