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by notahacker 1628 days ago
NFTS provide no reason to trust the developer about the artificial scarcity; there's absolutely nothing technical stopping them making, say, in-game clothing originally marketed as an expensive NFT the default player skin, or not allowing accounts with linked NFTs to log in. Sure, the NFT holder still has their unique alphanumeric string, but from a gameplay perspective nobody cares.

And from a developer perspective, if game engines were written in a way which made the holders of a certain token impossible to exclude from the game or possess items whose properties couldn't be adjusted for gameplay balance or aesthetics, that would be a bug, not a feature.