Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 02, 2018, 08:18:27 PM

Quote from: redigaffi on January 02, 2018, 10:24:57 AM

Hey guys,

I don't understand what benefit are for a game to be built on top of blockchain technology, makes it really sense? what benefits are there? What is exactly stored on the blockchain? User game info?

Thanks

Currently, game objects are stored in centralized and closed databases, so with blockchain those objects (like currency, items, comsetics etc.) could be stored on blockchain, which is a public and distributed environment.
However, a game has to be open source to benefit from the blockchain, and be very lightweight so running a game server would be cheap. Without those two requirements blockchain loses almost all its benefits - game objects are only useful if you have access to the game, and this is usually under full control of the company who runs this game. Blockchain can be used as a proof that all in-game item are created according to the rules, i.e. the company is not creating them out of thin air to sell for money to players, but for this to work users who want to verify it have to run a full node, which can be very cumbersome if there's a high amount of transasction (not only p2p, but also events like item drops). If players are connected to the blockchain via SPV client, it's pretty much useless, because they can't verify all the rules of blockchain.

This is a very concise explanation.I don't know the game should be totally open-sourced just to have their assets on the blockchain.Blockchain could be a part of their environment where assets are stored.How else do you expect games to make money if everything is given out for free ? One major issues of having assets on the chain is what if user loses access to their private keys ? The game developers wouldn't be able to restore his purchases if any...