Topic: What the hell are Crypto kitties? - page 22. (Read 29828 times)

Glad I found this thread. Ive also seen some memes about it and that everybody is talking about kittens today, but I dont understood the big deal. As this seems to be just the beginning of this game, dont you think that this is way too much for the ethereum blockchain to handle? Maybe this is a coup executed by some competition of Ethereum to show the public the weaknesses Ethereum networks scalability. So as this is a game, and not an airdrop of some sort as I first thought, we can now expect that this will go on continously like that am I right? ETH network will be clogged until they stop the game? Hope Im wrong and someone corrects me.

this game will make crypto currency very popular among people for whom the names ETHERIUM and BITCOIN were too complicated, and the kittens are very simply

WHAT A LESSON FOR THE WHOLE CRYPTOWORLD!!!!!!!! I tried the game, as I am just curios, how it actually works. And I need to confes, the POW is not confirmed for the ethereum network. We will see HUGE problems in coming month for the cryptoworld, if there are no more reliable projects in place, which can handle much, much higher transactions also with a LOT lower transaction fees.

Yes, it is a very hot games based on Etherium network and it makes the network crowded. I do not know much about it, just heard it from my friends. I do not like that game.

So that's why my transactions wont push through.I'ts been 2 days already.Can't someone do something about this?Losing a lot of opportunities because of Ethereum's heavy traffic.

This crap game was hurting the ethereum chain. What the fuck is this https://etherscan.io/address/0x06012c8cf97bead5deae237070f9587f8e7a266d
Over 580k transaction.
This is the main reason that's why the majority of the people get stuck by using the ethereum at this time. Over 20% of the total transaction. Why so many people are buying this crap thing.  My transaction gets stuck. This must be stopped.

This reminds me of Tamagotchi and more recently Pokemon Go. Given its popularity we might see more crypto-pets coming up and even ICO behind it .

I don't personally consider this a bad thing for Ethereum and Crypto. This is the type of fun news that we desperately need to mixed up with all the government crack down type of news. What crypto/blockchain needs today is to make it easy to understand and connect with normal people.

This is some kind of disgrace, I still do not understand what's going on. The Etherium network does not work all day, what will happen next. This is a bad test for the Etherium network.

Silly game for idiots. That's the main reason Ethereum network has been so slow since yesterday, transactions are processed with delays and it's hard to invest in ICOs. I thought cryptocurrency users were more clever than this...

How do you disallow participants of a decentralized network from using it and voting with their transaction fees what is really important and valuable in life (i.e. Cryptokitties)?

Where are all those BTC crappers / ETH to the moon prophets (such cheap and fast transactions). Seems it is not much better after first use case.

hmm, looks like playing Tamagotchi / Pou, right ?  
but this difference uses etherum blockchain to play this game and you can earn some money if you successfuly raised our kitties and sell it...
i already heard about cryptokitties from my crypto telegram group and some people discuss about cryptokittis but I dont really care...

What the heck is this lol. I just got suckered into making an account and I will probably be breeding kitties within the hour...oh god... From what I have gathered in a short time, this seems to be more profitable than airdrops and bounties 

And then crypto went to the kitties..............

CryptoKitties lets players buy and breed "crypto-pets" on Ethereum's  blockchain network. The real problem is this game put too much stress on Ethereum network and is in charge of approximately 20% total traffic. I think it will be banned from Network or there will be a fork to get rid of this game. I have nothing against but imagine is getting now to main media, and viral on all news portal, reddit, facebook, youtube. What will happen if 5 other crypto copycats create a similar game on Etereum Network?  stand still and transaction fees will increase. This craze didn't start yet for good, it's a good time to stop it before is too late.

I heard it within a few days and it was enough to disrupt the speed of eth transactions.
do not need to enter into the expensive game before we know the actual impact, hopefully eth team immediately do the prevention of the game because it is very disturbing.

The point of the whole project may be to load the ETH network and bring it down a notch.  Surely the devs had to have considered the strain it would cause...

Indeed, the blockchain will freeze, if it hasn't already. What I see from this project/experiment is a lesson the crypto world needed to learn. It has been said a few times, but nobody took the time to actually think about it.
But as it turns out, a sole blockchain cannot withstand more than 1 project. ONE SUCCESSFUL PROJECT. And in the case of ether network, that is ethereum. It was built for it and the fact that you can ass your coin to it, it was just meant to raise awareness and make people "consume" more of the network, make transactions with gas, so the network will always gain something.
Now, Bitcoin has its own network as well.

And the thing is that this project, or any project that aims to succeed needs its own blockchain, or it will eventually kill the entire network. I believe it's just a matter of time. For some it may take a few days, for others some years.

What bothered me, wad the cheap website and landing page this cryptokitties game gas. As it claims to be "one of the world's games built on the blockchain technology.... with cryptocollectible" BS. That's what it is. I see it as a MLM bs, with a nice marketing, what was probably set up by a marketer in the first place. It only proves once more, that a cute wrap sell about any crap.
As if this was not enough, the entire idea of this 1st thing ever that came up with this is stolen. It has been almost a year since the first collectible card game, a football manager game exists. It is a game which offers you the possibility to act like a football manager, setting football teams, for the future real football matches. And the ranking system from the game is based on the real results of the games. The top ranking managers get rewards in crypto and that's how the mining is being done.
Yes, it's a free game and that is the first crypto game that I know of. Their collectible football players cards are seen as your assets, which you own. The only one big difference is that this game can be played for free, since not all player cards must be bought. And you can win the crypto if you are smart enough.
Another thing that I learnt from both this projects is that FootballCoin, the football manager game is building its own blockchain, unlike CryptoKitties, just do THIS freezing blockchain situation never happens. A very big sign that the project has a vision and future plans for development, than a lucky shot the kittens have took.  

No trying to convince anyone, just putting this out there... hoping one of those people who have bought digital pictures of cartoones cats will read it. Happy breeding.

It's crazy, people are buying these kittens in the tens of thousands of dollars! People pay tens of thousands for a piece of useless code!

You are right, probably FOMO too.
This game resembles of a ponzi-scheme, early buyers who got their kittens for free/low price are pushing the price higher and higher. Then we have these not-so-wise late-joiners thinking this is a good investment, buying for that overrated price, hoping to sell for higher. Only to be stucked with them kittens forever.

It's crazy-crazy world. Some people around are insane imo. Maybe it happens because of some kind of kitty magic))) but mostly it's all about the human stupidity.

Good stress test for the network, however this game is utterly useless.
You can rise the price of your kitten by selling it to yourself several times.

I highly doubt that someone is willingly to pay 100 ETH for a 'nothing', the way I see it is that the owner buy/sell to him/herself, each times raising the price a little bit, so it appears that a kitten is popular and desired.