Comment on Eve Frontier is a survival game spin-off of Eve Online and, yup, it's full of blockchain bullshit
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhat makes a block chain better than a PostgresDB for a private currency that can only be spent in their stores?
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Extensibility, lots of collaborative development work across the crypto landscape rather then only being done by the company producing the game.
A quick obvious example mentioned was smart contracts, a company attempting to create that functionality from the ground up would be a lot more work then hooking into an already existing infrastructure where many lessons have already been learned from prior failures.
It doesn’t actually state in the article (because the writer was mostly just whining that crypto exists) but I am curious if the idea would be for the tokens to be transacted or utilized outside of the game itself in some fashion while still being completely track able.
Rolder@reddthat.com 2 months ago
The main thing I’m wondering from all this is what the actual use case is for being able to do transactions outside of the game. For both the actual Eve online and the vast majority of survival games, being able to trade player to player is plenty.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There is a lot of transactions that end up taking place “off game” with things like casinos/gambling being a specific example for EVE. Rather then having to trust that you’ll get your isk (I never played but watched the down the rabbit hole on EVE, which is great BTW, and watched from afar throughout the years).
With a smart contract system, there wouldn’t be the same concerns that things aren’t being distributed properly, unless there’s a bug in how the smart contract was written, which absolutely can and has happened, but at least it’d all be publicly viewable. That’s one thing I very much appreciate about the idea of crypto in general, transparency in where money is moving.
I’m sure there’s other potentials but that one stuck out to me as gambling was a rather large part of eve history.
Rolder@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Using gambling as your first example when talking about use cases for crypto doesn’t exactly paint it in a good light