I love how even the author has no idea what they’re talking about because it’s just a soup of buzzwords.

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    Am I the only one tired by all these franchises constantly rehashed to death?

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      Nobody is brave enough to spend 8 years and 400 million dollars developing a new IP that may crash.

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        You know what I liked? That Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie with Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law, where Arthur is raised as a street orphan thug who kind of creates his own little criminal empire.

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    I long for the day when CEOs and companies get their heads out of their asses and stop pushing this “metaverse” nonsense.

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    OP bashed the author/article, but it seems to be a fair synopsis of the Verge article its based on.

    This was a cool line from the original article:

    The upcoming “persistent universe” Epic is building with Disney is an example of the vision. “We announced that we’re working with Disney to build a Disney ecosystem that’s theirs, but it fully interoperates with the Fortnite ecosystem,”

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    The metaverse of children stealing their parents’ credit cards for in app purchases.