No you can not. That makes no technical or even conceptual sense and although NFTs will be a major integration in gaming (done right), it is not magic and they will not be “free to earn”.
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I don’t really see the point. As you’ve described here, it still requires manual developer intervention to enable utility of this stuff on a per item basis. Multiply that by the # of items across all games and it just seems impractical. On top of that, developers are already running their online services on presumably trusted platforms - so what the heck is the actual benefit of the block chain besides burning electricity and selling worthless digital junk for the equivalent of <$1/hr of time (looking at steam trading cards for reference)? How is it any better than the cross plat/cross game integrations are already putting in?
I’m not even going to go into the money laundering potential there (basically a sure thing it’s happening on the steam market paired with 3rd party middleman websites that allow you to sell these for real cash). I also a bit saddened that NFT’s are being bundled into the whole web 3.0 bucket when they are basically the antithesis of the original hopes for the internet, but that’s another discussion.
We know what the blockchain is, get your weird crypto nonsense AWAY from Halo.
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Didn’t ubisoft get completely mocked for doing something similar? I don’t think that worked out too well, mostly cuz its very clearly just a way for companies to profit off their payers. It sounds intresting but then that makes people play for money, then thats all there’d be… I don’t know, its just feels like more monetizing of a game that doesn’t need it. That’ll benefit greedy companies more and I’m glad its getting called out to be honest
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The last thing this game needs is for greedy excutives to find a way to profit off the players. Lets work on making the cosmetics shop better before we even try to go to this NFT nonsense. You’ve seen how it went for ubisoft…for those that don’t know, it did not go very great, almost nobody bothered buying them/trying to get it.
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What in the Kentucky Fried F*ck did I just read?
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NFTs actually have a lot of practical uses which are being discussed. And banning them outright would be a bad thing. But they absolutely shouldn’t be brought into Halo. Doing so right now would create more problems than it solves.
By the way, scarcity is a BAD THING. I don’t know if you understand this, but scarcity = value = exploitable = status = things you can hang over others’ heads as haves VS have-nots.
It is also digitally generated.
There is NO value in digital scarcity. It is something that ONLY exists to make money, and things that exist SOLELY to make money are inherently worthless. Gold, Diamonds, have practical use. Video Games can tell stories, they can be art. Just digital art, can be art.
But scarcity.
ARTIFICIAL scarcity, no less.
Is frankly, just plain evil.
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NFTs are literally just a legal ponzi scheme. There is nothing that NFTs can do that doesn’t exist with the steam marketplace already. The fact that the vast majority of NFT bros don’t even know how NFTs work beyond “it’s a one of a kind thing” is proof of that.
For those that don’t know, NFTs are not the item itself. It is a link to that item. If you buy an NFT, you do not own whatever the NFT links to, but the link itself. This means that if you were to buy an NFT from a game for instance you would not be able to transfer anything over to other games, you would not own anything in game. You would only own a link on the blockchain and nothing else.
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NFTs are like the new pyramid schemes your friends form highschool try to sell you over facebook.
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I’m against this because I’m against giving the masses an option to make money by just playing a game because it makes cheating 100x worse and has the potential to ruin the game.
With that being said I’m surprised at alot the kneejerk reactions that are against this because we already have a system in which a player kind of owns a digital item and has the ability to sell them.
To those people I present to you the Steam Marketplace. Play CSGO you can earn a weapon skin and then you can sell that skin. Play PUBG, you can earn a skirt and you sell that skirt. Play TF2, you can earn a hat and you can sell that hat.
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I think it would be great if 343 incorporated play to earn and NFTs to give more members of the community economic opportunity! Hopefully other fans can come around to the concept once the meme hype dies down.
They don’t have to be. There have some pretty cool uses. But when they’re limited just for the sake of being reselling, yeah, it’s pretty much a scam.
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Why NFTs specifically? Like, let’s say you have armor tied to a token on a Blockchain, what benefit do you get from it being non-fingible? Wouldn’t it be better for the tokens to be unlimited, so you didn’t create artificial scarcity? The only way to prevent Halo turning into some scam market place if they used NFTs for anything in game would be if they made them non-transferable. But I doubt that’s what you’re asking for.
“Yeah, let’s invest hard cash by a means that can be wiped out by one EMP / electrical surge!”
Said nobody with common sense.
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Blockchain verification is more complicated than that. You have validators all over the world, and a localized EMP doesn’t wipe out the data. That’s part of the point of decentralization. I don’t want NFTs in this game either, but that doesn’t mean Blockchain tech can be wiped out so easily.
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This is the worst idea right up there with Free to play $20 blue skin.
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I think making things non-fungible would actually be great, especially if they allowed creators to make more money on custom Halo gear or even maps when forge comes out. It could provide a marketplace for a lot of artists and designers to supplement or make an income. You could always copy the maps but you could like do collectible series.
Why do that when they can just continue to milk people for $15 a colour?