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Until we see something I can't really say much. But I'm not a big fan of a new currency, plus with mining I feel like the inflation will go sky high at some point(assuming this project goes that far, so far we have nothing but vague promises(just like politics)).

But who am I? Not a finance guy for sure, maybe what I am saying is just a bunch of nonsense :p

BTW I can't open the Forbes link 404

it's an interesting idea, but I don't think game publishers will be too happy to get on board.

Sounds interesting, but probably way too late. Also it's still not the reselling customers are used to historically (with retail boxes).

The Forbes link is broken. Should be https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/01/16/new-steam-competitor-resell-your-digital-copies-mine-crypto-for-games/

The buried lede is the ability to resell used copies of games. Interesting idea, but I wonder how many developers and publishers will be on board with that. While they would get a significant cut of the resale, versus the whopping 0% they get from Gamestop's used game market, physical copies are a fraction of the market, so I wonder how much that is really hurting them these days.

They're a bit late to jump on the cryptocurrency hype train.

I wonder if Blockchain will help them as much as the imagine, to lower costs. To my understanding this tech would only determine current owners of game copies, nothing else. They'd still have to provide downloads and other related (customer) services. Taking just 5% seems too ambitious. Not to mention that Steam could simply drop their share to counter their biggest appeal for publishers.

It also doesn't really make sense for big publishers to consider their service, as the trend goes to games as a service. Their ambition is to keep you in their games, reselling isn't part of the plan.

No idea how well this idea would suit mid-range and smaller games. Probably depends if reselling prices are determined on an open market or if publishers can settle those too. Which would either be an disadvantage for publishers or resellers.

awsome a new bitcoin

Using blockchain as a way to securely transfer licenses and allow reselling: good idea.

Tying the resale to funny money and/or currencies that can be hijacked as playthings for speculative investment: bad idea.

If consider the games you're reselling "worthless" since you're done with them anyway and you literally don't care what happens to the value you get back that way, if any, there's no problem. But very few people would approach it like that.

I hate potatoes!

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AMD just partnered with them: https://www.amd.com/en/gaming/robot-cache
(sorry for bumping such an old topic, thought this news was interesting)

Its just a fancy game subscription IMO...& I like to keep / share my games...so Steam / GOG it is

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