Is the blockchain Metaverse too salesy for mass adoption?

The other day I fired up The Sandbox with excitement about its potential. As someone leading the game development team, I always like to spy on similar projects.

Right away when playing I was accosted by an NPC asking me to buy an alpha pass to Sandbox for $1000 plus.

I decided to ignore him and carry on, and I realized the entire spawn was a market for NFTs.

I started a gaming clan 8 years ago with the objective of studying the Metaverse. I've had the privilege of really being embedded in the gaming community, and I've discovered a few things.

1. Gamers hate to pay for a game more than once
   1. — If you're going to charge for the game itself, you better make the rest of it free
   2. — If the game is free then you can add microtransactions provided you're not too pushy about it
2. Gamers hate to be sold
   1. — Gamers play games to escape from real life, being accosted for money on a regular basis totally takes them out of the relaxing experience they came for.

I genuinely believe that the Metaverse will arise out of a gaming world because games have an incredible power to break the ice between people. Unfortunately, many of the attempts at the Metaverse I see today lack a reason to stay or will drive gamers away by being too salesy.

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So my question to you is, is blockchain really the “game changer” for the Metaverse, or is something else necessary?

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If you enjoy talking about these topics, I am running a Metaverse discussion event in Discord in 3 hours: https://discord.gg/2sVsZ6NC6B

https://discord.gg/WjrgmeCy?event=915301063094059028 << Event link.