Have you been seeing less NFT chatter around the internet lately? Hearing a bit less about the metaverse? Well, you’re not alone.
Despite an initial surge in usage of the buzzwords, interest in both concepts appears to be sharply declining, at least according to Google search trends, which have been seeing deep downward turns for both terms.
In the gaming space, where I operate, almost every major publisher seems to have been scared straight on NFTs after being lambasted by fans every time they are brought up, and those have become relegated mainly to purely blockchain based games outside the rest of the industry. As for the metaverse, the term has been repeated so much and so often it’s become almost meaningless, these days most often cited regarding blockchain-based shared worlds that have concurrent player averages outside the top 200-300 games on Steam at any given time.