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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Now you’d only need an incentive for someone to develop something better and way more complex than Steam without making anything close to the same profit from it.

Uh, yeah. GameStop is making it, from what I hear. They can’t keep selling old physical copies forever and the new board knows it. They’re already partnered with some blockchain firms to build it. Means + motive on a platter.

As to why a developer would go for it? This kind of token can be sold on any such marketplace, but can have a royalty baked in so that no matter who sells it or where, they get a perpetual revenue stream. I usually hate rent-seeking behavior, but in the case of software you need a way to pay for continued support, and this solves it.

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