Please explain to me the actual benefit of having NFTs in video games. What is the actual benefit? As I understand it, with NFT integration I can theoretically buy a unique, randomly generated item in one game, and then it will automatically carry over to other games if they are compatible. But that is a massively big if, since it would require the devs of all the other games to each make some sort of cross-compatible cosmetic system that fits their own game's graphics and engine. That's asking a lot.
Anyway, the funny thing is that we already have all that shit, minus the uniquely generated items (sort of, I'll get back to this). When Dead Space 3 came out, it checked my EA account and saw that I played Mass Effect 2, so it gave me an N7-themed suit for the game. This is literally no different than checking a blockchain to see if I own an NFT. It's laughably retarded.
As for the randomly generated aspect, there already exist games like Warframe which have a thing called Riven Mods, which are randomly generated stat-boosting items for specific guns, and people will trade a LOT of premium in-game currency for god rolls. I know that it's only contained to one game, and isn't directly tied to real life money, but Platinum in Warframe is just about as useful as cryptocurrency in real life, so it's a fair comparison in my eyes.
Everyone with a brain cell knows that. So either jump on the bandwagon and find a way to abuse it too or ignore it. There is always gonna be people getting duped.
the absolute best case scenario you can get with NFTs is that you basically get the hat economy of TF2, but it covers over multiple games. This will never happen because none of those crypto groups can make a good game. Its funny really since they just have to copy TF2 and they might actually have an audience.
Adam Cox
NFTs are inevitable, seethe and cope more.
Samuel Brown
NFTs were a good concept for artists and the few people that had the money and the will to support them but it quickly went into a bad idea because of retards trying to grasp money and do stupid shit like putting it into video games
Bentley King
>So either jump on the bandwagon and find a way to abuse it too
I'd rather play pass the parcel with a parcel full of angry bees.
Why are they angry, you ask?
Well, some asshole sticking them in a parcel might have something to do with it.
Jace Morgan
Okay, they're inevitable. I accept it. No cope here. But what will it add that we don't already have? Also, remember, for assets to be be available cross-game, that's way too much labor for a typical developer. Most devs, even pretty big ones, just won't bother. And let's take Call of Duty and Battlefield for example, which are loosely similar games with similar graphics, so cross-content between them is plausible. Why the fuck would EA's Battlefield devs take the time and spend the money to make their game compatible with their competition's content, and visa-versa?
NFTs are basically collector's coins but stored online where you hope they have better security than just hiding precious metals under your floorboards
Levi Adams
>But what will it add that we don't already have?
You'll be able to use your Fortnite skins in Minecraft!
Eli Martin
Whoa... but I already can...
Jeremiah Stewart
>open to counter arguments I'm not, this is based. Blockchain and nfts are just the latest ponzi scheme that requires idiots to buy for the creators to cash in
Robert Martinez
I'm going to make so much money after the ethereum merge
NFTs aren’t even that. Owning a NFT is like owning a seat in front of a picture in the gallery. People can still see the picture without the seat, and people can sit in it when you are on it, and some can even block your view by walking in front of it. You don’t own the picture at all, you just have the ability to say the seat in front of picture is yours
Jeremiah Cook
>you will own nothing >but it kinda sorta feels a bit like you do own something, maybe? This is the function of NFTs. It's to convince the masses that normally don't pay anything for immaterial goods, to start paying for immaterials goods. They don't benefit the consumer in the slightest, but they're a vector to push virtual economies to the mainstream. Will it work? Maybe, maybe not. But if they don't, it'll only be a while until there's the next big thing doing the same. Because you WILL own nothing. That's the inevitability.
Hunter Rodriguez
Collectible items are retarded because the company that makes them has an incentive to create more of them and thus reduce their rarity. This is unescapable because they make profit soley from selling the item.
NFTs can solve this problem and align the incentives between creator and collector.
Also NFTs are just programmable digital tokens. They are going to be a big deal in the future in ways that we cannot concieve of yet. Its just like how people originally though personal computers would be good for storing your recipes and tax documents in and nothing else. Nobody was predicting the existence of youtube or whatever.
Chase Cook
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Gabriel Cruz
yeah the USA should mint more 1900's silver dollars
Josiah Thomas
Prove it. What new to NFT's bring to the table that existing games can't already do.
Mason Hernandez
how the fuck can decentralized currencies 'merge' how does it get more decenteralizey none of these words you retards say make any fucking sense
Andrew Allen
Yes, NFTs are retarded. There is no actual benefit. Lean in close, I'm about to tell you the secret to why anyone pushes them at all
You listening?
Good
>Its a fucking scam. It has no benefit to anyone except for those attempting to profit by making a network of "play to earn hurrdurr" gatcha garbage. Its hostile to the very concept of playing for fun because any game in which they exist will be designed and played (by others, if not you) for monetization and the devs will not ever make a decision that threatens the monetization even if if could improve the game itself. There is no point to NFTs anywhere, but especially in vidya its absolutely pernicious.
Adam Flores
Owning an NFT is like owning a website domain. You own it, I don't see why you wouldn't own it.
Well I figured that, unlike the normal internet where we can just right click and save the monkey pictures, in-game there'd be no way to copy the unique skins and whanot, like the Riven Mods I mentioned in Warframe. When I'm rewarded a Riven Mod from a daily raid, it's completely unique. Other players might have very similar ones, but no two are exactly alike. And these things actually affect the gameplay, too, which is why people pay so much for them.
I understand that what you're describing fits the online art variety of NFTs, which can obviously be saved by anyone, but for video games it'd be different.
As a tangent, I follow an NFT artist on Twitter who's actually pretty talented. The strange thing is, though, that I figured she would send the high-res version of her art only to whoever buys it, leaving only samples for the right-click bandits. But nope, she has all the full-res versions of her art right on her website, so when you buy her shit you literally get nothing, as opposed to actually getting the full thing. It's extremely bizarre.
>There is no point to NFTs anywhere, but especially in vidya
Imagine being this retarded. This is literally like the nobel prize winning economist who said "the impact of computers on business will be no more than the fax machine" in the 90s
Samuel Perez
If you own a website domain you have control over what can be put on that website. NFTs are like owning a "certificate of authenticity" for a website domain, that has nothing to do with or ownership of the domain itself, what is hosted there, who is allowed to go to the site, or anything else.
Ian Gutierrez
Yeah but that's so much worse since he was an economist and all. This is just some image board.
>No argument but YA JUST GONNA BE LEFT BEHIND Hang yourself with a smart contracted noose.
Benjamin Campbell
Being anti crypto is a leftoid position for people who hate freedom and want the government to run their lives. Sad.
Easton Hernandez
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This but unironically. Decentralization is the greatest thing ever and I can't imagine why leftoids wouldn't be all for it if they dislike government and big banks so much. Literal monkeys.
Adrian Morgan
Crypto is dead. It's only good for laundering money and fleecing retards.
>grabs popcorn while another exchange goes bankrupt
Connor Sanders
news media said crypto bad. so cryto bad.
edit:wow thanks for all the upboats folks
Samuel Ward
>Equates being anti NFT or NFT-in-gaming with being against crypto entirely >INVOKES LEFTOID AS MAGICAL CURSE WORD, TEH GUBBERMINTZ IS GONNA MAKE U TEH SLAVE AYN RAND SAID SO I AM THE SMARTEST KID IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS I AM JOHN GALT >Still has no argument
Nathan Young
Centralized exchanges and lenders are not important
