Another day, another scam “game” trying to fleece the foolish out of their money. Today, we bring you the nightmarish ripoff known as Paradise XRPL. Where festering garbage like The Day Before failed, surely these idiots will succeed, right?
Paradise (or Paradise XRPL) from Ultra Games is the latest in a long line of obvious scams to hit the market. And of course, it’s landing in the irradiated waste dump that is the Epic Games Store. All the Fortnite money in the world didn’t stop the platform from becoming the destination for crypto scams and NFT shovelware. And this is where we are now.
And just like The Day Before we’ve got a trailer just directly ripping off better promotional material. This “game” uses a similar song and presentation style to the GTA 6 trailer, but with zero personality or effort. People have already noticed UI elements, assets and other features being directly lifted from actual games and far better trailers.
The big selling point here is what you’d expect. A living and breathing world filled with AI-generated dialogue and totally-not-stolen assets. As we’d expect, that living world is directly tied to an economy powered entirely by NFTs and proprietary cryptocurrency tokens. And judging from the trailer, literally none of that is true. You won’t see a world full of dynamic NPCs that can carry conversations, or a realistically modeled city. Keep reading to see what you were promised, and the crap that was actually thrown in your face.
Just the video description alone should clue you in to how much this is just nonsense:
Play with your friends, engage in shootouts, race cars, complete daily missions, and reach the apex of life. Earn money and buy what you want, from real estate to fancy clothes. Endless World, Endless Play. The information presented here is for planning purposes only and does not necessarily represent the final implementation or features.
And if you weren’t convinced by all of that, just watch the trailer for Paradise XRPL. Count how many red flags you can find.
So let’s see, stolen brand images for Kick and other streaming platforms. Likenesses of some of the biggest names in content creation used without permission. I’m sure Pokimane gleefully licensed her likeness for this slop.
So what does this grand new transformational game play like? Crap, it plays like crap. A recent playtest showed it off in all its fecal-stained glory. It’s a bland level cobbled together of premade assets with zero effort. These “developers” couldn’t even bother to include a proper navmesh or any sort of boundary detection, so any attempt to play this game will result in immediately falling through the world. Those high-speed cars you saw in the trailer just loop around the level and phase through both objects and the player.
If you don’t believe me, judge for yourself from the footage below.
That’s not even the worst part. All this doodoo is just the brown wrapping on the real gift of this project: NFT scams
Obvious NFT scams are being openly promoted in the trailer. And yes, all the hype about real estate, cars, clothes and more is just NFTs. There’s a reason this is trying to get on the Epic store. Steam banned any games implementing this kind of scam a long time ago.
Paradise XRPL is what happens when you don’t ban crypto, game distribution platforms. Get this garbage out of gaming.
