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# How Web3 Folks See Video Games (it’s not what you expect)
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/how-web3-folks-see-video-games-its-not-what-you-expect/
- Published: 2022-05-20T02:16:44.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-20T02:16:44.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Luke Winkie: Play-to-earn gaming sounds too good to be true. It probably is.](https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23074931/play-to-earn-video-games-blockchain-web-3?ref=birchtree.me)

> “We started with a very simple thesis, which was to bring property rights to gamers. The idea behind that was that gamers are a little bit like slave labor. You play a game, you spend money in a game, you buy virtual items, but at the end of the day, you don’t actually own anything. You just have a license to use it in the game. You’re not really getting what you pay for,” said Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca, a blockchain gaming developer

Describing playing video games as “slave labor” is not something I was expecting to see from the web3 crowd, but here we are.