Ah, NFTs, that most valuable castaway resource
Halloween might be over, but island farming simCoral Islandappears to have generated a doppelganger on social media that has a hankering for NFTs. Coral Island’s developers Stairway Games have brought attention to the scam account, which uses the real game’s logo and key art but adds an extra web3 cryptobro twist by linking itself to the GameFi blockchain gaming platform. Stairway, as you would, are calling shenanigans.
It’s good to see that the scam account has lost 90% of its followers since Stairway posted to alert people, dropping from 2500 to a mere 222 at time of writing. Stairway have been working on Coral Island for years and only launched it into early access a few weeks ago. It’s unfortunate that someone has chosen to target a small indie game like this. Responders to Stairway’s tweet said they’d reported the account to Twitter for impersonation. It isn’t the first time something like this has happened, with scammerstargetingsci-fi crafting gameOuterverseearlier this year.
Hey folks, this is not us.@coralislandgameis the only Coral Island game twitter page. We are not an NFT game and the page below has no affiliation to Coral Island. Thank you!pic.twitter.com/Aei1650McT
Alice Bee enjoyed playing the actual game in herCoral Island early access reviewlast month, particularly its handy recyclable trash resource. “The explicitly ecological angle on Coral Island, where the more you provide local produce, and the cleaner you make the seabed, the higher the town’s rating goes, will be motivation enough for some people,” she said. “But Coral Island integrates it into how you play, so you’ll sort of end up caring about the environment by proxy if not by altruism.”
The real Coral Island is in early access onSteamfor £20/$25/€25. It doesn’t contain any NFTs.
