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Greed.

I don't understand why you wouldn't consider playing the game. Does them selling NFTs have a negative affect on the game itself?

I think NFTs are one of the dumbest things ever and I would never buy one, but I would still play the game. I also don't support loot boxes, microtransactions, or DLC, but I do play the base versions of games that contain these things.

As far as I know (and correct me if I'm wrong), I will pick your example to say that the NPC will have an unique identifier / serial code / whatever embedded somewhere, assuring that you possess the only digital copy of that.... digital thing.
Spending lots of money on that kind of thing is what makes people so angry, I believe.

I don't understand either. I think NFTs are really dumb, but I don't see how the game company selling an NFT would have any negative effect on the game itself for the rest of the players.

Also, if there is a player model that looks like a person that bought an NFT, that would not affect me because I don't know that person and would never know if that was the original design of the character or not. Unless it is someone famous with a recognizable face, that could actually hurt the game. I don't want to get immersed in the game and then see an NPC with the face of someone like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Pewdiepie, or similar.

The "problem" is that there is actually a limited almost non-existent use for NFTs in games. And it could be done with other tech too.
The only reason to use NFTs: Greed. And relying on the greed of other people to make it work.

Or as Jason Schreier tweeted it recently: https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1470505514513674245

I think the biggest differences between Kickstarter things and this are 1, you aren't really supporting development of the game, you're just giving as much money to the greedy devs (or scalpers, or whoever) as it takes, and that leads to 2, it's not a set price, you'll be paying way more than what it should cost for the work they have to do.

Usually (but I'm sure not always) the tiers in Kickstarter are based on the extra work needed to bring the content you provide into the game, this has no limit so you could be paying 1000x what it would cost to scan you in and add the model to the pool of characters, and it just goes straight into their pockets...

Holy shit. That alone would make me despise NFTs.

Ironically NFTs will be regulated way faster, because they are advertised more like stock than in-game cosmetics.
And governments are losing hundreds of millions on property taxes, because NFT marketplaces are not regulated (no reporting of sales).

While they get their portion of lootboxes from consumption taxes (ie. VAT).

As one of my friends said it, the only good thing about this tweet is how it manages to gather the whole of Twitter against it :x

I propose we commit to it.

Better start growing our facial hair...

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"The hope for crypto land barons is that they would be able to earn money back from other players through in-game business partnerships." Lovely. They basically sell the plot of land for $7000, then people who play the game use their pc power to farm ethereum which is converted to peter's shitcoin, which then he takes a cut from and gives the user some in exchange for promoting it, so he gets 2x rich by selling you the game, and using the user as a farm machine too, all so he can convert back to ethereum and sell out in return bringing the price of his own coin down, with no contract to lock the coin generated by the admins for at least 10 years and limit it to a certain total amount possible to promote longetivity of the game or something like that at least. If this was the 2000 it would be illegal xD. What a time to be alive.

And this is what they tweeted an hour before that. Reminded that the game doesn't even have one gameplay video out but somehow dabbling with NFT was a priority

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