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by garblegarble 1686 days ago
Sorry that this will come off as quite flippant but: I love playing games and this sounds absolutely awful.

As a game developer, now I don't just have to worry about new features getting blowback from players who don't want to adapt to them... now I have to worry about what will happen to people who are using my game as an investment vehicle for real money and will attack me if I make changes that drop the value of their investment?

Edit: but if you really think this is the future, what you're describing is a huge amount of code and systems that all these games will need to build and support long-term - so you should probably get started building middleware for that and make a killing...

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Its the wild west baby! The same can be said with crypto currency development, yet some are willing to take the risk, endure the nightmare and press forward. It's never perfect. It can make you rich and simultaneously hated. Those who can walk the balance beam will get the rewards. There are definitely games coming out with this very concept, so one developers nightmare is anther's opportunity to try his luck. I'm sure new laws will be written also to give immunity to developers who crash their assets by tweaking interpretation or going out of business.

You got me thinking with your middle-ware comment... sell the weapons needed for those who venture into the nightmare of crypto gaming.