Shuji Utsumi, Sega’s co-CEO, comments in a new statement that there is no point in implementing blockchain technology if it doesn’t make games ‘fun’.
Never thought I’d see the day when Sega became based
It makes no sense to put it in games. Who would actually ask for Blockchain in games? Even the BAYC games ran on Web 2.0, pretty much separate from the Blockchain. It was just a gatekeeper for it
I would go one step further. Blockchain as a technology literally has no use cases that wouldn’t be better served by something else.
I disagree. It makes a ton of sense when proving transactions are legit. So if your game has a lot of high value transactions (think EVE Online), it could make a lot of sense as a way to audit the game servers.
I’m interested in big online games without a reliance on a central server. If all of your trades are handled outside of the game’s servers, and the game server logic isn’t complicated (or made freely available, like Minecraft), the developer ending support for your favorite multiplayer game wouldn’t matter all that much because you could host your own server and keep playing with all the same stuff you had before.
That said, I haven’t seen a single game use blockchain properly, and I’ve only seen a few where I think it could add value. So I’m with Sega, don’t add it unless it’s the best way to solve a real problem. It’s a bad choice most of the time, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad choice all of the time.
But blockchains do not prove anything beyond “50%+epsilon of the miners says so” which pretty much makes it unsuitable to prove anything on any small scale system.
But even then, it makes sense to not bother with any sort of mining, and just have an append only ledger with cryptographic signatures. Let anybody who wants download a copy, and you have all the advantages of blockchain.
Microtransaction season 5 horse armour DLC isn’t fun either, but here we are :(
Yeh exactly. Different companies will do different things. I will choose to ignore unfun cash grabs but there will always be reasons for people to give up cash for simple pleasure. I can only wish the developers I like choose me as their customer.
I mean they are not wrong. Even some of the “funnest” games are essentially trading/crafting games or games that have little to do with blockchain.
