[ruste]

This is close but not quite how I expect they'll come to be used. I think they'll become a lot more important if companies like Meta are successful in creating virtual connected spaces based on open standards. In that scenario, with public buy in, ownership of a digital work shifts meaning slightly to one where NFTs suddenly make more sense.

[judge2020]

Biggest issue with some 'use your item as an avatar in any game' is that doing cross-engine models is hard, and pretty much impossible if you want the model itself to be immutable, lest it break with some engine update rendering it useless. The only in game item thing that really works is when the game code has a texture algorithm (like CS:GO skin variants/wear levels) and uses the immutable nft data to calculate their unique item texture.

[the_snooze]

It's not just technically laughable, cross-game assets make zero sense from a design and aesthetic standpoint. Splatoon and Gears of War are both third-person shooters, but characters in one would look jarring and hilariously out of place in the other.