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Blockchain MMOs and The Metaverse Had Setbacks but Are Far from Being Abandoned (For Now) | MMONFT |
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Blockchain MMOs and The Metaverse Had Setbacks but Are Far from Being Abandoned (For Now) | MMONFT | MMORPG.com
The metaverse has not been particularly well received, nor has it matured in a positive way that would influence the industry as investors initially expected. Should it be abandoned?
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Metaverse is another fun concept. I’d love to go outside and have an AR device scan my environment and re-skin it to match a game. That’s probably one of the few ways to get players outside and maybe even help us all get a little more exercise, too. However, what it truly has become is more of a shell to provide more disingenuous immersion into a world intent on driving deeper profits by making you and your surroundings more involved, personally. Why create unique content when you can drive a more deeply personal experiences through AR/VR and ultimately draw in revenue without the labor of engaging gameplay mechanics and storylines?
I guess that’s just my bias, negative take on these things now-a-days. These companies would probably use the camera and lidar to help advertisers assess your entire life in 3 dimensions. That way home improvement stores can target your favorite apps with advertisements for supplies when your yard looks a little out-of-sorts. How helpful…
Yes the two main reasons Blockchain is interesting is that it's highly secure and distributed meaning it's not tied to one sever, but many servers which form the "chain". Each transaction is a "block" in the "chain" ergo the name. That's why crypto currency uses it because if I submit a transaction to a node in the chain in say France, once that block is committed to the chain that money is immediately available to the other nodes in the chain so my business partner in the United States has immediate access to the funds and can withdraw the money by committing another block.
Now why that is interesting for MMOs becomes obvious in games like EVE which have a huge global economy where exploits and dupes would quickly wreck havoc on the whole game. For a game like Wow I think it's less interesting because the best stuff is all bind on pickup anyway and can't be traded. Basically you have to design the game around needing a big player driven economy. Without that it's just a solution in search of a problem.
Whether any of that is actually fun and makes you want to play the game remains to be seen.
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There is a big difference between finding opportunity and pushing a capitalist ideology. Most people don't think in terms of pushing this type of thing. For the most part, our country is in a state of pushing various social ideologies. These companies are trying to make money.
By polluting the gaming space with bad games that vomit shitty monetization.
For example you could use it to store your character data. Then your character could transfer between servers or even different games as long as they were all compatible with and authorized by the chain. I think this would be necessary to have that Ready Player One type meta verse experience where the same character can pop in and out of various experiences and retain progress and items from each.
Do we work on that? No, instead it must always be some scammy cryptocurrency if we're doing Blockchain.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp
What Is a Blockchain?
A blockchain is a distributed database or ledger shared among a computer network's nodes. They are best known for their crucial role in cryptocurrency systems for maintaining a secure and decentralized record of transactions, but they are not limited to cryptocurrency uses. Blockchains can be used to make data in any industry immutable—the term used to describe the inability to be altered.
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