I had a coworker who quit his marketing job to make a living selling NFTs ...
Six months later, he discovered that his former position was dissolved and we were not hiring.
This is pure word-salad. It's impossible to tell what gameplay is, or if there IS any. I've never seen an NFT game that's actually a GAME.
There's no value without PURPOSE. A functional game where you want to play for itself may lead to people buying cool stuff to use in the game, for PLAYING it.
But NFT games are like a cash shop in an MMO, but with no MMO. Buy this cool mount, but there's no world to ride it in. All you can do is sell it. But the only thing the buyer can do with it is ALSO sell it. And it's obvious to everyone except techbros that's not a sustainable business model.
And there never will be. It can be done, but there's no motive to do so, the expense and technical complexity is vast, and you don't even need NFTs, a standard DB works just as well.
And there's the real heart of it: NFTs offer nothing. You can buy/sell virtual items *already* - ask any EVE player! You will NEVER be able to "take it with you" to another game, and an NFT doesn't let you "own" it in any meaningful way: It's a game asset, it's in the game DB, and the game will end.
That's not really the point. As long as people are still playing the game you can trade in-game assets with them. People already do this, but they have to sell their accounts to do it.
Yeah. There's no there, there. And from what I've seen, there's no reason for NFTs to be part of it. Second Life didn't need them.
One of the most annoying delusions is "You can take your game NFTs with you! You own them!" But there's no protocol or method to take an epic weapon from WoW to FF14.
As long as you get people to buy into your nfts (which also happen to be traded in your proprietary crypto currency) then the project was a success. Delivering an actual product is not really the point.
There's a youtuber name jawun who reviews nft games. A few of them manage to release something functional but even then it's lower budget clones of hearthstone or brawl stars or something. A funny common theme is they almost never have the nfts actually implemented (coming soon!)
There's actually a third extremely delicious genre, which is, "Some of the people in charge appear to have been ah hm mishandling funds? Everything is frozen until we get this sorted."
