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I understand that many people are genuinely excited, and not everyone is trying to perpetuate a scam, but it's hard to be convinced when all arguments I find in

I understand that many people are genuinely excited, and not everyone is trying to perpetuate a scam, but it's hard to be convinced when all arguments I find in favour are variants of vague references to "the future" and sentences starting with "imagine". No real "NFTs are a better alternative for X", and no convincing descriptions on what they can do that don't lean heavily on handwaving at some step. I'm sorry, but the emperor is really walking around with his buttcheeks flapping in the wind.

dageshi 5y ago
Disclaimer: I've never owned or bought a crypto thing in my life. Most of the biggest games in the world run on selling skins, the natural evolution of that is going from a position where a game developer says you own that skin because there's a record in their database to a position where you own that skin because you have the NFT and the developer recognises your NFT. It gives portability to something that already has massive massive demand. I do expect gaming crypto currencies and gaming NFT's to absolutely dwarf everything that came before in the crypto space.
- ARandumGuy 5y ago
  The thing is, when a skin's ownership exists in a developer's database, that means the only way to get a skin is to buy it directly from the developer. EA doesn't want you to buy a rare FIFA Ultimate Team player from another FIFA player, they want you to buy a bunch of Ultimate Team packs from them directly. Only Valve really enables any reselling, and that's only on their closed platform, where all the money ends up back in Valve's pockets. In addition, a lot of game developers are already under scrutiny about gambling-like mechanics in their games (e.g. loot boxes). Turning this stuff into NFTs just makes it easier to cash out, which only makes the comparisons easier. The only people actually making NFT-based games are small developers using it as a marketing tool, or people using these games as a means to promote their NFT project. No large developer is making any major investments in this space, because it isn't a path to making more money then they're already making.
  - dageshi 5y ago
    I don't disagree, major developers won't use it any time soon. I expect smaller devs will see it as a way to monetise their games. Bear in mind there's a multitude of early access games, the PUBG's, the RUST's, the entire survival sandbox genre who are candidates to adopt NFT's/crypto game currencies. Big established companies never adopt tech like this until they're forced to adapt.

dageshi 5y ago

Disclaimer: I've never owned or bought a crypto thing in my life. Most of the biggest games in the world run on selling skins, the natural evolution of that is going from a position where a game developer says you own that skin because there's a record in their database to a position where you own that skin because you have the NFT and the developer recognises your NFT. It gives portability to something that already has massive massive demand. I do expect gaming crypto currencies and gaming NFT's to absolutely dwarf everything that came before in the crypto space.

ARandumGuy 5y ago
The thing is, when a skin's ownership exists in a developer's database, that means the only way to get a skin is to buy it directly from the developer. EA doesn't want you to buy a rare FIFA Ultimate Team player from another FIFA player, they want you to buy a bunch of Ultimate Team packs from them directly. Only Valve really enables any reselling, and that's only on their closed platform, where all the money ends up back in Valve's pockets. In addition, a lot of game developers are already under scrutiny about gambling-like mechanics in their games (e.g. loot boxes). Turning this stuff into NFTs just makes it easier to cash out, which only makes the comparisons easier. The only people actually making NFT-based games are small developers using it as a marketing tool, or people using these games as a means to promote their NFT project. No large developer is making any major investments in this space, because it isn't a path to making more money then they're already making.
- dageshi 5y ago
  I don't disagree, major developers won't use it any time soon. I expect smaller devs will see it as a way to monetise their games. Bear in mind there's a multitude of early access games, the PUBG's, the RUST's, the entire survival sandbox genre who are candidates to adopt NFT's/crypto game currencies. Big established companies never adopt tech like this until they're forced to adapt.