Never have I ever seen a need or a want from actual gamers for NFTs or "blockchain" in games. Retoot if you agree. Like / Favourite if you hate them.
I keep having to bin emails on it from publishers lately. NFTs are terrible. Stop.
@gamingonlinux There is an entire market for them which would beg to differ. But setting aside NFTs (the low-hanging fruit of Blockchain applications), the Blockchain tech itself could have some really interesting applications for gaming. I am particularly interested in the idea of in-game permanence and long-term tracking of a players impact on a living world.
@gamingonlinux @darryl Correction: The market is only 95% crypto -bro idiots. Signal vs noise. Try to keep an open mind.
@darryl @gamingonlinux you can do all that with just a basic database for one thousandths the monetary cost of doing the exact same thing on the blockchain
@Aetous @gamingonlinux This is a common refrain but not entirely true. Yes, you can technically achieve record-keeping with a low-cost database transaction. But that misses the entire point of Blockchain. It's not a 'better database'. It brings singularity, security, built-in integrity, decentralization, and (when done right) independence of the product and data from the originating developer.
@darryl The "market" is just crypto-bro idiots trying to push it and create a market for it and sucking people in, no one should want them, they're gross.