Oh man, you hit the nail on the head. That's exactly what's going on, and most gamers aren't dumb enough to fall for it at this point.

Maybe mobile gamers are... That's a weird market. I'll never understand how people can shovel so much money into stuff like that.

Exactly this. There's been an obsession with tech laypeople execs to put blockchain tech into anything because it's what they perceive to be the cool hip thing to do, but it's a just tool with certain benefits and should only be added if and when it makes sense.

What could you do with a blockchain in a video game? Well, you could make in game assets into tokens that can be traded outside of the game, creating a secondary market for things that is entirely outside of the game publishers control. Why would you want to do that, though? It might be attractive for MMO gold farmer types, but the MMO game makers themselves are going to want to run in the opposite direction from such a thing. Maybe an Steam achievement trading card scheme? Again, why would anyone do that, though, when the system Steam uses works just fine and there's no risk of things getting out of control as Valve has full control over the marketplace.

Honestly, I struggle to think of a single other real use. That doesn't mean that there's no use for it, but it's definitely not something that should just be crammed into any product, let alone video games.

I’d buy a Dreamcast 2 in a second. I still have two original Dreamcasts and a pile of games.

That doesn't need to be a distributed ledger, that can just be a database. The only use cases for DLT/Blockchains is where it is undesirable to have a central authority.

Games will always have a central authority - the devs - so there's just no point. Nothing is gained by decentralizing trust, and quite a lot - especially speed and simplicity - must be sacrificed.

Do you really want billions of computers solving arbitrary random math problems just to write in a random keystroke, of which there are kapillions per hour?

If prefer that website owners are appropriately named and share and the community votes on relevance, than the alternative, which is astroturfing links.

What we want is content here. If websites have relevant content to share, let them. If they abuse it and spamz block them.

A huge number of users posting on social media are just stealth marketing accounts. They literally make fake accounts with personality profiles (e.g. some guy that's into sports) and they will make regular comments and content. But occasionally they will drop links to promotional content which matches the personality.

I'd much rather they were up front about it. So I really don't get the hate for self-promotion because you're complaining about the one guy being honest in a sea of liars.