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Gaming is an industry, that is what their goals are just like any industry. I'm not sure that's a bad thing yet. OPCraft was a proof of concept on Optimism. It ran as an Ethereum-L3 but which replaced the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) with the game engine for Minecraft. That way the same map and game physics, save files, and every other thing to do was on-chain (provably the same for each player, and immutable). The idea behind OPCraft's concept was to enable players to build custom clients for the game, the way there are ~10 different/unique clients for running a node on Ethereum all working on the same protocol. So one player could be playing what appears to be DOOM online with another player who's playing a Minecraft client. The concept was also to show the scaling capabilities of L3 blockchains, and how they're not confined to *another* EVM. This game came out a long time before ETH will undergo it's next (final?) scaling upgrade Q3 this year, so I expect to see a lot more of this type of thing emerge. The way this would trend, I imagine, is a developer builds a rock solid foundation to build off of (like Unity), and other developers or gamers come and build on top of that - accruing value to the original developer's foundation. Whether it be DLC dragon skins or whole modded game clients which revamp the entire game. Anti-cheat software is SO intrusive, but by putting anti-cheat on-chain it can be abstracted away and that work leased to Ethereum validators instead. Sort of how Roblox evolved into a $2B/annual revenue company just from enabling open development within their environment. 99% of the things they generate income from comes solely from volunteers and modders doing all the work - similiar to how Reddit or the Fediverse's value is derived. A group of people may spend 1000+ days building a more functional client for *your* game just so they can play it the way they want to (like 3rd party apps on Reddit), and this will derive value to your game just the same as had you paid them for their work directly. If a company is able to enable open development in a safe space, then add a marketplace with a commission in a safe space, their work is done.. Will people buy more DLC under that scheme? Probably, but it might be really good DLC that wouldn't otherwise exist so what's the harm?
That’s such a weird way to look at it. Hearthstone is based off Magic the Gathering. The game director for Magic the Gathering literally left the company to start Gods Unchained. What isn’t a ripoff in your eyes? Is COD a ripoff of DOOM? Is Sonic a ripoff of Mario? Is company of heroes a ripoff of age of empires? Where do you draw the line?
waiting for someone to run DOOM on it
>You realize in order for people to use and adopt crypto, someone has to show ways in which they can use it? You were given links, and told what the links are for. You responded by saying those utilities are glorified and the person guiding you to them is shilling.. >So far, there are no uses for regular people. And a smart contract being theoretically better on one chain than another means nothing if there are no real uses for them. And no one is interested in sharing any uses which is ironic I'm a regular person...? I use ETH every day. I told you, if you're not interested in finance then financial utilities aren't going to appeal to you. It's too bad *regular people* are not interested in their own finances. I'm not sure what exactly you expect from a currency. >And again, anytime someone tries to share a use, all it is is a glorified transfer of crypto. No real world uses You keep using the word glorified but being able to send value trustlessly without a third party is a massive and recent innovation. *I* was able to donate directly to Ukraine's aid more efficiently (by nearly a month) and effectively (with no middleman fees) than the UN was able to. Do you think the people on the front lines who had body armour a month before their peers thought crypto was *glorified*? My government, and many others, use Ethereum as a way for people to authenticate their data trustlessly. You can purchase web domains, use them as public wallet addresses, which can be tied to your IPFS to display your decentralized websites. Many AI's (such as Meta's Oasis) use blockchains as a way to prove they're compliant with data laws. Spotify is testing token-enabled playlists which will give people a *direct* way to fund their favourite artists, and as a way to share royalties with fans. Reddit is selling collectible avatars on Ethereum with a very generous % going directly to the artist *each time* the NFT is sold or resold. The Lens protocol is a decentralized Twitter-like *social graph* resistant to censorship. Advertisers pay for ad-space on the Brave browser using BAT tokens, which are redistributed to the users viewing the ads. Starbucks used NFTs to offer customer-rewards instead of app discounts to reduce costs. Crypto is used for international employees frequently, especially in temp or "gig" jobs, as crypto offers is the least friction and least cost for Intl value transfers. DAOs are also a massive innovation. Quite recently a bunch of people banded together and almost bought one of the few real copies of the US Constitution, something not possible without all of these tools - whether you perceive that as a valid use case or not is subjective. OPCraft was a functional fork of Optimism without the Ethereum Virtual Machine - instead it had the Minecraft game engine put in its place, as a proof of concept. Everything from character locations, the blocks, the game physics, down to the location of the clouds in the sky were all on-chain. This would enable people to build different clients that interact with the OPCraft protocol, one person could be in Minecraft and another is in DOOM playing the same online game side by side - and by putting save files (or additional assets like DLC) on-chain they can't be tampered with or faked *by anyone* (even the game admins). VISA is upgrading their network to run on crypto rails, stating it will reduce their (and our) costs making them more competetive. The whole purpose behind crypto is to eliminate middlemen to reduce fees and increase trust. Can you think of any use case where these properties would benefit you? Finance is only the most obvious. I can think of a hundred cases which apply to me even in my day to day.. Crypto isn't for everybody, most people are fine to pay and trust middlemen and that's just fine. If people don't want to use crypto that doesn't affect me as someone who does use crypto. The less adoption there is the fewer people come in thinking crypto is something it's not (then getting mad and calling for their governments help to prevent themselves from buying any more), and the less congestion there is in the networks makes them cheaper to actually *use*. Everything is glorified from the outside.