There is a lot of transactions that end up taking place “off game” with things like casinos/gambling being a specific example for EVE. Rather then having to trust that you’ll get your isk (I never played but watched the down the rabbit hole on EVE, which is great BTW, and watched from afar throughout the years).

With a smart contract system, there wouldn’t be the same concerns that things aren’t being distributed properly, unless there’s a bug in how the smart contract was written, which absolutely can and has happened, but at least it’d all be publicly viewable. That’s one thing I very much appreciate about the idea of crypto in general, transparency in where money is moving.

I’m sure there’s other potentials but that one stuck out to me as gambling was a rather large part of eve history.

Extensibility, lots of collaborative development work across the crypto landscape rather then only being done by the company producing the game.

A quick obvious example mentioned was smart contracts, a company attempting to create that functionality from the ground up would be a lot more work then hooking into an already existing infrastructure where many lessons have already been learned from prior failures.

It doesn’t actually state in the article (because the writer was mostly just whining that crypto exists) but I am curious if the idea would be for the tokens to be transacted or utilized outside of the game itself in some fashion while still being completely track able.

Edit: It’d kinda be like instead of using a standard email format/protocol, developing a whole new “electronic mail messaging system” from the ground up. Why do that when the functionality you want has already been created and heavily documented.

Edit2: Going back to my prior point about potential for transacting outside of the game itself, if a company wanted to make that happen, they’d have to build all the infrastructure/APIs/etc to interact with the database.

Same, tired of replacing the bumpers on my Xbox controllers, and want the extensibility I’ve seen with the decks controller layout.

Lmfao using smart contract functionality for an in-game currency actually makes a ton of sense. It’s basically just a more extensible version of any in-game currency.

The caveat I think of is fees required to transact being a potential issue, otherwise the article just screams of “I hate block chain and refuse to see how it could be used in any way”

I’m sure it’ll be killed and rebranded the new Google pay and the features will be dropped. Then in 5 year rinse and repeat.

I still have a physical Google wallet card from like 2013

The funny thing with that, I haven’t seen a term taken like that from a tech company though.

Xerox is the only one I can think of that came close, Googling at this point…

You keep saying the ONLY POSSIBLE REASON is to get people to buy it twice, I provided reasoning and evidence to the contrary but you don’t care, so yes we’re done here 👍

Companies do different things? Madness! It must be a conspiracy!

You’re refusing to understand the reality of developing for the PC market and instead just shifting all the blame on corporate greed and corporate incompetence at the same time.

The only recent console I own is the switch, everything else is PC all day.

I waited for GTA V to come to PC and played it a lot when it did, so… Maybe if you only expect the fomo crowd to be the only gamers in existence… Sure.

Other then they’re different systems, console is much easier to test/develop on because its a consistent environment, PCs by comparison have so many potential differences per device that it’s much more nuanced.

Would you rather they release a broken ass game on PC or wait and let them optimize and potentially add extra functionality?

I know what I’m picking…