Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform

Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by IanCal on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:29PM (#28882052)

NFTs have an ID that uniquely identifies them, the URL is just for extra data really.

> Otherwise what's to stop multiple games trying to adopt the same group of NFTs?

Nothing at all. Breaking data out of small silos into one large database opens up possibilities like this.

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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by munk-a on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:04PM (#28882488)

So as a user I could either purchase one of these NFTs and give you money - or just generate my own NFT and use it to get your stuff for free?

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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by IanCal on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:08PM (#28883156)

No, the NFTs are uniquely identifiable.

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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by munk-a on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:32PM (#28883917)

So if the original issuer of an NFT goes out of business I, as another studio, can't continue to print tokens for the same asset? (I mean I guess I could print a duplicate line - but I couldn't carry on the same line).

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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by andybak on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:06PM (#28888827)

The NFT is unique - not the thing it points to.

Anyone can mint an NFT to point to anything. There's no guarantee beyond what's traceable on the blockchain. Once the NFT "points" to something outside of the blockchain, then all bets are off.

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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by pwinnski on Friday October 15, 2021 @09:00PM (#28884741)

Yeah, as a gamedev, let me rush to do that right away, because, um, well, um, nope.

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