Indignant avid gamers have assessment bombed Storybook Brawl on Steam over fears of potential NFT and blockchain integrations following crypto change FTX’s acquisition of its builders Good Luck Video games, LLC.

Storybook Brawl is a free-to-play auto-battle card recreation that was launched on on-line gaming platform Steam in mid-2021. The sport’s assessment historical past confirmed an amazing quantity of assist till March 22, the precise day FTX US introduced its acquisition.

Since that point, the sport has moved to an “overwhelmingly damaging” standing with 600 out the final 761 evaluations being damaging. Whereas it’s attainable for anybody who hasn’t performed the sport to depart suggestions as a result of it doesn’t require a purchase order, most of the evaluations are from gamers who’ve spent a whole lot of time on the sport.

“We do not assist NFTs on this family. Tragic finish for an ideal auto battler,” wrote Steam person “asnugglekitten” who has logged greater than 130 hours on the sport. One other participant referred to as “King Bear” who has clocked greater than 60 hours wrote:

“Good Luck Video games was acquired by FTX, a cryptocurrency firm, as a technique to ‘assist crypto make inroads with avid gamers.’ I need no a part of that and I do not need crypto ‘making inroads’ in issues I am curious about. Uninstalled.”

As a part of the acquisition, Storybook Brawl will probably be built-in into FTX US’s blockchain gaming unit, with FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried outlining the agency’s broader plans to ethically combine “gaming and crypto transactions in a means that hasn’t but been performed on this area.”

Talking on the transfer on March 23, Good Luck Video games founder Matt Place additionally emphasised that it was excellent news for the participant and the corporate, because it lastly has the funding to carry the sport to a triple A stage.

It could do little to quash the issues of the sturdy variety of crypto-skeptic avid gamers, however Place additionally famous that FTX US hasn’t positioned a requirement that blockchain tech is built-in into the sport:

“We’re going to discover blockchain know-how […] how we will really leverage that to make worth, to create enjoyable for gamers. Once we discover that, we’re gonna put it into the sport, and if we don’t, we don’t have a mandate that we’ve got to do it.”

Whereas NFTs, crypto and blockchain have been broadly adopted by each artists and avid gamers, there are nonetheless massive numbers of skeptics in each communities.

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Main sticking factors for a lot of anti-crypto avid gamers usually revolve round perceived scams, money grabs and the environmental influence of crypto — regardless of there being extra energy environment friendly blockchain options accessible for gaming than Proof of Work chains.

Up to now, many conventional video games and firms have copped the brunt of shock over potential integrations, together with Ubisoft, Discord (a social media platform fashionable amongst avid gamers), Digital Arts and Worms builders Team17.