A large metaverse project created by the company behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club NFT The project recently held a series of beta sessions for people with some NFTs. Even though the developers claim this is just the beginning, it doesn’t seem promising considering the money involved.
On February 29, the third major playtest of the next Metaverse powered by NFT project-On the other side-arrived. The event was called “The monkeys are coming home“, and the big news was that people who owned a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT could come in, see their NFT made in 3D and access an exclusive digital clubhouse. Here, players could walk around, take selfies, twerk, walk some more, and do all of this in silence as the test did not support text or voice chat. It’s all the more time to ask whether spending $70,000 on a digital monkey to get “exclusive perks” in a Second life the counterfeit was definitely worth it.
On the other side is a browser-based NFT metaverse MMO, still in development, developed by Yuga Laboratoriesthe company responsible for Bored Apes and Mutant Apes. In May 2022Yuga was able to sell Digital land worth $300 million in the next match. So there is a lot of money at stake. Yuga claims that On the other side will support multiple types of NFTs and possibly contain user-created games, like Roblox. To help build this great metaverse, Yuga organized a series of “trips” or tests into the past. The premiere took place in 2022. The second in 2023. However, these were simple affairs using default avatars and temporary assets. The February 29 event was different, as it aimed to highlight one of the 200,000 lots that will make up On the other hand, as well as showing the owners of Bored and Mutant Ape what all their money will get them.
Watch videos and pictures of the event, On the other side it doesn’t look great. The graphics are not ugly, but extremely bland. Performance is choppy. And the entertainment is limited. It looks more like a 3D browser-based chat room from 2013 than a big, expensive metaverse project from 2024. But it doesn’t fit that comparison either, because at least even in virtual chat rooms the cheapest and the shittiest ones you can talk to people about. You can’t actually argue On the other side.
As players arrive in the NFT metaverse, they are attacked by a goat. This is the “tradition” behind why no one can speak. They then receive a camera from a small digital creature called “Koda” and are free to run around aimlessly and watch this first part of On the other side. If you own an NFT monkey, you will be able to play with your recreated NFT as a 3D avatar. Otherwise, you’re running around like a weird techno-traveler-robot, even though only monkey holders can access the clubhouse in the swamp.
“This is what spending $75,000 on this NFT gave me, access to this place here,” said Orangiean NFT content creator, when they first entered the clubhouse. They looked excited – or at least like they were pretending to be – but as they wandered around this exclusive bar/clubhouse, I wasn’t sure if the privilege was worth it. what $75. The place looked as fun as a random building in World of Warcraft.
In an official video from On the other sidea monkey is seen taking a selfie in a bathroom while another monkey twerks in a stall. If this clubhouse action sounds like a good time to you, well, you’ll have to buy a monkey. The cheapest so far is approximately $72,000. But, In factyou can’t play On the other side more. Sorry?
During the “Apes Come Home” event, Yuga only allowed players to run in this area of On the other side for 60 minutes. They held three separate one-hour sessions. They said it was to give everyone a chance to enter and to reduce pressure on the servers. I think the time limit was because they knew there wasn’t much to see or do in this first world and the developers didn’t want anyone to stick around for a few hours to figure that out. Although even Orangie, a person who has spent at least $70,000 on NFTs and sincerely believes in this metaverse/clubhouse concept, admitted in her video review that she was bored of just flying around and wandering around in mostly empty landscapes with his beloved monkey. avatar.
Maybe On the other side will expand further in the future. Yuga Labs has big plansat least. The studio says it wants to shoot On the other side in an experience that can support user-created games and content, similar to Roblox Or Fortnite. However, these games are free and benefit from agreements with major brands like Star Wars. On the other sideEntrance fees are high – the cheapest option for entry seems to be to buy a Another NFT act for around $600– and the lack of gameplay or great intellectual property will be a hard sell for kids and people looking for a new online game. And that’s assuming this thing actually launches.
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