That is an outrageous amount of money on a game, the article did also say it would take 10 years to amass all that, which is still almost $1k per month.
If that amount of gear were resellable in a marketplace then some of the moral arguments are empty. And I bet it wouldn’t be an astronomical amount because there is a random loot box/gambling/prize factor in acquiring gear in that game.
It doesn’t matter the technology behind a marketplace, SQL+CRUD and CC payments or blockchain+NFT, it’s tracking a receipt of purchase on digital items. Some would argue that blockchain is a stupid choice of technology but I would counter that the tech world has taken tech and bent it into a different purpose than intended with much success. For example, a documentation technology and protocol (HTML and HTTP) was intended for scientists to link documents to each other. We’ve taken that and bent it into complete client/server applications.
If that amount of gear were resellable in a marketplace then some of the moral arguments are empty. And I bet it wouldn’t be an astronomical amount because there is a random loot box/gambling/prize factor in acquiring gear in that game.
It doesn’t matter the technology behind a marketplace, SQL+CRUD and CC payments or blockchain+NFT, it’s tracking a receipt of purchase on digital items. Some would argue that blockchain is a stupid choice of technology but I would counter that the tech world has taken tech and bent it into a different purpose than intended with much success. For example, a documentation technology and protocol (HTML and HTTP) was intended for scientists to link documents to each other. We’ve taken that and bent it into complete client/server applications.