87% of respondents said they would switch to full-time gaming in the metaverse if the pay is good.
A survey of 1,000 United States consumers around growing interest in the metaverse has revealed some interesting results.
In
a survey commissioned by nonfungible token and metaverse infrastructure
provider Advokate Group, 87% of respondents preferred a decentralized
metaverse on a blockchain over some of the mega projects planned by tech
giants. This became more evident when 77% of the respondents shared
concerns over Facebook’s entry into the metaverse, especially since it
owns users' metaverse data.
Facebook’s tainted past with
mismanagement of private user data has already dismantled its early
plans of launching a stablecoin called Diem. The stablecoin project
faced heavy scrutiny from the U.S. Congress, and the project eventually came to a crashing end. A similar concern has started to grow around Facebook’s multi-billion-dollar metaverse aspirations.
The
surveyed respondents were divided in terms of when metaverse could
become mainstream, 20% of respondents believe it could take 1–2 years
while 49% said it could take up to 3–6 years. Gaming was the primary
choice of spending time in metaverse followed by socializing. 55% of the
respondents said they would spend more than three hours a day in the
metaverse.
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A
majority of the respondents also showed a keen interest in making money
while playing games. With play-to-earn models being the latest rage,
93% of the respondents said they would spend more time playing games if
it could make for the minimum wage. Some 64% said they would spend more
than three hours if they made real money and 87% would switch to
full-time gaming if the pay was good.
Metaverse as a concept only
became formidable in 2021 and now every major tech giant be it Apple,
Facebook or Google is looking to launch or invest in the ecosystem.
However, a significant chunk of crypto proponents is advocating against
the entry of centralized cash-rich firms, as they believe the concept of
decentralization would take a back seat.
source link : https://cointelegraph.com/news/majority-of-us-consumers-say-no-to-meta-owning-metaverse-data-survey
