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NFTs ruin everything they touch. What really baffles me is that any time a gaming company talks about incorporating NFTs, the community backlash is universal.

NFTs ruin everything they touch. What really baffles me is that any time a gaming company talks about incorporating NFTs, the community backlash is universal. Normally, the answer to "Why do companies do X when people hate X so much?" is "because it's still profitable", but certainly they're not profiting off of NFTs enough to pay the salaries of the team that run the initiative, right?

lithos 5y ago
NFTs offer new paths to addiction mechanisms, related to ownership, trading, and investing (all sorts of logical fallacies and mind traps to fall into). Essentially AAA lootboxes are addictive/"juicy" enough to be illegal on a casino floor, new mechanics to add on to that would be adored by publishers(I'm not exaggerating here). The end game will look something like a FPS shooter where guns have random stats as an NFT inventory. With a battlepass style mechanic with lootboxes for those guns. Where max stat guns are truly rare. And the max stats a gun can have will slowly rise as the season goes on. Some mechanics to juice it up like requiring killed players to watch the kill cam, that has the gun+stats displayed predominantly. And rigging matchmaking so people suspected of being able to spend more are in unfavorable matches (to encourage buyin upgrades) , and people who have recently spent in favorable matches (to ensure they get extra dopamine hits after a spend). A feature NFTs can have is the publisher taking a cut of all trades. In this case truly rare max stats mean whales will buy them up at whale like prices. Slowly rising max prices to get those whales to cycle up to a new weapon (selling off their old and getting a new. Meaning more transaction cuts/fees).
eternityforest 5y ago
It seems every 5 minutes there's a new story of someone who made millions selling ownership of a link to a PNG(Or whatever format they use these days). It seems like people who like crypto have lots of money. I kinda hate NFTs... but then again I don't do any investing at all beyond a few bucks in Betterment. Crypto is so investing centric at the moment I would imagine it attracts lots of rich people, even if everyone else bates it.

lithos 5y ago

NFTs offer new paths to addiction mechanisms, related to ownership, trading, and investing (all sorts of logical fallacies and mind traps to fall into). Essentially AAA lootboxes are addictive/"juicy" enough to be illegal on a casino floor, new mechanics to add on to that would be adored by publishers(I'm not exaggerating here). The end game will look something like a FPS shooter where guns have random stats as an NFT inventory. With a battlepass style mechanic with lootboxes for those guns. Where max stat guns are truly rare. And the max stats a gun can have will slowly rise as the season goes on. Some mechanics to juice it up like requiring killed players to watch the kill cam, that has the gun+stats displayed predominantly. And rigging matchmaking so people suspected of being able to spend more are in unfavorable matches (to encourage buyin upgrades) , and people who have recently spent in favorable matches (to ensure they get extra dopamine hits after a spend). A feature NFTs can have is the publisher taking a cut of all trades. In this case truly rare max stats mean whales will buy them up at whale like prices. Slowly rising max prices to get those whales to cycle up to a new weapon (selling off their old and getting a new. Meaning more transaction cuts/fees).

eternityforest 5y ago

It seems every 5 minutes there's a new story of someone who made millions selling ownership of a link to a PNG(Or whatever format they use these days). It seems like people who like crypto have lots of money. I kinda hate NFTs... but then again I don't do any investing at all beyond a few bucks in Betterment. Crypto is so investing centric at the moment I would imagine it attracts lots of rich people, even if everyone else bates it.