Otherside got $450M from Yuga Labs but its latest game is ‘virtually unplayable’
The latest game from Otherside, an NFT gaming firm backed with $450 million worth of funding from Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Yuga Labs, debuted last weekend with chaotic, buggy results. Project Dragon , a third-person shooter hosted in the Otherside ‘metaverse,’ launched on Saturday. In the game, players compete to hold and capture objectives across an 8-bit city map. So far, it’s received a mixed reception. Some users, many with NFT profile pictures, have praised the game, while others have described it as ‘chaos,’ ‘buggy,’ ‘unresponsive,’ and having ‘terrible aim lag.’ One player said on X (formerly Twitter) that they quit the game after just 15 minutes of gameplay . “Still can’t believe that after millions of dollars and several years, this is the product they came up with,” they said. Footage of Project Dragon streamed by RiftRadio, where he described capturing objectives as chaotic. Read more: Yuga Labs directs royalties to bankrupt FTX US Another complained, “We were supp...