GDC: Most game developers don't believe in metaverses

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According to a report by the organizers of the annual Game Developer Conference, industry representatives still do not seeprospects of the metaverse and avoid working with blockchain.

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) presented the results of a survey of more than 2,300 representatives of the gaming industry, according to which the direct creators of video game content do not believein the perspective of the metaverse and do not attach much importance to blockchain.

14% of respondents said they have the greatest potential in the metaverse industrygame Fortnite by Epic Games.Another 7% voted for Minecraft and Meta.The Roblox metaverse received 5% of the votes.However, the majority of respondents — about 45% — believe that the creators of the metaverse will never achieve their stated goals.

"In essence, what the metaverses promise now is nothing.People who try to sell it don't understand what it is, and neither do consumers.It's all reminiscent of the situation with cloud gaming ten years ago," said one respondent.

As for blockchain, about 2% of all respondents said that they are already workingwith this technology, while 75% reported not interested in it.When asked whether their attitude towards blockchain has changed over the past year, about 56% said that they still disapprove of this technology.

Previously Huawei Specialist AbhinavaAbhinav Purohit stated that metaverses require major technological advances in telecommunications to function effectively.