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Sega calls video games that use blockchain technology 'boring' (gamerkick.com)

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Shuji Utsumi, Sega’s co-CEO, comments in a new statement that there is no point in implementing blockchain technology if it doesn’t make games ‘fun’.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only plausible use case I could come up with is if a game company earnestly and legitimately wants to allow but outsource a real-money marketplace. As a cost saving measure for their own benefit.

If e.g. Diablo allowed legendaries to be owned based on an NFT, offered zero opinion on its legitimacy, said "whelp nothing we can do" to customers losing their items to scams or accidents, and didn't add any smart contract taxation or other shenanigans, it could work.

It wouldn't improve the game for the players, but it would finally be a legitimate use case that improved something for someone without being a pixellated ponzi scheme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

allow but outsource

Yarp. And if that doesn't get your hackles up, I don't know what else more to say.