Depending on the blockchain used you aren't burning much energy (certainly not burning down rainforests with solana txs as these are very cheap)
Yes for sure lots of buzzwords thrown around (However as the game demonstrates you can achieve a penny-arcade like experience in a much more fun way vs buy 100 virtual coins after a stripe payment for example(which would be very cumberson if had to do it one by one)
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Yeah you can get an arcade experience in Run Together and thousands of other games that are free on itch.io.