Maybe they can save the artist’s disappointment by replacing it with AI art.
Wait.
I remember when SBF news was peaking right around the time Stable Diffusion 1.5 came out, and thinking of how fundamentally gutted the entire premise of an NFT was in like a month.
Despite the fact that we’ve sort of universally agreed that NFT games aren’t going to happen
We said the same about microtransaction and energy systems
Maybe, but if it does ever happen, we’re still very much in the embryo stage. Like, behind VR or at the level of 1990’s-era game streaming services.
What was most telling to me was even Hasbro seemingly chose not to chase the fad with Magic: the Gathering. Depressingly, it was presumably because even NFTs would be more friendly to players than their tightly-controlled market.
Evangelists of the stuff will tell you that you can own your own digital corner of the information highway (Second Life came out in 2003, and most MMOs have housing), or that you can trade rare items with your fellow players (TF2 and Counter-Strike have been doing this forever). Then there’s this idea that you “own the item” in question more than you would otherwise (you don’t, you own a certificate that’s associated with it, and the item will vanish if the infrastructure does). Then there’s the whole “you could use a sword from one game in another game!” nonsense, which I think we can all agree was cooked up by people who don’t understand how game design works on even a fundamental level.
This is so on point for the web3 space, and parts of the AI space too.
Evangelists waltz in and berate you for not understanding how gloriously awesome their system is… without even making a cursory effort to check if it already exists, much less accumulate a deep understanding and appreciation like they expect you to do.
Tech bros reinventing things poorly… a tale as old as time.
This trash ass games trailer literally says pay to win at the start
