GIGABYTE Launches Its First Web 3.0 Community with Launch of AFWC NFT Collection

[btarunr]

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd,, the world's leading computer brand, unveils the AFWC (AORUS Falcon Warriors Club) NFT collection, a new experience powered by Web3 technology that will offer its holders unique benefits. AFWC will form the core backbone of the next generation AORUS digital community, and we hope to build future collections and collaborations within this same new ecosystem.

AFW is the Web3 team from AORUS. "AORUS Falcon Warriors" is a brand that pushes creativity and innovation through exploring the creative mind. Our mission is to push and break barriers when it comes to creating a new type of digital ecosystem that can serve as the frontier interactive space for our communities. "We plan to take a phased approach that moves and grows from community feedback, starting with our first NFT collection based on nostalgic pixel art and storytelling," said David Ding, GIGABYTE NA Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Currently, the Phase I NFT airdrop has been finished. The first 222 holders are about to enjoy holding rewards from AFWC 2022 Year-End Celebrations, starting on Dec. 11.



Many people see NFTs as a new form of digital ownership. We believe NFTs have broad potential to create an expanded model of unique experiences, community building, and fan engagement.

This is just the beginning; AFWC is one of the ways we are reinventing the digital community to meet our fans wherever they are - in a physical store, on-the-go, or online. Community members and our partners can connect through unique experiences and come together around the love for new technology.

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[Fouquin]

Are we really still doing this? Are you kidding? You missed the train by like 9 months, Gigabyte. What a joke.

Somebody needs to actually sit down and explain the benefits of Web3. What does it DO? If the answer is, "it hosts NFTs" than it's not "Web3" it's just some shitty rug pull, and somehow every one of these brands is falling for it. Stop the buzz words, I want to see precise technical documentation detailing benefits, directives, and solutions of "Web3" and I won't accept any answers that just spew more smoke to obfuscate it.

 

[Bwaze]

Really?

This is the thing they are spending money and development time on?

Remember, last year Gigabyte got hacked badly. In the aftermath they deleted it's forum in May 2022. And in June 2022 Gigabyte was hacked again, a ransomware attack stole 112GB of sensitive data.

I don't think an AFWC (AORUS Falcon Warriors Club) NFT collection is what they need?

"We plan to take a phased approach that moves and grows from community feedback, starting with our first NFT collection based on nostalgic pixel art and storytelling,"

YOU - DON''T - EVEN - HAVE - A - FORUM -!

A proper community feedback would be ignoring ALL their products.

Who does their PR, Sam Bankman-fried?

 

[ZoneDymo]

ASRock, Biostar and now Gigabyte on my never buy from again list.

Though Gigabyte was honestly already on there with there exploding psu'sand their handling of it

 

[Deleted member 185088]

As far as I understand the point of web3 is to have a decentralised web, but without mining it's useless. With Ethereum project death I don't see how Web3 makes any sense.

 

[R-T-B]

Somebody needs to actually sit down and explain the benefits of Web3.

Best explanation I've heard is "everything Web2 could do only decentralized."

Which sounds... sort of like a good idea. I mean decentralized hosting is basically like cloudflare and similar without the middle man. But that isn't there yet.


Really, only NFTs have come of it with any traction, which are worse than shit. So I'm naturally a bit skeptical. It's like you have this amazing food processor that can make anything you can aparently imagine and you demo it with a can of tomato soup.

Radical? No. Cool? No. Stupid? Oh fuck yes.

 

[Bomby569]

Don't mock this NFT crap. Seeing them on opensea and the Twitter thing it seems pretty empty. But if there is some engagement and you can get them for free in some way, you can make money of the idiots that buy this crap.

Still for what i can see there were already sales and someone getting away with murder selling them (i just looked at this briefly so i may be seeing it wrong but i don't think so)

 

[Bwaze]

Don't mock this NFT crap.

Why not? NTFs were laughable at their best, now they are a has-been, unless you lived under a rock and didn't get the memo it's over.

And claiming this is some sort of community interaction, while they can't even operate a forum?

What's next, customer support that replies with Tiktok dances?

 

[Vayra86]

Its times like these that I kinda just want to emigrate to Russia.

Some things are really better over there, like not having money for this bullshit to begin with

 

[Bomby569]

Why not? NTFs were laughable at their best, now they are a has-been, unless you lived under a rock and didn't get the memo it's over.

And claiming this is some sort of community interaction, while they can't even operate a forum?

What's next, customer support that replies with Tiktok dances?

The 300usd i got for selling my reddit avatar will disagree with you. I have no idea why they exist but certainly there are buyers, go to opeansea and see for yourselves. If you happen to get one and it's free don't mock it, take advantage. People also buy shinny old pieces of carbon on rings to put on their fingers. The world was always a strange place.

 

[Chrispy_]

As someone invested in the Ethereum blockchain, having mined for it for two years, I can say with confidence that NFT art is a scam, and companies pushing NFT art are malicious, stupid, or both.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Please sale me more of nothing and give my money.

 

[KrazyT]

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd,, the world's leading computer brand
Really ? Every brands claims the same ... Who's right ?

 

[claes]

What's next, customer support that replies with Tiktok dances?

I would really appreciate this tbh but totally unfair to employees

 

[Wirko]

Will the Web version number increase by 1 every six weeks?

 

[shovenose]

Club penguin + bitcoin = Web 3.0?

 

[efikkan]

It's sad to see a "serious" company jump on the Ponzi scheme bandwagon.

They really need to start teaching about the greater fool theory in schools so people stop falling for these schemes.

What makes NFTs extra tragic is how they often target tight-knit communities, in much the same way "pay to win" games exploits people's addiction, plus the human fear of "missing out on a great opportunity" which tricks people into thinking they will make money from this. But as we know, there is no real revenue generated from this crap, and eventually til will come crushing down on those left holding the bag.

Looking at the Aorus website it says something quite worrisome:
"AORUS Falcon Warriors is a collection of 777 randomly generated NFTs…"
So, they just randomly generate this crap.

Please sale me more of nothing and give my money.

What's more funny is that many NFTs are just links(URLs), it's not even an actual file. (Not that it would count as "legal ownership" either way)

You should never invest more than anything's intrinsic value, which with this "crypto nonsense" is zero, so I'll pay a generous $-0.00000000000000000000000000000.

Will the Web version number increase by 1 every six weeks?

It depends on your Internet skill level™, I'm at version 7.3.2393, but stuck in a loop due to a hash collision…

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Best explanation I've heard is "everything Web2 could do only decentralized."

Which sounds... sort of like a good idea. I mean decentralized hosting is basically like cloudflare and similar without the middle man. But that isn't there yet.


Really, only NFTs have come of it with any traction, which are worse than shit. So I'm naturally a bit skeptical. It's like you have this amazing food processor that can make anything you can aparently imagine and you demo it with a can of tomato soup.

Radical? No. Cool? No. Stupid? Oh fuck yes.

The biggest issue with the "decentralized" argument is that blockchain is furthest from. Every major blockchain institution is a centralized entity, the only thing that is decentralized is the ledger's data, but not control over it. It's been like watching the history of banking on speed, from the age of experimentation to he gilded age to the bank run collapse. Then we loop back to gilded age and start the process over again, enabling mind boggling levels of green and problematic notions like "artificial scarcity" and "digital identities" which are just insanely dumb. And disturbing.

Are we really still doing this? Are you kidding? You missed the train by like 9 months, Gigabyte. What a joke.

Somebody needs to actually sit down and explain the benefits of Web3. What does it DO? If the answer is, "it hosts NFTs" than it's not "Web3" it's just some shitty rug pull, and somehow every one of these brands is falling for it. Stop the buzz words, I want to see precise technical documentation detailing benefits, directives, and solutions of "Web3" and I won't accept any answers that just spew more smoke to obfuscate it.

Well, WEb3 benefits the 5% in allowing them to sap incredible amounts of wealth from the remaining 95% and act liek the boot they wished they were in 2008. It also allows companies their eternal wet dream, creating artificial scarcity for digital products and charging insane prices while also giving them unprecedented control over the digital assets they sell people. It's a privacy and ownership nightmare, but its fantastic if you are a greedy uber-capitalist who sees every man on the street as a walking wallet.

 

[Wirko]

It depends on your Internet skill level™, I'm at version 7.3.2393, but stuck in a loop due to a hash collision…

Me, myself and I may be around 1. The Web itself (including e-mail), with so many deficiencies, is still an early beta at 0.65b (was 0.6b before https everywhere).

 

[noel_fs]

My hate for gigabyte is infinite

 

[R-T-B]

biggest issue with the "decentralized" argument is that blockchain is furthest from. Every major blockchain institution is a centralized entity, the only thing that is decentralized is the ledger's data, but not control over it. It's been like watching the history of banking on speed, from the age of experimentation to he gilded age to the bank run collapse. Then we loop back to gilded age and start the process over again, enabling mind boggling levels of green and problematic notions like "artificial scarcity" and "digital identities" which are just insanely dumb. And disturbing.

That's at least true for currency yes. The idea of a decentralized web wouldn't suffer the same way but it's yet to matierialize in any meaningful form.

Me, myself and I may be around 1. The Web itself (including e-mail), with so many deficiencies, is still an early beta at 0.65b (was 0.6b before https everywhere).

You joke, but there is actual meaning behind the terms.

Web1 was before HTML4. Basically static html everywhere.

Web2 is now.

 

[KrazyT]

My hate for gigabyte is infinite

I'm ready to hear what's wrong with GB

 

[noel_fs]

I'm ready to hear what's wrong with GB

they been in the business of programmed obsolescence for very long now and i they are also somewhat incompetent which may play a part on the programmed obsolescence thing. They just care about sales so make stuff as cheap as possible and cut everyone else prices by 10-20€ to bait people into buying their products.

And surely you can make the point every brand tries to make everything as cheap as possible, but not every brand has the same standards or even principles.

 

[KrazyT]

but it's the world's leading computer brand as they says !
joke aside, i don't wanna be rude but do you have proof of that ?

my Aorus 1080 extreme ++ all bells and withles (don't recall the exact name) died 10 days after the warranty (4 years of warranty with the Aorus "program"), bad luck :/
my old 970 and many others motherboards still runs perfectly so ...
but you have a point, seems that GB is not very apealing theses days (i mean Gigabyte, not Great Britain )

 

[efikkan]

The biggest issue with the "decentralized" argument is that blockchain is furthest from. Every major blockchain institution is a centralized entity, the only thing that is decentralized is the ledger's data, but not control over it. It's been like watching the history of banking on speed, from the age of experimentation to he gilded age to the bank run collapse. Then we loop back to gilded age and start the process over again, enabling mind boggling levels of green and problematic notions like "artificial scarcity" and "digital identities" which are just insanely dumb. And disturbing.

The funny thing is that our current banking system is far more decentralized than cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is, as you don't have to contact most banks in the world to approve a transaction.
Most crypto-fans don't realize what you're saying; the blockchain can be manipulated by their central authority, not to mention the blockchain can diverge too, so "corrections" and sometimes even replacing the entire blockchain can happen at any time.

Historians will probably look back on the 2010s and 2020s as the "funny money" decades, when everyone thought it was a good idea to invent their own "currency".

Well, WEb3 benefits the 5% in allowing them to sap incredible amounts of wealth from the remaining 95% and act liek the boot they wished they were in 2008. It also allows companies their eternal wet dream, creating artificial scarcity for digital products and charging insane prices while also giving them unprecedented control over the digital assets they sell people. It's a privacy and ownership nightmare, but its fantastic if you are a greedy uber-capitalist who sees every man on the street as a walking wallet.

For many companies this means that once they achieve a certain sized fan base, they can turn this into a "perpetual money-making machine" by exploiting people's gullibility as a revenue stream. This also means they don't have to innovate or even make good products and services any more, so yes, this is a wet dream for many companies.

And another thing that many don't know is that whoever is controlling these NFT schemes (or similar), often have the ability to "pull the rug" at anytime. And it happens all the time, and it's actually sad to see the reactions from their fanbase. Some are obviously angry, but many are hopeful that the "community" can recover, and making excuses for the founders. They don't understand that it was a scam from the beginning. These are the same kind of reactions we see from the victims of other get rich quick schemes. While some of these schemes can keep a steady state for a while, nearly all of them will eventually collapse, as sooner or later they will run out of gullible people.