Today, Eve Online’s studio announced a new game to be set within the Eve Universe. The game – unfortunately in my opinion – will be a blockchain game. But what does this even mean, and what type of game can we even expect?
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Anyway, what do you think about a blockchain EVE game?
The future is inevitable.
The only thing I can think of that would make blockchain an advantage, would be full traceability of all transactions in games. It would also mean that if things in the game had been found to be obtained in ways not intended, they would be able to trace and remove them a lot more easily. However, i doubt this is the reason for it. Usually blockchain in games these days is attached to Crypto currencies and play to earn.
I am optimistic. Time will tell. Possibilities are bigger than most peops may imagine nowadays.
Blockchain is a transaction technology not limited to monetary systems but also the way information is networked. Inside MMOS lots of transactions/networking occur between players and the game. These transactions will be securely handled by the blockchain technology. This is the way…I see it.
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There’s nothing like technically clueless gamers giving opinions on things like this. 99% of you have no idea what digital assets are, how the technology works, its variants, how it would interlink into a game or gaming ecosystem, or the advantages or disadvantages.
The stories in Eve have been the heist stories where players steal off each other. Not sure how blockchain enhance that.
CCP and EVE is one example of why it was essential for Frontier to move away from Elite and work on planet coaster and other games rather than just stick to developing Elite Dangerous.
CCP burns through money like no one. An have a long history of failure outside of EVE, That 40 million will be gone pretty quickly.
That they're still open to using blockchain tech this late tells me CCP has plunged down a hole they're not likely to be able to get out of. It takes a particularly out of touch leadership to do that, and that particular kind of people are known for riding their ventures all the way into the ground rather than to admit defeat.
Well im excited to see what they have cooking. EVE Nfts should be pretty cool.
Oh. Look. Another pile of crap I can ignore until it inevitably gets abandoned.
4:00 actually NFT's are not a bad thing, its simply a addition to a single node in the chain which allows features and data to be included,
the most basic way of NFT's (selling links to images) is of course a bad thing, but that's not really what NFT's are made for .. a government as example could use NFT's in a safe, secure and fast way to manage licenses, deeds and many other things, over night eliminating corruption due to its transparency,
a proper application in a game like Eve can actuually of a benefit, as example it would be possible to see the "life" of a element, where it's been used, destroyed, reused, refined, build manufactured and so on, one could follow the stream of items and how they progress in detail (if there are no shadow elements in it) but those elements are just as transparent as the rest of the chain.
the ownership thing is however a bit pointless unless the firm will actually divert physical shares to the created chain to be represented by it,
then that would have the effect that players have an actual word. but i have some boubts about this 😉
i'm playing Eve since just recently .. i do miss the immersion provided by Elite dangerous, but economy, player activity less carebears and the feeling that ccp actually listens to players is such a refreshing thing to experience. like i reported a bug in a wormhole interaction 9 days ago (just a small graphical glitch in the OSX client), and todays patch fixed it. while Frontier drags most anoying bugs that would take an afternoon to fix for years (probably because fixing them doesnt directly result in sales (i'm speculating here))
Maybe CCP intends to mimic the BitCoin Blockchain in Eve Online to verify each and every transaction … ? Would not make much of a difference at all to the game – but that would be funky. I have no idea what kind of game CCP is cooking there.
Interesting concept of a game! While such a game would certainly not attract me I can see how it would fit into the current world.
A world in which it does not really matter what you own as long as your peer group envies you for it.
if done right, it can be really good. every asset in game can be a NFT, from ore, bullets, ships, and it can play with itself pretty well, those NFT´s dont even need to have a "value" if they are used only as assets. Blockchain technology is incredible, but it is scorched by get rich fast and scam who ever you can in the process. We shall see how it plays out.
Imagine NFTs in MSFS. Now there isn't an Antonov 225 addon anymore but only THE Antonov which would be owned by an individual or a syndicate. To me computer games are a means of escapism and next to escaping from normal work life stress this also includes escaping from everyday real-life capitalism (I can deal with the virtual economies that most games have) … and to me that's what NFTs effectively are: bringing real life capitalism into games.
Blockchain: The solution (still) looking for a problem.
At this point I have to wonder, is one of the requirements for being an investor being incredibly gullible?
I also think it will be NFTs. And maybe CCP sees this as an experiment where they have nothing to loose. Create jobs for your developers while you burn through the venture capital and maybe it will work out in the end. And if not you just fall back on the existing business.
The revolution will be subscription-based, with proof of commitment on the blockchain.
I'd sooner play Snakes and Ladders than get involved wkth NFT 🐂💩💩 I spent a lot of money in the past and games have gone to the 4 winds or like Wargaming they turned them into unplayable idiotic rubbish in the endless quest for the next £€$.
There's at least one thing good that might come out of this. It might make item movement easier to track, making cheaters wayyy easier to catch.
Ahh, CCP, as usual, so far out of touch with everything. It'll be a nothing burger and flop in 6 months after launch. Most gamers have worked out the only part of an NFT you actually own is the reciept.
Unless they intend to enable real money trading directly between players i don't see any reason to use blockchain. But for example instead of in Warframe you having the plat currency you had real money and could pull it out, then sure, in that case you could maybe use blockchain. However even in that scenario that i described it seems unecessary. Simply because no game manages enough money to justify the need of a blockchain.
the big point I think this breakdown misses in regards to ownership is when the game/items are on blockchain, theyre not going to be able to get clawed back by the company and the environment will be permissionless… you don't truly own your ships currently in eve online, the company can at any time close your account and take all your gear… you won't be able to do that in an open sourced system they're describing, the aim for the developer is to get a cut of all the transactions which is brilliant as it's limitelss printing based on things people passionate about the environment create
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Hopefully CCP can recover from this disastrous announcement. EVE was a pretty good game when i played it some 10 years ago, would hate to see the company go under because of this.
The world is changing. You are very resistant to the idea of blockchain and NFTs, but this is happening even if these early attempts fail. Best to be flexible and adapt instead of decrying it constantly.
wow I was thinking on going back, I don't really want to go near this any more. Are we in 2018 again?
Yeah, how about no
All companies sooner or later must adapt their products to the Web 3 approach. Your question is what is the difference between a Web 2 product like the current game is, where only the company directly earns the money that users invest compared to a Web 3 product where each user can use their assets within the ecosystem to generate value, and with value in the case of Eve Online I mean building ships, collecting rare resources that some Guield needs, providing services and all this not for ISKs but for some token valued in real life. The most obvious difference between property in a normal game and in a Web 3 game is that it is not legal to sell anything for real money in the first case.