But Proof of Stake will just further allow the currency to be manipulated by a few extremely wealthy individuals who own the majority of the share.  These are already currencies that can rise and fall massively just because Elon Musk tweets something.

I wonder what the overlap is between people who think this is the future and people who think fangames are pointless because they won’t make money.

It’s a finance site; they can’t conceive of the possibility that not everyone would be excited to play a game where whoever has the most RL money wins. Because everything has to be about who has the most money.

No, it isn’t like Xeroxing the Mona Lisa, because Xeroxing doesn’t create an exact duplicate.

I guess to these people the only point in playing is to win. Armchair psychology, but I’m guessing it’s the same sort of person who pays for aimbots.

And then imagine being so out-of-touch with how game development works that you actually think any kind of consistent player base would continue to exist around a game where players can pay real money to own a character whose kart is simply better and faster than everyone else’s?

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

If there is one pattern I’ve seen from the NFT crew, is that they actually hate artists and want to steal their work and put it behind legal terms.

To be fair, a whole swath of the Pokemon fandom turns whole childrens games into miserable mathematical analysis in ways that take countless repetitive hours, this just adds a pyramid scheme on top of it.

Yep. You can read stories about popular games streamers who literal just burned out gaming all the time. Once you feel forced to do something to earn a pay check it can stop being fun real quick.  

Perhaps those resonate better in this day and age than the Hamlet quote:

No, see, the brilliant thing is that there will be other people playing Mario, but you’ll be only one “owning” Mario. But not THE Mario. Just YOUR Mario.

What were those old No Fear t-shirts? “He who dies with the most toys still dies?” 

Every second not doing something with a net positive ROI is a second closer to the grave.

I can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not, but that alone tells me all I need to know about whether I should look further into NFTs outside the odd Kotaku article.

I love that this is something that would objectively make any game worse by any reasonable standard of measurement. Internet finance guys do not seem to actually enjoy things. 

“Because your Mario is an NFT, he’s impossible to duplicate. You and you alone own him. And because you own Mario, your go-kart is always better and faster than the ones piloted by other familiar faces in the Mushroom Kingdom like Luigi, Toad and Princess Peach.”

No, Steam trading cards don’t use the equivalent of one month of household electricity each to issue and transact.

It’s not even they’re obfuscated by wealth, haves and have-nots, really. They’re just obfuscated by the understanding that, eventually, at some point, for a business to be successful, it needs to have a product that a customer is interested in purchasing.

...honestly, so much of this NFT in gaming crap reminds me of the utter failure that was the Diablo 3 Auction House. Same basic concept, you could earn real money by playing a game, just the underlying tech that’s different.