Welcome to Web 3.0

Re:Welcome to Web 3.0 by piva00 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:40AM (#30684522)

Or if the game that accepted those NFT as in-game items shuts down, then these items cease to exist as well in any meaningful way, at least for the reasons it might be valuable in the beginning when I purchased it (stats in game, rarity, etc.). If the game ceases to exist then the NFT is just, what, a trading card that shows some scarcity/rarity?

I really don't get this argument at all. I bought an in-game mount for World of Warcraft as a NFT, WoW shuts down, where the hell am I going to use the in-game mount again? A shitty game that tells me "your WoW mount works here as well!"?

It really feels it's all a preparation for the "metaverse" bullshit.

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Re:Welcome to Web 3.0 by ryanbrunner on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:04AM (#30684717)

No game is going to do the "your X game items work here", since it cuts off any revenue stream they have, and the NFT itself is almost definitely not going to include a functioning asset, just a token that you own mount with an ID of XYZ. It would be on the game developers to create art and code for every single NFT they want to support.

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Re:Welcome to Web 3.0 by piva00 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:32AM (#30685008)

Exactly what I assume, hence why I don't see the value on the argument of "owning an in-game item", there is nothing to own, everything is on the hands of the platform that enables whatever I own to exist.

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