If I see someone with an NFT skin in a game I play I will absolutely TK them if possible, and prematurely leave if I can’t TK them.
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didn’t asimilar thing happen in fallout 76 too when they added a paid subscription? premium players would just get constantly murdered
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do NFTs actually encode the thing they represent on the block chain, or are they just tags saying “I own pinhead #3758”?
if it’s actually encoded, is it encrypted?
presumably things on the blockchain have the public key of the owner, so a game would be able to check ownership that way rather than having to talk to a server owned by the makers of the NFT. hopefully the lookup of a particular key doesn’t cause any actual operations on the blockchain.
the ERC-721 standard has implementation details, it came out of Cryptokitties, a game on the Ethereum blockchain. so no big stretch to imagine extending it for cosmetics in other games
alternative response: who cares. who cares. who cares. honk
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at least for the first wave NFTs they encoded an url to a web page that said you own the thing, so they weren’t even the tags proper.
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How silly, games already have an authoritative source of trust strictly mediated access and user interactions, including commerce. There’s nothing any ‘distributed’ ‘trust’ network can do that a game developer can’t destroy, nor any unregulated market that can exist without them, other than, uh, grey-market skin trading.
on the other hand, NFTs are created from and perpetuated through scam thinking, so arguing logically is kind of pointless
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The funniest thing is it’s entirely possible that BHVR is not involved with this at all; could just be another scam by a crypto hustler founded yesterday. Hopefully people raising a stink about it will force a comment. I can’t imagine this is good press.
Jesus wept
AHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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at this point my fear with NFTs is they will become kind of a mundane item and treated like DLC or something, as companies with no particular sense of outward conscience implement them as a way to get people to buy more shit because there’s buzz around them and soon it’ll just be another acronym that means “thing i spend money on to feel good about myself,” detached from its very meaning and politics. i kind of get the feeling this is how they’re already being handled by some?
sorry, coffee just kicked in
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Yes, but also “Here is a way we can charge 150 bucks for eight mobile games on a console that doesn’t exist yet”.
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i’ve yet to meet anyone irl who’s fallen down this hole but boy, when i do
powerful synchronicity between this and the various nfts announcing plans to develop their own mmorpgs on the side as like an eventual backer perk
imagining whole discords just pulsating with investor brain energy
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Doesn’t bloober team make like bad point and click adventure games, why would you ask them about producing some kind of 3rd person action extravaganza
“Yes, hello, Mr. Linklater, how do you feel about squibs being summarily deleted from action movies, and also, what do you think about a film starring time-traveling Jacobin kung fu warriors?”
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this reminds me i’ve been yelling “bloober team” when i’m downed and need a revive in online stuff for a while and i have no idea how i got there
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this has been fascinating to watch. perfect combo of indie forums grifter with crypto jackass grifter. all the game proposals are really funny, and i can’t imagine them doing well outside of the group of hyper-obsessed NFT dorks, given that you have to buy in at 50k or whatever to not get owned constantly by some asshole with a racist jpeg.
leave it to NFT guys to reinvent the concept of “gacha game” but in a way that lets them launder money.
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I’m getting flashbacks to when dlc itself was at this point
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the recent saturn tribute games are running on an emulator, which i think might be a commercial first?
hopefully it leads to more saturn games getting rereleased in the future
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Everyone is saying the Switch version suffers from terrible input lag, unfortunately. Not sure about the Steam version. I think they are working on a patch?
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The PS2 port of Trio the Punch running on MAME in such a way that you could get it to kick you to a DOS prompt was amazing.
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