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dingus, (edited ) do gaming w GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles
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I thought GameStop was going all in on NFTs and bragging about how it was going to revolutionize the gaming space because you could be more “invested” in the things because you really “own” (hahahaha, fucking as if) your own copy.

Oh, wait, *checks notes

They totally are winding that down and going “whoopsie doodles!”

arstechnica.com/…/gamestop-citing-regulatory-unce…

Ryan Cohen making a quick spin because he’s a fucking idiot, and the only thing he has to sell is an “idea” of a company that respects its consumers. GameStop ain’t it Superstonkers. This guy literally went from “You’ll be buying all your games as NFTs at GameStop” to “Errm, yeah, we need physical drives, you know for the gamers, not so we can continue ripping people off with used games.” What a fucking joke. He didn’t care about physical media six months ago because he was all-in on NFTs.

GameStop gonna get Toys ‘R’ Us’d hard. If this is the best Cohen’s got right now, they’ve got nothing.

wtfeweguys,

The regulatory environment isnt doing the NFT-based game ownership model any favors.

dingus, (edited )
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NFTs and how they only hold enough data to point to a URL aren’t doing the model any favors. NFTs have been a joke since they were initially released. They don’t show ownership of an item, they show a re-direct to a URL where an item you might be able to claim is yours exists.

The people who bought into the idea of “smart contracts” in NFTs got taken for a fucking ride. There’s simply not enough BITS to be able to store such data within an NFT. The best they can do is a URL.

www.enchant.com/what-is-nft-ownership

wtfeweguys, (edited )

Yeah I dunno man. NFTs at least allow for a softening of the walls in the garden. The potential is there for fun and interesting ideas like interoperability between games and game assets, and 3rd party platforms for buying, selling, and interacting with games and game assets.

At minimum it’s a combined digital proof of purchase and login credentials that you can custody yourself and transfer/sell at will without being forced to do so through the makers’ infrastructure.

People shitting on it seem to default to an oversimplified idea of what they are and can be, and a bad faith superiority on top.

That’s not something I get down with. I like new tech. I like experimentation. And I like seeing where things go rather than assuming I already know.

dingus, (edited )
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

I can own digital files just fine without needing all that unnecessary bullshit. It’s the copyright cabal that says I don’t “own” them.

Funny, because I have the files stored on a physical drive. If that drive is destroyed, so are the items stored on it. Ergot, data is real and physical. You can already own it physically. NFTs are actually just one more way for wall street to justify the bullshit ways copyright doesn’t work.

Because nothing is stopping digital “ownership” from existing as it currently exists, except people who don’t like the idea that data can be copied infinitely at no cost.

This is why I never took off my pirate hat, because it’s just a bunch of tomfoolery to make you think things don’t already work this way. They do, computing always allowed data to be copied infinitely. It’s jerks who try to code locks to hide them behind who are the problem.

It’s also why I buy games at GOG, because they respect this. They sell games with no DRM and understand that this means piracy will happen, but do it anyway because it’s the right thing to do.

Copy that floppy, motherfucker.

wtfeweguys,

What if that digital file is the title to your car, deed to your home, your college degree, passport, driver’s license, etc?

Living in a digital world there are IMO fascinating use cases for unique (read non-copyable, self-custodied) digital objects.

What I’m not interested in are assumptions of limitations for things we barely understand.

dingus, (edited )
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

What if that digital file is the title to your car, deed to your home, your college degree, passport, driver’s license, etc?

If you destroy the hard drive they’re stored on, it’s no different than burning a piece of paper they’re written on. Data is always stored in a medium, whether it’s paper or a disk drive. So for digital files like that, you would choose a storage medium that is rated for long-term storage and put it in a fireproof safe. Done.

You’re basically asking “what if you lose the title to your car?” Well, there’s plenty of ways to get a replacement title, even though they’re not easy or free.

The bottom line is data is real and it’s always in a storage medium. The storage medium is what you should be worried about more.

Oh wait, that NFT you “own” is stored on someone else’s server? Oh wait, I guess you don’t own it then, because that data is on a hard drive owned by someone else in the “cloud” and if they destroy that drive, they also destroyed the item you ostensibly “own.”

Oh the server with my Title Deed for my home went down and now I have no proof I own my own home? Probably should have kept a copy of the file locally!

There is nothing interesting about NFTs because they’re a fundamental, nay, purposeful misunderstanding of what data is and how it works.

wtfeweguys, (edited )

Sorry my question was poorly formed. You were talking about digital files being stored perfectly fine on a local medium. I was talking about new use cases for unique digital objects, and gave examples of different kinds of existing credentials/titles.

dingus, (edited )
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

A scan of my Title Deed or my Vehicle Title will already be unique digital files. They can be copied infinitely so I can never lose track of them. I can even take a hash of the original file and always keep that around to make sure I’m always dealing with an original copy.

What does storing it on someone else’s property (server) and just linking to it actually achieve for me, as a person? The NFT does not change the data of the original file in any way, it’s just a hash-check itself in many ways.

Would you be okay with storing your car in someone else’s garage that you couldn’t actually see or access, but were told was secure? That’s what you’re doing with an NFT. You’re putting the actual item you own on someone else’s private property, and then claiming that a piece of paper that shows ownership (NFT) is all you need to get it back. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t.

An NFT is much more a “certificate of authenticity” than it is a title of ownership.

wtfeweguys, (edited )

¯*(ツ)*/¯

Oneeightnine, do xbox w The Next Xbox Update Lets You Stream Games Direct To Discord, Adds New Voice Reporting Feature - GameSpot
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Can we have the old dashboard back because…

tacosanonymous, do gaming w Anthem is shutting down January 12th

I could’ve sworn they killed it already.

Wouldn’t have been too bad if they had any content. It was fun for a couple of hours. Just a shit GoS.

hypna, do gaming w Anthem is shutting down January 12th

Personally surprised it was still up. I’m not sure I can think of a game that seemed so promising in the public beta, but then had so little at launch.

Gutek8134, do games w Cozy Games May Help Improve Players' Mental Health, Researchers Say
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Meanwhile me playing cozy games: youtu.be/viM6_Z2Nwx0

MyOpinion, do games w Next Xbox Rumored To Launch In 2026 With New Call Of Duty

Does the Xbox even have any use case these days? PC mini?

ampersandrew,
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If it is a PC like many of us expect, then its use case is that they want to outdo the SteamOS experience and also provide compatibility with games that rely on kernel-level anti cheat.

CidVicious,
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Perhaps for people who want gamepass but don’t want to deal with PC gaming. But I can’t really think of anyone I’d recommend buying an Xbox to currently. Really the last place platform this generation, by a lot.

Kolanaki, do games w How to Beat Elden Ring in Under 5 Minutes | Speed Break
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Semjaza, do games w Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset

Has Bethesda actually released a decent game since Daggerfall?

hydroxycotton,

Ok boomer let’s get you to bed

Semjaza,

And in my day we couldn’t just send boomers to bed with a hand wave, we had to sit through the Clintons’ saxophone show first and then we…

ichbinjasokreativ,

TES III - V were all amazing. Can’t wait for TES VI to come out in 2035.

Semjaza,

You’re wrong, but I’m glad you have had fun and I hope that TESVI isn’t a micro transaction fuelled pile of tripe.

ichbinjasokreativ,

Their games are certainly getting dumber/simpler, I’ll give you that. Hope one of their future games will eventually live up to your standards again.

Klear,

You mean the game that shipped with a bug breaking the main questline?

Duamerthrax, (edited )

Terminator: Future Shock was also a janky mess. They’ve always released broken games and have some how survived this long.

Semjaza,

Yup, that’s the one.

Audacious,

I tried a bunch of Bethesda games in the past and didn’t like any of them. I known I’m in the minority when I say that.

t_berium, do games w Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset
@t_berium@lemmy.world avatar

Not surprised… just upset.

Katana314, do games w New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June

Careful, if it’s only good enough to be GOTY that could get them fired. Gotta aim for them GTA 7 levels of success.

SplashJackson, do games w Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape

Taps chest

REBOOT!!

kittehx, do gaming w Nvidia GeForce Now To Introduce Ads To Its Free Tier
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I’d never heard of this thing so I interpreted the title as saying they’d be adding ads to the graphics cards and I was very confused

boringbisexual,

Shhhhhh

Don’t give them ideas

TheAlbatross, do gaming w Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Preorders Are Already Discounted

$40 for a DLC is fairly ridiculous, $35 isn’t much better.

That’s more than half the price of the base game! Is the DLC going to have more than half a base game’s worth of content?

Glitchington,
@Glitchington@lemmy.world avatar

Most likely. From Software traditionally make some of the best DLC in the industry.

TheAlbatross,

Sure, but they don’t have more than half the base game’s worth of content and time in em.

An especially daunting task with Elden Ring, which is huge.

I worry that this kind of price point will become acceptable if this does well and I simply don’t think that is okay. $40 is far too much for DLC.

KoboldCoterie, do gaming w MSI Gaming Teases Its Own Steam Deck Competitor
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In my opinion, the fact that so many of these competing devices run windows just ruins them out of the gate. The fact that you can cleanly suspend and resume games on the Deck is its best feature by a mile, and I’ve yet to see any windows-based device manage to even come close to doing that reliably.

EvilMonkeySlayer,

Yep, I think they need to get SteamOS on these if they want to compete. Windows is simply not good for devices like this, at all.

HubertManne,
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yeah if it runs windows then to me its not a steamdeck competitor.

ViscloReader, do games w Call Of Duty 2024 Is Bringing Back Warzone's Original Map, Verdansk - Report

Well they better let the devs work on it this time

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