Of all the games that could add block chain tech, especially if used exactly like crypto, EVE Online seems the most reasonable. Goods and currency in that game already have real world value; making that value a real standard could be cool. Maybe. I certainly wouldn't mind having a secure, legit system to exchange in-game shit for real money.
Too bad this is for some other bullshit and not EVE Online itself. 😮💨
The problem is, what can they do with the blockchain that they can't do without it?
If you're thinking NFTs or a crypto replacement for in-game currency, what's the benefit versus just using a normal marketplace to sell in-game assets? Yes, they technically exist outside the game, but their value is still intrinsically linked to the game. If the game goes offline, the currency and NFTs suddenly have no use and their value will plummet. You'll also get people "investing" in the currency and fucking with the value who don't even play the game. Further, you're dealing with transaction fees every time they're traded with crypto, in addition to whatever CCP is skimming off the top.
You mention wanting a secure, legit system, but they could build a marketplace for that that handled it using the existing currency, there's no need to introduce a new, inefficient one to accomplish that.
Maybe I'm missing some really awesome use case; if so, can you clue me in?
Exactly. A blockchain is just a slow, inefficient, append-only distributed database. The only excuse for using one is if you lack a central authority, but in this case CCP has to be the central authority because everything in the DB only works with their game. So, just use a normal DB, it gives you everything the blockchain does in this case, but is much more efficient.
I merely mean that it wouldn't seem out of place and would potentially have more benefits than negatives. It just makes sense for the spreadsheets in space game. I'm not asking for it, but don't see any reason to be against it until we see what effect it actually has. 🤷🏻♂️
Great. Another “Blockchain is great and we swear it is not just another way to monetize the game with microtransactions and macrotransactions” game.
It sounded interesting until the blockchain part...
I lost 9 months of my life to EVE Online. Going to pass on this one.
I swapped playing eve when I realized one job is plenty, and the other paid in euros instead of ISK.
Only 9 months? I lost many years to this game. Great fun playing with friends but once everyone quit it became such a grind.
Same. I still miss it. I quit after the main FC and leader of my corp quit. The whole group kind of fell apart without his leadership. Had some damn good times, though. Peak EVE was something unlike anything else I've been apart of in gaming.
Don't know the current state of the game, though. It was kind of on a decline when I quit, in terms of how the updates were changing the game for the worse.
Went back to it last month after a 10 years yatus.
Game still here, with a lot of changes since.
However, it's still requiring a lot of time an commitment. And I realized that I don't have either to give to a video game now.
I did see it got a recent uptick in concurrent players, so hopefully the game is on the right track again. I'd really hate for it to die.
You're right though, you really have to view it as a hobby, not a video game.
We all miss Nivlac Hita. He kept fweddit running.
Blockchain is obviously needed if we want the Metaverse to be decentralized and not centralized like in Ready Player One. Blockchain is not bad itself, but bad and toxic stuff can be implemented using blockchain.
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