Gamers, who have accepted pay-to-play models and paid digital items, have largely succeeded in rejecting the video game industry's efforts to incorporate NFTs
🎮 Gamers have largely beaten back efforts to incorporate blockchain tokens into new releases, a rare win against the industry's efforts to wring more money from its customers. Here's the story: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
“why do gamers hate nfts?” is a relatively simple question to answer if you have played video games with any regularity over the last ~16 years. but i know some people haven't, and that's why i wrote this https://www.bloomberg.com/...
“A third of the game is just us attacking crypto,” says one of the Going Under creators @SmashyNick. imagine his shock when the game's publisher started supporting NFTs https://www.bloomberg.com/...
bloomberg's constant negative view of crypto aside, I predicted this general outcome over a year ago. no AAA game studio has a reason to fully incorporate blockchain into its pay-to-play structure. this may change with gov't regs & friendly crypto tax structure. maybe in '24. htt…