Mark Zuckerberg is creating a future that looks worse than the world we have now

Re:Mark Zuckerberg is creating a future that looks worse tha... by tluyben2 on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:13AM (#29871856)

But now web3, whatever it is, is fully entangled with metaverse? I have heard that before, but I did not know this was the common definition. If this is the case, it would mean that the metaverse world-database and all action on it would have to be decentralized right? Otherwise, if Zuck pulls the plug on a world (let's say some nazi playground or whatever), nothing works; aka all nfts etc from that part would be instantly gone. How does that work? As far as I know we cannot even run trivial things on the blockchain efficiently, so how is a complete 'gameworld' going to be implemented ?

Maybe these are dumb questions and it is common knowledge, but I have seen web3, including in this article, seem mixed with vr when it comes to in game buys and ownership. That is pretty worthless to have decentralized if the game company can kill that game overnight because the servers were too expensive to keep going for only 100.000 players.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg is creating a future that looks worse tha... by TheRealNGenius on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:08PM (#29884332)

it isn't. there was a recent Wall Street journal video on YouTube that tries to make a case for it. But it's just cryptocurrency shills trying to associate with the metaverse to sell useless plots of "virtual land" in a game no one will play. Instead of development efforts going into fun gameplay, the value prop comes from Ponzi scheming.

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