Quote Originally Posted by Kakure View Post
NFTs are a scam because they have no value. Literally none.

Let's say you go out and kill the evil Troll King ten times a day for two years to acquire the vanishingly rare Sword of Fiery Awesomeness +4. Once it finally drops, you have the rarest and most powerful sword in the game. Congratulations! So what good does that do you? Well, you can use it to kill more things faster and get more loot. You can wear it around town and show it off. You can sell it to someone else for in-game money/items or maybe for real-world money.

Now let's imagine that your Sword of Fiery Awesomeness +4 is an NFT. In what way is it better? Is it more prestigious? Can you do more stuff with it? Can you take it into a different game and use it there? Do you have some kind of legal right that exempts your new sword from all the EULA boilerplate about everything in the game belonging to AwfulGameCorp and you having no legal recourse if they ban you, lose your stuff, or shut down the game?

The fact that your sword is now an NFT is of exactly zero real value. It adds nothing at all. And that's because none of this is driven by a desire to make games better. It is driven by the desire to cash in on the latest tech buzzword-y bandwagon by shoehorning some irrelevant technology into their games.

You say you are interested to see what they might do with NFTs or blockchain. What might that be? I challenge you to come up with a single way that they might improve this game via blockchain or NFTs. Anything at all. What could they conceivably do to make the game better through NFTs or blockchain technology that they could not otherwise do?

I am not going to give my money over to a phone scammer or televangelist, but that doesn't mean I think they should be given free rein to scam others without recourse. That is doubly true if their scams have direct consequences for me and the things I enjoy (I don't know about you, but I'm not super thrilled to hear the president of a game company talk about their efforts to attract the vast untapped pool of potential players who are not incentivized to play games built for "people who 'play to have fun.'")

I am not going to cancel my sub because the president of SE released a letter gushing about the potential of NFT gaming, but I am going to make clear that I think it's disgusting and I hope that the collective blowback from outraged players is enough to get them to rethink this stupidity.
(This is entirely a joke response I am giving so do not try and take it seriously.)

Well if they decide to sell in-game land plots as NFT's, it might convince them to expand the housing plots enough that everyone can finally get a house!

(Again, joke. I'm 100% against this NFT nonsense. Just trying to lighten the mood.)