Topic: Let's get bitcoin support for OUYA! (Read 5480 times)
The best game is called towerfall, and for me it is worth the $250 for console, 4 controllers and this game... But fuck sake they sure are assholes to require always online authentication for a $15 game....
Couldn't hurt to ask...i just submitted a support ticket explaining the benefits of using something like bitpay or coinbase.
If everyone could send in an email or something i think they might have a good look at using BTC.
If everyone could send in an email or something i think they might have a good look at using BTC.
Ouya is pretty disappointing. It's one of those you plug it in and mess with it for a couple of days and then never touch it again gadgets.
A better console Oton is coming up http://htpub.blogspot.com/2013/07/oton-future-gaming-console.html
A lot of people don't like the fact that they demand credit card info right up front. Maybe they can integrate bitcoin as an optional method of prepayment or something like that, so people at least have some option.
In the meantime I just asked them on their Facebook page.
P.S. They are planning an AMA on reddit on April, stay tuned and ask them about Bitcoin.
Just found this thread after their recent launch.
If anyone knows where they manage their feature requests, please answer and we can all create a feature request/vote/comment on it.
If anyone knows where they manage their feature requests, please answer and we can all create a feature request/vote/comment on it.
Yeah, I'd be willing to buy a Ouya for 1btc 
Now that Ouya ready to ship
Anymore updates?
Anymore updates?
I was thinking of sending an e-mail to Julie Uhrman about why she should include bitcoin support for the OUYA, does anyone have a good bitcoin info template I could use?
I believe there is an excellent place for Bitcoin on the Ouya, but not primarily for an app market. The competition is too hard and there isn't enough of a user base to make it worthwile for developers yet.
Around 60k OUYA owners at the time the Kickstarter ended isn't enough of a user base? Bear in mind the amount of pre-orders has kept on climbing since the Kickstarter ended. If you give that many people the option to use bitcoins as one of the default methods of payment, even at 1% of its user base going bitcoin will shove hundreds of buy orders into the market. As long as no one cheats
Hm … I know that in games where no money is involved, nobody ever cheated but do you think that would be the same when there was real money involved? I still have doubts but try it out. It would be a cool experiment on the honesty of people.The judge could be anyone. Game developers could choose to create games where they themselves are the judges of disputes, or create a social atmosphere where the 2 players could agree upon a third player to be the judge. I don't think this design decision should be centrally controlled. The game developers only need an API that makes these bets easy to implement.
edit: lol, escort service should obviously be escrow service. Fixed.
As long as no one cheats
Hm … I know that in games where no money is involved, nobody ever cheated but do you think that would be the same when there was real money involved? I still have doubts but try it out. It would be a cool experiment on the honesty of people.
I believe there is an excellent place for Bitcoin on the Ouya, but not primarily for an app market. The competition is too hard and there isn't enough of a user base to make it worthwile for developers yet.
I believe there is a much better opportunity in competetive gaming for money. Someone should create an app with an API that allows people to easily make bets against eachother. My first thought of how this could work is a Bitcoin app/wallet that allows you to create a 2-out-of-3 signatures contract between you, a competitor and a judge. This would allow you to make bets in bitcoin with another person in a decentralized manner. Game developers could call this API to create a bet (though you would need to confirm it manually) between to players, and thus allow them to compete for money. As long as no one cheats the player consoles would agree upon who won/lost the game and the judge wouldn't need to be called in. If someone cheats then the judge will need to make a decision. The judge could be either the game developer himself or a third neutral person depending on how the game developer set it up.
I believe there is a much better opportunity in competetive gaming for money. Someone should create an app with an API that allows people to easily make bets against eachother. My first thought of how this could work is a Bitcoin app/wallet that allows you to create a 2-out-of-3 signatures contract between you, a competitor and a judge. This would allow you to make bets in bitcoin with another person in a decentralized manner. Game developers could call this API to create a bet (though you would need to confirm it manually) between to players, and thus allow them to compete for money. As long as no one cheats the player consoles would agree upon who won/lost the game and the judge wouldn't need to be called in. If someone cheats then the judge will need to make a decision. The judge could be either the game developer himself or a third neutral person depending on how the game developer set it up.
Yes, if only it was a mining-friendly platform, that would make sense. Anyone cares to make one?
Why would it have to be mining-friendly? All it would require is a thin client to send transactions. The entire point of pushing for first party support for bitcoin is to create a new pro-bitcoin market that would add much needed circulation of currency to bitcoin and drive up the value of coins currently in our pockets. Don't be so narrow minded, you'll miss out on a lot of potentially good investments.Apologize.
I accept your apology.
If i'm not mistaking this is an android device, so say hello to google's wallet service, you can forget about bitcoin really.
Just because it's built on the Android architecture doesn't mean it's going to be controlled by google.There will probably be a jailbroken version on the way, with apps that the "original" version does not have. Some developers at XDA forums would be the experts on that.
Apologize.
If i'm not mistaking this is an android device, so say hello to google's wallet service, you can forget about bitcoin really.
Just because it's built on the Android architecture doesn't mean it's going to be controlled by google.There will probably be a jailbroken version on the way, with apps that the "original" version does not have. Some developers at XDA forums would be the experts on that.
If its open to devs, make a bitcoin OUYA store yourself.
+1
I see no point in making an android market based on bitcoin that competes with the play market but as ouya default store is weak (aka non-existent), you could be ready at the start with a feature rich market that supports credit card, paypal and bitcoin with a nice in app payment api and subscriptions and developers might embrace it. Don't scare them off with bitcoin as the most prominent feature.
Please don't be foolish to build a bitcoin only market. Developers will not use it.
If you see no point, then you obviously have no idea how the PLAY market works. Google takes 30% right off the top. Whoever runs a competing market, gets that 30% of everything. (or whatever amount they want to charge)
Thanks for telling me what I already know.
Check out this list to get an idea what it means to be google or some #2.
The play market has massive numbers compared to any ouya infant toy gadget. If your bitcoin-only-market gets 30% of the sales … well, here is my assumptions for two years of operations:
Ouya will sell 20 million devices.
200 developers will produce 250 apps (mostly adoptions of existing apps).
The official ouya market will sell these apps. It will sell a total of 50 million apps.
An unofficial market that provides many more features to the developer and the user will feature 50 developers and their apps and achieve 2 million sales.
A bitcoin only market will get 5 developers on board and sell 2000 apps.
But tell me what have you been talking about? Ah yeah, the 30% will make them rich. Sorry, but if my crystal ball is not broken, it suggests I better don't put money and time on such a venture.
I'm totally on board for this. I think it makes more sense to be integrated by OUYA in their main store system. If it's a 3rd party app there isn't any incentive for devs to put their games on the 3rd party service.
If the 3rd party market is vastly superior, devs would in fact support it. To achieve this, you would really have to put work into this and to start that you would have to get a better picture what the OUYA team plans to do with respect to a sales platform.
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