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CYBER

The Digital Colonizers of ‘Axie Infinity’

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

For many, playing video games for a living is a dream come true. Whether you’re streaming on Twitch or doing speedruns for charity, there are viable ways to earn a living playing video games. But get NFTs and the blockchain in the mix and, well, you’ve got a whole different system.


Today we’re gonna talk about Axie Infinity, the most popular of the so-called ‘play-to-earn’ games. The promise of Axie and others is that you can earn money simply by playing the game. But how much? Is Axie fun? How easy is it to cash out? And wait … this game has bosses and managers? What the hell is going on?


This week on Cyber, Motherboard Staff Writer Edward Ongweso Jr. is here to help us untangle this hellishly complicated nightmare of “play-to-earn” gaming. His latest on the site is “The Metaverse Has Bosses Too. Meet the ‘Managers’ of Axie Infinity.”


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0:00.0

Tadden, it's got the code.

0:07.0

It's going to launch.

0:09.0

It's a unit system.

0:12.0

I know this.

0:14.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells you everything.

0:18.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:23.3

Eagle one, the package is being delivered.

0:26.2

Hello, out there.

0:28.9

Lovely people on the internet, I'm Matthew Galt.

0:30.2

This is cyber.

0:35.5

You know, for many, playing video games for a living is a dream come true.

0:41.6

Whether you're streaming on Twitch or doing speed runs for charity, there are viable ways to earn a living playing video games.

0:49.0

But you get NFTs and the blockchain into the mix, and, well, get a whole different system.

0:55.7

Today, we're going to talk about AXE Infinity, the most popular of the so-called play-to-earn games.

1:00.1

The promise of Axi and others is that you can earn money simply by playing the game.

1:02.6

But how much is the game actually fun?

1:09.6

Is it easy to cash out and spend your hard-earned tokens on things in the real world like groceries and gas?

1:13.1

And wait, does this game have bosses?

1:14.3

Managers?

1:16.7

What the hell is going on?

1:20.7

Well, here to help us untangle this hellishly complicated, dystopic nightmare,

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