Re:Justin Kan: Web3 games don’t need to lure players with pr...
by Nursie on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:24AM
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> if your special skins are NFTs, that makes them automatically compatible with any and all apps and protocols that support NFTs out of the box
Erm, no. It really, really doesn't. There's a mass of technical reasons that skins are not easily portable between games already, well beyond the licensing problems.
Sure, you could trade them, but actually using them is a huge technical problem. At an absolute minimum there would have to be some insane sort of asset meta-standard that allowed each game to dynamically apply a skin to diverse 3d models in very different worlds.
As for the rest, it's monetization where gamers usually don't want monetization. What you describe is generally a set of net negatives for gamers.
Erm, no. It really, really doesn't. There's a mass of technical reasons that skins are not easily portable between games already, well beyond the licensing problems.
Sure, you could trade them, but actually using them is a huge technical problem. At an absolute minimum there would have to be some insane sort of asset meta-standard that allowed each game to dynamically apply a skin to diverse 3d models in very different worlds.
As for the rest, it's monetization where gamers usually don't want monetization. What you describe is generally a set of net negatives for gamers.