8th December 2021, 5:57 AM
Ubisoft are the first. Just to be clear, NO ONE wants this except shareholders. We don't even know how Ubisoft intends to use this... nothing tech. And it IS literally nothing.
Let me explain what an NFT actually is. It's a cryptographic receipt of purchase. That's it. And it is less "powerful" than a printed receipt. It isn't an encoded version of whatever you "buy" with it. Whatever you buy stands apart from the NFT. It isn't a method of purchasing digital goods. Many NFTs don't actually give you full rights to whatever you buy. It isn't a foolproof way to buy actual copyrights to a good. Many of these things are being "sold" as just a copy. It isn't legal protection from right clicking to save. Whatever happened between you and a seller behind the scenes, once you post a monkey online, it's free for anyone to save onto their device. You willingly SENT that to everyone. It isn't theft proof. Someone sneaks onto your machine, they can "take" your whole collection of NFTs pretty easily.
But, they COULD actually do something for games. No, not whatever Ubisoft or Forbes suggest we should do with it. That would be worthless.
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Let me explain what an NFT actually is. It's a cryptographic receipt of purchase. That's it. And it is less "powerful" than a printed receipt. It isn't an encoded version of whatever you "buy" with it. Whatever you buy stands apart from the NFT. It isn't a method of purchasing digital goods. Many NFTs don't actually give you full rights to whatever you buy. It isn't a foolproof way to buy actual copyrights to a good. Many of these things are being "sold" as just a copy. It isn't legal protection from right clicking to save. Whatever happened between you and a seller behind the scenes, once you post a monkey online, it's free for anyone to save onto their device. You willingly SENT that to everyone. It isn't theft proof. Someone sneaks onto your machine, they can "take" your whole collection of NFTs pretty easily.
But, they COULD actually do something for games. No, not whatever Ubisoft or Forbes suggest we should do with it. That would be worthless.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)