Game Developers Not Interested in NFTs, Survey Finds (axios.com) 47
NFTs remain a contentious topic for developers, according to the State of the Game Industry survey, with a majority claiming their companies aren't interested at all. From a report: The survey states that 72% of respondents related to cryptocurrency and 70% of respondents related to NFTs have no interest in either. "The current implementation of both technologies is still very limited, with 1% of respondents saying that their studio already uses either." Big names like Ubisoft and Square Enix have shown interest in the NFT wave, alongside veteran developers Will Wright and Peter Molyneux. But the interest among developers themselves is far more scattered, and the general reaction from the video game community is poor.
WTF? (Score:1)
NFTs remain a contentious topic for developers, according to the State of the Game Industry survey, with a majority claiming their companies aren't interested at all.
How the fuck is that contentious? Being uninterested in something is pretty much the polar opposite of it being contentious.
I'll admit though that Slashdot's obsession with cryptocurrencies and NFTs is getting contentious with me. I'm begining to hate loathe and despise the topic - when you can make stories out of the LACK of interest in it it's seriously time to give it a rest.
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I would certainly say it's contentious. Saying you have any interest in NFTs usually gets a lot of people to come out and tell you that you hate the environment, that you support pyramid schemes, that you're a crypto bro, etc.
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But beyond that they're seen as a potentially interference in the creative process.
One of the contentious ideas of using NFTs for example is that they're advertised to transcend games. For example if you had an NFT saying that you own this nuclear grenade machinegun in that SciFi game made by development team A for publish
Your reality parser needs an upgrade. (Score:2)
Contentious = topic of heated disagreement (source: english language)
Developers disinterested in NFT (source:TFA) != Developers heatedly disagree with not developers re NFT (source:logic)
Ergo: developers disinterest towards NFT != Contentious, and by virtue of this your proposition is just palin wrong
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ignoring attention seeking behavior probably feels contentious to the attention seeker.
It Really Depends (Score:2)
Yes, NFTs are the next hot buzzword "thing", but it doesn't mean they work or are applicable to any and every game out there.
It's like DLC or microtransactions (mtx). Sure, in some cases they're overpriced and really not worth the money (like buying "time resets" in mobile games that let you keep playing past daily time limits). But in some cases they do. Some people hate DLC or MTX with a passion regardless of what content it is. For some it depends on what the content is.
I'd be interested to hear more d
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I guess it could become a neutral platform so you can display your unique NFTs in-game as a an actual unique object that you canâ(TM)t find in-game. Like if I had a NFT hat, I could be seen in that hat while playing various games. Something that follows the avatar, and can be visualized within any platform. Probably the blockchain ownership history would be part of the value somehow.
Not that this has to be blockchain, but since it exists, using it as an open sale ledger is kinda what it was supposed to
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I suppose I can speak as one game developer. I've heard precisely zero talk in my own company about NFTs or cryptocurrency. I'm personally not interested in either. As NFTs relate to gaming, I think it's a fad, and frankly it's not a great fit for games anyhow.
We already sell all sorts of cosmetic goodies in our games, which is how a lot of free to play games make money, which seems like a fair tradeoff to me. Not a fan of MTX that sell power or other advantages, but that's something individual develope
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And the whole concept that NFT "enthusiasts" promote is that "You can use your skins in all games now".
No. No you can't. No you won't. Never EVER going to happen. So that makes the whole point of NFTs completely, well, pointless..
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Yeah, whoever says that have no idea what they're talking about. Even if there were some incentive for a game company to try this, from a technical standpoint it's completely impractical. Every game tends to have their own in-game formats. Even for companies using the same engine, like Unreal, they'll have completely different rigs for their characters. There's simply no practical way to do that, at least that I can think of offhand.
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And that's the asinine part of the entire idea, having developers keep up with that bullshit from "Karens", for no good reason.
I mean sure, there are games where that could work, because the developers already do it in a similar fashion. But expecting this to suddenly work for a much wider range of games is idiotic.
Who really does want these? (Score:2)
The only people who appear interested in offering NFTs are shady people trying to make a lot of money quickly.
If you thought loot boxes caused gamers to be disgruntled, wait until you have NFT to win games!
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I feel like the game were everyone compares bank statements has already been invented.
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What NFTs provide gamers is the ability to have decentralized ownership.
How does that work, practically and technically speaking, with games?
In the end you are juts owning a game related JPG, otherwise all you'll own is a unique data blob that can MAYBE be used in a handful of games if you are lucky, in only a single game otherwise.
NFTs are the future of gaming. They provide an entirely new decentralized experience that traditional gaming simply cannot replicate.
Are you sure you didn't forget to add the "/s
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IDK why you think this would work, it wouldn't unless the two games where built with the same game engine and were practically identical and the developers of the two games had deliberately co-operated to ensure that the games were compatible. Buy doing so would then mean the games would have to be extremely similar, it would be terrible for game creativity.
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Games are subscription. I remember the first time I had to use a dongle. Apple provides value to developers as it is really hard to play games outside the optional family share.
The developers will include NFT when someone comes up with an engine that turns a profit.
have you ever written on a dollar bill? (Score:2)
Have you considered putting a link to your game, video, or novel on a dollar bill? Then who ever owned that dollar bill would also own the right to use that link. Well except that's not how the law works nor how our culture's concept of ownership works. too bad
Should be full circle by 2030. (Score:2)
Too much money (Score:4, Insightful)
Don't forget, we all laughed at horse armor, and now Rockstar sells the GTA equivalent to make billions instead of making new games.
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Software is useful (Score:2)
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Well Duh (Score:2)
Should be 100% (Score:2)
... for such abusive idiocy. We don't expect anything better from dumb-ass CEOs but developers should have a brain or two.
What NFT really means. (Score:2)
No Fucking Thanks.
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pointless overhead (Score:2)
Nice Fucken Turnip (Score:2)
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> Your children will sell your trove at auction upon your death.
But to whom? No one will want this digital garbage.
Re: Nice Fucken Turnip (Score:2)
At least during the first Tulip Mania, there were pretty flowers involved.
This Tulip mania only has imaginary bleepie bloopie shit and bullshit flowing by the ton out of the mouths of babes.
Solution to non-problem in games. (Score:2)
NFTs are a solution to a real problem.
They are a great solution when you need immutable distributed authentication in a hostile environment. That is great for digital currency, and any other ownership claims that must publicly change hands despite advisories would want to steal, corrupt, damage, or otherwise interfere with the transaction.
Those aren't problems that games have.
Some people want to transfer items between games, but that's not a problem blockchain solves. The items themselves are not externa
Please stop the NFT spam. Nobody cares (Score:1)
It's not just game developers its everyone on earth. Please stop posting these stories.
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"Burn 'em to the ground." (Score:1)
If you think the developers are disinterested... (Score:2)
Wait till you find out what the gamers think. They deplore the idiot things, rightfully so.
interesting (Score:1)
nft's are cool with the state because NFT's stand for "rich folk deciding who gets what" where crypto as such stands for "everyone can have a shot"
i doubt its the end but the way things are unless i ask for refugee status in el salvador and join la mara or 18th street im gonna be 105 before i get out of hell - ofcourse, there's always the option to break your back so the boss can buy a pool
well then
Let's take a Poll (Score:2)
How about taking a slashdot poll of how many of us give two shits about NFTs?