>"Ten years ago, the metaverse was already up and running within gaming communities. Valve’s games had already spawned economies so large that Valve was both excited and spooked. Some digital assets that had previously been distributed for free (via the game’s drops) began to trade for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, well before anyone had thought of NFTs.
"Ten years ago, the metaverse was already up and running within gaming communities...
Parker Ward
Dominic Jones
>"Today, a decade later, it is clear that gaming communities like the one I studied at Valve have been operating as fully-fledged metaverses (to use Zuckerberg’s term). Gamers were drawn to them by the game but, once ‘inside’, they stayed to live out a large part of their life, making friends, producing goods for sale, consuming entertainment, debating, etc. Zuckerberg’s ambition is to insert his billions of Facebook non-gamer users into a Steam-like digital social economy – complete with a top-down platform currency that he controls. How can I resist the parallelism with a digital fiefdom in which Zuckerberg dreams of being the techno-lord?"
Jackson Nguyen
it's not a metaverse if it's controlled by a singular entity. if it's not open and decentralized they can fuck off.
Aaron Sanders
>it's not a metaverse if it's controlled by a singular entity.
That's your personal definition.
>if it's not open and decentralized they can fuck off.
good luck with that friendo. pipe dream
Carson Lee
>one-time in-house economist at Valve
lmao
Jordan Peterson
the definition of metaverse is literally the evolution of the internet. the internet is only the internet because it's not owned by a single entity.
Kevin Wright
>suckertard tries out the metaverse
>will skip out on the requisite of creating a fun game or system, since that should be unnecessary for having a successful economy with lots of money flow
>doesn't care that it took many years for TF2's economy to reach the state it is at
>months after release, it is declared facebook's biggest failed project
>roboto short-circuits, incapable of understanding this logical fallacy: he created the hats, he made them expensive, he even allows players to trade them; why is he not making trillions of dollars?
>mr. 'berg wipes the metaverse clean from the internet as if it never happened
>moves onto some other inane project that will inevitably be added to facebook's long list of failings
Colton Bell
Zuck is all in on this idea. It's not just some experiment for him.
Juan Williams
>nooo you can't compare facebook and steam
Adam Perry
Valve got there naturally with little to no pushback.
Facebook is really trying to force their shit to happen
Lucas Campbell
That doesnt mean it cant flop
Kevin Allen
>Facebook is really trying to force their shit to happen
We know it will fail.
Grayson Hill
This, Neal Stephenson even implied as much in his 1992 novel, 'Snow Crash' where he described the concept at length.
Josiah Cox
Tell that to Mark Zuckerberg lmao.
Zachary Bennett
Charles Wilson
I'm sure he understands, but he doesn't want that. He wants power and control. Being known for the creation of a platform isn't as lucrative as owning the concept itself. Unfortunately, you cannot be the sun and charge for the sunlight.
Nathaniel Roberts
>former
Stopped reading there.
Jace Turner
how the fuck is that how anyone refers to yanis varoufakis, he's the guy who fucked up greece's negotiations with the EU, no idea valve hired him
Easton Kelly
lol no you idiot. The metaverse in Snow crash is owned by a giant entity, just like everything else in the book. People could buy or lease plots of land inside the metaverse. So it worked how second life does
Daniel King
#FFFFFF color
Ian Mitchell
This is the same retard that said Valve was making VR contact lenses.
Cameron Price
Owen Harris
You can use science 'fiction' to describe a concept whilst adding elements to it to make it believable to the reader.
Julian Kelly
valve defense force is on the scene. how much they pay you ranjeesh?
Brandon Ramirez
That's called real life