Hey shawn, wasn't expecting you here 😜
I understand your point. But the process behind Kickstarter is much more burocratic and you need to have a greater advance. The overall idea that players get is completely different. They understand that they are funding the game development and they will get something back. They do that because they like the game.
Usually that's not what happens on web3 games. Instead, people join early with the idea to make money, and many developers and other investors take advantage of that. There are many people saying this "I'm playing this game and in a week I made more money than what I invested". After listening to this, people go instantly blind and try to join as fast as possible. This is the reality. I agree with you when you say that everyone should be responsible for not researching enough, but this is still a scam.
Web3 games are still games, so the developers should be able to play, as they are with any other game. Of course it's wrong for them to buy certain items because they know that in the future they will make an update to buff those items, but that's another story. When involing real money, these things get so much different. But the way you see that is the reason I made this post, "people do not play these games to have fun, but to make money", this is the main problem that is causing all these other mini problems.
Fair enough but it's hard 😂. If you take out the money aspect it's just a normal game for the most part. I don't think it's an easy balance. Whenever there is money involved people will wanna make money I feel . I think it's normal but that's why I applaud games like skyweaver and cross the ages. These two games can be played for free and the game has non nft side so It can onboard web2 gamers and people can actually play the game for fun without buying anything. If they end up good they can play in tournaments and earn money as well. For the most part there was a lot of scams before but I think it's becoming less. Also Not as many people are blindly throwing money since we in a bear market but also they are more aware now of rug or pump and dump projects. It's unfortunate we have some bad people that wanna scam but this ultimately is due to the nature of web3 at the moment. As long as SEC doesn't give a shit and keeps giving excuses to not make laws to protect web3 companies and those investing in web3 assets. It'll be difficult for web3, to really make a boom. The technology is great and there's a lot of potential for gaming side to implement this but this protection is what's holding everything back.
Yes, it's a matter of time.