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But do you agree that this is not a very difficult technical problem, and could be implemented with our without a blockchain, and that the real issue would be h

But do you agree that this is not a very difficult technical problem, and could be implemented with our without a blockchain, and that the real issue would be how to get all actors involved to buy in to such a system? Why would Ubisoft want this? Commercial entities are typically motivated by profit, not wanting to bring Ready Player One to life.

Closi 5y ago
This is a key question from multiple angles - a few specific ones: 1) Does Steam want to allow you to download games to their platform when you have bought it from the lowest cost seller, when they will take zero cut of the revenue? 2) Do games sales platforms want to make it so you can leave their platform en-masse with zero friction? 3) Do developers really want to lose control of being able to revoke keys (e.g. cheaters) or lose the ability to stop the transfer of the license to other players? (i.e. block resale). And if developers / game sellers retain the ability to revoke keys as part of the design of the blockchain contract, how does that avoid the original situation where Ubisoft is revoking access to inactive accounts? 4) What does it mean if I lose access to my account in an NFT world? If someone steals my account can it be recovered? Can I get my games back?
TimJRobinson 5y ago
Why do companies do anything in the consumers interest? Competition. You don't see it now, but once many games allow you to resell the skins or game itself, and gamers get used to that, publishers that don't allow it will look evil. Coordination between many companies is an exceptionally difficult problem without blockchains. This is what NFTs solve in a simple way - a neutral platform that every party can easily integrate with knowing the rules, API and data integrity won't change.
- Cederfjard 5y ago
  I can see how once such a system comes into place, it might be functional and stable. I’m not quite sure how we’d get over the threshold from where we are to there. I’m not saying it’s impossible, I do however think it’s very hard.
- root_axis 5y ago
  Blockchains are not useful here. Just mint something like a PGP NFT and eliminate the pointless waste of the blockchain.
  - TimJRobinson 5y ago
    You should probably learn blockchain 101 concepts like preventing double spending before making assertions with such confidence.
- Closi 5y ago
  > Coordination between many companies is an exceptionally difficult problem without blockchains. Before we solutionise to blockchain though we should work out how we want the world to work. This is my main issue with discourse about NFTs and Blockchain - it gets banded around as a technical solution to solve everything before anyone has even started to think of what the requirements are for the problem we are trying to solve.

Closi 5y ago

This is a key question from multiple angles - a few specific ones: 1) Does Steam want to allow you to download games to their platform when you have bought it from the lowest cost seller, when they will take zero cut of the revenue? 2) Do games sales platforms want to make it so you can leave their platform en-masse with zero friction? 3) Do developers really want to lose control of being able to revoke keys (e.g. cheaters) or lose the ability to stop the transfer of the license to other players? (i.e. block resale). And if developers / game sellers retain the ability to revoke keys as part of the design of the blockchain contract, how does that avoid the original situation where Ubisoft is revoking access to inactive accounts? 4) What does it mean if I lose access to my account in an NFT world? If someone steals my account can it be recovered? Can I get my games back?

TimJRobinson 5y ago

Why do companies do anything in the consumers interest? Competition. You don't see it now, but once many games allow you to resell the skins or game itself, and gamers get used to that, publishers that don't allow it will look evil. Coordination between many companies is an exceptionally difficult problem without blockchains. This is what NFTs solve in a simple way - a neutral platform that every party can easily integrate with knowing the rules, API and data integrity won't change.

Cederfjard 5y ago
I can see how once such a system comes into place, it might be functional and stable. I’m not quite sure how we’d get over the threshold from where we are to there. I’m not saying it’s impossible, I do however think it’s very hard.
root_axis 5y ago
Blockchains are not useful here. Just mint something like a PGP NFT and eliminate the pointless waste of the blockchain.
- TimJRobinson 5y ago
  You should probably learn blockchain 101 concepts like preventing double spending before making assertions with such confidence.
Closi 5y ago
> Coordination between many companies is an exceptionally difficult problem without blockchains. Before we solutionise to blockchain though we should work out how we want the world to work. This is my main issue with discourse about NFTs and Blockchain - it gets banded around as a technical solution to solve everything before anyone has even started to think of what the requirements are for the problem we are trying to solve.