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stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I could honestly see the blockchain being used to coordinate game ownership between gaming platforms.

I am far from crypto advocate, I think it is a waste of time and resources, but having a blockchain of who owns what games would be great.

Then you could pick the platform you want to download the game from and get the experience you want

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newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I could also see a database being used to coordinate game ownership with a fraction of the power usage.

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- stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Sure, I agree but I doubt publisher’s would since a database can be modified.
  
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  - Starbuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    But blockchains get “bad” records added all the times. Database entries and blockchain blocks are both equally as susceptible to bad business logic making incorrect entries. No business is going to adopt a sales recording system that doesn’t allow them to control the entries and to reverse the entries they don’t agree with.
    
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  - Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Publishers will like a database because it can be modified. If they were forced to implement such a system (thus abandoning all 'sell the same game to the same person twice' for different platforms), they'd oppose a blockchain system hard, since it would make it pricier to:
    
    a) publish seven bazillion versions of any given game
    b) revoke ownership of games just because it's cheaper to do that than honor the deal they made with customers
    c) correct any data-fuckups they will inevitably make because they went for the cheapest route possible to implement this, and it went pear-shaped from day 3 onwards
    
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brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Buy Game on Platform A.

Go to Platform B and tell them : see, I bought Game already, let me play it here too.

Platform B : “who are you and why should I care?”

Proving your digital ownership never was the problem. The problem is those platforms are different companies and have no reason to honour a purchase from somewhere else.

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HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
there is nothing wrong with the blockchain. cryptos main problem is the proof of work using to much energy. blockchain to actually do work with the energy it uses efficiently is great.

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