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by almostkorean 1929 days ago
Their incentive is from getting a cut of transactions. And in theory, putting their items on blockchain would be more appealing to people spending money because blockchain makes them more permanent. The percentage of people that actually cares is really small so it’s unknown whether it’s worth it or not to implement it.

There’s also an interesting use case where game history is attached to the item. For example if you know some counter strike skin was used by pro player to win big tournament and that history is all locked into the blockchain. If I were going to be spending a ton of money on said skin, I would feel more comfortable doing so vs. if all that data is in the developers private database. Would other people feel the same way? Who knows