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I am a little skeptical about crypto but I actually think NFTs seem to be a much more logical application than payment. I can think of a number of reasons you

I am a little skeptical about crypto but I actually think NFTs seem to be a much more logical application than payment. I can think of a number of reasons you might want to watermark content with a neutral party, but let me give a real world example that makes sense to me. People buy a lot of digital content in games. They play those games across platforms and sometimes even you play a game after the owner of the game changes-- someone buys the publisher, the developer, or they go out of business. That's a real thing that happens. Say I could buy a limited version Napoleon skin for the next version of civilization, and it would work on any version of that game that ran on any platform. I think that could work with NFTs and I think it makes sense. Games live longer than the companies that create them. How many companies have published Civ? How many ports? Anyone want to guess how many versions there will be in the next twenty years? I don't know for sure if that would work but it seems possible.

kelseyfrog 5y ago
I cannot wait to for game mods to enable right click, save as functionality in games.
egypturnash 5y ago
What makes you think this NFT skin is going to be any better supported than a normal skin, in the event of Civilization changing hands or its publisher going out of business? Why would the creators of the 2042 edition of Civ bother supporting what will no doubt be a terrible-looking, low-res skin by their standards?
Barrin92 5y ago
what's the advantage of an NFT over a database entry? The NFT doesn't give you access to the actual content, which is always at the discretion of the game developer (who can always reject your 'NFT ownership', in fact they're incentivized to do so) And on the other hand if the game is open-source ported or anything it doesn't make much sense either because then by definition you have access to whatever you want edit: also thinking about it, how does the NFT even prove you owned anything in the game in the first place? What do I write into an NFT that proves that I actually earned the stuff in the game instead of just making it up?
- esjeon 5y ago
  Yup. NFT in gaming is a total hoax by design. There's just no guarantee that game companies will always accept the changes on the NFT side. It's just a tool to boost stock prices.
- basch 5y ago
  >what's the advantage of an NFT over a database entry? a database entry where? on a Microsoft or EA server that they shut down after 5 years? that's all it is to begin with, a database entry, albeit a distributed one that probably wont go away. if a game developer rejects a communities investment, another developer can hop in and add support from assets from other games. imagine a dnd character that you can create once, is hosted and persists forever, and that you can load into any game.
  - Barrin92 5y ago
    you didn't address my points. If the game is open, I don't need an NFT, I just need a scoresheet to take my dnd characters everywhere, there's no need to cryptographically own it. In fact that's what I've been doing with RP characters for ages. I already have a database, it's a Google Doc and on my drive. Simple note-taking doesn't require distributed storage. And no other developer can pick up games that are proprietary because the NFT doesn't confer ownership over the games assets or grant you access to the code.

kelseyfrog 5y ago

I cannot wait to for game mods to enable right click, save as functionality in games.

egypturnash 5y ago

What makes you think this NFT skin is going to be any better supported than a normal skin, in the event of Civilization changing hands or its publisher going out of business? Why would the creators of the 2042 edition of Civ bother supporting what will no doubt be a terrible-looking, low-res skin by their standards?

Barrin92 5y ago

what's the advantage of an NFT over a database entry? The NFT doesn't give you access to the actual content, which is always at the discretion of the game developer (who can always reject your 'NFT ownership', in fact they're incentivized to do so) And on the other hand if the game is open-source ported or anything it doesn't make much sense either because then by definition you have access to whatever you want edit: also thinking about it, how does the NFT even prove you owned anything in the game in the first place? What do I write into an NFT that proves that I actually earned the stuff in the game instead of just making it up?

esjeon 5y ago
Yup. NFT in gaming is a total hoax by design. There's just no guarantee that game companies will always accept the changes on the NFT side. It's just a tool to boost stock prices.
basch 5y ago
>what's the advantage of an NFT over a database entry? a database entry where? on a Microsoft or EA server that they shut down after 5 years? that's all it is to begin with, a database entry, albeit a distributed one that probably wont go away. if a game developer rejects a communities investment, another developer can hop in and add support from assets from other games. imagine a dnd character that you can create once, is hosted and persists forever, and that you can load into any game.
- Barrin92 5y ago
  you didn't address my points. If the game is open, I don't need an NFT, I just need a scoresheet to take my dnd characters everywhere, there's no need to cryptographically own it. In fact that's what I've been doing with RP characters for ages. I already have a database, it's a Google Doc and on my drive. Simple note-taking doesn't require distributed storage. And no other developer can pick up games that are proprietary because the NFT doesn't confer ownership over the games assets or grant you access to the code.