MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: The ‘are we the baddies’ MMO award

December 30, 2022 2:00 PM

MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for the “are we the baddies” award for 2022. (We call these silly awards the Golden Yachties in honor of that dank meme about how games bloggers sail around on a golden yacht with all their blogging money. Obviously, our yacht is constructed from rhodium-encrusted moonrock, not mere gold.)

And the winner is…

NFT GUY PROPOSES USING THE POOR AS MMO NPCS

So look, if you ever find yourself being interviewed by a journalistic outlet because of your expertise in crypto consultancy, you do not, in fact, have to suggest that MMO developers should “exploit the wealth gap” using the “cheap labor of a developing country” to employ poor gamers as actual NPCs in your game so that they could “just populate the world, maybe do a random job or just walk back and forth, fishing, telling stories, a shopkeeper” for the benefit of wealthy players in other countries.

Because if you were to suggest something like that, out loud, where someone could hear it and write it down and publish it… you are definitely the baddies.

Dear god people.