NFTs are garbage created to funnel money from the pockets of degenerate suckers.
Come on are you even serious with this?
Sony is considering NFTs (probably)
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I really can't believe anyone thinks "second hand DLC or game sales" are something that'll ever happen.
Like it blows my mind.. the idea makes zero sense at face value.
Like it blows my mind.. the idea makes zero sense at face value.
They finally get rid of the second hand games market (because people chose to move to digital on their own) just to go out of their way to recreate it using stupid technology for no reason.
You sound like the typical case of people who hates something only because it's new and different even if doesn't understand or know that new thing. For the main reason of being afraid of seeing the current stuff replaced with that new one. I saw it many times before with:
- 8/16 bit computers users and arcade players hating 8/16 bit consoles
- Arcade players hating 16 and 32 bit consoles
- 2D players hating 3D visuals during 32 gen
- Dpad players hating dual analog controls
- Cartridge players hating disks
- Physical game players hating digital games
- Console players used to have only big publishers hating indie games
- Hardcore players hating casual games
- Local multiplayer players hating online multiplayer
- Hardcore players using traditional controls hating motion based controls
- Gamers used to games without DLC hating DLC
- Gamers used to games without DLC hating MTX
- Gamers used to games without DLC hating
- Gamers used to games without DLC hating season passes
- Gamers used to games without DLC hating free game updates, unlockables and free DLC
- Gamers used to games without DLC hating GaaS
- Gamers used to paid games hating F2P
- Console and PC gamers hating mobile game
- Gamers used to buy games hating game subscriptions
- Gamers used to play locally hating cloud gaming
- Players used to play on tvs and monitors hating VR games
- Gamers used to paid games or F2P hating NFT and P2E
F2P is already more way popular than paid games both in number of players and revenue and is on a growing trend. And revenue from addons (DLC/MTX/season passes etc, mostly from F2P/GaaS) is also bigger than the one from buying games and is also in a growing trend. Subscripions to get games is also growing.
So the trend is that paid to buy games is almost going to dissapear even if there will be always paid games.
Which leads me to think 2nd hand for bought digital games won't exist because won't make sense since most games will be free. But the revenue will come from mostly for digital add-ons but will grow the one from player to player transactions (with the dev getting a portion of the transaction) for unlockable items, bought items or user generated items because companies will be interested on getting new revenue sources. The market trend is also going multiplatform and crossplay. And this is why they'll use NFTs (which btw are platform agnostic/crossplay).
I think players will adopt it because in the same way that people logically prefers to play for free over paying to play, players will also prefer to earn money for playing over not earning money for playing.
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They aren't nfts though as they aren't unique, and aren't related to intentifiers on the Blockchain. In this case it appears someone who doesn't understand what nfts are made the same mistake.
Yes, NFT is only a technology to certify the ownership of a digital item. To hate it is stupid and doesn't make sense.
I hate it because it sucks, simple as that (like many of the things you listed btw), regardless if sucked allowed them to become popular.
Acting superior because you stan for NFT is exactly the behavior I would expect of people about the be suckered out of their money. Please, invest all your money on NFTs, just do it.
P2E?
So as we can see, you can't even justify with a solid reason why do you hate it or why it's supposed to be worse than the current model.
I don't act superior, I only say that hearing someone complaining about some innovation that doesn't even knows, understands or even tried it and being close minded to its potential is something I saw many times before.Acting superior because you stan for NFT is exactly the behavior I would expect of people about the be suckered out of their money. Please, invest all your money on NFTs, just do it.
P2E?
I worked as gamedev in the early days of some of the things of the list with teams that where back then and/or are now in some of the market leaders. First as mainly as coder (or designer) and later mostly collecting and analyzing player feedback, suggestions and issue reports. And well, I'm a player since the 80s. It only means I heard it many times, nothing superior.
P2E means Play to Earn, being able to earn money with stuff you created, earned or unlocked in games. Traditionally by selling it to other players. Like Steam cards but with in-game items you don't want to use anymore. There are already some early games out there already generating a lot of money so publishers are working to figure out how to slowly embrace it once matures a bit more.
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You don’t need to invest money in NFTsI hate it because it sucks, simple as that (like many of the things you listed btw), regardless if sucked allowed them to become popular.
Acting superior because you stan for NFT is exactly the behavior I would expect of people about the be suckered out of their money. Please, invest all your money on NFTs, just do it.
P2E?
You do if you think it's so awesome, why wouldn't you?You don’t need to invest money in NFTs
I really can't believe you guy are going to defend NFT just because the is speculation Sony might get into it, find some self respect.
I'm selling this NFT.
It's called "The world discovers a Verge writer is bi-polar"
It's called "The world discovers a Verge writer is bi-polar"
What one thing has to do with the other?
I don’t need to pay to have a NFT item.
Buy, trade, gift, etc is your choice… it is not required or forced.
If Sony gets into NFT I'll go full PC and I'll never even consider one of their consoles again. It would be a new low for PlayStation.
This can be done without NFTs
They're not solving for any issues and only helped create a bunch of insuferable mouth breathers
Sony doesn't need NFTs for any of those things
Who was doing the sexual abuse of his children and why was his workplace involved?I'm selling this NFT.
It's called "The world discovers a Verge writer is bi-polar"
I think the big issue with NFTs in terms of gamers accepting them, is that practically EVERY mention of them we've seen from actual companies and businesses wanting to push them, have had the greediest reasons for wanting to do them. Every example of NFTs I've seen thus far has been horribly egregious in terms of the rather ripoff pricing associated with them, combined with the relative (lack of) quality of some of the NFT items I've seen (like the horrible "virtual drawing" NFTs various celebs have made).
No one's really presented a sensible NFT product yet that doesn't stink of greed or restrictions for the consumer. And while Sony might be able to come up with uses for NFTs that are much better than most, the BS they've been doing with GT7's premium cars (in terms of their MTX pricing) doesn't inspire too much confidence on that front, so understandably gamers are worried.
Sure, NFTs as a technology can be used for good, but it's up to companies to actually do that by showing that good use, before customers start accepting them in their products. And that's 100% fair IMO.
Those are neat uses, but like @IntentionalPun said I don't know if you actually need NFTs for any of those features. Maybe some underlying aspect of the technology, but at this point it might be better to just take that specific technology which would be useful for enabling those features, spin it out, and rebrand is something not NFTs.
Because truth is NFTs have an extremely bad rap with hardcore/core gamers and it's probably too alien a concept for casuals to wrap their head around yet, much less accept considering the costs associated.
Some of these didn't see as much pushback as it may seem. I don't remember people on dpads "hating" analog sticks, for starters because they weren't forced on people and most games (at least on PS1 & Saturn) didn't support them. But also, Super Mario 64 was HUGE right at launch and the N64 had very strong adoption rates in the West, both that game and the console were built around analog controls.
Same way, I don't remember a lot of people hating the switch to discs becoming mainstream. Cartridge games were getting more and more expensive, and storage space wasn't increasing in line with the increase in costs. Systems like the 3DO failed because of reasons aside of supporting discs, because the PS1 did very strong right out of the gate and was a disc-based system at its core.
I wouldn't even be sure arcade gamers hated 16-bit or 32-bit consoles because most people who went to arcades were console gamers anyway, and for certain games if you wanted the absolute best version, you still needed an arcade even towards the end of PS1/N64/Saturn era.
I agree on some of the other things though; thing is, they became acceptable because over time enough examples of beneficial, good usage came from various games and gamers chose to eventually be okay with them because of that. NFT acceptance is, understandably, much further behind and will take some years before it's accepted (IF it's accepted), and that will depend on devs/pubs actually utilizing the technology in ways beneficial to gamers, fair to gamers, and doing so over a long period of time.
I don't know if the combination of F2P, aggressive MTX and NFTs are going to be a net benefit to gamers or the industry without some catastrophic consequences. You'd think the presence of NFTs would lead to a general curtailing of MTX pricing and practices (i.e will EVERY single simple color variant of an armor be its own NFT?), but we know publishers don't think like that.
All NFTs do is make the "receipt" that you bought "something" transferable to other people on NFT marketplaces.
That's literally it.
It makes no real sense in gaming because any game still needs to integrate with specific NFT marketplaces in order to actually have that "receipt" transfer from one gamer to another. Both of those gamers have to be registered / have an "Ubisoft account" in order to actually trade/sell the dinky little Rainbow Six NFT's they put out.
There's never been anything stopping any company from creating an item marketplace themselves... Blizzard did it with Diablo 3. There's games that have marketplaces for user created content like Minecraft as well.. w/ no NFT's needed.
Because what in the world is the point of "decentralizing" the ownership (of the receipt for 'something') when individual games need to support the specific NFT marketplace for anything to actually transfer (other than the receipt)?
There is none...
It's literally a pointless complication from the perspective of the gamer..
Companies are attempting to use NFTs for one reason: they are a trend, a buzzword.. and one that they hoped would cause gamers to suddenly think in-game items being sellable for real world cash is a good thing.. since in general when that has happened, it was HATED by gamers...
See: Diablo 3 marketplace
But NFTs... are hated by gamers.
They are hated by everyone not an NFT bro at this point, a total laughing stock.. whole ass twitter / instagram accounts / websites exist to track embarrassing things happening in the NFT world. Celebrities fawned over themselves because of how much money was being thrown around in them, and then...
BOOM
Entire NFT market went into the dumps: https://cointelegraph.com/news/floor-price-of-popular-nft-collections-collapse-due-to-bear-market
Rich morons whining about how their $250k NFTs are now "worth only $1000" (pro tip, they aint worth shit).
This isn't some unstoppable force like MTX that weren't actually hated by most gamers... these things are hated by most gamers.. the idea of selling in-game items is hated by most gamers.
It's an idiotic tech fad that is fading away... a solution looking for a problem.. a way for grifters to leach money out of venture capitalist firms and then run when they've scammed people.
That's literally it.
It makes no real sense in gaming because any game still needs to integrate with specific NFT marketplaces in order to actually have that "receipt" transfer from one gamer to another. Both of those gamers have to be registered / have an "Ubisoft account" in order to actually trade/sell the dinky little Rainbow Six NFT's they put out.
There's never been anything stopping any company from creating an item marketplace themselves... Blizzard did it with Diablo 3. There's games that have marketplaces for user created content like Minecraft as well.. w/ no NFT's needed.
Because what in the world is the point of "decentralizing" the ownership (of the receipt for 'something') when individual games need to support the specific NFT marketplace for anything to actually transfer (other than the receipt)?
There is none...
It's literally a pointless complication from the perspective of the gamer..
Companies are attempting to use NFTs for one reason: they are a trend, a buzzword.. and one that they hoped would cause gamers to suddenly think in-game items being sellable for real world cash is a good thing.. since in general when that has happened, it was HATED by gamers...
See: Diablo 3 marketplace
But NFTs... are hated by gamers.
They are hated by everyone not an NFT bro at this point, a total laughing stock.. whole ass twitter / instagram accounts / websites exist to track embarrassing things happening in the NFT world. Celebrities fawned over themselves because of how much money was being thrown around in them, and then...
BOOM
Entire NFT market went into the dumps: https://cointelegraph.com/news/floor-price-of-popular-nft-collections-collapse-due-to-bear-market
Rich morons whining about how their $250k NFTs are now "worth only $1000" (pro tip, they aint worth shit).
This isn't some unstoppable force like MTX that weren't actually hated by most gamers... these things are hated by most gamers.. the idea of selling in-game items is hated by most gamers.
It's an idiotic tech fad that is fading away... a solution looking for a problem.. a way for grifters to leach money out of venture capitalist firms and then run when they've scammed people.
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