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’. Sega...

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’.

  • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    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 🐸@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.eeEnglish
        2·
        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.