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Re:What Happens When Twelve Thousand Game Developers Converge? by woodruffw on Saturday April 09, 2022 @10:38PM (#30974010)
Does anybody seriously believe that creating and selling game assets wasn't previously possible and easy? My understanding is that it's been Valve's bread and butter for decades.

(I've heard that NFTs will make assets "transferable" between games, which I also understand to be currently possible when the games cooperate. I've yet to receive an explanation for how NFTs solve the NxM "graph" problem of sharing an asset across random games that don't share the same engine, network protocols, or basic asset formats.)

Re:What Happens When Twelve Thousand Game Developers Converge? by astrange on Saturday April 09, 2022 @11:04PM (#30974136)
> I've heard that NFTs will make assets "transferable" between games, which I also understand to be currently possible when the games cooperate.

Of course, it still doesn't work when you lose the license to the asset.

https://kotaku.com/f1-formula-1-one-delta-time-nft-crypto-cu...

Re:What Happens When Twelve Thousand Game Developers Converge? by vmception on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:02AM (#30975239)
Nobody building in the NFT space believes that.

Just roll with it, start referring to any random online world as a metaverse (or better yet, the singular metaverse) and move on. Its not about solutions its about capital, the technology comes with some interesting things. I dont view that as controversial. If people want to spend their money on that, sell that.