Whatever happened to that whole idea of turning video game skins into NFT's that techbros were talking about yrs ago????
>>724187185they were trying to sell you something, thats all folks
>>724187185Valve strongarmed them out to maintain their nft skin monopoly
>>724187303I thought conceptually, it was a really cool idea. Most video games have you spend tons of money on skins but you don't actually own them.With the implementation of a blockchain/NFT system players can actually keep those skins even if they lost their account.
>>724187185It turns out NFT doesn't intrinsically add any value to a skin. And certainly doesn't substitute for demand for it in the first place.See also CS2.>>724187363Good point. The marketplace also fucking matters as well.
The idea was confronted by the simple truth that no developer/publisher would ever allow someone to gain an advantage or make progress in their game by spending time or money on someone else's.
>>724187441The idea required devs of other games adding support for stuff for your gameCompanies don't have enough time to make games normally without having to add support for every single skin every other random game
>>724187185>>724187441Needs a constant supply of tokens which defeats the purpose of skins in a videogame. Would work with procedurally generated assets, but not handcrafted skins which defeat the purpose of tokens. NFTs and skins are the two sides of the same medal which is why it sounds good on paper but is near impossible to implement.
>be players>say bad words in chat>get banned and lose access to account with over 6k$ worth of skins>techbros propose using NFT's to fix this so players aren't fucked over >somehow this is a bad idea
>>724187729I have a bridge I want to sell you
>>724187729The developer can still ban you from playing the game, and if they want they can also flag all your skins to be unusable by anyone (instantly making them worth $0).You are mentally retarded.
>>724188080You can't flag skins, dude.And the NFT system literally solves the issue of being banned since you own everything valuable on the account any way.Do you even actually play any video games
>>724188269Yeah bro just have your skins from game A magically work on game B, it's so easy
>>724188269>You can't flag skins, dude.The point of NFTs is that they are uniquely identifiable.Literally just look at the ledger and you have the ownership history.
>>724188339Never said the skins would be for moving from a completely different game try again
>>724187185The people shilling it to you turned to AI. What will they think of in the next 3 years when this bubble pops?
>>724188403Even so, thats still wouldnt happen because the skins are YOUR property. You bought them and own them- devs flagging them or whatever nonsense you pull out of your ass wouldn't only be kind of impossible it would also be a huge lawsuit waiting to happen.
>>724188406If you just want to sell them then a centralized blockchain is overkill, just pass a law bans that allows you to sell skins from banned accounts.If you think that's retarded then NFTs are retarded too because the game can just not use the block chain and you lose everything anyways! You'd need a law to force games to use the blockchain anyways!And if you say you'll just play games that are on the block chain, you can just play games that let you sell skins even if your account is banned.All NFT/blockchain adds is a complicated database, it doesn't solve anything by itself
>>724188879You're coming up with a lot of crazy hypotheticals just to prove that this system wouldnt work when the only thing stopping it was lack of interest by a few big name companies.
>>724188974Because it doesn't solve anything, it's a ridiculously complicated database.You can't force companies to use it. If you could it's easier to force them to let you sell stuff form banned accounts. It adds NOTHING
>>724187185Adding internet to video games was a massive mistake.Letting people like pic related to add things to games sounds even worse.
>>724187185It costs way more to store stuff on a blockchain than it does to store it on a conventional database, and all live service games are still centralized by nature, so the skins would cost more while providing no benefit. >>724187729 Blockchains aren't universal. There are a bunch of them, and each one has its own protocols, and can only handle stuff made for that protocol. Now there's nothing stopping a game dev from making all their stuff compatible with a major chain, but in practice most companies make their own chains, because then they can sell nodes and charge fees for all transactions, and make more money that way. As such, they can totally freeze stuff if they want. Even if they do use a third part chain they have no control over, the actual game assets are still centralized, so hypothetically they could turn all your super rare super cool skins and items into worthless shit to make them unattractive. Crypto games are no longer hypothetical; there are plenty of examples of how they work and they are all still very centralized.
