[twodave]

If I understand correctly this can be solved with much less complexity via something like snowflake to guarantee ordering consistency. There are of course dozens of ways to achieve consistency across nodes, and a blockchain is one such solution. The reality is if blockchain were an optimal distributed store it would be used for that purpose in more places. Instead what we have is a bunch of buzzword shoehorning (which frankly today sounds a bit overplayed/stale).

[zeroclip]

Can you describe how a snowflake ID would help? Imagine the data contains two Rare Items, when it should only contain one instance. They both have different snowflake IDs. How do you determine which is authentic? The timestamp on the duplicated item could have been spoofed.

I think the real solution to this problem is just to trust a centralized actor and single large database that is shared across all servers. Not what the author wants to hear, but most games don't need the level of decentralization of PoW or PoS for all of their game assets. But a fully decentralized MMO would be cool in theory.

[palata]

Yep. I think the one place where blockchain shines is cryptocurrencies. If it's not a cryptocurrency, then there is a better alternative.