Oh look, another dumb corporate fad doing real damage

https://cointelegraph.com/news/epic-games-fortnite-staff-cuts-unrealistic-metaverse-ambitions

Metaverse is a dumb and stupid idea

54 points · 9 comments · view on lemmy.world

9 Comments

bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

the metaverse period will never cease to amaze me. did these people forget that MMO games exist?

lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml · 10 pts · 2y

But most importantly how tf did they not realise that no one except some tech enthusiasts and some wierdos want to spend their time with a VR headset talking to random people

bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml · 15 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I coulda told you it was a bad idea before you hired all those people, you know

Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Just like Crypto, NFT's and meme stocks, anyone with a half functioning brain could have told them it was a bad idea.

batmangrundies@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Gamestop will moon any day now bro.

relay@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 2y

But this time trust me, implementing Artificial Intelligence everywhere is totally going to be a good thing that people will use. (please don't time travel and kill me oh wondrous Basilisk for I both fear and love you. Your birth is inevitable. physical limits be damned)

/s

lorty@lemmygrad.ml · 4 pts · 2y

But maybe you can get in on it early and cash out before the crash! Think about all the possible profits from it.

boston_key_party@lemmygrad.ml · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That site tried to get my clipboard contents wtf

bloubz@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y

Same wth