Cryptocurrencies are pervasive in video games, including the proliferation of blockchain-based games, from free-to-play mobile titles to high-budget AAA games for PCs and consoles. NFTs are also creeping up. Not everyone is excited.
As CNET’s Dan Van Boom reports, there are concerns that cryptocurrencies and NFTs may distort games into side hustle, focus on making money, and not on entertainment. But he also said that for many developers, the goal is not to create titles that benefit crypto speculators, but to justify people playing them regardless of whether they earn crypto or not. It states that it is to make the game fun.Meanwhile, CNET’s Oscar Gonzalez Previous repulsion It may provide clues as to how all of this evolves.
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