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Google Play adds NFTs
- mattl 3y agoNobody wants this! Not now. Even the grifters have moved on from NFTs now.
- d1str0 3y agoIf nobody wanted this they wouldn’t have done it. There are lots of cool uses for NFTs in game settings. Now that some of the major hype and scams have died down, this is probably the best time for this to go live.
- wnevets 3y ago> There are lots of cool uses for NFTs in game settings. Like what?
- newaccount74 3y agoAccording to Google, "more engaging and immersive digital experiences".
- thesuperbigfrog 3y agoMicrotransactions so you can spend money for worthless on-chain "collectable" crap. Each one is procedurally-generated with a random seed and digitally signed so it's "unique" despite the millions per second that can be cranked out by a Raspberry Pi.
- nomel 3y ago> Each one is procedurally-generated with a random seed This is, obviously, not true. There are deck building card games that have fixed cards. Imagine Magic, but the game loads cards that are from your wallet, that you can pass to someone else wallet, by trading/selling outside the app (which, apparently, is why Apple won't allow it).
- wnevets 3y ago> Imagine Magic, but the game loads cards that are from your wallet, that you can pass to someone else wallet, by trading/selling outside the app Doesn't that already exist without NTFs or crypto, e.g. the steam marketplace.
- nomel 3y agoYes, to some degree. Alternative implementations of a public, "trustable", transaction record weren't what I was replying to. I was replying to the use case of one.
- dmbche 3y agoPlease list me a few good things that can only be done with NFTs
- nailer 3y agoPaying digital artists.
- aflag 3y agoPeople have been doing so on fiverr way before nfts
- throwaway675309 3y agoAgreed. Also Patreon, subscribestar, and on and on and on. NFTs are solving for a non-existent problem.
- rkho 3y agoI agree. We've had physical cash and the postal service for centuries now. Platforms like Patreon, Subscribestar, etc. are also solving nonexistent problems. We can already pay artists by mailing them cash or a check, there's no reason for any of these technologies to exist.
- nailer 3y agoNone of those platforms solve the scarcity issue, so none of them result in artists getting paid reasonably.
- aflag 3y agoNot sure it does. The NFT itself is scarce, but not the art. That's different from the real world where the art itself is scarce.
- anony23 3y agoFiver is a nice way to finance some tacos, meanwhile NFTs have enabled artists to make life changing money.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> If nobody wanted this they wouldn’t have done it. The simplest model falsifying that idea would be "people used to want it, Google started the project, and the project is now complete." Which is pretty compatible with the original claim of "Nobody wants this! Not now."
- throwaway675309 3y ago"There are lots of cool uses for NFTs in game settings." Rolls eyes. NAME ONE.
- idlewords 3y agoWarning you off scammy games.
- nomel 3y agoTradable cards, characters, items. Since it's external, rather than in some company database, it's possible to integrate them into other games. I've never owned an NFT, so maybe I don't understand, but in game items/whatever seem like an actual use case, if it's considered a public database, with transaction tracing. There's plenty of evidence that people want to be able to trade/sell in game items, considering there's an existing industry around it, unrelated to NFTs.
- frumper 3y agoWhat games accept NFT items from other games?
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoAlso, why would you accept another game's NFT? What is the present value of the marginal users who choose to play your game because it accepts their NFT avatar?
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- piva00 3y agoA strawman doesn't help your argument. There was nothing in GP's comment stating anything covered by your hyperbole. People can implement whatever they want if they are curious, the discussion here is focused on adoption, and based on technical facts that would hinder adoption we can say that it's probably never going to be a reality where NFTs are the solution for cross-game item trading. Not sure why you needed this passive-aggressive hyperbole, I don't feel GP's comment was that offensive to require this, do you have any issues with people criticising NFTs?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> If nobody wanted this they wouldn’t have done it It's gambling with a cheap veneer. Nobody wants or needs to pay $1 for 95¢ when they bet on a roulette wheel [1], but we do. [1] https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2006.00142.x https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...
- nailer 3y agoA lot of projects - not just digital collectibles - are funded from NFT sales. Hopefully Apple does the same.
- dharmab 3y agoWhich projects?
- srgpqt 3y agoThe scam ones.
- TillE 3y agoThere are a hundred good reasons Apple won't touch NFTs, but not even joking, one of the biggest reasons is that the standard bearers for NFTs - the first thing everyone thinks of - are the ugliest, tackiest cartoon avatars ever made. Steve Jobs is long gone, but Apple still has taste.
- anony23 3y agoI want it, and so do others that I know.
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- smallnix 3y agoI think now that the noise died down, maybe some fun can be had with them. I think NFTs should not exist in a vacuum. The context (e.g. game or on-going comic series) give them the actual character of a collectible.
- bragr 3y agoHN title is misleading. NFTs aren't coming to Google Play. Google is just setting/clarifying it's app policies concerning NFTs Actual blog title: >Enabling New Blockchain-Based Experiences on Google Play
- thesuperbigfrog 3y ago"Blockchain-Based Experiences on Google Play": Google Graveyard here we come
- p4bl0 3y agoI give it less than a year to be gone forever.
- UncleMeat 3y agoIt's a policy change. Google isn't releasing anything.
- bhaney 3y agoHalf a year then
- UncleMeat 3y agoI get that it is fun to shit on Google for having a disaster of a product strategy, but this is just nonsense at this point.
- thesuperbigfrog 3y ago>> it is fun to shit on Google for having a disaster of a product strategy, but this is just nonsense Google's "product strategy" is nonsense. If it does not feed ads or doesn't make billions per year, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before Google will lose interest and kill it. This has happened so often that it is reliable how poor Google is at maintaining products and providing customer service. It is a reputation that Google has earned through its repeated actions and choices.
- UncleMeat 3y agoRight. And that has absolutely nothing to do with policy changes on Play.
- sebastianz 3y agoI clicked on the link just to check the title is at least vaguely accurate and that the official google blog annnounces features related to NFTs. Very saddened to report that indeed it does. What a sad, buzzword-laden farce...
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- quest88 3y agoWhat would be cancelled? Did you read the article?
- ChildOfChaos 3y agoSeems no reason for them to not do it, play store is already full of scams.
- Euphorbium 3y agoOf all the things nobody asked for, this one nobody asked the most.
- quest88 3y agonobody asked for what? Did you read the article?
- tetrisgm 3y agoRight on time!
- ShamelessC 3y agoWas this post removed from the front page?
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoAre NFTs still a thing?