Topic: Gaming Is Key to the Mass Adoption of Crypto (Read 444 times)

I don't think that gaming can do anything with crypto. Most of the people playing serious games are young people which do not have money to invest.

I am not convinced that non Free Open Source games are all that suitable for use as components of larger systems such as crypto ecosystems.

I think there is great risk of non Free Open Source acting too much like Microsoft et al, deliberately breaking compatibility and so on.

Even before TCP/IP came along to supplant dialup BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) I would look at things like Broderbund's "Art of War" and the lost potential of such a potential tool was horrible to see...

Unix-style operating systems seem to me to have the right idea, you make components that do one thing and do it well.

From that perspective, "Art of War" seemed it could be awesome if only you could "pipe" into it a battlefield set up by some other component (maybe a civilisation building game, for example?) and "pipe" the outcome of the battle back or pass it on to the next component in a pipeline.

I often have scoured the internet for free open source games and once found something that was just for drawing awesomely graphical space battles.

That was it, just displaying them! So it seemed intended some larger containing game would be used to do all the economics and logistics and politics and so on of why the battle came about and what ships each fleet consisted of. Like wow, something that looked truly intended to be used as a component, but unfortunately still in need of open standards maybe so the other components could pipe the scenarios to it and accept the results piped back in...

Still, I have managed to find ways to fit as many free open source online [hopefully-massively but often not all that massive] multiplayer games as I could find that actually worked together into a metagame. Better digital duct-tape to tape (pipe?) it all together would still be nice though.

All the various cryptocoin daemons are simply more components to plug in.

The original bitcoind and its clones and derivatives all are designed for easy use from shell scripts invoked from syscalls inside games - inside the server or inside a client (e.g. MUD clients), so for coins of that family integration can be very easy, making a bartender in a Crossfire RPG guildhouse enable crypto transactions for guildmembers is not really any more complicated than adding such abilities to an IRC-bot. Or nowadays presumably also a telegram bot...

I already noticed someone had made a telegram bot giving access to a MUD, with some kind of crypto involvement, now that TON is launched maybe it uses TON?

I have yet to come across though example shell scripts one could call from IRC bots or syscalls from games or gameclients to send from a certain character or address X amount of something to another character or address?

-MarkM-

EDIT in that last paragraph I mean shells scripts using other platforms than *coind or Open Transactions. I don't even have such for the HORIZON and Stellar platforms.

However, if we can bring this in gaming world  Mass Adoption of Crypto it would be a great game changing fact . The success with Mass adoption that would come with social media far beyond that off gaming area  , various aspects of crypto continues to grow, and get along adoption with many space . If this crypto blockchain system can be adopted indirectly
by gaming key its will bring a huge Mass Adoption of Crypto by far no doubt on it and things will happen surely a game changers for this industry of Gaming .

You have a point on that. A lot of percentage of population are hooked in social media, while players or gamers are not that big as compared to socmedia users. But the gaming industry is already a multi-billion dollar industry, so if crypto will penetrate the gaming industry, this will already be quite an addition to crypto adoption. And most players would find it easy dealing with crypto as they are already dealing with some gaming currencies. So I think, they will be one of the easiest to teach crypto.

Even there was no single gaming project that has already achieved a big result in crypto industry. i would say that it seems like if this is still impossible to be achieved. BTW, there was a lot of games already exist but none of them can bring massive adoption. The majority of users come from the crypto users itself.

I don't think so, if we are looking to leverage something that is done by almost everyone on the globe then it's social media platforms that we should really look at. I for instance, I ain't a gamer and so do many friends of mine. However, on social media like Facebook, Instagr and Twitter almost everyone interacts on these platforms. The success with global adoption that would come with social media far exceeds that off gaming.

Although blockchain gaming is a good way of attracting more users but I still think it has a long way to go. Developers needs to put in more effort to build games which will have comparable features with other games outside the crypto space. Yes gamers will be happy to get paid depending on the idea of the platform, and being on blockchain means there will be transparency but yet they need attractive games which will give them better experiences than what they are used to. Also, in as much as blockchain gaming is gaining more attention I also believe other ideas and use cases are trying their possible best such as betting, e-commerce etc.

You have a point here but gaming currencies should work only for it's use case which is (gaming only), for example we all know that binance BNB token is useless outside the exchange right? Because it was designed to be useful on binance exchange only

Well, it could be possible that gaming is the key for the massive adaptation of cryptocurrency since both are lying within the same discipline which is the technological advancement. It could be possible that gaming will be used to attract people to get into using cryptocurrency since almost all people around the world do know how to play at least one game online. There is already MOBA, MMORPG that people usually get into when playing games in which if we associate using cryptocurrency on playing those games can do a massive and maybe effective promotion on how cryptocurrencies can be used in the aspect of playing games since most of the games now uses digital currencies like e-load to purchase game related stuffs, then introduction of cryptocurrency will not be difficult since it is also a digital currency which is much more easier to use like a cashless currency. It would be a great idea to be made into reality combining cryptocurrency and gaming together to create massive adaptation which can benefit both parties in which gamers can acquire cryptos while playing games and cryptocurrency is massively adapted while gamers are playing games.

Cryptocurrencies, especially non-fungible tokens could become really helpful to this industry because rare projects from games will be really rare and you will know exactly how many tokens (items) exist, who owns it and so on.. 

I totally agree with you mate, gaming industry is a huge market  that is growing with each passing day, the dedication of gamers around the world and their readiness to accept innovative concept and ideas that will bring about a new sense of revolution to gaming industry is something to write home about. I think it's time for blockchain disruption to start targeting more of industries that will benefit greatly from the potentials of the blockchain technology and i assure you that the gaming industry is one of such industries.

i am not certain to have seen several gaming platform utilize crypto currency outrightly, because perhaps i rarely play games
But the gambling world, casinos has definitely promoted crypto currency, we now have diffrent gambling platforms that lets users stake with bitcoin, we also have few casino platforms that does that.

If crypto currency can be added to gaming, then the list of adopters, is gonna increase immensely.

There will definitely be more adoption of crypto if video games can start using coins or tokens to get upgrades instead of useless in-game coins, games like arena battle, PUBG, DOTA etc will be awesome u can really earn from playing

If only the developers could make it possible to use or integrate it in commercial use for gaming it then blockchain technology would probably get into the new height. Get it into the majority of the gamers, like DOTA, LOL, or any e-sports events where the blockchain or crypto assets will be in mainstream.

I think truly, gamers or better still gamblers are a superb tool in the crypto curency space, but their importance should not exaggerated.

I think less than 20% of people in the world are gamblers, and from that 20% i can tell than more than 90% of them prefer to gamble or play their games in fiat, cash so that they can get their rewards almost instantly.

Hence, lets leave the mass adoption of crypto to grow steadily as countries continue to legalize crypto currency

I agree like crypto as a collectible is good and have potential however isn't it ejin project is trying hard to make usecase for its enj token. Erc1155 tokens require you to have enj transfer fee aside for ethereum gwei gas fee.

Agree with you, but the main aspect of crypto is not related to the gaming platform, only a few companies are majorly exposing cryptocurrency will be elaborated based on the gaming sectors. Entertainment is the major task and playing an important role in cryptocurrency, gaming is not the major adoption for the cryptocurrency.

It is true. since last 2019 the number of crypto gamers users has continued to increase, so I think this will be the green spear for crypto prices. the number of gamers users who continue to grow day will easily restore the price of crypto. but seeing the current condition with the spread of the corona virus, many crypto users are turning around and prefer to support medical crypto platforms and programs. maybe they think if this program is successful many people will be helped by the budget for the success of this medical crypto.

The essence of cryptocurrncy is adoption, application, and its impacts locally and globally. Another sector of adoption of cryptocurrency is the face of shop payment, using cryptocoin for shopping,, example of such is Alibabacoin, reckoons, Edcoin used mainly for shopping, and many more. But the greatest adopted one is the gaming section, people needs entertainment, prediction and trial,betting with crypto coin now makes it easy.
Gamblers in Africa here says, "Real bettors never quit but quitters never win" the statement had gummed them in gambling hoping to win someday.

We should have realized before. the sector in the gaming industry is very potential and considering this is the entertainment problem of someone who has been addicted (gamers). every human being definitely needs entertainment, in the game industry especially, someone is willing to spend their money only for in-game purchases and now gaming is a hobby that some people cannot leave. I think or my assumption if a famous game developer adopts blockchain technology, this is no longer a joke, it will definitely have an impact and explode, especially Bitcoin. and considering that today, there are still many lay people and do not understand what bitcoin and blockchain technology are. maybe if the introduction through the game industry will have an impact and crypto trends improve.