Good day players & fellow Hivians !!
As many of you know we are close to releasing our new "Universal Item" marketplace and system for helping onboard web2 gaming companies using the Unity Game Engine and help them interface with the Hive blockchain natively.
During this I am seeing all this HYPE for games that just give out tokens for you delegating to them so they earn off your HP and you hope the gameplay will be good.
We don't believe in Layer 2 tokens in games. That does not mean we don't believe in in-game currency just not as a Layer 2 token that can be bought / sold outside the game.
At this point you are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we have heard it all before, but what does this have to do with your title of this post??
Well people are saying GameFi, play-to-earn are back!!! baby!!!
and then others say what makes us different is ownership of your items.
We are more play-to-own not play-to-earn. If you decide to stop playing you still own your items.
Ok... maybe..
BUT
What if the company goes under and shuts down the servers? What do you own?
Well they say you own your items they are recorded on chain.
Really? Lets look at some items "OWNED' on-chain.
In this Image from the days we ran Holybread shows a buy and sell of an item.
Yes we can see who is the new owner but what do they own?????
A bunch of gibberish strings of text.
To quote @taskmaster4450 they own A DB of Nothing!!
Ok you say that is just Holybread. You guys were clueless my Splinterland cards are mine.
Sure... ok.. bud.
lets look at those.
Yeah looks sooo much better.
All games on all chains I have seen do this same thing. You have to cross reference anything on chain with their internal centralized servers.
If they shut down you own NOTHING.
So our new system will be Human-Readable.
We will show the chain transactions soon. Just finishing up some testing but as an example it would be more like.
Loot_Lounge_Sell : simplegame, id: 543038azd3
{name: Fire Sword, power: 3, type: magical}
3.6 HBD
Loot_Lounge_buy : btristen, id: 543038azd3
{name: Fire Sword, power: 3, type: magical}
4.0 HBD
Now you own something and it is called a Fire Sword.
If our game goes under or you want to import into another game.
You have value that the new game can use or give you in game value for it.
We call this new way of looking at digitals items. Value 4 Value gaming and we are writing guidelines for game companies on how to approach this and what value it can bring them to and their games.
So if you believe in this new world we envision.
You can support us by upvoting, following or even tipping us here on Hive or even on X.
You can also find me daily on #inleo #threads.
I also stream on Sunday mornings (MST) if you want to ask live questions.
Also our Unity division is growing and is available for hire if any Hive games need help making 2D or 3D games.
One more big thing. All transactions will be done in HBD on our platform.
Native HBD
--simplegame