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How would NFT's help? If the company refuses to refund you, your digital "receipt" is worthless

kinakomochidayo 4y ago
If the game is able to connect to your wallet and confirm internally that you own the game’s token, it could unlock the game without having to rely on a server.
- colinmhayes 4y ago
  Who's running the server that actually runs the game?
  - kinakomochidayo 4y ago
    The idea would work for single player games, where all the content is in the executable, but yeah, multiplayer is another story.
    - yyyk 4y ago
      It won't necessarily work for single-player games, since it's trivial to build a game so that it requires a connection to an external server (put in some API with game logic there. Make sure logic isn't easily reversed engineered). Of course, a game company could always make a game which was built to run locally. It's all the company's choice regardless of NFTs, which are as useless as always.
- yreg 4y ago
  Sounds interesting, but isn't there an issue that 10 friends could hold a key to the same wallet and all play all the same games, even simultaneously while purchasing just one copy?
  - ethbr0 4y ago
    I'm guessing implementing this would require some sort of known-file-type attestation distributed app. I.e. I prove I have a token + link that token to a hash of my current system(s) It's actually one of the better uses for blockchain I've heard so far, given the data sizes are minimal...
    - staticman2 4y ago
      Who is going to maintain this distributed app, and what incentive do they have not to change the code so every game is reported as owned by everyone?
- IntelMiner 4y ago
  Then can you just duplicate the wallet and you've "pirated" the game Ah but we'll put it on the blockchain! ...Which is quite literally re-inventing a worse version of systems like Steam
  - kinakomochidayo 4y ago
    Sure I guess, if you want to share private keys with friends.
    - IntelMiner 4y ago
      Why not just make a separate wallet per-game? You've then effectively duplicated serial keys :)

If the game is able to connect to your wallet and confirm internally that you own the game’s token, it could unlock the game without having to rely on a server.

colinmhayes 4y ago
Who's running the server that actually runs the game?
- kinakomochidayo 4y ago
  The idea would work for single player games, where all the content is in the executable, but yeah, multiplayer is another story.
  - yyyk 4y ago
    It won't necessarily work for single-player games, since it's trivial to build a game so that it requires a connection to an external server (put in some API with game logic there. Make sure logic isn't easily reversed engineered). Of course, a game company could always make a game which was built to run locally. It's all the company's choice regardless of NFTs, which are as useless as always.
yreg 4y ago
Sounds interesting, but isn't there an issue that 10 friends could hold a key to the same wallet and all play all the same games, even simultaneously while purchasing just one copy?
- ethbr0 4y ago
  I'm guessing implementing this would require some sort of known-file-type attestation distributed app. I.e. I prove I have a token + link that token to a hash of my current system(s) It's actually one of the better uses for blockchain I've heard so far, given the data sizes are minimal...
  - staticman2 4y ago
    Who is going to maintain this distributed app, and what incentive do they have not to change the code so every game is reported as owned by everyone?
IntelMiner 4y ago
Then can you just duplicate the wallet and you've "pirated" the game Ah but we'll put it on the blockchain! ...Which is quite literally re-inventing a worse version of systems like Steam
- kinakomochidayo 4y ago
  Sure I guess, if you want to share private keys with friends.
  - IntelMiner 4y ago
    Why not just make a separate wallet per-game? You've then effectively duplicated serial keys :)