cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16182791
CCP reveals first details of survival game set on a single shard in the EVE universe, but wait: here comes the blockchain
I thought we were done with blockchain techbroism and had moved on to LLM techbroism. Did nobody inform Iceland?
To be fair, in the time it took for it to gain mainstream attention and and lose it, is not enough time for AAA games to be made.
As best I can guess, it looks like they’re just throwing the word blockchain in there so that a16z will hand them $40m in funding.
I’m amazed there are still people out there who consider blockchain a positive buzzword.
There aren’t. a16z are a crypto company. They’re almost certainly tying the funding to CCP putting the word blockchain in there in the hopes of tricking people into thinking there’s still some life in this dead horse they’re flogging.
Why couldn’t it be a positive word? Assuming you’re disassociating it from bitcoin
Because there have yet to be any valuable applications of blockchain. It’s an interesting idea in computer science theory, but you can’t do hardly anything useful with it in the real world.
Minor/pedantic addendum: For all uses of “blockchain” in this thread, I assume we can all agree that we’re talking about “public ledger blockchain” specifically.
Private blockchains absolutely have their uses, such as being the technology that powers Git. But those uses are still strictly limited to situations where an append only ledger is actually useful, and those are very few indeed.
But yes, in regards to public ledger blockchain, there are absolutely no valid use cases.
The value of blockchain is to provide immutable ownership of something. Whether that be music, a tv show, movie, music, video game, etc. There is music on the blockchain, and the artists who have created that music can sell their music to fans without having to pay egregious fees to corporations. As well, they can determine if they’d like to include royalties, so every time their song is resold they can get a percentage of that transaction. TV show and movies are far less common, but the fact that you can own media on a decentralized platform that won’t go down because, a cloud service is having trouble, or the company decides they don’t want to host that particular media anymore even if customers have already bought it, means that you have access to what you purchased. The same can be said about games. Moreover, assets you either collect or purchase for that game can either be traded or sold. And, apparently the US Gov feels like there’s beneficial use cases for it, too: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-22-104625.pdf
If I have a movie downloaded on my computer I own it, I don’t need a link on a decentralized ledger to prove it to anyone lmao. The movie itself (or the music) isn’t even “on the blockchain”. It’s clear you don’t understand the technology.
So, slightly pedantic correction. You can store the data on the BTC blockchain, there’s really nothing preventing it. It costs in fees, it’s not at all what Bitcoin was designed for, but it’s been done in the past.
It’s not about proving anything. It’s the fact that society is moving towards subscription based models in any facet of life they can possibly work it in. Software, hardware, tv, cars… Are you upset with the way I referred to how the data is stored? Typically that’s the most cut and dry way of getting the point across. But since you’re an expert on the matter, why don’t you elaborate on why you’re so against technology that benefits people?
The Vampire mmo died for this.
No thanks.
What does this have to do with the Chinese Communist Party?
Didn’t know the Chinese Communist Party made games.
The actual official English name of the Chinese party is Communist Party of China (CPC)
CCP shills online try to divert from a losing topic by bringing up this fact.
I knew I should have googled it.
But if I call them that, people will think I’m talking about the Conservative Party of Canada (who also go by CPC).
