Asmongold roasts Square Enix pushing Metaverse and NFTs: \u201cPeople don\u2019t give a f**k\u201d Asmongold\/Square EnixTwitch star Asmongold has hit out at Square Enix\u2019s recent New Years\u2019 statement, in which the company called 2021 \u201cMetaverse and NFTs: Year One\u201d, and praised the potential of the new technology. Asmongold is one of the big streamers on Twitch who is not afraid to hold back his opinion when he feels strongly about a topic. He\u2019s hit out at Activision Blizzard and YouTube in the past, and more recently, has been open in his criticisms of NFTs, or Non-fungible Tokens, having called people who spend thousands on them \u201cridiculous.\u201d After Square Enix declared 2021 as \u201cYear One\u201d for the surge of the Metaverse and NFTs , Asmon took to Twitch to share how he feels about the company\u2019s messaging on the topic. Asmongold on the Metaverse and NFTs The streamer was live on his secondary channel that he\u2019s been using, zackrawrr, when he read the Square Enix letter to his audience. He touched on his thoughts about the Metaverse and said, \u201cPeople aren\u2019t really talking a whole lot about the Metaverse, they\u2019re not thinking about it. The main people that are pushing the idea of the Metaverse are the corporate overlords that are looking to sequester and segment away more autonomy of your personal life away from you, and into the realm that they can control, that is being called the Metaverse.\u201d Asmongold then asked his viewership to \u201cDo not fall victim to this language. Do not be taken advantage of. This is something that\u2019s being pushed from the top-down, this is something many people don\u2019t give a f**k about.\u201d He also touched on his thoughts about NFTs, and said: \u201cI think that the idea of it is interesting. However, what\u2019s produced with it is not. It\u2019s kind of like the idea of printer, it\u2019s amazing, you don\u2019t need a printing press anymore with a digital printer. But, whenever the digital printer prints out a picture of a banana, it\u2019s not worth anything.\u201d Asmon finished by hilariously mocking the tokens, \u201c\u2018It was made by this incredible technology! Look at the capabilities! Oh My God! Wow!\u2019 Like, yeah, that\u2019s super cool, but all you have is a sheet of paper with a banana on it.\u201d While he shared optimism about the potential of new technology in the gaming space, Asmongold doesn\u2019t see the value in it just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold roasts Square Enix pushing Metaverse and NFTs: \u201cPeople don\u2019t give a f**k\u201d Asmongold\/Square EnixTwitch star Asmongold has hit out at Square Enix\u2019s recent New Years\u2019 statement, in which the company called 2021 \u201cMetaverse and NFTs: Year One\u201d, and praised the potential of the new technology. Asmongold is one of the big streamers on Twitch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}