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Developers of WoW would care to do so if incorporating those items gave them enough marketing buzz and/or financial incentive to make up for the effort of devel

Developers of WoW would care to do so if incorporating those items gave them enough marketing buzz and/or financial incentive to make up for the effort of development and then some. Like let's take something that already exists in games, like Shovel Knight. Shovel Knight is such a popular video game character that other developers incorporated the character as cameos or even playable characters in their games. Here's the Wikipedia: "Shovel Knight appears as a playable guest character in several games including Indie Pogo, Blade Strangers, Cook, Serve, Delicious: Battle Kitchen, Move or Die, Dino-Run DX, Runner3, Riverbond, Rivals of Aether, Blaster Master Zero, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Road Redemption, Epic Manager, C-Wars, Starr Mazer, Runbow, All-Stars Dungeons and Diamonds, Ghost Police, Mutant Mudds Super Challenge, Pixel Noir, and Mighty Quest. Shovel Knight characters make cameo appearances in Brawlhalla, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, Two Brothers, Yooka-Laylee, Aegis Defenders, The Reward: Tales of Alethrion, River City Ransom: Underground, Creepy Castle, Puzzle Depot, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Enter the Gungeon, Katana Zero, and For Honor. Its music appears in Just Shapes & Beats and Voez. Shovel Knight collaborated with Arby's in March 2021 to release a set of toys, which included Arby's themed cheat codes for the game."[1] Now imagine an NFT collection that's popular enough to have multiple games wanting to incorporate it into their games (I'd argue at least Bored Ape Yacht Club is this popular, it's being incorporated into many things already). Yes developers would have to spend time or effort coding it, but the buzz and increased sales from being able to advertise integration with that popular NFT collection could mean some media attention and sales they might not otherwise get. For Indie Game developers in particular it could literally be the difference between getting any attention to their game from the media at all, or not, and thus between success and failure. Hence why Shovel Knight is in so many indie games (with permission from the original creator). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovel_Knight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovel_Knight

zkldi 5y ago
Do people on HN not play videogames at all? Shovel Knight didn't get popular because it was crossed over into so many games, Shovel Knight got incredibly popular for being one of the best platformers of the decade that kept releasing high quality free DLC. It was notorious for being a kickstarter that actually gave back. The reason it ended up in so many other games is because it was so popular. The exact same thing happened with UNDERTALE. > Now imagine an NFT collection that's popular enough to have multiple games wanting to incorporate it into their games(...) This was *already done* with amiibos. They just weren't NFTs, and were infinitely more efficient. Literally any game developed for the switch has an api to interact with amiibos, the names in amiibos are some of gamings largest characters, and barely anybody uses it. You are seriously detached from what gamers actually want if you think they'd react positively to Bored Apes being put in WoW. Not only would it be a PR nightmare for the developers of WoW, but they would quite literally gain nothing from it except an expensive, comically inefficient lookup table of hashes to items they don't care about.

zkldi 5y ago

Do people on HN not play videogames at all? Shovel Knight didn't get popular because it was crossed over into so many games, Shovel Knight got incredibly popular for being one of the best platformers of the decade that kept releasing high quality free DLC. It was notorious for being a kickstarter that actually gave back. The reason it ended up in so many other games is because it was so popular. The exact same thing happened with UNDERTALE. > Now imagine an NFT collection that's popular enough to have multiple games wanting to incorporate it into their games(...) This was *already done* with amiibos. They just weren't NFTs, and were infinitely more efficient. Literally any game developed for the switch has an api to interact with amiibos, the names in amiibos are some of gamings largest characters, and barely anybody uses it. You are seriously detached from what gamers actually want if you think they'd react positively to Bored Apes being put in WoW. Not only would it be a PR nightmare for the developers of WoW, but they would quite literally gain nothing from it except an expensive, comically inefficient lookup table of hashes to items they don't care about.