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It's just the same usual blockchain problem over again. The blockchain part itself that allows some token that you can trade around, that's well established. Th
by zerocrates 4y ago
It's just the same usual blockchain problem over again. The blockchain part itself that allows some token that you can trade around, that's well established. The part where that bridges the gap over into something real or useful (even something that's already very digital like a video game skin) is where it all collapses.
The usual problem type I seem to see is something along the lines of: "to make this work, you need to introduce some trusted party, and then if you're going to trust them anyway you might as well have just had them run a database." For games the more salient point is that to have your "cross-game transferable items" system work, you need buy-in from the developers, who generally all already have jealously-guarded disconnected microtransaction systems that they're making enormous profits off of and they're not really incentivized at all to let other people play in their sandbox. Let's ignore for the time being the mechanics of actually making cross-game, cross-engine, cross-genre items work at all in the first place.
The hope for proponents would seem to be to jump-start the ecosystem in games they create and create a groundswell of gamers who demand that big titles work with the blockchain system, but that just doesn't seem realistic for a variety of reasons. Even within the hypothetical universe of NFT-ized games, the same kinds of incentives (and technical issues) are likely to throw up similar barriers to interoperability between different games.
- mattdesl 4y ago> to make this work, you need to introduce some trusted party, and then if you're going to trust them anyway you might as well have just had them run a database. Having some elements of centralization does not negate some of the benefits of building on an open source and permissionless blockchain. I wrote a little more in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418873
- openfuture 4y agoThis thing you are talking about is called the oracle problem. The solution to it is to move away from centrally coordinated definitions. This also means central currencies built on on a decentralized computation of some kind (i.e. blockchains). You can see why that is not compatible with the narrative coming from the sky... there'd be no safe store of value.. how to become rich with no metric? Question is (for me at least) who is going to be the first giant to betray the current economic system as the real world collapse becomes too obvious to ignore (hint: they'll probably be actually competent).