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Sega calls video games that use blockchain technology 'boring' (gamerkick.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GamerKick@lemm.ee to c/gaming

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Shuji Utsumi, Sega’s co-CEO, comments in a new statement that there is no point in implementing blockchain technology if it doesn’t make games ‘fun’.

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[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simple rule of thumb; any time someone says blockchain in a sentence, replace it with "big slow database". Now you can think about it clearly.

[–] frog 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, that's helpful! I've had a lot of really good responses from everyone about various use cases for blockchains in games, but "big slow database" does seem to sum up most of them remarkably well!

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ofcourse it's a over-simplification since it's actually an "append-only geo-distributed database with non-centralized control" but the former works quite well when talking with people who want to sell me blockchain.

I always ask them what is the problem that a standard DB can't solve that a blockchain can and they stumble a few steps.