Topic: Gaming on blockchain is the future (Read 732 times)

It is called a "tragedy of the commons".

There was a quite promising free open source 3-D MMORPG but artists and musicians never seem to have truly gotten on board the free open source concept.

For example if I wanted, like a holodeck, to fire up a 4-piece band playing "Sgt. Pepper's", well maybe bad example, as that whole lyrics and score are probably copyright; but hey copyright allows fair use so maybe a tiny snippet of the song, with credits to authors, heck even link those credits to their homepages or something... Sheesh it gets complicated already.

So I need a free open source replicator-program for each instrument, four free open source musicians, and free open source bandstand for them to stand on, maybe in a free open source venue.

Artists and musicians though tend to hold back the actual source; that is why special different free-use licenses exist now for media content, basically just free open source content-not-source; specifically avoiding being free actual source.

Like Battle for Wesnoth has music, but not source code for generating that music so that one can massage it, change one instrument's musician to a different style, switch out the "sounds like a Fender" bass maybe for a sounds like a Stradivarius bass if Strad had lived long enough to make an electric bass guitar, etc etc etc.

So the looked-promising free open source MMORPG held back its "content" media, the very media actually needed to even run its Minimum Viable Product let alone its Most Valuable Player...

-MarkM-

can't really hope for these blockchain game developer to actually bring something enjoyable with how much money required to build a proper game.

the only gameplay that actually works for web3 game and actually a little bit fun is 2d turn based game like axie, the gameplay is actually so simple that polishing the game don't need that much resources.

quite the opposite to any 3d games out there, it feels janky and yes, playing feels like a chore where there are bugs everywhere. so once people can't seek profit from playing they immediately abandon it, because it was never fun in the first place.

Yes. There are many games which are complete garbage. Just another cash grab from the developers. I've always wondered how P2E (Play to Earn) games on the Blockchain are able to run a sustainable business model. I mean, how does a developer make money from a game that virtually gives away money for "free"? It doesn't make any sense. I haven't tried these games myself, so I can't tell.

I'm yet to see a renowned gaming company (Activision, Bandai/Namco, Sega, etc) make a game that uses Blockchain tech. I guess scaling limitations is what's holding these companies back. Considering that Blockchain isn't mainstream yet, it's going to take quite a long time before the gaming industry takes it seriously. Can't say there's a future for gaming on the Blockchain, until the tech is ready for prime time use. We should give it more time to mature to see what happens. For now, let's just stick to Blockchain being the future of finance.

One of the advantages of using Free Open Source games that have already lasted many years is that those games are so enjoyable, to those who do enjoy them, that year after year developers come along looking to work on it sometimes simply because they actually want to play it with whatever fixes and new features they have come along to add.

Basically you know from the get-go it is a perennially successful game that has proven itself over years or decades, a "classic" as it were.

From a play to earn perspective you also aren't wasting your players' potential earnings on game development, yet you can still invest in development teams optionally and of course players can do so directly if they choose.

-MarkM-

I hope for these new games to come to be enjoyable themselves first, and then, only then - have some use cases with Metaverses or crypto at all.
Usually, games like that are so junky they can't be enjoyed besides the profit they may bring.

You mention transferring assets into NFTs but that brings up what I consider to be a very surprising and pathetic problem with the implementations I have seen so far of NFTs, to wit the fact that none that I have seen nor heard of so far actually contain / wrap any actual assets.

When I first saw references to the concept of NFTs it seemed obvious to me that they were in fact the answer to conferring real value upon game assets, simply because if you transformed a pile of X bitcoins into a game asset, whether a magick sword or a bar of gold or an uncommonly hued and sightly gemstone, of course that game asset has value for as long as the intrinsic X number of bitcoin it represents / contains / wraps has value.

But I have yet to see NFTs implemented in such a manner...

-MarkM-

If land is, or boils down to, a minter of game currency, it makes a lot of sense to try to keep it out of the hands of undesirables such as "dumpers".

MUDflation is a thing, it really is.

As a game designer operating in a genre in which spamming unlimited amounts of game currency is undesirable or could even end up destroying the game's ability to provide negotiable value, "dumpers" are a major species of "griefer".

Believe me when I tell you that many players would much prefer exchanges/markets that plainly identify each "dumper" in order to know whose civilisation to wipe from the map or cause to be taken over by an entity known (maybe even proven) to be aligned with the "common cause" objective of in theory "all" players of maximising the negotiable value provided by the game.

If you let some random venture capital firm buy up minting-things in your game, you are so likely, it seems to me, to end up with them turning out to be "dumpers", just from the very nature and history of VCs and their goals.

So by all means, try to keep "dumpers" from any way of minting your assets, and land is usually in games ultimately a way of minting assets is it not?

-MarkM-

I would probably invest in NEARverse or NEARlands metaverses, I missed the boat on netvrk because they only allowed whitelisted accounts to buy land from their partners. I will not take part in any such scam land sale.
Metavers will probably become more popular in the future as there are more gamers in the new generation. They don't even care what ETH or Bitcoin is.

There are different games and they use different blockchains so all players are not concentrated in one game. There will be new games with better graphics and more interesting scenarios so I don't think that network will not manage with it.
As for games' potential, I also don't think that gaming is our future. Actually, I am not really fond of computer games and there are many more useful technologies than just gaming.

Remember btc-e... then wex? btc-e first troll box besides charts on a Bitcoin and Altcoin exch. Wex continued with same ui and same chat, but also had a live feed of tweets under the chat. And now? Since you mention twitch and bitcoin bootstrapped while merge mining some blockchain coins in your treasuries even NMC I figure it is important to mention along side live gaming/other broadcasts its chat happens to use IRC original RFC1459 protocol but modified it allows use of your own IRC client. https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/guide/#:~:text=Twitch%20offers%20an%20IRC%20interface%20to%20our%20chat,IRC%20client%20instead%20of%20using%20the%20Web%20interface. Maybe that will help you going forward. if not roll up or backward you are a gordian knot of gordian knots mark. That's for sure. You're my favorite co-founder and developer out there. I'm big on mises, and I love this article about why people used bitcoin software and transacted units before it had value. Maybe this will help others find the Galactic Milieu like me: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-emergence-of-bitcoin-through-the-lens-of-austrian-economics

Blockchain-based gaming may prove to be lucrative, but it's not an ideal long-term solution due to Blockchain tech's limitations. For games to scale, they'd need to run on a centralized server. There's no other way. But the hype has led game developers to foolishly believe Blockchain is the ideal solution for everything. I'd imagine how gamers will be frustrated once the Blockchain becomes heavily congested. Fees will soar while performance will decline considerably. And don't let me get started on bear markets. With these and many other issues, I don't think gaming on Blockchain is the future. Just my opinion

Competitions are now getting tighter in terms of axie if you don't have good skills you will end up wasting your time and earn lesser.

Gaming system if that wide door got open to all the gamers, the monetary system will be the additional perks, but gamers always a gamer
seeking for good quality games and additional entertainment should be the priorities

Not just the money making part but more on entertaining and enjoyable gaming experience.

If a user has the ability to research deeply, everyone can take advantage of NFT games even without pushing themselves to popular ones like Axie Infinity. There are lots of games nowadays that can be profitable if we play them right.

But of course, don't expect right away a sure profit at these games. You really need to put time and money in order to get a good return.

This is really going to be massive specially to all gamers who seek fun along with financial source. One example of that was the axie players who first became popular in terms of monetary sources that give their families a good source of income that feeds their daily living. However, competition within a game play was very difficult specially skills and talent was the main key to achieve rewards.
So to the holders of nft tokens, let's keep it and soon profit will come.

Well, I'd look to such changes and this is part of blockchain development. The gaming industry is now seeing that the use of blockchain technology helps them to become more popular and entertaining and also it help them to satisfy every player that will come to them. As more gamers will ask for their services, expected big returns are somewhat to think.

I consider this a great venue to develop more crypto adoption and help to spread the use of cryptocurrencies. Actually, that Axie Infinity gives such an interesting look and starts to create hypes leading to gamers earning some money while playing.

Gaming is a big market, there are billions of dollars in it, and crypto is big as well, there are billions in it. When you combine the two together, it is easy to predict how awesome it would get. I believe that there is a good chance we could end up with a lot of profit in both of them, it will not be easy to do it at first, but slowly and overtime we are going to have 10+ billion dollar market cap in gaming blockchain networks, and in further future it will become 20-30-50 and even 100+ billion dollars.

This may take a few years, developing a game based around something new is a bit of a challenge but it will definitely happen one day. Let's wait and see, but I am in love with this metaverse idea, something as simple as Axie becoming this big is proof that it will get better and bigger in the future when the games are much better games.

Yeh its absolutely right that gaming project on blockchain are future if we observe the market we found few coin which is basically a gaming project like Axis infinity , Polker, etc these are the future because we know that gaming has big industry and a lot of people around the world play games its mean billion of dollar generate from them if these billion of dollar come to crypto it will shock everyone so that the reason that gaming project has bright future

I could not agree more with you. Considering that everything that can be done through the internet is highly beneficial and ideal, especially during this pandemic, made gaming on blockchain a trend that is continuously thriving. And you are right that it became even more fascinated by the public because this can provide financial benefits and many more. Hence, it will be part of our digitalized future.

Its where the hype is and that is the reason why they pump like crazy. I somehow think that Blockchain games is part of the future. The fact that it incentivise its players is quite good and unique. It empowers the gamers to thrive more to gain crypto. Here in the Philippines, Axie and other P2E games are replacing normal job. The fact that it pays well than most jobs here is quite a good opportunity to take.