Crypto-skeptic gamers review bomb Storybook Brawl after FTX buys it

Indignant gamers person reappraisal bombed Storybook Brawl connected Steam implicit fears of imaginable NFT and blockchain integrations pursuing crypto speech FTX’s acquisition of its developers Good Luck Games, LLC.

Storybook Brawl is simply a free-to-play auto-battle paper crippled that was launched connected online gaming level Steam successful mid-2021. The game’s reappraisal past showed an overwhelming magnitude of enactment until March 22, the nonstop time FTX US announced its acquisition.

Since that time, the crippled has moved to an “overwhelmingly negative” presumption with 600 retired the past 761 reviews being negative. While it is imaginable for anyone who hasn’t played the crippled to permission feedback due to the fact that it does not necessitate a purchase, galore of the reviews are from players who person spent a batch of clip connected the game.

“We don't enactment NFTs successful this household. Tragic extremity for a large car battler,” wrote Steam idiosyncratic “asnugglekitten” who has logged much than 130 hours connected the game. Another subordinate called “King Bear” who has clocked much than 60 hours wrote:

“Good Luck Games was acquired by FTX, a cryptocurrency company, arsenic a mode to ‘help crypto marque inroads with gamers.’ I privation nary portion of that and I don't privation crypto ‘making inroads’ successful things I'm funny in. Uninstalled.”

Storybook Brawl reviews: Steam

As portion of the acquisition, Storybook Brawl volition beryllium integrated into FTX US’s blockchain gaming unit, with FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried outlining the firm’s broader plans to ethically integrate “gaming and crypto transactions successful a mode that hasn't yet been done successful this space."

Speaking connected the determination connected March 23, Good Luck Games laminitis Matt Place besides emphasized that it was bully quality for the subordinate and the company, arsenic it yet has the backing to bring the crippled to a triple A level.

It whitethorn bash small to quash the concerns of the beardown fig of crypto-skeptic gamers, but Place besides noted that FTX US hasn’t placed a request that blockchain tech is integrated into the game:

“We’re going to research blockchain exertion [...] however we tin really leverage that to marque value, to make amusive for players. When we find that, we’re gonna enactment it into the game, and if we don’t, we don’t person a mandate that we person to bash it.”

While NFTs, crypto and blockchain person been wide adopted by some artists and gamers, determination are inactive ample numbers of skeptics successful some communities.

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Major sticking points for galore anti-crypto gamers often revolve astir perceived scams, currency grabs and the biology interaction of crypto — contempt determination being much powerfulness businesslike blockchain solutions disposable for gaming than Proof of Work chains.

So far, galore accepted games and companies person copped the brunt of outrage implicit imaginable integrations, including Ubisoft, Discord (a societal media level popular amongst gamers), Electronic Arts and Worms developers Team17.