Just a friendly reminder, as sarcastic as it sounds with the "good job internet", this article is sincerely praising how people across the internet made many game studios and publishers reconsider and avoid using NFTs in games, comparing it to how internet buzz brought legislative attention to loot boxes in games.
I literally forgot about NFTs until seeing this post.
Whoever thinks this is a problem needs to be bullied more.
At first glance NFTs in games seem to make sense. For example take a digital trading card game, might be pretty cool to hold ownership of your cards outside the game and be free to exchange them with other players with no restrictions, right?
But then you have to think a step further: The card is useless without the game. If the game shuts down? Nobody can use the card. If the game decides in two years that the card you own is too powerful and they forbid it from tournament play? Well, wasted money.
So overall you might be able to prove ownership of a "card", but without the context of the game it's meaningless data. And the game has to decide itself what your card means and what it can do. So we're back to simply using a normal database inside the game to hold your cards giving the same benefits (without the headache of NFTs).
The argument that you could use the card or the item in another game is bullshit on top. The other game would have to implement every item, which they simply won't do. So NFTs in the gaming niche are overall bullshit.
The NFT people were sending death threats to content creators and artists speaking out against NFTs. I don't think we were the ones doing the bullying.
I disagree with the use of the word 'bullying' implying that they would've happened otherwise. NFTs in video games would never have happened, because they don't do anything that publishers weren't already doing.
Good
Gigantic W
This is wonderful!
Fucking GOOD
Thank God. Rest in piss, NFT craze.
I see this as an absolute win
"Nice Fucking Try"
Loot boxes, DLC that should be part of the game, no physical copies, shutting servers after one year, pay to win... The games industry constantly talks about being looked at as an art form, but can you imagine if they pulled this shit as you walked into a cinema?
You get the good ending to the film if you pay extra. Also, that character isn't in it unless you pre-ordered...
On the other hand, I even kind of respect scams that are purely targeting greedy people.
Finally some good news for a change
No, this is definitely a win lmao.
Proud of us for this one!
That was literally the idea.
"Mainstream Games" are already scammy enough.
They said we just need a common enemy for humanity to unite. I did not expect it to be crypto nonsense.
Good.
For once the internet didn't fuck up.
Is it bullying if it was a scam?
Based
I'm all for NFTs, but I count this as a win. I'm opposed to all micro-transactions in games; they breed only bad behavior on the part of game makers.
Huge win
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