Paradox metaverse meltdown

 All publicity- right?

If this blog is fifty percent about gaming, then the other fifty percent is laughing at the constant stumbles of crypto projects because they just make for such good stories. So good, in fact; that I'm not entirely convinced that some of them aren't literal bait conjured up to try and create the illusion of a real failed start-up doomed for failure. And in the case of Paradox Metaverse; you'd have thought the CEO's themselves were professional comedians for how effortlessly they've set up an entire minefield of rakes around their headquarters for them to 'accidently' step on each and every day. How do you go from an absolute unknown to the laughing stock of the Internet in less than a week? Follow the example of Amio Talio. He has a couple of accomplices that are also along for the ride, but Mr Talio has done an amazing job of detailing himself as the worst of the bunch.

But first of? Who is Amio and what is the Paradox Metaverse? Well, in typical Metaverse fashion the whole thing is a bit of an unknown entity outside of his specific head-space, and especially an unknown around the gaming industry, and yet Amio felt confident enough in his position that in March he confidentially declared that the 'Solana' Crypto platform would "leave Ethereum in the dust when it came to gaming this year." Which is kind of like a pair of ants starting the London Marathon and mocking each other's slow progress. Both your platforms weren't headed anywhere with their Crypto gaming ventures! For an industry rife with 'move fast and break things' apologists; Crypto gaming has been unforgivably lethargic when it comes to growth or tangible improvement!

The man would have stayed an unknown if he didn't shell enough ducats out of his 'bribery' bank account (That's a joke, I need to add. He sounds British and seems like the kind of creep who searches the ends of the Internet to look up his own name. I ain't getting sued over this moron's insecurity.) to buy the sponsored time of controversial ex-Twitch Streamer IShowSpeed. Now if you know Speed, you know he's the answer to question: How far can you push the: "you have to forgive me because I'm young" excuse when you act like an idiot in public. He keeps apologising and then making even more stupid mistakes, so I really do wonder how his long term future as an internet celeb is going to go considering he's seventeen so he's going to loose his biggest trump card very soon. Speed and Amio joined forces recently to handily sink the budding reputation of Paradox Metaverse in beautiful fashion.

As this involved a well-known Streamer, this sponsored stream had to catch the attention of commentator Charles White, connoisseur of cringe; but then he passed it on to famed financial scam critique Coffeezilla, which can only mean juicy details are afoot. For the cringe, we have the sponsored stream itself. Paradox Metaverse decided to market itself with a fake Ronaldo that they advertised as the real guy apparently (which is objectively just funny) and then struggled with Speed to weather a storm of 'L Speed' ridicule from the live chat as the literal teenager audience saw right through the thin veneer of another Metaverse embarrassment. Which is about the best that they could have expected from this event. What did they want? Speed's target audience aren't old enough to vote; it's not like they could have financially invested in the platform! And the scam? Well... that's more Coffeezilla's realm than mine.

The Paradox Metaverse program is multifaceted and muddled; and from a laymen's perspective it's all just too boring and convoluted to draw any real attention. (Which is probably how it's coasted along so well up until now.) But from Coffeezilla's video on the matter, which I recommend you look up if you want real details, it sounds like the team were basically setting up every single failsafe that is typically exploited by pump and dump rug pulls. Unrealistic returns promises, locked funds incentives, and the final prototypical "The founders are locked out of the money, even if they wanted to scam you, thet can't!" (Typically proceeded by a magical access of the money and a vanished founder.) It's all very prototypical; but where I got interested, was with the video game portion of the Paradox Metaverse.

Because yes there is a game; and yes, it looks like total trash. In a faceplam of marketing, it seems to literally just be called 'The Paradox Metaverse - Battle Royale' and in an entire minute long trailer we basically see what would happen if you tried to make Crackdown 3 using only stock store Unity assets. I can't hesitate in saying, it looks like one of the most soulless, unimaginative and frankly clunky, bargain bucket Steam trash games you'll ever lay your eyes on. But of course, in the eyes of Amio and he's cohorts; it's a triple-A quality indie diamond in the rough! A veritable jewel of the industry waiting to bring play-to-earn to the mainstream. Because of course, on top of looking terrible, it's supposed to be a play-to-earn game that replaces your real job. To their eyes, the game is on the road to being finished and is only a year out because "How long does it take your average game to be made? Two to three years, right?"

Now first off; no. It does not take 'two to three years' for the average game to be made. If a team knows exactly what they're doing, and is working with a set of development tools that they understand with assets they can manipulate and rework; like the COD teams, then they can get a two year cycle going. A developer who knows what they're doing but is trying something new, is looking at Four years. A team that kind-of knows what they're doing, might be looking at five. Any longer and you're staring development hell in the face; which is exactly where this Paradox Metaverse is destined for if these knuckleheads think they can emulate the quality of modern classics before their launch. A launch which I'm certain is coming at some point... sure...

But none of that is even the craziest part. Because the real insanity, is that despite volunteering for the town-clown role, Amio can't take criticism! Such became apparent once it was revealed that this 'genius' reached out to threaten a Tiktok creator who made fun of him, and then on his easily accessible discord publicly posted a bounty for that man's 'capture'; like he's some mob boss. His cohorts have tried to wave away his behaviour, but haven't disavowed him; which is just about the perfect way that one can strap themselves to a sinking ship and call it 'loyalty'. Those are the sorts of friends you need to get. The kind that will ride your burning venture to the ashes, destroying their own careers and reputations, all because you can't keep a lid on your anger management issues! Friends to the bitter, and abruptly premature, end.

All crypto metaverse projects are doomed to ignoble ends once they either ride along far enough to rugpull, or eat dirt themselves and lack the strength to stand up again. If Facebook can't manage to get the idea to work, no half-functioning moron who can barely conjure coherent sentences is going to leapfrog them. This year has seen the absolute crash of global crypto stock, the very public and explosive death of two 'absolutely safe' crypto pillars and a further breakdown of public sentiment from 'laughing at' to 'actively despising'. So let that be a lesson to all those tech-nerds thinking their path to the easy 'get rich quick' life is by shilling a crappy crypto project: Maybe stick to the crappy affiliate programs and online courses grifts. Those seem to have a higher hit rate.