NFTs and NFT Content in Gaming Megathread

Your thoughts on NFTs in gaming?

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Alot of the hatred seems very kneejerk to me. I don't mind the way midnight society are using it I think once in a while you could have rare item that could fetch a good price for you, I'm down for that.
 
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mihailovich said:
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99.999% of CSGO skins arent unique. Additionally 95% of CSGO skins are made by third party artists who receive 50% of profits generated in CSGO and retain full rights to their artwork.

The comparison doesnt hold.
 
KaNesDeath said:
99.999% of CSGO skins arent unique. Additionally 95% of CSGO skins are made by third party artists who receive 50% of profits generated in CSGO and retain full rights to their artwork.

The comparison doesnt hold.
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It's a joke. I understand that they are not the same but you can compare them in usefulness and way to spend your money.
 
I honestly don't see how they are anything but a scam.
 
Blayt7hh said:
I honestly don't see how they are anything but a scam.
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its like putting trading cards on a digital ledger everyone can see publicly and you can prove you own and then trade etc, so its a scam in the same way magic the gathering is a scam or the art collecting community is a scam etc, is an expensive rare comic book a scam?

thats not to say every NFT project or NFT purchased is not a scam, surely some are, one of the cool things is that is open and public for anyone to use or make an NFT just like with other crypto or blockchain things the whole point is that there are lower barriers to entry and its decentralized, so once bitcoin was released anyone could copy and paste the code and make their own bitcoin which is why there are so many copy cats and you see that with NFTs now that there are a lot of copy cats

a lot of this blockchain stuff will just become background infrastructure for your transactions in money or digital goods or in a video game, the early implementations make a lot of noise and often fail loudly and with a lot of attention but the silent successes will keep developing its just really not about selling a gif on a gold chain
 
THEfightsAREfixed said:
its like putting trading cards on a digital ledger everyone can see publicly and you can prove you own and then trade etc, so its a scam in the same way magic the gathering is a scam or the art collecting community is a scam etc, is an expensive rare comic book a scam?

thats not to say every NFT project or NFT purchased is not a scam, surely some are, one of the cool things is that is open and public for anyone to use or make an NFT just like with other crypto or blockchain things the whole point is that there are lower barriers to entry and its decentralized, so once bitcoin was released anyone could copy and paste the code and make their own bitcoin which is why there are so many copy cats and you see that with NFTs now that there are a lot of copy cats

a lot of this blockchain stuff will just become background infrastructure for your transactions in money or digital goods or in a video game, the early implementations make a lot of noise and often fail loudly and with a lot of attention but the silent successes will keep developing its just really not about selling a gif on a gold chain
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It’s not the same as magic cards though. You physically own that card. People can’t just take it from you and use it. All these NFTs though you can just take and use. Like why are people buying a gif that I can just go google and get off google images and serve to my desktop and use on Sherdog? That’s not ownership. You can’t stop people from using the image you allegedly own.

Maybe I’m missing more to this. It just sets off my scam alarm
 
Blayt7hh said:
It’s not the same as magic cards though. You physically own that card. People can’t just take it from you and use it. All these NFTs though you can just take and use. Like why are people buying a gif that I can just go google and get off google images and serve to my desktop and use on Sherdog? That’s not ownership. You can’t stop people from using the image you allegedly own.

Maybe I’m missing more to this. It just sets off my scam alarm
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but... it's on a blockchain, bruh!
 
rob mafia said:
but... it's on a blockchain, bruh!
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Like case in point a few months back the UFC and Francis “sold” and image of him shooped as the predator, I think for like tens of thousands too. They then posted the same image on the UFC Twitter feed announcing the news of the sale and a sherdogger started a thread sharing the tweet complete with this image.

I honest to god don’t understand how they didn’t just convince this rube to give them a lot of money for literally nothing. I get it there is a block chain verifying his ownership of it… with literally no enforcement mechanism and no way for him to make money off it besides convincing someone else to buy his useless ownership of it?

I admit I haven’t done a lot of research on it. Every time I see it in these threads though I’ve yet to see a good explanation as to what you’re paying for or buying into.
 
I don't even know what NFT is. Heard of it for the last x months or so. Is that important, should I concern myself with it?
 
Blayt7hh said:
honest to god don’t understand how they didn’t just convince this rube to give them a lot of money for literally nothing. I get it there is a block chain verifying his ownership of it… with literally no enforcement mechanism and no way for him to make money off it besides convincing someone else to buy his useless ownership of it?

I admit I haven’t done a lot of research on it.
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nope, you got it.

"greater fool theory"
 
mihailovich said:
I understand that they are not the same but you can compare them in usefulness and way to spend your money.
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Someone buys a NFT purely on the hopes of selling it for a profit. Someone buys a CSGO to use it in-game. Where in-game the user can rename said weapon and add up to four stickers from over one thousand available stickers. Only similarity are the two being digital items.
 
Blayt7hh said:
It’s not the same as magic cards though. You physically own that card. People can’t just take it from you and use it. All these NFTs though you can just take and use. Like why are people buying a gif that I can just go google and get off google images and serve to my desktop and use on Sherdog? That’s not ownership. You can’t stop people from using the image you allegedly own.

Maybe I’m missing more to this. It just sets off my scam alarm
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It can be unique in game cosmetics that only you own. Like player skins or avatars and calling cards. For example if the players who have fortnite season 1 cosmetics actually owned their stuff. They could sell them for good money.

Some players don't care about in game accessories and cosmetics but many players do. I'm admittedly a sucker for cosmetics so I Would love to own my stuff.
 
what-wut said:
It can be unique in game cosmetics that only you own. Like player skins or avatars and calling cards. For example if the players who have fortnite season 1 cosmetics actually owned their stuff. They could sell them for good money.

Some players don't care about in game accessories and cosmetics but many players do. I'm admittedly a sucker for cosmetics so I Would love to own my stuff.
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...k? and games like path of exile already did that. except somehow, they were magically able to do that years ago and without needing blockchain bullshit. and hell, they did this back when they started and had like no budget.

crazy, amirite?

it's as if NFTs are just plain bullshit or something.
 
rob mafia said:
...k? and games like path of exile already did that. except somehow, they were magically able to do that years ago and without needing blockchain bullshit. and hell, they did this back when they started and had like no budget.

crazy, amirite?

it's as if NFTs are just plain bullshit or something.
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So what's your objection? They are doing what's been done before but using blockchain.
 
what-wut said:
So what's your objection? They are doing what's been done before but using blockchain.
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...that's my objection

ffs, the best-case scenario you have is that there are needless extra steps involved. and that's the BEST case.
 
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