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> I could easily imagine a world where I get "crypto currency" that I can use across games. Why would any company use a decentralized token to let you purchase
by quickthrowman 4y ago
> I could easily imagine a world where I get "crypto currency" that I can use across games.
Why would any company use a decentralized token to let you purchase things when they could simply make their own store currency/points and sell that instead? Look at all the F2P games that have in-game purchases, they all use points that are sold by the publisher that are bought with dollars because they make more money that way. There is no incentive to allow a decentralized currency you don’t control for in-game purchases.
- taeric 4y agoOh, agree that I don't imagine this world being likely. Just imagining that there is no reason these points have to be backed by US dollars. And if you gave people a way to transfer value from one game to another, they may take you up on it. Incentive would be to give a reason to jump worlds, as it were.
- senthil_rajasek 4y ago> I don't imagine this world being likely. Just imagining that there is no reason these points have to be backed by US dollars There are so many hypotheticals and logical leaps here... This is not a useful argument anymore ... it's just you fantasizing. I am out.
- taeric 4y agoApologies if I wasted time? I wasn't trying to push a useful argument for crypto in any way here. Just wanted to understand the argument of Stephenson. If there is something there I should treat more seriously, I'm game.