Yeah, this hypothetical story makes no sense at all. It’s gibberish. It’s like these people haven’t ever played a game, or didn’t understand how they work, or didn’t think about this for more than 10 seconds, or something.* I keep trying to “fix” their hypothetical in my head, so it makes sense, but there’s just too…

you’ve got a shiny new piece of tech that can replace a centralized database with an environment-destroying decentralized blockchain

Sure, I played Blizzard games that were given to me by friends... who worked at Blizzard. Whose skill sets I’m personally familiar with. (And they’d be the first to admit that when they started at Blizzard, their skill sets were not up to snuff and that wasn’t why they were hired.) Friends whose subsequent jobs were…

Yeah, the game industry has serious problems being a (not-so-) “old-boy network,” where being buds with the right people gets you jobs and advances your career much better than being highly skilled, and this whole set-up is both an example of that and makes it worse going forward.

“people figured out that they can use NFTs to scam people by selling nothing”

it’s a way of saying “here’s proof that I actually own this thing, even if you have a digital copy of it that is exactly the same.”

“...licenses to picture...”

Yeah, for a (pseudo-)Mediaeval(-ish) game, the units feel like they should be equally archaic - they should double down on rods and hogsheads and sticas... They should really fix the monetary system, too - coins were always exchanged in odd numbers and most trade didn’t even use coins. “For the cloth, you get 100…

buying a certificate that says “I own this jpeg of a baseball.”

It’s worse than that, as you don’t even own the picture, nor can people necessarily look at it. The NFT itself is just an entry on a list (blockchain) that links to a picture (but conveys no ownership of it). But the link isn’t stable (there are a lot of NFTs with broken links already), the “content” can be removed or …

Yeah, I’m wondering if Cawthon hasn’t already just about run out the option period, given his delays. In between that, being difficult to work with, the declining cultural relevance of the game that you mention, and the multiple knock-off films that have already been made, the odds of the movie being made don’t seem…

“And Hollywood can tell him to go f**k himself.”

These retro-nostalgic gaming consoles are all fundamentally scams. Someone buys rights to use a dead brand name, with the intention of rebranding some low-end Linux/Android hardware with a huge mark-up to make some easy money. They don’t actually have any new ideas of their own about gaming hardware. Since that…

I always wonder who they think the target audience is, for these retro-nostalgic video game consoles. I don’t think they ever really have that figured out, and inevitably the answer turns out to be, “Basically no one.” Which is not surprising. Everything is wrong about them - the price point, the kind of games they…

The only real difference then is when someone fakes an NFT they don’t really have to put much effort in to creating a convincing fake that the “owner”

“if an artist were to sell legal rights to an image and used NFTs as a way to do that”

“Isn’t it funny how most of the gaming companies we grew up with are now, to the core, only built for shareholders”

I get annoyed with gamer entitlement in general, but whoo boy.

“When a game takes too long to come out”

At that stage, it’s not even a fetus yet.