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Can someone ELI5 to me what the hell a block chain game exactly is. I know what NFT's are, and I get the gist of what the block chain is, I'm just struggling to understand how these go together. I've looked at a few things, but I'm still struggling to understand what it entails.
Also I feel like my father today, holy shit. TIL I'm an out of touch oldie
The "dream" is decentralized ownership. If you buy an item in a game, you could resell it to someone else outside the game (in theory this could mean that a game wouldn't need to create its own marketplace). In theory items could be used across multiple games or platforms.
In reality, game publishers have little incentive to actually do the above things. Why would game x want to support items sold in game y? Why would a platform want to support a secondary market if that would only eat into the primary market.
There are some neat ideas, but the player base is too jaded against it for it to go anywhere anytime soon.
Definitely is pretty weird logic. I wish the people that come up with this crap, would actually apply their skills and attention to problems and issues that actually need solving, or to innovations that actually move society forward. But no.
Also I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this more!