Peter Molyneux is ready to disappoint us again with his latest game, a blockchain-based business sim - eviltoast
  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    No he’s suggesting the game would be so shit that buzzwords were the only way it could get any runway.

    • Ech@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      My point, albeit overly obtuse, was that the game is blockchain. He didn’t patch on the idea just to get funding.

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        This game in particular, yes, but Molyneux certainly could make non-blockchain games.