Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam

Post by vmception » Fri, May 28, 2021, 11:51 PM UTC

sanxiyn wrote: post #17

tobr wrote: post #10

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If the reason for the rule is to avoid the submitter pushing through their viewpoint, this particular case shouldn’t be a problem. The “Y Combinator” part is a reason why it’s relevant to this site, and it’s not a viewpoint.

"Scam" is the problematic part. The article avoids the word in the title because the article itself says: > "I think we use the word scam as a colloquial term mostly and there's some nuance to this. I don't think either game's developers have the actual intention to not deliver." So it's not a scam, not to speak of blatant scam.

Post by ska » Fri, May 28, 2021, 11:53 PM UTC

serf wrote: post #53

tptacek wrote: post #6

You're not meant to editorialize titles like this on HN. People who submit stories have no more claim to their viewpoint than any commenter does. The title here should be: "This MMO that promised an 'infinite open world' has become a giant fiasco"

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. " Feels weird to nitpick scam versus fiasco, but whatever. I'd be upset either way as an investor, but just flag it if need be -- as per guidelines.

Post by ThatMedicIsASpy » Fri, May 28, 2021, 11:55 PM UTC

fooey wrote: post #106

MattieTK wrote: post #68

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This was part of the exciting suggestion of the original Stadia trailers: with the entire game and all the interactions happening in Google datacentres, you would only need to receive a rendered version, and suddenly all this would be possible. Of course none of that has happened and Google folded their games studio, which is par for them, but does go some way to reinforcing this point that there's a reason this stuf…

Stadia isn't magic though, it just runs on whatever random GPU they have lying around. It was never going to be better than what you can build yourself.

Post by aidenn0 » Fri, May 28, 2021, 11:59 PM UTC

wearywanderer wrote: post #86

new299 wrote: post #69

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I have some sympathy for the difficulty evaluating tech plays when "an RSS search engine" turns into twitter. These ideas are the starting point, but it's difficult to tell what they might turn into. Quite possibly they evaluate the ability of the founders to shape the company into something interesting during the program. But more than that, they're probability are trying to figure out how well the founders will per…

"Invest in the team" makes some sense when you're talking about bright people with a lame idea (RSS search engine, or whatever.) But in this case the idea isn't merely lame; it's a scam, and the team being invested in are a team of con-artists. What might they pivot to, if not another scam?

Post by mekkkkkk » Sat, May 29, 2021, 12:06 AM UTC

coldcode wrote: post #58

I know what building an MMO is like, having worked on one 10 years ago that was already 10 years old and still exists today (small audience though). Building something like these people are talking about requires more $ than a Marvel superhero movie to get anywhere. We could manage about 100 simultaneous players visible to each other in a reasonable time but no more; the internet is not fast enough to manage more tha…