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What do you mean you don't want to play a game that let you buy your own plot of land using blockchain? You'll get to experience almost real property ownership here.
Hopefully block chain technology will die off and become irrelevant in a couple of years. So far any attempt at using it seems to make a dumpster fire.
And also the “games” are all about making real money “play2earn” instead of actually using blockchain in an interest way
"Play2Earn", also called a job.
That's cause the way its been presented to the public stinks and caters to bag holders.
It just in general is pretty bad, for most use cases a traditional relational database is just ... better
Blockchain is just a spicy linked list
Database being a singular entity, holding up all the information, can be prone to manipulation. In case of game assets, while a person won't consider it as an investment (or valuable), it is pointless to use a blockchain to restore the integrity of that database.
All the pseudo hype surrounding the NFT, have given these gaming companies an inspiration to monetize their in-game asset, to stay relevant and sustain their business. Just because of that stupid vision, the gamer are in conflict.
I personally despise all these whale trades hyping up NFT by buying stupid jpegs, where at its core functionality, it can be quite useful.
Gaming may or may not find its use in blockchain, but the crypto innovation hasn't come across a level to be a part of the gaming industry.
No doubt its boring.
Database being a singular entity, holding up all the information, can be prone to manipulation.
I agree with most of what you said, but I just wanted to add... Nothing is beyond manipulation, there's plenty of experience out there monitoring traditional databases, and software intended to aid in tracking down tampering retroactively:
https://severalnines.com/blog/how-to-audit-postgresql-database/
Not to mention you can implement things in your application to make it even harder for a single person to tamper with the database (arguably somewhat block chain inspired), e.g.: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683434/detecting-database-tampering-is-it-possible
Does a ("proper") block chain make it harder to tamper in the first place? Yes, in theory, but is the associated cost really worth it? (If you ask me, the number of times it's actually worth using a blockchain is a near zero number).
NFTs solve a problem for digital capitalism: they introduce artifical scarcity.
This is mostly because when used properly, you often may not even realize you are using blockchain. For example, your browser is using a technology similar to blockchain to detect counterfeit https certificates. You probably don't even know about it yet it helps to keep you safe. That is how it should be used.
What use outside of microtransactions would there be anyway?
Abusing low wage workers in Indonesia.
Why the scare quote around fun? He's right. There is no point in adding something to a game that doesn't make it more fun.
Dreamcast Mini now sega let's go
As long as i get some Powerstone and Marvel VS Capcom on it then i'm good
Water=wet
It's a start, but hopefully they drop the idea altogether It's bad enough as it is, we don't need more.
I can't conceive of a single fun use-case for blockchain in games. With any luck, neither can they.
What games that using it anyway
I think Ubisoft( who else lol) released one not long ago.
According to the wiki, that was a platform launched back in 2021, and it sounds like it didn't go well lol. And apparently squenix "said that they consider blockchain technology critical to their growth." LOL
And apparently squenix "said that they consider blockchain technology critical to their growth." LOL
Sigh, I miss Squaresoft.
Introducing inequal crushing capitalist economy into your game... Just the escape from reality I needed 🙄
The same ones that try push it ?
For the uninitiated, check out this YouTube channel to really see just how horrid blockchain games can get.