It's insane how after crypto and NFTs crashed, the media and gaming industry seem to be pushing this now-obvious pyramid scheme even harder on us as if everything's fine for them. I'm even getting radical environmentalist sites like Green Biz pushing the technology on gullible readers as the SAVIOR of the climate crisis, not one of the more recent causes (or at least, it WILL stop using so much electricity and save us all from worldwide government inaction on the issue, honest guys!). It's especially worrying that companies like Square Enix and Level-5 are getting more aggressive with this stuff post-crash, as if more tech-savvy gamers are not more aware than most that a future where games have even MORE microtransactions and currencies to keep track of, as well as relying solely on FOMO than making the game actually fun and turning what should be an escape from work into a menial job, is one we are actively fighting against by, you know, not buying games that are boring and are clearly not made with "fun" in mind.
Kind of shows how delusional you have to be to still be to think you can push this stuff on an increasingly-skeptical public without doing basic "marketing 101" like, you know, being able to explain your product to those outside your social media "bubble" and convincing the buyer that they will be guaranteed to benefit from this in any conceivable way.