Thats not how NFT’s work, you do not own the item, you own the fact that you can look at the item and it only exists within its own ecosystem, it is a fancy token that you can stand next to at best.
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Honestly thought this forums couldn’t reach any lower, but here we are.
What an absolutely moronic and out of touch post.
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Get a better job scalper
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NFTing a Blockchain
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I think the idea is that another game could read you had a certain token and unlock an in game item because of it. I don’t think that’s impossible, but the question is why would a company develop an item to correspond to a token you bought/unlocked in a game made by a different studio? I could see Blockchain tech being used for something like this if the two companies collaborated and let you buy the same token in both games. But that’s not what’s been proposed in this thread. And it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. And still, there’d be no benefit to NFTs over fungible tokens.
Watch Josh Strife Hayes’s video on the topic also, it’ll make things clearer on what it actually is
im just paraphrasing his points.
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I’ll watch the video later, but I do know what an NFT is. It’s basically just a limitedly produced token on a Blockchain. But if you can read the token id you can tie an unlock to it. Someone could make a game that you connect your Ethereum wallet to and if you own over 1 ETH you could unlock a little Ethereum necklace. There’s just no reason for them to do that, as they’re spending time and resources for no benefit. I know Ethereum isn’t an NFT, or even a token, but you could do the same thing with a token.
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I see, and right, I mainly recommend his vid cause the guy is great at explaining things in basic.
Thanks for recommending them 
Why would players not want their cosmetics to be represented by NFTs so they can trade rare ones and move them to different accounts?
Imagine earning a super rare 1/100 cosmetic and being able to sell it on OpenSeas for a few hundred.
People honestly don’t understand NFTs outside scammy cash grabs and don’t understand they have basically no added environmental impact to the blockchain.
So yes, if implemented as representation of rare and legendary in-game items, this is a good idea. Players who don’t want to deal with moving their items or selling them don’t have to.
The anti-blockchain crowd would have been caught 30 years ago telling their local newspaper opinion section that the internet was bad because you need a computer.
imagine being able to sell an image online…and you sell the actual image
and not some bit of data that says you own it well own one of it, since its a ledger system
nfts as a whole are pointless, people have always been able to buy images online, now its just more expensive and worse because you can ‘actually’ own it
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NFTs are a specification for a piece of code that can communicate ownership.
That code has no reference to images or memes.
What you are doing is disparaging the idea decentralized and digitally tracked ownership because some people scam meme pictures.
The metaphor would be disparaging the idea of playing multiplayer games because some games have cheaters.
However we do live in 2022 and people have become more and more unable to distinguish between a general concept and a popular implementation of that concept.
What is the benefit to being non-fungible? Who’s paying for the gas fees when you get an item? Who’s assigning us wallets? What benefit does it give the developers? They wouldn’t make money off resale. Look, I’m not antiblockchain. I have more invested in crypto than I care to admit, and I have been talking about it’s benefits in this thread. But I fail to see NFTs being implemented in this game in a way that benefits the average player.
You don’t need gas fees on L2.
On PC literally bring your own wallet.
If they are non-fungible you get limited run cosmetics or items.
Imagine a limited run skin for the first players to complete LASO.
Players can trade and sell these rare cosmetics online. The developer can publicly, verifiably and trustlessly demonstrate rarity/scarcity.
The devs could charge a fee to import these NFTs or export them to the blockchain. They could also maintain an official exchange or marketplace where players can trade.
Lastly, unexplored cross-game integration could happen.
Another game could reward players with the “First 100 Laso run NFT” with another in-game item. Halo could reward owners of another game’s NFT with a unique emblem. All sorts of cross game madness could ensue.
If your position is this is an unknown risk for the developer and requires consideration to be done tastefully and the right way, I agree.
However pretending like it’s not the future of digital rights management is silly and anti-consumer.
We should be asking for our digital game ownership to be represented as tokens or NFTs so that we can trade games like we used to trade them. Instead consumers get less and less power and strangely seem to defend their new, less advantageous position.
You do need fees on layer 2, they’re just smaller
https://l2fees.info/
And okay, bring your own wallet, but if the items are tied to the blockchain then how do you get them if you don’t have a wallet? Are we making a wallet a requirement. And what about consoles? You realize a huge part of the Halo audience is console players?
And you know what, I don’t see how the limited run benefits us. Yeah, trade, but then you introduce the potential for people selling their super rare knife for thousands of dollars, and players who want one have to pay that price. And since the item was limited supply, not everyone had the chance to get them before the bid wars. This happens in other games without NFTs, and it happens in the NFT market. I fail to see how you’d avoid that here. I’d rather we just didn’t have limited quantity items. I don’t think that benefits the average player. Feel free to disagree, but my opinion isn’t changing.
I also don’t see how these limited time items benefit the developer. I don’t see how players being able to sell the items benefits the developer. What do they get out of it? Because remember, they’d be the ones doing the work to implement this. They have to get something out of it, or it’s not going to happen.
We should be asking for our digital game ownership to be represented as tokens or NFTs so that we can trade games like we used to trade them. Instead consumers get less and less power and strangely seem to defend their new, less advantageous position.
For purchased games I absolutely think we need something better than what we have. And do think the Blockchain could do a good job. I just don’t feel it would benefit in game items, at least not without multiple devs collaborating so we got benefits in more than one game. If it’s single game, or even single game studio, I think what we have now works.
Imagine if you will a system that does this already and has been doing it for a decade with no blockchain at all lol
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I mean back with Halo 3 no one could get Recon, but everyone wanted it. People sold accounts with Recon and others bought those accounts. Limited run items are a thing in Halo Infinite right now, we just truly know how limited they are. In a blockchain world there would be a hard limit on these items the developer would agree to. In the current world, they say the items are limited run, but we only have an estimation of what this means.
As you noted, limited run isn’t specific to NFTs.
The ability to move items to a blockchain wallet or sync your account with a wallet shouldn’t impact anyone’s experience who doesn’t want to use the feature.
The developer can benefit by taking a percentage of sales on the default NFT marketplace for rare Halo customization items. Moreover by supporting this trade, you’ll create a new type of enthusiast for Halo.
Oh no. The crypto kids have made their way to Halo. Heaven help us.
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I appreciate new ideas, but how about we fix this dumpster fire of a game first?
And as for an nft, everyone should invest in my 152 (wrong color) watchdog.
Lol
This post has to be a well constructed joke.
There is no way something like this would go over well with the halo community since its gone to poop with every other single game thats tried it.
Stop trying to include this money scam hurting the environment into every single crevice on earth
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