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> Why is Epic going to design and support a Fortnite version of your hat NFT when they get nothing out of it? They do though. The argument is two-pronged: (a)

• jagger27 4y ago
  Disclosure: the above poster is the co-founder of an NFT-based gaming project.
• kibwen 4y ago
  Epic can make more money by locking players into their walled garden. Nothing short of government regulation would convince them to spend more money implementing exponentially more items into their game while also taking a smaller cut of each item's purchase and resale.
  • highwaylights 4y ago
    Know what’s better than 5% of a resale? 100% of every sale! Tim Sweeney knows.
  • TimJRobinson 4y ago
    You forgot what drives every good for consumer thing a company does: competition. If every games company is allowing users to resell their items, and Epic is not, they just look evil. We're not there yet but when we are you don't want to get the reputation of being the evil company that seeks profits above all else.
    • leereeves 4y ago
      Social media companies "look evil" when they don't allow users to freely use third-party apps and clients, but they still don't, because that doesn't make them money. And competition doesn't/won't solve either problem, because third-party apps aren't why most people choose social media platforms, and reselling hats isn't why most people choose a game. In other words, the proposed feature is something developers want, not users.
    • danaris 4y ago
      That still leaves you with the chicken-and-egg problem of how you get to the point where "every games company is allowing users to resell their items", when it's not beneficial to any of them to start with.
• ravivyas 4y ago
  Epic, or any studio could have done this without web3. The perverse incentive of the "token" and making a boatful of money suddenly gets people concerned about developer's income.