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Sure, you don’t need blockchain and NFTs to do all that but once you invented that system you’d have effectively reinvented blockchain and NFTSs.
The meta-problem here is two fold:
All of that is pretty trivial to do in a standard postgres database.
I've never worked on currency stuff, but my understanding is this is a well understood and developed problem space. No one is blocked on software development because they can't figure out how to charge a credit card, or implement their own stupid "Microsoft Points" system
I don't really understand what you mean by this. Maybe this is a load bearing point of yours?
Sounds like an API layer on top of the DB, though, which is also pretty trivial. Like Gw2Efficiency uses the GW2 api to read the items you have on your account.
I think it is an error and deeply presumptuous to make that kind of claim about the other people in an argument. How would you feel if I said you were fooled by crypto propaganda? Not likely to change your mind or even have a amicable conversation. Especially if you add the insulting "me no like" phrasing.
There are many reasons to reject NFTs and cryptocurrency that do not stem from being "programmed".
People of any sort are susceptible to believing what their group believes. I don't think "gamers" are more suspectible to this, but they may be louder in spaces like lemmy.
But, to your point, I don't think people would focus their ire on Ubisoft if they were like "You know what? We decided to let our workers unionize, and we're getting rid of microtransactions." I mean, maybe. I don't know. There are certain groups that if they told me the sky was blue and there was free ice cream, I'd still be suspicious.
I get that you are insulted by my comment about crypto critics, but a few of your comments have shown that you lack the understanding of crypto to criticize it. Thus, you have validated my comment you found insulting.
I listed a series of bullet points & you said Postgres can do that. Of course you can define those tables in any database. But the logic to perform operations on those tables for a transaction and accounting system must still be written. One of the main aspects of blockchains are exactly such an API.
Second, you have shown that you don’t understand NFTs either. But thank you for at least admitting that you don’t understand what I meant by refs to blobs of data. So there is hope. Almost no crypto currency stores NFTs on-chain. Blockchains are designed to be super efficient since they are distributed transaction systems. When you buy an NFT, the actual data for compromising the NFT itself is stored somewhere else. The blockchain just has the token proving ownership.
But the meta-problem is more important here. You are debating so confidently and asserting things so boldly, yet you don’t have the knowledge of the topic that a 2 hour tutorial would give you. That is the real problem. Why are people like this? Why do they read something that is essential an editorial and then go around vehemently repeating the points from that editorial?
Please shut the fuck up. Nobody cares. Gamers don't want NFTs in their games. They've shown it by not buying into that stupid fad that's already died down.
There's enough predatory shit in games already, there's no need for more artificial scarcity.
Nobody wants this except greedy pigs controlling gaming megacorps. And it's not happening. Ever. Find another pyramid scheme and other losers to buy into your shit. We're not buying your snake oil.