@DW2 I have old fren who is cursed to be a Top Guy in e-commerce site engineering. He reports that companies are telling them they NEED a metaverse strategy, they need metaverse stores

He asks why, what for. Sell branded objects in metaverse? Yes, brand name item (say, a shoe) for avatars, they believe people will spend a lot, after all kids will buy special gear for their avatar in Roblox

So how much? Same as shoes IRL

"Also they can shop in store in the metaverse for this gear and IRL gear"

He reports that "unfortunately Facebook/meta has the best one. Roblox's metaverse is confusing and just looks like the kids' games"

I had my daughter spin up her Roblox account and show him the games she likes. He realized that the "metaverse" is just a shitty overpriced Roblox game and made the pain.png expression