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john37386 | 4 years ago

Ubisoft is adding NFT in its new games. Ubisoft is a real company producing real games with real players all around the world.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822410/ubisoft-nfts-qua...

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ElonMuskrat|4 years ago

Is this just protifing on a topical craze or does this have staying power? What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players that they otherwise cannot find in traditional database backed assets?

jfk13|4 years ago

> Is this just protifing on a topical craze

Of course.

> What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players

The warm glow of feeling they're the trendiest kids.

gambiting|4 years ago

And literally every single thing they are doing could be achieved with a simple database shared across games, as they already do. The only thing NFTs achieve here is just being used for marketing.

Yes, it's a "real" use in a "real" company, but that's like trying to argue that Bitcoins are useful and totally absolutely not a scam because a few real world companies decided to accept them as payment. Like, "sure, wink wink".

zombietfk|4 years ago

But is it actually adding anything? Even the article says what they are doing (reselling digital goods) doesn't require any blockchain technology at all.

Kinrany|4 years ago

It does make the ability to resell inalienable.

Of course it's worthless when the game will be shut down in only a few years.

EdwardDiego|4 years ago

I'm not surprised - people want to buy them, so they'll happily sell them.