NFTs and gaming

far from it, I can see loads of issues with Crypto, it's been difficult to get set up and easy to make mistakes with (sending funds to the wrong wallet, hitting the wrong decimal point and selling big chunk cheaply) , if you aren't in the right places you will be circled by scammers, & 95% of the tokens out there are just scams that offer nothing and will die off.

It's volatile so if you are not following a mantra of only investing what you are happy to lose, or treating it like a hobby to learn about then you are likely to get nervous and sell as soon as it dips.

We know that, it's an early technology that is improving. When I started buying bitcoin it was very tricky. Now it's as easy as buying something on Amazon. Wallets are much simpler, safer, easier to use. Sending funds is as easy as scanning a QR code.

I can see the use cases, I can see the potential. I've never been one to look at something emerging and write it off because it's not quite there yet.

This reminds me of when the Xbox one was launching and I was all for the digital approach. There was a similar thread where I was lambasted, told that digital was stupid, they could drive to the shops and buy a disk before it finished downloading, it would never take off because digital was more expensive, they couldn't trade in a game, or share with a friend.

Lots of comparisons to this thread where I was told digital "offered nothing that the existing set up was offering and doing it better".

Now we have an industry that's 80% digital. Because the use case and potential I saw back then is now here.

I see the same for crypto. You might not like it, but in ten years bitcoin will be a mainstream investment/ currency. NFTs will be a big part of the user generated content future that is being built. Most likely not in its current form and called something else due to the backlash the name brings but the principal of unique tradeable items will be there.

I guess all we can do is agree to meet back here in 2032 and see who was closer.

As one of the replies says, Gamestop, the masters of "Buy something from us but it's worth much less when you try sell it back" have started selling NFTs.

Tweet now deleted. What was it?

Bleugh. NFTs confirmed for the game Neill Blomkamp is involved with.

Although maybe it's no loss when you see ridiculous shite like this in the trailer;

Looks like Sony and I had the same idea 😁 I went around looking into NFTs recently, some of the new games do look quite tempting (killer trailers at the very least). I'll see what autumn brings my way, check some more reviews, I don't know. Never played p2e before, might as well try that too. 

Another project built to supposedly espouse the benefits of the blockchain that could be made entirely without it. Wright says he wants to use the blockchain because he wants secure transactions between players, but we have that in loads of games that have nothing to do with crypto. Also it’s selling the fundamental misunderstanding that immutability = security, which as we’ve seen from thousands of examples is simply not the case(and a lot of times causes far more headaches).

Needless to say I hope it never gets past the design stage!

A true NFT game has finally been revealed

The explanation of it sounds like an improvised riff from Rick & Morty.