At first glance, "Soulbound: Online" looks like a brand new indie MMO coming to Steam. It isn’t. The project was previously known as Worldwide Webb — a heavily marketed Web3/NFT project created by Thomas Webb. Over the years, the project: sold NFT collections including CryptoWeebs, CryptoGFs, and Apartments, raised millions of dollars through NFT sales and investors, reportedly received a $10M investment from Pantera Capital, heavily pushed blockchain/Web3 integration, disappeared into silence after a reported hack while promising a “complete overhaul”, repeatedly changed direction and delayed promised features, won Discord App Pitches 2024 despite already having massive funding, and received ongoing criticism over censorship, deleted discussions, bans, and poor communication. In 2024, Worldwide Webb officially became Soulbound. Now the same project is being pushed to a mainstream Steam audience as "Soulbound: Online", after quietly distancing itself from its original Web3 branding.…