NFTS (non-expendable tokens) are an environmental disaster and a huge scam, and perhaps the funniest thing about its persistence is the little effort put in by the suppliers of this modern snake oil.
Take it Battles of epic heroes, for example. A “blockchain-based game” on the “Ethereum network” was trying to sell 10,000 NFTs consisting of a randomly generated hero and his pet, which could then be put into battle to win prizes or … more NFT.
I’m not sure how they would have been randomly generated, since, despite the wear and tear (and until September 2021 it proves to be totally crap) they claim that NFTs refer to artists and ownership of their work, for its homepage, the creators of the game decided to directly steal a key piece of art from the independent game Forest fires, which came out just last year and is pretty damn good.
After Forest fires creator Dan Hindes called the game’s creators on Twitter (with 52,000 likes and counting), Epic Hero Battles’ the creators removed their art from their page and responded publicly by saying:
Hello guys! I want to tell you about the art that was used on the site. We got it from the web dev, but we didn’t check it, our mistake. This will not happen again, honestly.
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Ah, an innocent mistake! Or not, because with the theft of Forest fires assets in the open, other people began to pass Epic Hero Battles’ website and Twitter account and found month art that had been stolen.
The Twitter profile photo of the game? Get up directly from this artist’s Tumblr post. This great piece of art that heralds the game’s roadmap for the future that lies below? Wholesale stolen from this very fun piece of pixel art by Boki Boki.
Instead of trying to respond to these new allegations of theft, or perhaps being forced to put in even the slightest amount of their own work, the creators of Battles of epic heroes they have simply deleted their Twitter account. And while his website is still active, he now lacks almost all of his art, leaving his leaving a big gray mass.
In the meantime you can buy Forest fires here.
