Hopefully block chain technology will die off and become irrelevant in a couple of years. So far any attempt at using it seems to make a dumpster fire.
That's cause the way its been presented to the public stinks and caters to bag holders.
It just in general is pretty bad, for most use cases a traditional relational database is just ... better
Blockchain is just a spicy linked list
Can you actually argue this or are you just parotting what other people parrot on social media? Databases require trust between parties, for example, so that's one of many, many reasons they don't replace one of the use cases.
Can you actually argue this or are you just parotting what other people parrot on social media?
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Databases require trust between parties, for example, so that’s one of many, many reasons they don’t replace one of the use cases.
Can you elaborate on how that's useful for a video game (or a "majority of use cases"/"in general") or "are you just parotting what other people parrot on social media?"
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The block chain is only useful if you want a cooperative system that "trusts nobody"... And that's exceedingly rare (not to mention it's susceptible to attacks like the 51% attack ... which you can -- hilariously -- fix if the major stake holders in the chain decide to override the network and do what they want anyways).
There's no reason a video game needs a block chain, at all. The video game has a manufacturer, the video game's rewards are only going to be meaningful inside of that game and ecosystem. Valve's been running a store for CSGO for over a decade.
If you want federation... Lemmy is federated, Matrix is federated, email is federated, and they all allow dodging a central authority in favor of smaller authorities without using a block chain. But even that isn't useful for a video game or publisher.
What use outside of microtransactions would there be anyway?
Actually owning games, skins, guns, etc and being able to use them across games
Also resale
Oh, so you have no idea how games work
Blockchain only works if you completely ignore how anything works.
You can actually own games by buying DRM-free. A DRM-free installer can be backed up and used forever, even offline, which is better than relying on blockchain verification.
Games are also better by having no microtransactions than by being able to resell some fictional sword from a lootbox. If I want to have the best weapons in Skyrim I can just cheat it instead of paying anyone for it. There is no point or benefit in attaching monetary value to individual instances of fictional digital game objects, because in the system of the game that's just some bits flipped, there aren't any production costs.
The vast majority of companies out there would absolutely not support you actually owning a game or anything you buy in a game. They dont do it now, so why would they ever?
Even if blockchain was implemented, it would be implemented in a way the keeps the current status quo. Stuff would still be licensed and not yours.
Its very naive to expect otherwise.
It's a start, but hopefully they drop the idea altogether It's bad enough as it is, we don't need more.
I can't conceive of a single fun use-case for blockchain in games. With any luck, neither can they.
Why the scare quote around fun? He's right. There is no point in adding something to a game that doesn't make it more fun.
Water=wet
Introducing inequal crushing capitalist economy into your game... Just the escape from reality I needed 🙄
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