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Re:Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense by throwaway473825 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:10PM (#29488223)
> What's the point of using NFT instead of a Ubisoft owned DB?

Less work. Maintaining a marketplace is resource intensive. If the same functionality can be achieved with NFTs, it makes little sense to use a proprietary solution.

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Re:Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense by pornel on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:21PM (#29488352)
There are simpler and cheaper databases that can do more than 40 transactions per second.
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Re:Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense by SahAssar on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:40PM (#29491505)
They have a marketplace. They have the accounts. They have the payment details. They need to keep track of purchases and make sure they are allowed under their conditions. The need to verify and integrate the items into their game. They need to tie specific ubisoft accounts to crypto wallets.

Are you seriously saying that their motivation was that it's less work?

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Re:Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense by wlesieutre on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:40PM (#29488604)
Blockchain lets them wash their hands of theft, just say "Oops, blockchain! It's theirs now, we don't control that."

Users may consider this a bug, but from Ubisoft's side it's less responsibility.

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