Interactions between organisms with either competing or identical strategies can be treated as games with multiple players. Since the interaction strategy (phenotype) can directly relate to fitness, the optimum strategy will be favored under natural selection. In short, the organism with the best interaction strategy has the highest fitness. The most successful organisms maximize their payoff and increase their ability to reproduce. Evolutionary ecologists treat these strategies as phenotypes.
Different interaction strategies, such as combative or cooperative, result in different payoffs based on nature of the interaction. Comparing the relative cost to the benefits obtained following an interaction determines the net gain or loss incurred by the organism, and this value is referred to as the payoff. The energy spent is a cost to the organism, and the resources are benefits. Indeed, even avoidance can be costly if energy is expended and no resources are obtained. Interactions are costly: energy is invested by each organism in both confrontation and cooperation as a means to acquire the resource. In general, these interactions range from antagonistic to cooperative, but cases of exploitation and altruism also occur. Art is thoroughly subjective in terms of aesthetics and value, but I’m sure plenty of people will agree that the procedural generation that spawned the “Bored Apes” and is being used to create the “MetaWorms” often creates “art” that absolutely demands the use of air quotes.Evolutionary ecologists aim to understand the complex behavioral relationships between organisms as they interact to obtain resources. Speaking on the matter, Team17 said “The ultra-low energy technology Reality Gaming Group uses, together with their carbon neutral servers, played an essential part of the reassurances we sought before our agreement,” and equated the cost to 11 households’ annual kettle usage.Īdditionally, Team17 stated that their NFTs will not be applied to games and are merely digital artwork. Where many of the earliest NFT platforms have relied on incredibly wasteful cryptocurrency systems like Etherium, other options have dramatically lower energy requirements to validate sales and ownership.
Team17 has followed in Ubisoft’s footsteps by trying to at least put the environmental impact of NFTs to one side. Ubisoft launched Quartz as a new platform (and then said that people just don’t “get it” when people hated the decision), S quare Enix has announced future NFTs, Konami has launched a range of digital artwork, and on and on. NFTs have be thrown into the spotlight over the past year, with numerous major publishers expressing an interest and testing the waters with their own NFT sales. Needless to say, we will not be working with them on further titles, and encourage other indie developers to do the same unless this decision is reversed. Please do not harass employees at Team17 or the devs under their umbrella, as this decision seems to have taken everyone off guard and likely came from the very top. We believe NFTs cannot be environmentally friendly, or useful, and really are just an overall fucking grift. We at Aggro Crab condemn Team17’s decision to produce and engage with NFTs.
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