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But why though?
Blockchain anything was how you got investor funding in 2017 and no one was gonna fund a Peter Molyneux game without it
Your phrasing suggests blockchain is only being used here to facilitate an actual interesting game, which I can guarantee is not true.
Nah, no suggestion of that. Just talking about what investors were spending money on in 2017
No he's suggesting the game would be so shit that buzzwords were the only way it could get any runway.
My point, albeit overly obtuse, was that the game is blockchain. He didn't patch on the idea just to get funding.
I would say, being even more pedantic, that the game uses a blockchain (which is just a different type of database) to record in game digital asset ownership. This game could have been made with a normal db taking that roll and would probably run no differently.
He is mentioning and using a blockchain over a normal db for no other reason that it probably helped to secure funding in 2017 as it was a massive tech buzzword at the time.
It could, sure, but I'm positive the only reason he's making it is because of blockchain. I seriously doubt Pete was rolling around a game idea for online real estate separately and just threw blockchain in as a way to get funding.
This game in particular, yes, but Molyneux certainly could make non-blockchain games.
It makes them money off of desperate or in turn grifting people, I suppose. Just like all of crypto.