How Minecraft's ban on NFTs impacted the play-to-earn Critterz NFT community, some of whom bought in for thousands of dollars and earned hundreds per month
Kids in the Philippines were earning hundreds of dollars from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a tailspin.
Rest of World Neirin Gray Desai
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@vickiturk
Vicki Turk
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I mean this is only like a side note in the piece but like... wow https://twitter.com/...
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@drnicka
@drnicka
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Reminds of my student days playing the video game Shenmue. At some point you basically got a job as a fork lift truck driver and I spent like 30 hours moving boxes around. Damn right I would have done that full time for beer money at the time. https://twitter.com/... https://twit…
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@tha_rami
Rami Ismail
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Saying the quiet part out loud is a functional marketing beat in the NFT world https://twitter.com/...
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@drnicka
@drnicka
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Pay poor people to be video game NPCs... is comedically dystopian. https://twitter.com/...
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@gossithedog
Kevin Beaumont
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What the actual fuck. https://twitter.com/...
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@neerajka
Neeraj K. Agrawal
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This seems interesting. Too bad Mojang killed it https://restofworld.org/...
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@jrhennessy
James Hennessy
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are you hearing yourself talk https://restofworld.org/... https://twitter.com/...
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@vickiturk
Vicki Turk
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This fantastic story from @grayneirin started as one of those pitches where you go ‘Wait, what?!’ several times. It really highlights the wealth disparity laid bare by play-to-earn games. Also feat. a $10,000 Minecraft replica casino https://restofworld.org/...
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@technollama
Andres Guadamuz
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Play-to-earn, and become a real life NPC! #digitalcolonialism https://restofworld.org/... https://twitter.com/...
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@syacvg
@syacvg
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Mikhai Kossar, a chartered accountant and a member of Wolves DAO, a group that consults with NFT gaming projects in the early stages of their development. Said this in an interview for an article about that Minecraft NFT server. https://twitter.com/...
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@jrhennessy
James Hennessy
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i could see myself as an NPC in some kind of play-to-earn game... plying my wares... telling rude limericks to wealthy players for pennies... getting stuck in weird pathfinding loop and falling over...
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@kylebrussell
Kyle Russell
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The future of gaming could've been... child labor! ""I have a lot of kids that play for me, and they play because they want to make extra money in a country that's really just locking them down," he said." https://twitter.com/...