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Itch.io Calls NFTs Scams and Aims an F-Word Towards Companies That Endorse Them

A message to every NFT supporter!

www.dualshockers.com

Recently, Itch.io shared a very clear message about its approach to NFTs, which already pleased all the video game fans and players who believe NFTs do not have a place in gaming. The message has already received almost 200K likes!

 

[gundalf]

itch.io keeps on winning

 

[Bernd Lauert]

wtf i love virtue signaling now

 

[Jigsaah]

Itch.io? Not familiar. Should I know him?

 

[Sean Mirrsen]

Itch.io? Not familiar. Should I know him?

It's an indie game/software storefront with an open revenue share model. It's fairly limited in terms of how you can pay for things, and has possibly even more of a 'tiny weird indie project' problem than Steam, but it's the original home of many beloved indie projects (since it costs nothing to publish there), and many DRM-averse people like it for generally not featuring any kind of DRM in the games sold there, much like GOG.

 

[Danjin44]

 

[iHaunter]

That's kinda like saying if communist dictators weren't corrupt. Communism on paper sounds good, in practice, ehhhh.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

That's kinda like saying if communist dictators weren't corrupt. Communism on paper sounds good, in practice, ehhhh.

It doesn't even sound good on paper if you read the fine print.

 

[BreakOut]

And now they have earned my follow! But for real that’s cool that they were so direct, fuck that shit. These “surprise mechanics” are the same as before. The difference being price I’m guessing based on the fact that they can tell you that you own them even if that’s total bullshit and makes no sense because it’s not real.

 

[Umbasaborne]

Amen, fuck nft’s

 

[Punished Miku]

Smart grassroots marketing for anyone with a functioning brain.

No wonder this is so rarely heard from companies.

 

[M1chl]

#Monopoly.NFT by monopolynft

monopolynft.itch.io

 

[indigo-cyclops]

As we speak, there are 'companies' out there scraping music streaming APIs (Spotify/Youtube) and putting, if not the entire available catalog, a bulk of it, up on their 'site' as NFTs (artwork, sometimes music). This is without any permission from the musicians/artists! They are a fucking scam, and competing with others in blatant, rampant copyright infringement.

So yes, fuck NFTs sideways.

 

[IntentionalPun]

NFTs are stupid, but there are NFT's that don't ruin the environment, and those are the ones Ubisoft and anyone doing anything remotely "cheap" NFT wise are using, since the other guys literally cost like $200 to "mint" per NFT.

 

[gundalf]

Itch.io? Not familiar. Should I know him?

It's *the* storefront for all things indie. Kinda like bandcamp.com but for games.

 

[Jigsaah]

It's *the* storefront for all things indie. Kinda like bandcamp.com but for games.

This is PC related I assume. Hmmm. Might wanna look into them. Thanks for the info.

 

[Pejo]

I too say "fuck NFTs".

You may now begin showering me in deserved praise.

 

[Bonfires Down]

NFTs bad amirite

 

[Jeeves]

wtf i love virtue signaling now

It's funny because even though I don't like NFTs and pretty much agree with the message, I still find this a little annoying.