Realms Of Ruin Storytelling NFT Collapses After 5 Hours Skip to content Click here to check out the GameByte Shop great games, consoles and more! Realms Of Ruin Storytelling NFT Collapses After 5 Hours 22 October 2021 by Hannah Copestake A group of YA authors who attempted to start a storytelling NFT have closed Realms of Ruin down after just 5 hours, following heavy criticism. NFTs are a hot topic at the moment. Dead By Daylight have been criticised for selling NFTs on the sly. Steam has decided to block all games with crypto or NFTs in them. And yet they continue to be incredibly popular – with people dropping thousands on the digital tokens. A group of YA authors made perhaps the most ill-judged attempt to jump on the NFT bandwagon yet this week. Realms of Ruin was a joint project between Marie Lu, Tahereh Mafi, Ransom Riggs, Adam Silvera, David Yoon and Nicola Yoon. It was set to be a fantasy collaborative storytelling project. As reported by Kotaku, the following description was given to Realms of Ruin:ADVERT ADVERT “Join us in expanding these stories by adding your own, purchasing the official character cards, and playing in these worlds! Your tales can be minted into NFTs whose value could rise as your readership does. As the world expands, the authors will be reading closely to decide which stories and characters are compelling enough to become canon.” You might be thinking – hold on, doesn’t that describe MUDs and MUSHs? A collaborative, online storytelling game set in a fantasy world? And you’d be right. The difference here is that Realms of Ruin would charge their (primarily teenage) audience to participate, then bundle the stories they’ve helped to create and profit off of them. Can’t imagine why it didn’t get off the ground. The criticism was swift and harsh: In an apparent bid to create the Worst Literary Thing Ever, six popular YA authors have come together to try and create an NFT based writing project called “Realms of Ruin”.Marketed towards teenagers.And which will rely upon using those teens’ creative work.Yes. Really. pic.twitter.com/RykO8i5bCo- Bad Writing Takes ?️?️‍? (@BadWritingTakes) October 20, 2021 Other YA authors were angry at the plan to profit off the creative work of teens:ADVERT ADVERT I loathe this NFT shared world idea. It exploits teens/fan writers with the promise of MAYBE you'll make money off your ideas, but we're GUARANTEED to do so, and bye bye to your rights. Teens, please don't spend your creativity and inspiration and copyrights on a maybe.- Saundra Mitchell (@SaundraMitchell) October 20, 2021 The downfall of Realms of ruin As the criticism rolled in, the team behind Realms of Ruin panicked. They folded – deleting their website, Twitter account and collaborators even scrubbed positive Medium posts they’d written about it. Luckily, YouTuber Dan Olsen (Folding Ideas) managed to catch some of the chat on their Discord for posterity: Book Twitter has been alight all day with Realms of Ruin, an NFT-based fanfiction contest spearheaded by several bestselling YA authors that managed to go through the entire cycle from announcement to cancellation in about 5 hours. pic.twitter.com/SL6UQ5KOEe- Dan Olson (@FoldableHuman) October 21, 2021 After trying to rally the server and talking about community, the team behind Realms of Ruin folded. and it’s done! yay for bullying! pic.twitter.com/n5OGPkeeQ8- em/zainab ? (@eminwords) October 20, 2021 The clown emojis are really something. Do we think this could be a world record for a collapsing crypto-scam? ADVERT ADVERT What do you think about the Realms of Ruin scandal? Let us know via our social media channels. SHOP WITH GAMEBYTE Don’t forget you can find great games and more on the GameByte Shop! We’ve stocked our store with the latest games, merch and accessories. We might even have a new-gen console or two! Sign up to our newsletter to be notified of our console drops, deals and more. Please note the GameByte Shop is available for UK customers only. Featured Image Credit: Johannes Plenio via UnsplashADVERT ADVERT TweetShareSharePin Follow us on @GameByte @gamebyte GameByte GameByte GameByte Noobs Play @GameByte @gamebyte GameByte GameByte GameByte Noobs Play External Links Policy GameByte Staff About GameByte Advertise with us Careers Ambassador Program Contact Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Manage Cookies Preferences Submit Your Content FragHero Sporf 9 to 5 Life Social Chain Social Chain Agency