• Ech@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Your phrasing suggests blockchain is only being used here to facilitate an actual interesting game, which I can guarantee is not true.

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      1 year ago

      Nah, no suggestion of that. Just talking about what investors were spending money on in 2017

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      1 year ago

      No he’s suggesting the game would be so shit that buzzwords were the only way it could get any runway.

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        1 year ago

        My point, albeit overly obtuse, was that the game is blockchain. He didn’t patch on the idea just to get funding.

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          I would say, being even more pedantic, that the game uses a blockchain (which is just a different type of database) to record in game digital asset ownership. This game could have been made with a normal db taking that roll and would probably run no differently.

          He is mentioning and using a blockchain over a normal db for no other reason that it probably helped to secure funding in 2017 as it was a massive tech buzzword at the time.

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            1 year ago

            It could, sure, but I’m positive the only reason he’s making it is because of blockchain. I seriously doubt Pete was rolling around a game idea for online real estate separately and just threw blockchain in as a way to get funding.

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          This game in particular, yes, but Molyneux certainly could make non-blockchain games.