“I paid 3.6 million dollars to own a jpg!”

And here I am remembering that crypto exchange that shut down because one dude vanished with the admin password, and god knows how many wallets became useless

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 $? 

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.

It is not the same as all online media, though. Your licensor and your host are the same in traditional server-based online media. cryptobros love to point out that you can mint NFTs for things that are hosted independently, which means nobody is liable for your license pointing to nowhere and you holding the token is…

I don’t think I’d go that far. Like a fake deed for the Brooklyn Bridge, the NFTs never actually had value, someone was just conned into thinking they did. And they never had value for the same reason - the thing they were associated with isn't actually what is being sold.

I’m guessing it’s because of potential scams. If someone makes an NFT game on Steam, sells a bunch of NFTs, then takes the money and runs, it’ll make Steam look bad. I don’t think the people who got scammed would have any recourse against Steam, but it’s not worth the negative attention.

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

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.

“It’s pretty funny that Steam thinks that NFTs contain real value”

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.

I see a lot of BR shit talking in the comments here. As a survival game and battle royal junkie this honestly looks pretty damn good. I was surprised to see it’s going to be first person as a Ghost Recon game but as a BR game it makes perfect sense. I appreciate that there appear to be objectives that will force…

This would probably have died within 12 hours except for the anti-vaxxers and RWNJs who have adopted her as a free speech martyr and kept this going. And she’s going to keep milking the attention she’s getting from them.