Remember the days when we could just play a game and get the entire game for playing the game. Man gaming sucks nowadays haha.
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What benefit would maps have to being on the Blockchain? I thought you were talking store items, but you mean maps!? Those can’t be used between games, and I’m not for having to pay for someone’s custom map. Forge was a big part of what made Halo 3 great. Custom maps were a big part of what made CE great. If people had to pay for custom maps those two would not have been popular features.
Also, introducing it like you did would just turn Halo into a scummy bid war. I do suppose NFTs for things transferable licenses. I do support them for helping build a digital ID/CV. I do support them for actual original artwork. I do support them for a game like Magic which always had artificial scarcity. I don’t support them for this, and I doubt many other people would.
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Go away. We don’t want crypto causing more issues than it already does. Go outside for once man.
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Because it’s the new buzzword
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As a creator you could make an actual living versus Microsoft getting the benefits of your labor.
That would be amazing. It would keep me playing.
Lets not forget the potential performance hits many peoples systems will take if this is made a feature. The game is difficult enough to run on mid-range systems, even without a secondary program nuking your graphics card and CPU mid-game.
Security is another big one. No way in hell am I letting a company install mining software on my PC, even if theres a ‘toggle’, because I can guarantee that toggle wont do anything and it’ll mine in the background without permission.
Crypto bros need to go away permanently.
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No they don’t. NFT’s are literally a scam, and an easily exploitable one. Stop trying to make a case for this.
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It would kill the vibrant custom map community the other games have. And it’s unlikely most people would make a living. You want to go make a living on NFTs now? It’s not easy. And what happens when your friends want to download your maps? You can’t just let them do it for free due to transaction fees. Have you thought about that?
They aren’t a scam. These monkey copypasta art is a scam. All an NFT is, is a token on a Blockchain that isn’t mass produced. Charles Hoskinson had propose things like an identification system on the Blockchain. You could potentially get a NFT copy if a degree sent to your wallet which would be non-transferable. You could have your entire CV there. Crendentials, work experience, etc. These things could be tracked via NFTs and that’s what been proposed for Atalla Prism.
Another potential use is in a game like Magic. There artificial scarcity is accepted. People already sell and trade cards in Magic Online. Tying cards to the Blockchain wouldn’t change much there, as the market already exists. But it would allow someone to make their own game using the same cards, and it’s not super likely to get shut down as you’d need cards that were originally sold by Wizards to play.
There are other interesting proposed ideas for NFTs. All it is, is a token which isn’t mass produced. You’re not going to ban it, and there are valid use cases. I don’t like the scam markets that currently exist (which exist in non NFT crypto as well). I don’t want them in Halo. But there are uses I’d support.
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Hundreds of fans devs have write about why this is a terrible idea and nobody would actually implement it in the way cryptobros claim.
Go away and take your scam with you.
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Yeah, it absolutely would be done in a way that’s not for our benefit, but the benefit of devs and whales. If a game were to implement the Blockchain in a way fans would like, it’d probably be a smaller company as a passion project. Why anyone would trust Microsoft on this is beyond me.
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To my knowledge once the ETH has been mined and the NFT created, there’s not much extra work your hardware actually has to do.
While you make a good point for keeping of crypto mining software out of a game
(Like some games are doing), most NFT inclusions would be sub-minimal impact if any at all.
Regardless NFT/Blockchain items are still an awful idea.
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It depends if you want to be able to transfer the items, which is a big part of why you’d make them Blockchain based. In that case each time you transfered it you’d have to pay a fee. An if it were Ethereum based it’d either have to be Layer 2 or you’d have to spend like $50 per transfer. Yike! This is definitely something 343 couldn’t just implement haphazardly, which is another reason I don’t want it in Halo.
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I mean it doesn’t have to be blockchain though. I’m not sure how Steam does it but it definitely isn’t blockchain based.
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No, it doesn’t, but if it’s not Blockchain based you lose the benefits they were talking about. Like, other game studios can’t see it if it’s internal Microsoft Data. Which I think would be the coolest part about Blockchains being used in games. But I’m okay with that, as I really don’t want Halo turning into a scam marketplace like the weed/monkey/mspaint NFTs you see Twitter yelling about.
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Please delete this reply. We need to keep this glorious thread alive.
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Given that the item/account database is managed centrally already it’s entirely possible for them to allow for “limited” skins to be produced without a blockchain being involved. There is no need for a publicly verifiable record of skin ownership to exist, nor is there any reason that 343 should allow third-party skin trading or sales….the entire purpose of the skins in this game is to earn 343 money, not to earn you money. Theoretically blockchain based in-game items become worthless/useless once a game dies or the servers are shut down anyway. Again, since the product is developed and maintained centrally even if you we’re to purchase an in-game halo NFT or whatever it would be only a matter of time before it became absolutely worthless, no different than traditional account based skins, it all hinges on the idea that the live service will be provided forever, which it won’t. Until the industry actually thinks this stuff through it’s not really going to be providing and benefit to players vs the current way in-game items are provided. Everybody is going bananas over this NFT garbage but there isn’t really a place for it in games like this one.
tl;dr it’s a stupid idea and there is no reason to implement such a system into halo
Exactly, imagine being able to have an energy sword in fornite because you unlocked in Halo
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We live in a world where pyramid schemes have actually fooled an entire generation.
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