All of the so called premium cryptocurrency related video games have either failed, are blatant scams, or are dead... Off the Grid now included.

We all know the story of Axie Infinity by now, but it along with CryptoKitties were among the first of the pointless get rich quick crypto related video games to emerge from the depths of greed back during the first and second legendary cryptocurrency bull runs of 2017 and 2021.

Fast forward to today, and we have titles such as Off the Grid, Shrapnel, Illuvium, and Star Atlas, all dead or still scamming... you tell me?

I was doing some research before typing this crap up and the story seems to follow a lot of the old patterns. Developers and mediocre people leave their cushy jobs at big technology companies in search of riches in the cryptocurrency space, giving themselves ridiculous titles on LinkedIn to make you think they are something more than they are.

They all seem to get the whitepaper out, or at least that is what we used to call it, then ask everyone to purchase the in-game currency, or some non-fungible tokens to help "fund" their projects, and then later try to sell all of the tokens they created out of thin air before anyone else figures it out, and then leaves the company to go start another scam clone project to rinse and repeat.

In the case of Off the Grid, they paid a bunch of money to get idiots like Ninja and a bunch of other so called "influencers" to play the game, and then as soon as the money ran out, all of them went back to Fortnite. Heck, the Off the Grid team even created a Ninja skin, and the guy still dropped them like a bad habit as soon as his obligation to play the game was over... pretty sad eh?

Check out that FTX US sponsorship! ????

Then there's this little gem above which I thought was hilarious, especially considering who was sponsoring him. I came across this video when I was researching, and the channel is obviously a Fugazzi as well. There's no way you have 1.05 million subscribers without a verification checkmark, and after 2 years your video only has 7.5 thousand views... seems a little suspicious don't you think?

Anyway, the gist of the video is that the game is hard, kind of sucks, and probably shouldn't exist, although he obviously couldn't outright say any of this, due to the possibility of being paid to shill this crap of a video game on his crappy YouTube channel.

As far as the Star Atlas game by Atlas Space is concerned, it's just a complete rip off of another questionable game called Star Citizen. Both rely on the greater whale theory which involves incels who want to own the biggest ship in order to compensate for something.

In the end, neither game will actually materialize into something worth playing or being playable at all, and all the money these fools spent on ships and in-game items will just go to the smart scammers who promised them something for all these years... pretty genius when you really think about it actually.

With all that being said it begs the ultimate question... will a good cryptocurrency video game ever exist?