[nikisweeting]

The incentive is that the players care about it, and players will actively choose games that respect their avatar/NFT ownership because it allows them to show off their prized avatar and share their persona with a larger audience.

[echelon]

Okay, but that doesn't mean companies will have economic incentive to support decentralization.

Games don't honor any fiat currency or stocks I hold, any unlocks I made on other platforms, or my Reddit upvotes.

This is going to go nowhere.

[nikisweeting]

Game platforms have been providing cross-game "unlocks" / achievements for years, and they're only moving more towards that (this is one of the whole reasons for Epic, Riot, etc. shipping their own launchers, it gives them a runtime on the client where they can securely share state between games).

It's going to be huge for VR in particular:

- https://www.roadtovr.com/getting-social-oculus-unifying-mult...

- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8845288