The 2016 MetaWorld prototype Engadget experienced. He said he wasn’t personally making any money in the process, and all of the money coming into MetaWorld was being converted into cryptocurrency and kept in a single place called the Metabank, where it was reserved specifically for this new virtual economy. In its September 2017 article, Road to VR concluded, “MetaWorld is headed into Early Access, which partly excuses it from being an incomplete product, but the inconsistency in messaging around the game’s core mechanics and features ought to leave you worried about the stability of the still unreleased MMO.”īy early 2018, Reid claimed he had been investing in crypto for several years to form the economy of MetaWorld, using the cash from early land sales to build the MetaCoin fund.
On September 28th, 2017, a blog post in the MetaWorld Steam community claimed land titles were being sent out to investors, supported by a cryptocurrency Reid had created called MetaCoin.
There was no actual game to play, no virtual world to explore, but Reid was selling land in MetaWorld regardless. MetaWorld was listed on Steam as an Early Access title in mid-2017, advertising consistent updates and transparent, community-driven development. Land was available to buy in three tiers, ranging from $15 for a quarter acre to $100 for two acres, though it was unclear what exactly players would do with this property, how the economy would function or how people who didn’t buy land would join the game. In September 2017, Road to VR noted that Reid was selling virtual land for real money, and detailed the many questions surrounding the project. This was followed by a new revenue-driving initiative: land speculation. The Indiegogo campaign was not a success, eventually raising $3,674 of a $50,000 flexible goal, meaning Reid got to keep all of the money pledged. DiLeo noted that he was “not currently working on MetaWorld” and didn’t know how Reid planned “to deliver on the promise of the fund.” DiLeo has had no involvement in MetaWorld since the end of 2016. Reid started an Indiegogo campaign in April 2017, a move that prompted his former business partner and MetaWorld prototype developer, Carleton DiLeo, to publicly distance himself from the project. By 2017, questions were being raised about Reid’s ability to deliver on his ambitious promises, which included a custom avatar system, a living world as large as the state of Maryland, a virtual economy, rich environmental simulations and cross-platform capabilities for a variety of VR headsets. Shortly after the launch of that prototype, Improbable stopped promoting or mentioning MetaWorld at all. Reid was one of several developers to make use of the company’s public SDK, and Improbable thought MetaWorld made an effective demo to promote its “open community platform.” “Yeah but that’s the thing,” another user named Floogey responded, “We weren’t actually customers, we were victims.”Įngadget first interacted with Reid in 2016, when a UK startup named Improbable arranged a meeting inside a MetaWorld prototype to demonstrate Spatial OS, the startup’s scalable server tech. “It's disgusting to think that they have just left paying customers with not even a response,” a user named LordGirthVader wrote in June 2020.
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Reid’s final message in the old MetaWorld Discord server was posted on September 6th, 2019: “Check updates on the updates channel in coming weeks … I'll also be around with mods for discussion all week.” No update ever came, and in the two years since, the old server has become a guide to the seven stages of grief.
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The old server is full of angry users who say they gave Reid their money between 20 to join MetaWorld, and believe they were scammed. However, Wolf is active on another Discord server - this one also called MetaWorld and also created by Reid, though he hasn’t posted in it since 2019. The exchange has since been deleted, and Wolfssskin banned from the server. The confrontation continued with Reid accusing Wolf of being a troll, and Wolf claiming MetaWorld was a scam. “What’s interesting is that you think that you can stalk and harass me,” Reid wrote back. “Interesting that you think you can do the same scam again,” Wolf said.
In the MetaWorld Discord server, a “press” channel lists articles from Engadget, Alphr, TechRadar, UploadVR, VentureBeat, Tom’s Hardware, Variety and CNBC, and links to a video from New Scientist magazine.Įarly on November 3rd, a user named Wolfssskin entered the MetaWorld press room and started typing. He recently launched a marketplace where he's selling digital parcels of land and property as NFTs. MetaWorld has a slick website, a fresh YouTube channel, a new Discord server and Reid hosts daily chats on Clubhouse. Like many other organizations at the moment, Reid has been using the buzz around the metaverse to ramp up his own promotional efforts.
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