Reggie Fils-Aimé Says He's a 'Believer In Blockchain' - IGN
Ex-Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé is a big believer in blockchain technology that he says could enhance the experience of games like Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch.
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Reggie Fils-Aimé Says He's a 'Believer In Blockchain'
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Reggie Fils-Aimé believes in exploting people in order to pocket massive amounts of money. Like all CEOs. Of course he loves crypto garbage.
The concept of being able to make a business profit out of the time investment of a hobby you put into is foreign to me.
Can anyone else explain this?
Can anyone else explain this?
Blockchain continues to be the most successful snake oil in history, lmao. It's built out of all the perfect corporate buzz words to ensnare business people who can't be bothered to analyze what value it's actually adding to a product that already exists (i.e., nothing).
I never understood why they use their closed platforms as an example of how to sell items between players... like its a closed system, you make it happen without killing the planet. Valve technically already does this with the marketplace. Their are very limited items on it that are sold between players for a lot of money, I sold a hat once for over $100!
Maybe i'm like super way off the mark here, but from what i'm understanding of Reggie's CEO speak, he's saying for instance with Animal Crossing, what if someone made a really cool island, spent hundreds of hours into it and then decided, ok well i don't really use this any more, let me sell it to someone. I don't know how the blockchain stuff works exactly, but i would assume the idea is there's some sort of verification that this is in fact Reggie's island, and you are now the new owner of it.
It sounds to me like a long way of selling a game completed already. Or like those people who sell full Pokemon boxes or fortnite skins/accounts on ebay. Or i guess from another perspective, imagine you had a full complete set of a series of Pokemon cards, and you decided after collecting all of them you'd sell the full set rather than individual cards at a time.
Its one of those things that almost kind of makes sense on paper but is really dumb the way Reggie is leveraging it.
Ugh sorry Reggie is dead now. Gross.
Joking but only half joking. Thankfully he isn't anywhere near influencing a major game dev to go in on blockchain
Joking but only half joking. Thankfully he isn't anywhere near influencing a major game dev to go in on blockchain
Gaming is supposed to have fun, not trying to earn money while playing a game. If you want to earn money do something else that is actually productive.
And, you know, the authentication process continuously requires massive amounts of energy that destroys the environment at an even more alarming rate
When someone says they believe in the block chain, they're also saying f*** the planet.
The day Nintendo implements real currency trading in-game between players (not necessarily blockchain) will be the day competitors will probably be implementing holo projection for holo co-op and some shit like that lol. Yeah, Reggie, this isn't it.
It's funny how quickly the blockchain went from being new, buzzworthy concept to being something that now carries Boomer energy. Every time I hear somebody trying to hamfist blockchain / crypto / NFTs into gaming I'm like
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