Axie Infinity is the crypto-backed Pokémon clone in which cute little creatures that double as NFTs battle for fun and profit. It’s also a pyramid scheme that relies on cheap labor from countries like the Philippines to fuel its growth.
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edit: Oh boy, the comments have an Axie Infinity Guy:
Wow. Talk about a “hit-piece.” I guess no one wins a Pulitzer for writing an article about how amazing it was that Sky Mavis disrupted & revolutionized online gaming by adding financial remuneration to an already super fun game to play... That not “scandalous” enough, truth be damned..
Of course Axie-Infinity has experienced some challenges along the way - as did Tesla and Apple & even Microsoft when they first emerged as pioneers of an entire industry... But Sky Mavis has been open and honest about almost everything from the beginning, and they are the true “Blue-Chip” leaders of P2E NFT-gaming in the Metaverse and I, for one - along with millions of others - will be sticking with them until 2030 at least...
The notion that anyone who volunteered, willingly, to play a fun game - Axie Infinity - can somehow be described as an exploited “victim” is offensive. Don’t forget that many of these people in 2020 in Asia & Latin-America & across the world who picked up Axie-Infinity had been put out of work by Covid - Axie Infinity was a miraculous life-line for them at the time.. not a ‘victimization.’ Would you rather work 9 or 10 hours a day under a hot sun in an accident-prone, dangerous, sweltering mine, or joyfully play a fun video game with cute, puffy, axie-fishy things in an air-conditioned saloon? Me too. Is every e-Sports team on earth (a Multi-Trillion dollar industry) an example of “exploitation” and indentured-servitude? Gimme a break!!!
And, u neglected to mention that now that the Covid emergency is largely over, there are actually MORE people picking-up & playing Axie-Infinity than there ever were before, including in 2020. So Axie-Infinity has been growing, not shrinking...
It actually almost sounds like this author works for a (lesser) competitor? Sheesh...
I guess no one wins a Pulitzer for writing an article about how amazing it was that Sky Mavis disrupted & revolutionized online gaming by adding financial remuneration to an already super fun game to play…
That post made the article infinitely more funny. I'm trying to wrap my head around e-sports being a multi trillion dollar industry or just how exceedingly gracious they were as to give the masses jobs in their shitty get rich quick scheme.
Pseudo-altruism is the most obnoxious self-affirmation technique. Usually when someone uses it, they're so otherwise irredeemable that shooting it down would only make them escalate to the violence they're cloaking in it. They need that angel on their shoulder telling them that they're doing the right thing when they aren't.
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edit: Oh boy, the comments have an Axie Infinity Guy:
So basically Dota 2 but infinitely shittier.
That post made the article infinitely more funny. I'm trying to wrap my head around e-sports being a multi trillion dollar industry or just how exceedingly gracious they were as to give the masses jobs in their shitty get rich quick scheme.
Pseudo-altruism is the most obnoxious self-affirmation technique. Usually when someone uses it, they're so otherwise irredeemable that shooting it down would only make them escalate to the violence they're cloaking in it. They need that angel on their shoulder telling them that they're doing the right thing when they aren't.
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This is going to be Elon Musk's "silver or lead" bargain if he ever gets his Mars Colony for Troubled Boys.