I investigated and discovered that Mir4 is one bizarre game, with one soul-crushing USP: NFTs.
That’s right folks.
The game lets you mint your character as an NFT, and even mine cryptocurrency if you so choose.
If this is the future, then it seemscoldandstrangeandsad.
Also, Mir4 is a terrible game.
Mir4 is anMMORPGset in a fantastical, East Asian-inspired world that also supports crossplay with mobile players.
Just a few quid for the favour, that’s all.
Once you hit the game’s character creation screen, though, Mir4 looks somewhat polished.
You pick a class from the likes of Warrior, Taoist, or Mage.
Character animations are crisp, with combos presented on screen through little windows.
Woah, look at the warrior, spinning and slashing and leaping!
For a second, you think that maybe this isn’t a masquerade, and Mir4 will be good.
That is, until you start playing.
So long as you are a sentient being constructed of cells, Mir4 will accommodate you.
Games often have stories, so Mir4 has decided it needs one too.
You, a hero, must rescue a princess who’s on the run from a nasty lord.
The lord wants to kidnap and marry her as a means of becoming king.
You don’t want that, so you take on quests from masters and monks to stop The Bad.
Achieving this requires the odd click here and there.
You needn’t control anything.
All it asks from you is to click very occasionally and autopilot will take care of the rest.
I’ve not got anything against autobattlers, but there’s surely a limit.
At first it’s pretty good.
You are a warrior, with a health bar and abilities.
You swing your sword and enemies are hacked to bits in these flashy animations.
Then you notice the chat is entirely unmoderated.
As you mindlessly arc from quest to quest, Mir4 barrages you with new unlocks.
The pace is relentless.
New slashes and shouts.
New orbs: blue, green, gold.
So many orbs and herbs.
you might meditate at some spots in game for energy, for seeds, for something.
Notifications remind you to spend, SPEND DAMNIT.
It’s like playing an MMORPG that’s overheating.
No, it’s likewatchingan MMORPG that’s overheating as it plays itself.
No, actually, Mir4 is like watching a play.
You are waiting for the actors to drop their guises once it’s finished.
All of them, reduced to piles of nothing.
Save for a graphics card plugged into an extension lead.
That’s because the game is hollow.
At level 40, you might go ahead and mine it at your leisure.
Darksteel is Mir4’s gateway into cryptocurrency.
it’s possible for you to track the price of Dracohere, alongside other cryptocurrencies Hydra and Drain.
Hydra has itsown lore, because crypto has zero shame.
The play-to-earn future that these big corpos want pervades the game.
Mir4 takes the traditional MMORPG template and uses it as a convenient vessel for mining coins and minting NFTs.
Just don’t do it, it’s not worth your time.
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