Steam Families launches into beta, making it easier to buy and share games with your kids (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Games sold as NFTs on a blockchain. Want to lend a game use the NFT marketplace to transfer rights for a week. Want to sell that skin you earned, NFT marketplace. Rental stores could offer their copies for rent and we could actually own the fucking digital goods we buy.

[-] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

And if you get hacked?... you blockchain fanatics always forget that it's a ledger, not a database.

If i were about to hack your account and transfer everything to my account, there is nothing anyone could do about that. Steam admins couldn't reverse the transaction because everything is stored in a ledger, not a database.

Your stuff would be gone for good.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Block chain fans using the block chain for anything except what block chain is designed for. Name a more iconic duo.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 year ago

It's only use is proving you own something in a decentralized way. If it's steam we're buying from them it's centralized, there's no need.

One thing I'd love would be that there's one proof of ownership chain and companies list their games, you purchase it then it's on the chain forever. Torrent, download, disc, it checks the chain and shows you own it. But then we still have the "I got hacked and lost my wallet" issue.

However that will never, and I mean ever happen. The chain is the antithesis of corporate control so nothing like that will happen.

[-] TheOneCurly@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

And what authority is checking the blockchain to see if you're the owner. Some kind of trusted 3rd party maybe? Making the whole blockchain thing pointless?

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

But you don't understand! We could kill the environment faster and make it more difficult to prove you own something if you get hacked! Two birds getting stoned at once or something

[-] nublug 1 points 1 year ago

rental . . . for rent . . . we could actually own

hmmmm

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