Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity

Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by Cederfjard on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:13AM (#29701854)

But do you agree that this is not a very difficult technical problem, and could be implemented with our without a blockchain, and that the real issue would be how to get all actors involved to buy in to such a system? Why would Ubisoft want this? Commercial entities are typically motivated by profit, not wanting to bring Ready Player One to life.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by TimJRobinson on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:46AM (#29702859)

Why do companies do anything in the consumers interest? Competition.

You don't see it now, but once many games allow you to resell the skins or game itself, and gamers get used to that, publishers that don't allow it will look evil.

Coordination between many companies is an exceptionally difficult problem without blockchains. This is what NFTs solve in a simple way - a neutral platform that every party can easily integrate with knowing the rules, API and data integrity won't change.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by Closi on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:17AM (#29713473)

> Coordination between many companies is an exceptionally difficult problem without blockchains.

Before we solutionise to blockchain though we should work out how we want the world to work.

This is my main issue with discourse about NFTs and Blockchain - it gets banded around as a technical solution to solve everything before anyone has even started to think of what the requirements are for the problem we are trying to solve.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by root_axis on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:01AM (#29703557)

Blockchains are not useful here. Just mint something like a PGP NFT and eliminate the pointless waste of the blockchain.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by TimJRobinson on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @08:20PM (#29732379)

You should probably learn blockchain 101 concepts like preventing double spending before making assertions with such confidence.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by Cederfjard on Monday December 27, 2021 @10:47AM (#29703409)

I can see how once such a system comes into place, it might be functional and stable. I’m not quite sure how we’d get over the threshold from where we are to there. I’m not saying it’s impossible, I do however think it’s very hard.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by Closi on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:08AM (#29702183)

This is a key question from multiple angles - a few specific ones:

1) Does Steam want to allow you to download games to their platform when you have bought it from the lowest cost seller, when they will take zero cut of the revenue?

2) Do games sales platforms want to make it so you can leave their platform en-masse with zero friction?

3) Do developers really want to lose control of being able to revoke keys (e.g. cheaters) or lose the ability to stop the transfer of the license to other players? (i.e. block resale). And if developers / game sellers retain the ability to revoke keys as part of the design of the blockchain contract, how does that avoid the original situation where Ubisoft is revoking access to inactive accounts?

4) What does it mean if I lose access to my account in an NFT world? If someone steals my account can it be recovered? Can I get my games back?

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