Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency
Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency
Reading the press release sounded like a late April Fools joke, but I think we all saw where Playtron were heading. After originally announcing PlaytronOS (now GameOS), their Linux-powered gaming system, they're now directly moving into crypto.
Yup.
Me before the comma: Good luck to them, more options can't be a bad thing.
Me after the comma: I intend to wipe the existence of your useless company from my memory entirely, so I'm just going to point and laugh at your failure in advance and immediately move on with my life.
Peddling shitcoins in 2025. Lmao.
Cmon now, announce your gAmInG chatbot to complete the stupidity bingo.Oh, the dream of earning crypto while I chat with AI chatbots to maybe one day buy NFTs.
This will fail. You don't start with step 1 being enshitification. That's like step 100 after something is already really good. Like if valve sold popup ads inside steam or some shit.
Coming straight out of the gate with this bullshit is a dumb idea and it will fail. Not to mention, having to make your own OS is no small feat, even if you're forking a Linux OS.
I suspect they don’t even believe in this themselves, this is just a last ditch attempt at squeezing a little more cash out of dumb investors before declaring bankruptcy eventually. Seeing how one of their investors was Square Enix, that might even work.
Called this a while ago https://urusai.social/@neatchee/112255667073894754
I'll stick with my steam deck
So... Microtransactions.
They want more microtransactions?
Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, is there any game dev or gamer currently dissatisfied with existing payment systems? Are people in certain countries struggling with the mechanics of paymernt? Like, there are tons of ways to shoehorn in random charges or in-game ownership systems, and I don't see what crypto brings other than moving the purse-holder.
Again, devil's avocate: one could argue current platform fees (30%) are very high, but this is more of a monopolization issue than a fundamental payment system one,
And even then, the SteamOS has a desktop mode so you could play only games from Itch or other platforms