Ask HN: Why do people think that our in-game item exchange is for NFTs?

Re:Ask HN: Why do people think that our in-game item exchang... by throwawayffffas on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:39AM (#42304807)

The assets of the game you have chosen to feature in the hero image of your homepage look like NFTs. Partially because trading cards look like NFTs. But mostly because that game also has an ERC-20 token that in their words allows the creation of NFTs.

If you featured items from WOW, Eve Online or CS2 you would probably get less people screaming at you.

On a more philosophical level though in-game items are really NFTs before crypto-currencies. So whatever you do you will probably still have people screaming at you about NFT scams.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do people think that our in-game item exchang... by wtphilip on Friday December 06, 2024 @04:53AM (#42338123)

Thank you so much for your comment. This is super helpful and a great point. I am taking this to the rest of the team to see how we can solve this without running into copyright issues.

Funny that you say that I will have "less people screaming at you" as it seems to be a very delicate topic for gamers.

Regarding the philosophical level: It would be, if it was adopted in larger games. I haven't seen any large publisher adopt NFT, yet. This might change though. Hard to say.

Highly appreciate your feedback.

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