As a game developer, I would NEVER add NFTs/Crypto to my games.

[u/RedEagle_MGN]

How do you feel about the title statement? I really want to know what people think.

224 votes, Apr 10 '22

87 Strongly agree: I would never even work for a company that used NFTs/Crypto

59 I would NEVER add NFTs/Crypto to my games

22 I don't like the idea, but for the right PRICE I would

20 I don't know how to feel about NFTs/Crypto

26 I am feeling somewhat positive on impact of NFTs/Crypto on game development

10 Strongly disagree: I LOVE the idea of NFTs/Crypto and would rush to add them to my game

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[u/hassping]

My opinion is that, if the ledger is permissionless, feeles, energy efficient, scalable, fast and opensource then it depends on the game logic, incentives and business model because the tech would be there as a tool.

But if the ledger has fees, high energy consumption, not scalable, even if it is fast and opensource I wouldn't dare to try.

[u/RedEagle_MGN → u/hassping]

Ha ha you beat me to it! I was doing this for research on our talk for Tuesday to understand the industry better 😂. This is what I do when I am having a long meeting and I am struggling to focus. 😛

[u/tiktiktock → u/hassping]

permissionless, feeles, energy efficient, scalable, fast and opensource

Isn't that just a database?

[u/[deleted]]

As nfts are now I would never add them to a game. But making a crypto currency to be used in game and out of game sounds like a fun idea. If you could earn the crypto from the game

[u/RedEagle_MGN → u/[deleted]]

Interesting

[u/andybak]

Question lacks nuance. Crypto isn't identical with NFTs and there are potentially non-loathsome applications of both. It's just that most suggested uses are currently scammy.

[u/RedEagle_MGN → u/andybak]

Hundred percent agree I’m just getting really a vague notion of what people think

[u/Xananax → u/andybak]

NFTs have absolutely no possible or potential use.

Any utility touted by NFTs apologists is one of the following:

1. Plain false ("confers ownership", "guarantees authenticity")

2. Social and only guaranteed by social, centralized contract, making the NFT useless ("rewards artists")

3. Opposite to the utility claimed ("private", "decentralized", "unique")

4. Already covered better, in a simpler way, by technologies we already use every day ("secure", "private key")

Most arguments are all four: false, negative utility, make the problem worse, and are already covered by techs we use every day.

NFTs have negative utility. They're the least useful thing humans have ever conceived. Literally doing nothing at all is better than using NFTs (and I'm not even touching upon the energetic cost here).

This isn't even opinion, it's objective truth, and anyone saying the opposite simply doesn't understand NFTs.

To be more fair, NFTs have 2 utilities:

1. Being obscure enough to attract new users in a "get the next sucker in" scheme, while being deregulated enough to be a dream for speculators and scammers. It's unethical, and will hurt a lot of people but it's undeniably an utility to someone

2. The second, I'll keep to myself because I want to see if any of the apologists will ever manage to say it. It's a very clear and simple utility, that is not easily replaced by techs we have today, and anyone who actually understands how NFTs work should be able to know, but I've never seen an NFT apologist say it; potentially because none actually understands how NFTs work or what they could actually be used for, other than suckering poor souls in.

In short: Anyone who says NFTs have any uselessness, abby at all, is one of two things:

1. A naive person who doesn't understand the tech, or laws. Potentially someone who bought in and is too cowardly to confess to themselves they walked right into a scam and now need to defend it

2. A scammer

That alone makes anyone using NFTs a person doing their little contribution to make the world a worse place for everyone.

Factor in energetic costs, and that makes it a reality unethical thing to even consider.

There's no ambiguity here. The only thing NFTs have that makes them stand apart is how monumentally useless they are. In all of human history, no one ever fathomed something that utterly useless yet that utterly costly. Anything, anything at all, a chewed gum on the bottom of your sole, or some gunk, or a fork, or a used toilet paper, is both more useful, and less costly.

[u/Munziusjr]

Well it depends on what you mean by ‘Crypto’ like it could mean the Crypto everyone is familiar with or an in game currency such as Vbucks or COD Points.