Perhaps - but I think that in the grand scheme of things this is probably a net positive for the industry. For better or for worse, it is getting too hard to exist for a long time as a small, independent studio. You need to be aligned with a large group of some kind - if you aren’t, you are either one bad game away…

I mean I love making money as much as the next personified deity but we’re talking like getting lucky for folks paying me a quarter at best. There’s just no inherent value to the time spent here, no concrete product. 

Hey, Reg? Buddy? You do know that - if you really wanted to - you could already design and program such a feature into video games without relying on “the blockchain” in any regard whatsoever? Right? Like... Steam does it all the time?

this sort of reasoning is why we have "time saving" boost microtransactions and guess what, they're shit too

Further, the value of those accounts is MUCH less as some sort of tangible, transferrable asset and much more as “I’m saving time/energy/frustration from having to do this myself.” Plus these virtual item economies tank quickly after hype winds down over a release, with few rare exceptions.

What these assholes…

Imagine the worldview necessary to believe your leisure time requires “monetization” to be of value.  

Here’s another good NFT explainer that should make the rounds in the comments like some others have.

Pretty cool* how every one of these kinds of statements includes the phrase “if it makes sense” without acknowledging the reality that it will never make sense.

“And when I’m ready to move on to something else, wouldn’t it be great to monetize what I’ve built?”

>when I’m ready to move on to something else, wouldn’t it be great to monetize what I’ve built?

Gross.

where can you return an opened game for a full refund? last I checked every big box retailer expressly forbids returning opened media.

The problem is that demos are a lose - lose for developers. People excited for the game were going to buy it anyways so the only way a demo changes their opinion is they decide NOT to buy it after playing the demo. And people excited for the game are the also the main group willing to download and try the demo since…

Sickening and disgusting. Imagine, dating Bobby Kotick!  The skin crawls.

“The people who bought Land early basically locked up their assets in a zero return situation when there’s a lot of other things they could’ve done with that money, all because Sky Mavis kept telling us Q4 2021 was going to be the release date and now they seem to be treating current Land owners as an afterthought,” wr…