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None of that is going to be used the way you want it to.

You know what NFTs are REALLY gonna be used for in the gaming space? Digital property ownership of in-game assets that remit value back to the publisher whenever these fake goods get traded.

People are pretending that all these good things are gonna come out of smart contracts and tokens, when the reality is that the most useful thing to come out of them is going to be rent-seeking by digital creators.

Ubisoft isn't going to throw your ownership of a video game on the blockchain, and even if they did, their license and their service governs whether you have access to the game, not a token.




The biggest and most important use of NFTs in gaming space is going to be raising money on Kickstarter for an NFT based video game - and then disappearing with the money




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