Varyx🍀

Not sure if I will be posting on X soon again. So in case you don't see me here for a while, herewith my reasons. I have a responsibility to our community to now go and fetch players for our games. There are very very few actual gamers in Web3, mostly extractors, bots, scammers, jobbers, builders and content creators. Some of them play games, but very few are willing to buy anything or support financially in any way because they are here to make a living themselves. Chains have all lost faith in gaming. There is little to no marketing support, financial support, or even infrastructural support. There are some great BD on the chains, but they have no real power to bring Web3 gaming what it needs - massive market presence. You need proper budgets and a proper marketing strategy for that, and there are only juniors in Web3 when it comes to marketing. They gave that all to the scammers, KOLs and devs with their big fake following numbers and fake tx numbers. Web3 KOLs and marketers had a season of selling cold water in the desert and have no idea how to create an Oasis. They sucked the lakes dry with their overpriced greed and now the only way they can survive is to go from new well to new well and try and suck those dry with their crazy pricing as well. Web3 has a terrible brand stigma and it is just getting worse. Which is why Steam, IOS and Android shut out games that use any form of Crypto completely. I gave four years of 18 hour days to doing things the right way, only to watch the botters, scammers and fakers get the grants and VC to build nothing. They got MILLIONS! MILLIONS! So where am I going? Well, unless we get some kind of genuine financial and marketing help from an investor or a chain or two, we won't be able to bring real gamers to Web3. We will need to shove the Web3 tech waaaay into the back of the games, maybe even completely out of some versions so that we can build a community and slowly ease them into the tech. We will need to establish a presence on Steam, Itch.io, IOS, Android etc. and focus heavily on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Then we will aim to hit a budget ($300k) that allows us to do the following: (Note that all of this has been attempted by non-gamers in Web3 who tried to build business models instead of a very specific community building mechanism - which is why they all failed.) 1) Build a truly plug and play, chain agnostic Web3 version of Steam where devs can launch their games without needing any knowledge of Web3 or contracts. The tech needs to be completely invisible and players should be able to access collections from any chain for any game and sell it to each other on a simple marketplace. 2) The platform also needs to have integrated streaming tools, community building tools, clan management tools etc. so that we have a centralised Web3 gaming ecosystem where devs, creators, streamers, chains etc. and work in synergy to build Web3 gaming as a whole instead of the delusional splintered approach they currently have. 3) Establish a marketing team who understand the importance of separating legitimate Web3 gaming from the hellscape of the mainstream crypto world - which is nothing more than a legal grey zone for gamblers and criminals. It has to be loud, it has to be aggressive, and it has to have extreme prejudice. As far as I am concerned, every chain and every platform that has participated in gambling, pump and dump schemes, and insider trading facilitation should be in prison. But that is not how the world works. Where there are no shepherds, the wolves flourish and the sheep die. We have presented this vision for our platform to many chains and they are simply not interested. Frankly, I have no idea what they are interested in. They all seem to be holding on to some vain hope that the world will have another Covid season full of bored people working at home while spending dumb money on worthless NFTs. VC are only interested if we can launch a token that they can dump. Go to hell you parasites. So unless some other miracle happens, we will need to distance ourselves from Web3 and CT and work hard to raise the funding ourselves through sales to actual gamers in Web2. I believe in Web3 tech, I really do. I just can't do this anymore. We have a non profit org to fund, a lot of kids in poverty to take care of, and Web3 - for all its bluster about wanting to do good - is not a place that cares about stuff like that. We have to be honest. In four years, I have never felt like I fit here - trying to keep up with conversations on X stages and podcasts with people who talk about crypto like it's 1980's wall street while I am just a normie trying to fund a non-profit with gaming. I never understood the cabals, social clicks, rigged DAO voting systems, or blatantly celebrated psychopathy by extractors who raised money for projects and spent it on crazy personal opulence. I have honestly tried, and now I am tired. I will still go live every day, but until we have the resources to built a Web3 gaming ecosystem the way it should be built, I just cannot be here anymore. If I stay, our games will fail and I will burn out. And neither of that can be allowed to happen.