NFTs are objectively a scam, and unsurprisingly, 1208 – these developers – proudly and prominently display Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort on their homepage.
They just say "open-source" without stating a license, and coming from people willing to put a pyramid scheme in their no-effort mobile game, that sends up red flags for openwashing.
If it is open-source, that isn't god's gift to mankind or anything. There are plenty of existing open-source Flappy Bird clones that mimic it – as best I can tell – one-to-one because Flappy Bird isn't a complex game. And I'm somehow doubting a game designed to hawk shitty-ass NFTs has a lot of detail put into it either.

[+] Nibodhika@lemmy.world -85 points 1 month ago (26 children)

One small but important correction. NFTs are not a scam, it's an amazing technology that has the potential to revolutionize lots of stuff, that became popular when people used it for stupid shit.

Saying NFT is a scam because people have used it to scam others is like saying phones are a scam because people call others over the phone to scam them.

NFTs are essentially a decentralized token. This means that they can be used to represent anything you might want to represent with a token, e.g. ownership of a physical object such as a car or a house; ownership of a digital asset, such as a website or game; some predetermined amount of something, similar to a stock or bonds; etc. The fact that some people used it to mean ownership of random pictures and people thought buying random pictures on the internet for a ridiculous amount of money was a good idea tells you more about people than about the technology.

[–] binary45@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, if you say NFTs aren’t a scam, then why is almost every single NFT project losing its value?

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