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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by UlyssesT@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

If you dare to read that whitepaper, keep in mind no gameplay is actually talked about. It's not unlike NFT "games" that babble endlessly about what they intend to do with the market and paying customers, but stop there.

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

They should've got into this earlier, eve players have endless pockets of money and are eager to part with it for space ship pew pew and mining ice rocks

[-] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Announced when BTC hit 13k, small dev team and abnormally toxic corporate culture led to the ten year turnaround.

[-] m532@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Virtual rand-land, on the Blockchain.

Humans.

[-] bunnygirl@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

god I fucking hate these blockchain whitepapers

also what's the over-under on these amazing modding tools just being shitty smart contracts lmfaooo

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Does Blockchain have any use outside of scams? I swear it exists just for techbros to take advantage of bazingbrains with more money than sense.

[-] bunnygirl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

imo "censorship resistance" is pretty much the only real use it has, i.e. generally for things outside of or on the edges of the law, such as drug marketplaces or transferring to and from sanctioned countries

with that though, while it does have some technological benefits to achieve that, imo the main reason it's been good at it is that the space had been kind of ignored by regulators for a long time, and these things have been getting steadily more difficult. Like with exchanges in the EU/US now requiring you to identify yourself etc, it's more difficult to actually get money in and out of the ecosystem anonymously

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Last time I paid attention to this game like 15 years ago it had a bunch of unfathomably wealthy digital landlords who possessed the only "master" copies of blueprints of all the components and weapons in the game, and if people wanted to manufacture those things for sale they had to pay the master copy holders for a copy blueprint that was limited to a certain number of uses.

this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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