People have already spent $ 53 million on land in a game that hasn’t even launched

It may seem that gamers agree that they do not want NFTs in games. Yet players have massively ridiculed Ubisoft’s idea of ​​items that need 600 hours to play to get them, right? It seems so, but money is stronger at the end of the day than the collective gamer attitude, and we just got confirmation that resentment about NFTs in games won’t help as long as some see NFTs as an opportunity to get rich.

An example is a game called Legacy, which was announced a few days ago. It comes to us from a well-known seller of often unfulfilled promises, Peter Molyneux, and promises, among other things, to rent virtual land to other players. While this idea isn’t new in any MMO context, it’s a bit ridiculous that the land in Legacy has already gone on sale even though the game hasn’t even been launched - nor is there a guarantee that it will be launched.

However, the information that the players have already spent $ 53 million on the purchase of virtual land in Legacy is not funny. According to the RPS portal, the most expensive land was sold for an insane $ 900,000.

Let's stop here for a moment… so someone paid for virtual space in a game that hasn't been launched yet. In a game that has no release date, no guarantee that anyone will play it…