You LITERALLY do not need blockchain for that, or for any of the other examples. It brings nothing to the table, and only helps killing the planet faster.
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Reggie Fils-Aimé Says He's a 'Believer In Blockchain'
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You LITERALLY do not need blockchain for that, or for any of the other examples. It brings nothing to the table, and only helps killing the planet faster.
Setting aside all hateboners for crypto and normal boners for Reggie, there's like 4 valid use cases for Blockchain tech and this ain't it. He was always just a (good) salesman, so he'll understandably jump at a chance to sell. Good thing he wasn't in charge of actual company production decisions because he never seemed like a creator.
Proof of stake will never be the dominant form of crypto because it has it's own massive fundemental problems that make it fundementally untenable for any big cryptocurrency which is why Etherium's supposed shift to it hasn't manifested despite being talked about for years and likely never will be anything more than or fluff to assure people that crypto is good actually
It's the one time that gamers have non ironicly risen up.It's funny how quickly the blockchain went from being new, buzzworthy concept to being something that now carries Boomer energy. Every time I hear somebody trying to hamfist blockchain / crypto / NFTs into gaming I'm like
Yep. "moving to proof of stake" is just the new "the check is in the mail."
I really wish people reporting on this shit or doing interviews like this would work harder to spot the patterns.
Never understood why anyone liked this guy. Biggest bullshitter in PR history and couldn't give an answer without sounding like a politician. Oh but he said my body is ready so he must be cool.
Also, why on earth would you say this publicly now?
Why go on-record and say "you know that thing everyone has hated for like half a year now and has resulted in consumer outrage every time someone has tried to shoehorn it in? The thing that seems to be winding down because nobody's found a compelling use for it apart from endless scams? I'm a big fan of that."
Why go on-record and say "you know that thing everyone has hated for like half a year now and has resulted in consumer outrage every time someone has tried to shoehorn it in? The thing that seems to be winding down because nobody's found a compelling use for it apart from endless scams? I'm a big fan of that."
I was fine with it initially since he was careful to say "blockchain" and not "NFTs" or "crypto", but then he starts talking about "play-to-earn" and all possible benefit of the doubt went right out the window.
Blockchain is indeed a very compelling technology that has sadly been completely hijacked by the aformentioned concepts. How it can be implemented into games aside from those, I'm not entirely sure, but I'd actually be open to hearing about new blockchain concepts in gaming that has nothing to do with those three.
Blockchain is indeed a very compelling technology that has sadly been completely hijacked by the aformentioned concepts. How it can be implemented into games aside from those, I'm not entirely sure, but I'd actually be open to hearing about new blockchain concepts in gaming that has nothing to do with those three.
Just add "in 6 months" to end and you'll be right for years to come at this rate.
And you don't have to look outside gaming space, Valve has been doing this with Steam Market for almost a decade. (And i believe user to user trading existed before that).
Idea maybe sounds good, reduced to "earn money by playing",
but huge problem will be balancing and legal issues.
And more you think worse it sounds for average player.
What's the point of buying anything if everything can be gained easily?
What's point of paying extra for skins / visual flair in SP games?
That someone earns by playing means someone else will be paying extra to continue playing (with publisher taking cut, obviously)
And publisher taking cut means there's incentive to keep rate of earners low, items will have higher prices, more trades, etc.
So you will actually need items that are required or very useful or otherwise desirable - that very few users will actually be able to get.
Maybe combined with paywall (like CS:GO does with lootboxes and free drops are like 0.01€ and impossible to sell).
That's not taking account that you'd probably run into issues with gambling laws, if someone can argue that those items extend gameplay. (in US).
Some EU countries even cosmetic items can be illegal (Netherlands, Belgium).
?? If Nintendo wanted you to be able to, you could with no blockchain technology.
He has to know this and is just grifting... right?
blockchain is something specific... he's still talking about tokenization of data that you want to sell, it's not the same thing really, and the latter can be done entirely without the former
Giant Bomb Mario Party vids (there are many) where Dan made the cast suffer through each entry. Long watch but funny none the less if you like watching Mario Party screw people over.
Man behind Bigfoot Pizza believes in the Blockchain.
EVEN IF the blockchain was incorporated into video games successfully and critically acclaimed, try telling game publishers we 'own' our game and want to sell it second-hand. Publishers and developers are going to want their cut, and using NFT's/Blockchain is another means to fill their pockets while not giving anything up to the consumer.
Relevant PA comic
EVEN IF the blockchain was incorporated into video games successfully and critically acclaimed, try telling game publishers we 'own' our game and want to sell it second-hand. Publishers and developers are going to want their cut, and using NFT's/Blockchain is another means to fill their pockets while not giving anything up to the consumer.
Relevant PA comic
I really can't believe anyone believes Reggie left the board of GameStop out of some principled stand, and not because he was straight up iced out (along with a lot of the existing board) by new shareholders (i.e. Ryan Cohen) who wanted to bring their own people in onto the board. This is both extremely common and obviously what happened. Cohen gained control over the board and pushed out the people who were there before him in order to bring on people he knew already. I mean Reggie was one of 8 who left at the same. That is someone cleaning house.
Damn, how the giants end up falling.
I mean, the current concept of blockchain doesn't have to do anything with the original concept from the 90s, but the waters are still so goddamn muddy that the only mood allowed for the moment should be "shut up, please shut up". And by "the moment", I mean "many, many years".
Also, that Jim S. Sterling is already preparing another "crypto is bullshit" video should be granted at this time.
I mean, the current concept of blockchain doesn't have to do anything with the original concept from the 90s, but the waters are still so goddamn muddy that the only mood allowed for the moment should be "shut up, please shut up". And by "the moment", I mean "many, many years".
Also, that Jim S. Sterling is already preparing another "crypto is bullshit" video should be granted at this time.
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