Re:Historic sale of a Gala Games Fantasy MMORPG in-game NFT ...
by jayd16 on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:52PM
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This is true of anything "on the chain." The world can just decide to not care what the chain says.
I would argue games are the only place where this situation is reasonable as the gamers desire self enforcement (or there is no game).
In other situations with DRM (which is what the chain if being used for, DRM) it's trying to force the user to stop themselves. Here the community can police itself.
You're right that trusting a closed source game to stay up is crazy, but people "buy" digital goods all the time. That situation is not unique.
I would argue games are the only place where this situation is reasonable as the gamers desire self enforcement (or there is no game).
In other situations with DRM (which is what the chain if being used for, DRM) it's trying to force the user to stop themselves. Here the community can police itself.
You're right that trusting a closed source game to stay up is crazy, but people "buy" digital goods all the time. That situation is not unique.