NFTs suck. They require much more energy to keep, more importantly a card collection and a piece of art hanging from the wall, don’t add anything to video games and often they’re simple scams. That’s why everyone is slammed to the Indie publisher Team 17 by its MetaWorms announcement.
MetaWorms is a new NFT project that promises to convert the lovable Worms franchise into NFTs. Like all these stupid ape jpegs, every NFT will be regenerated by computer and in small variations. As you would expect, the response to the Worms NFT announcement was universally and resoundingly negative. Just scroll through the replies on this entirely unrelated Twitter post from Team 17 to see what I mean.
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And it’s not just random people who take Team17 to task. Even team 17, the developers aren’t pleased to be associated with NFTs.
The first and most vociferous denouncement was brought up by Aggro Crab, maker of Going Under. “We condemn Team 17’s decision to produce and engage with NFTs.” We believe that new technologies can be less environmentally friendly, or useful and rather instead just an overall fucking grift,” wrote Aggro Crab. “Be careful not to worry, we won’t collaborate with them on further titles, nor will we encourage other indie developers to do the same unless this decision is reversed.”
Ghost Town Games, the makers of the popular Overcooked franchise, took to social media to break up from Team17’s NFT announcement. “We just wanted to let you know that Overcooked (and any of our future games) won’t ever engage with NFTs. We don’t support NFTs. We think they carry an expensive environmental and social cost.
Yooka-Laylee creators playtonic Games said that it has “no interest in utilizing NFTs in any aspect of the business now or in the future.” No one supports NFTs in the US.
Both developers are struggling on Team 17, but they also asked twitter users to be more informed, with their opinions being spread through NFTs. For Aggro Crab noted, it’s unlikely that any Team17 staff came up with the idea of a Worms NFT, and that decision probably came from the executive level.
Given the amount of blowback that MetaWorms received, we can expect team 17 to backpedal this project in the next week.
