You know the phishing e-mails you get that are full of bizarre spelling errors? Part of the purpose of those is to weed out the people who aren’t going to fall for the scam.

When someone talks to you about web3 games and uses the phrase “interoperability”, I want you to think of that as the exact same thing.

It’s something that sounds good on the surface, but if you know anything about game development, it falls apart immediately. Web3 “interoperability”, where you can take an NFT from one game and use it in another? No one’s going to do that. There’s no financial incentive to do so. It’s fundamentally not how games are built. And not just traditionally – even if someone fully embraced web3, there’s no incentive to ever make something that takes an NFT that someone bought elsewhere and create content for it in your own game.

So when someone says, “Yeah, man – you can buy this magic sword NFT, and when you get bored of Game X, you can take it to Game Y where it’ll be a super valuable house! How awesome is that?” what you should hear is, “I either know absolutely nothing about how games are made, or I think you’re stupid (or ignorant) and am trying to sucker you.”

They are literally the same thing.