The Crypto Thread

So you can then sell your character. That makes sense, thanks.

Is there an mmo where you loot NFTs from bodies yet? The tears would be incredible.

The first question is relevant if you care about things other than making money.

i just wish eve online would do blockchain. imagine mining erc20 currency on asteroids and then pirates show up to take your coins c’mon we’re so close. they have a in-game economy that they want to make valuable and therefore fun. my christmas wish is for eve to fuckin wake up to web3. the perfect blockchain game would be eve online but you can cash out ISK to buy stuff irl

eve online desperately wants to make the game such that losses feel like real losses and wins feel satisfying, but it’s not real wins, right now everybody on eve is basically buying warhammer pieces and putting them into a game where other people can smash them.

when looking at the level of money being invested in these horrible unplayable pseudogames, i gotta believe eve online would become a trillion-dollar company

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I’ve never tried Eve and almost did a few times but if this happened I for sure would try it out. I think I actually started learning some basic skills once even but never started really playing.

Most of the games are promising a free-to-play element, but it’s not clear yet how that will work in practice. Like if there’s just super basic stuff you can do for free and the only way to do more is pay hundreds or thousands for NFT’s then that’s just bringing real world fucked up inequality to video games. This all has the potential to end up being very dystopian.

Most of the world lives in poverty, trapped at home by an unrelenting global pandemic where the only way they can earn income is by grinding online games for meager earnings, most of which have to be paid right back to the 0.1% who own all the game assets and rent them out to players. Launch date Q3 2022!

It’s not my idea. Dozens of game dev’s are already months ahead of you.

Meh, you could exchange goods and services in exchange for crypto without using USD.

It currently exists in defi kingdoms.

Regarding NFTs for games…games go offline all the time! No company is paying for a server for a game no one is using.

None of these games will be online in 20 years.

Many of them are set up as DAO’s where the players collectively own the game itself.

In the case of MGT-like collectable card games they can continue to exist long after the original dev’s are gone since it will be trivially easy to set up new servers and new variants players can bring their existing collections to.

I expect there to eventually be open NFT standards so you can bring assets you own from own metaverse to another. Seems like that wouldn’t be very difficult for voxel-based games like Sandbox, Voxies, Mobox, etc.

Scratch the last one. I don’t think Mobox is voxels.

It won’t work like how ubisoft is doing it.

It absolutely wouldn’t work for a CCG imo. Mtg, pokemon and yugioh are still the big 3. You can maybe put hearthstone in there as well. Everything else dies. Without the WOW backing hearthstone would have as well. That’s like nothing new in 20 years!

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I expect most of this stuff is going to fail. I’m paying attention and throwing a bit of money at it because I think there’s a chance some of it will succeed. Imagine investing a couple hundred bucks in some company called Activision because they were doing something with that new home video gaming fad back in 1979.

But the only thing worth anything from that time is mint condition, sealed shit. No one actually really plays NES games or anything anymore.

Even AAA games that cost 100+ million to put out have a popularity shelf life of weeks to months these days, if they’re successful at all.

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Still no love for Gwent. :(

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Lol

Is it too late to get in on Gala , or should it be avoided?
thxs

Thought about mentioning Gwent because I’ve at least heard of it but I have no idea how big the player base is.

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