The Metaverse Haters Ball

[Music] Boys Club wait hold on hold up I think I think there is one thing we have to revisit now that we've all had uh different moments to go after Matthew Paul but I couldn't realize how much resentment there is out there there's like an anti Matthew ball crowd that feels like they're not being spoken to and ever since anyone's spoken out they're like oh Eric thank God Eric spoke out by the way well I think there's both sides of the camp because everyone still wants to believe in the metaverse type thing but I think the majority of people are like oh my God yeah that guy is so full of [ __ ] you know like that that's a constant of course I'm in my own Echo chamber I imagine but I think so far like I think people kind of want to call him out for completely [ __ ] up the entire thing you know and just destroying except for Heatherly right Heatherly still is holding on for dear life for the hope and dream that is web 3 like rainbows and unicorns will come to real life it's like unbelievable like that guy he's he's in his old

like just raise around right now around metaverse platform stuff bobile St Trek timelines people from Massachusetts yeah that they basically shifted to uh metaverse technology metaverse platform stuff where is the anti- ball crowd coming from is it all like is it all the people just saying like hey anti- metaverse this doesn't make sense why did you talk about it or what what is the anti- ball crowd saying yeah I mean that's basically it there's no his vision for the metaverse was ridiculous basically I mean I heard that from many people back then it wasn't like some like Revelation now I mean I was again I was on a podcast like two years ago at nauseum talking about how this vision of the metaverse is ridiculous like yeah Roblox is a metaverse and so is epics thing world of war cup all these things are different like Niche metaverses that is what the metaverse is it's not some ubiquitous like the next internet thing you know and that that was the whole pitch but some people like Heatherly are getting very confused about what's real

and what's not no I remember fighting in the trenches with you Eric right like talking about talking to people who just wanted to shift all strategy towards the metaverse and how infuriating those conversations would be around false equivalency after false equivalency no I'm just asking the question of like is it just about the metaverse or is there actual like good pointed feedback back to him about some of the analysis that he did around the future of the market I think it's really about the suggestions he offers to the Future like I think everyone like spit up their coffee when he said AAA Mobile gaming you know what like don't get me wrong I don't think I you know when he goes over the growth drivers for the future you know they're potential growth drivers I don't think he's advocating for all of them but it but it feels like he is a little bit by putting them out there I would say that's one of them I mean other new held handle devices you know we're talking about like the PlayStation portal the steam device I mean in the report he goes over how many few units that they've sold again I don't think you have to hold them to this as being his argument I think he's just pointing

out like these are potential things we should examine but ultimately they don't really go anywhere I I think the most disappointing part is he didn't reflect on his metaverse he didn't update what went wrong or what went right and I think that's the frustration is like there's Rich analysis to be done there Mr ball like we we'd love to see you do it it's not a walk of shame you know at least I tried to do something on Squad Busters f it was released but it's like update your priors what did you learn how did we how did we grow from this it looks like it's not panning out give give us something to chew on yeah but I think that that is good feedback to him right is just to say like let let's talk about the meterse because he does do a whole section on Roblox you could have used that section to talk more about what has he learned since his writing his book and how does that apply towards his vision of the future right and and the success of Roblox and you know fledgling success of epics platform like there's new things going on right you could just update it with the actual what's happening on the field right but you just can't just leave this just hanging out there you know like dude you wrote a whole book

about it and and did a tour like what okay anyway