NFTs and NFT Content in Gaming Megathread

[SwamiLeoni]

DMR's arent centralized.

Ok? Back to the original point, I never mentioned they would be traded / sold. So not totally sure where you got that from.

being a voluntary ponzi scheme may remove the fraud/etc, but it doesn't make it not a ponzi scheme.

MLMs still exist and many people are stoked to join one. but they're still MLMs and objectively a combination of scam, sham and hopium. btw, you're focusing on price for some reason. i don't know why.

i'll all ears to hear how NFTs mean no one can cheat in a video game.

You called it a scam, what else could I refer to other than the price? I also didn’t read what you had quoted me. I thought you referred to the NFTs themselves yet you believe crypto as a whole is 95% ponzies. So there is our fundamental disagreement. I don’t think they’re scams or ponzis. I’ve been through this discussion a million and one times and don’t feel the need to go through it again. Time will tell.

As far as NFTs in games, I do believe they’re coming and I’m on the fence as to whether or not they will have a place in the gaming ecosystem. My gut say yes, but personally, I haven’t done much research in this area so I don’t feel qualified to speak on it. It’s a young market with young ideas.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Ok? Back to the original point,

Your original point pertaining to DMR's made zero sense in terms of security and or as a digital asset in the NFT space. Fact you brought it up as an example shows no understanding of DMR's, HIPPA and the exchange of patients medical records between medical professionals.

 

[rob mafia]

Ok? Back to the original point, I never mentioned they would be traded / sold. So not totally sure where you got that from.



You called it a scam, what else could I refer to other than the price? I also didn’t read what you had quoted me. I thought you referred to the NFTs themselves yet you believe crypto as a whole is 95% ponzies. So there is our fundamental disagreement. I don’t think they’re scams or ponzis. I’ve been through this discussion a million and one times and don’t feel the need to go through it again. Time will tell.

As far as NFTs in games, I do believe they’re coming and I’m on the fence as to whether or not they will have a place in the gaming ecosystem. My gut say yes, but personally, I haven’t done much research in this area so I don’t feel qualified to speak on it. It’s a young market with young ideas.

holy fuck, imagine trying to school someone when your reading comprehension is as bad as your logic.

STILL waiting to hear how NFTs mean people can't cheat in video games. i know it was jojo's stupid claim, but since you decided to champion his stupid argument on his behalf...

 

[SwamiLeoni]

Your original point pertaining to DMR's made zero sense in terms of security and or as a digital asset in the NFT space. Fact you brought it up as an example shows no understanding of DMR's, HIPPA and the exchange of patients medical records between medical professionals.

Why would it make zero sense? I don’t work in the medical field, however, from the California Consumer Protection website it clearly states that these records are stored in a database. A database that is centralized.

https://www.consumer-action.org/downloads/english/RoseMedicalPrivacyQ&A.pdf

Here’s an article outlining its potential uses. Something a quick Google search could have accomplished.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissamcfarlane/2021/06/02/will-nfts-save-healthcare/amp/

 

[SwamiLeoni]

holy fuck, imagine trying to school someone when your reading comprehension is as bad as your logic.

STILL waiting to hear how NFTs mean people can't cheat in video games. i know it was jojo's stupid claim, but since you decided to champion his stupid argument on his behalf...

lol, ya you got me. As I mentioned it was a mistake, it was 12:00am here. I find it funny you’re wanting me to defend a claim I never made while simultaneously claiming my reading comprehension is bad. That’s not how discussion works. I won’t ask you to defend a claim someone else made.

Again, from what I posted above, I’m not educated enough on how gaming companies will use this technology. It’s new, I don’t think anyone fully has a grasp. But people much smarter than I am are working on ways to implement it. Who knows what they’ll come up with.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Here’s an article outlining its potential uses. Something a quick Google search could have accomplished.

Best you look into the author of the article professional motives. Pertaining to California its databases, not a database. Where each service provider handles their own allowing those in the medical field to query and add to its record.

 

[SwamiLeoni]

Best you look into the author of the article professional motives. Pertaining to California its databases, not a database. Where each service provider handles their own allowing those in the medical field to query and add to its record.

The author was doing nothing but pointing out the obvious. That the medical industry needs to update the way they handle their clients data.

I’m a little confused on your second part. It makes no sense. Service providers right now use centralized databases, yet you said the data was decentralized. In 2021 alone, 40 million users were impacted because of healthcare data breaches. That means someone could hop into a system and change your medical record…because it’s on a centralized database.

 

[TestosterOWN]

I said it in another thread. Isn’t it basically just a skin that only you can have?
I mean as long as it’s just skins and doesn’t help win games and shit.

but we already know how that goes for games like warzone. They implement vanguard guns that are purposely overpowered so basically you gotta buy the game to upgrade this guns to compete.

so I’m sure EA and UBI and Rockstar will all abuse the shit out of this.

 

[mightywang1]

I'd rather have Bitcoin or Ethereum, than these NFTs.

 

[WhiteMousse]

Video games had a good run. After the crash and resurrection we saw an amazing bloom of creativity and finesse. I feel fortunate that I was able to enjoy it- I feel fortunate that I was able to live in the era in which it thrived. But like all flowers that bloom and, even the universe itself, there is blossoming, expansion and... death.

 

[Valhoven]

 

[rob mafia]

if it was bought by a trust fund trigglypuff, it's basically the intersection of everything i hate.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

 

[fdswer]

Just another fad scam to take advantage of idiots and their money, something gaming has no shortage of.

 

[greggTB]

As far as NFTs in games, I do believe they’re coming and I’m on the fence as to whether or not they will have a place in the gaming ecosystem. My gut say yes, but personally, I haven’t done much research in this area so I don’t feel qualified to speak on it. It’s a young market with young ideas.

It seems that NFT sphere of business is going to be as popular as any other crypto-related business. Because it's simple and people like things like that. You should probably take a look at top nft collections on TopNFTCollections if you want to understand how expensive those assets sometimes can be.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Because it's simple and people like things like that.

They think its simple, it isnt. Requires different corporate entities working in conjunction to include game assets of competing IP's while somehow negating art style and game mechanic differences.

 

[PEB]

NFTs aren't going anywhere and their growing prevalence in gaming news – and soon content, is something we can get ahead of by having a megathread to host anything and everything NFT, to include our own thoughts, complaints, and forward-looking on the matter. Talk freely, to say.

What are NFTs?

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token and in my best nuts-and-bolts of it within the space, it's a technology that allows for the authenticated ownership outside any copyright and subsequent arbitrary monetisation of a digital asset. If anyone more in the know thinks this an unfair take, please let me know.

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Gaming seems admittedly a natural fit for the technology – but concerns over its in-game implementation and the resulting predatory opportunities (I liken what's coming to an MTX Disneyland but here Mickey, a deft pickpocket) have been in step with NFTs since they appeared on the scene.

Sega just today is the first I've seen to hit the pause button on their own NFTs, but this being nothing more than a speed bump is likely, I'd hazard:
Even the most OG of all protags, Mario, is not safe from the reach of NFTs:

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And to hand over the convo on a rather ominous note, the father of bad-faith practices from forgoing QA to rampant asset and animation flipping amongst portfolio entries, Ubisoft of course is already well in the mix with Digits, which is explained by Ars Technica as:

Ubisoft became the first big-name game publisher to jump on the non-fungible token bandwagon Tuesday. After teasing its interest in the space last month, the company is officially rolling out Quartz, a system of in-game cosmetic items powered by a new kind of NFT, called "Digits."

By using a decentralized NFT blockchain, Ubisoft promises its Quartz system will "grant players more control than ever" and "more autonomy and agency" in order to "genuinely make players stakeholders of our games."
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They go on to determine this a questionable if not terrible idea in their article Ubisoft's first NFT plans make no sense.

Funny I am in the middle of 3D printing some various parts of Mario Kart and working with someone to develop an entirely new line modeled by me and painted by a friend based on current news may make them NFT's? He says some of his original sets sell for upwards of a few hundred dollars that go back to when the game came out.

This was just a one day build working on some on the side for some unique looking possible NFT's.

 

[PEB]

Hate to break it to people you think the game companies are not paying attention to people paying 2,000 dollars for a 700 dollar video card? It's becoming a two tier system the haves and the have not's exclusive stuff is for the people who "and there are many" plunk down 2,000 dollars for a 3070ti video card. You know who they are the miners and they are willing to pump the right things up. It's socialist if your not supporting a companies right to make tons of money on limited release content through NFT's you a socialist? lol

 

[KaNesDeath]

Funny I am in the middle of 3D printing some various parts of Mario Kart and working with someone to develop an entirely new line modeled by me

You just admitted to violating copyright law............

 

[PEB]

You just admitted to violating copyright law............

Not selling the train I am making a completely separate part that fits Mario kart toys. It's like you go an buy clothing for dolls I am not making te dolls I am making the clothes. You should see the tons of reproductions IE 3D Mario Kart items. Oh I have access to tons of legal professionals an my father was an attorney. Oh an we have a narc here in Sherdog apparently. Be careful with KaNesDeath he could rat on you lol.