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You thought the Diablo 3 auction house worked fine at launch? What? You think Blizzard felt they were making too much money and decided to remove it because all those expensive cars wouldn’t fit in their driveways anymore, or...? I mean, you went straight for THE example of how it’s a bad idea to make that particular…

Oh, are you one of these persons that bought a JSON file for 300$, and now need somebody else to join the a Pyramid Scheme so instead of you losing 300$, you make 30.000 $? 

When I’m living through another record high-heat summer, I won’t be thinking of this article.

Oh, by all means, hit me with the complex stuff.

Yeah, no, the inability to monetize your in-game goods is a feature, not a bug. There are tons of examples of grey markets to monetize in-game assets and they are consistently a cesspool and make the game worse, even before crypto is involved.

No, due to how they require excessive amounts of resources to mint while providing no value above what existing things get us.

No, I understand it. I’ve heard people actively working in the field admit they don’t, though, which should scare you.

Oh, I am painfully aware of how many crypto games exist and keep popping up. They are all bad, make no sense and/or could be done just as easily without any reliance on crypto at all.

“Isn’t all life ephemeral” is a wild defense of NFTs.

Because there’s no practical application of it. Other than allowing players to make money off of the game (potentially) by reselling rewards, which is a massive regulatory dark pit, there’s nothing you can put in a game using crypto/nfts that you can’t do more easily and cheaply otherwise.

Hey you are lying, you aren’t paying to own the JPG. You are paying to “own” an entry in a spreadsheet associated with that JPG.

Came here to say cryptobros are the worst, happy to find one I can direct it at.

Just so we’re clear, even if the crypto market held its value in the next decade or so it would still be a bad idea. Especially when it comes to integrating it with gaming.

My hunch is that it will age better than the blockchain record of your purchase of a receipt for a monkey jpeg at a URL that doesn’t exist anymore.

Or the bubble will burst and in 5 years NFTs are going to be even *more* of a punchline.

Pre-Inazuma Genshin playerbase: “The enemies are too easy. The puzzles are too easy. Chests and collectibles are too easy to find. Current exploration is not exciting and has no challenge.”

*Inazuma comes out*

Genshin playerbase: “Who on earth asked to make everything so hard!?!? Basic mobs are one-shotting me! Squishy m…

Yeah I’d give Dave a bit of leeway on the jokes. That’s not to say they aren’t offensive to people. Heck I watched the special and at times looked at the audience and could tell from their faces they were, at the very least, unimpressed with them. That’s jokes; some work, some don’t.

“first party shooter games”

Sounds like it. Most of S2 seemed better written to me. Kiteman was handled slightly messily because they seemed to want him to be both decent but boring and the wrong person for Ivy, which they did decently, but also wanted him to be an asshole so it didn't seem like he'd been quite so poorly treated but also didn't…