The application of blockchain technology to the game industry has caused many changes in the game field, such as the use of encrypted currency instead of virtual currency, and the confirmation of digital assets on the blockchain... As one of the better application scenarios of blockchain technology 1. With the blessing of blockchain technology, the game has changed the mechanism and promoted the upgrade and explosion of the game.
Blockchain technology brings unlimited possibilities to the gaming industry.
1. Defects of the traditional game industry
1) Traditional games have the problem of unsustainable investment and assets. Players' capital, time, and energy investment in the game has all become sunk costs. Once the game is abandoned, these virtual assets are basically worthless. Combined with the blockchain, the virtual assets in the game can be confirmed, and asset transactions can also be facilitated.
2) Traditional game players cannot control the development trend of the game. The version update is completely centralized. It depends on the operator's choice. Even if the player is dissatisfied with the updated content, they can only passively accept it. Decentralization can be achieved through the blockchain. The future development of the game is completely governed by the community, which will be very attractive to players.
3) Players in the currency circle, especially miners, can also flow into the game industry to mine while playing games, combining work and rest.
2. The integration point of blockchain technology and games
1) Blockchain provides a safe storage method for game data. The core of blockchain technology lies in the distributed accounting method. Distributed encryption algorithms are almost impossible to break, because it is very difficult for hackers to break specific nodes at the right time to tamper with data. In fact, it is very difficult to break a node, let alone find and break all the remaining nodes at the same time.
Taking the game as an example, every player has the sole control of the game account, which means that even the game publisher and operator cannot tamper with and delete the user’s game data in any way, no matter where the user goes, virtual items All are safe and always desirable.
2) The application of blockchain technology to games meets the needs of game players for game decision rights and beneficiary rights.
This is a comparison chart of existing online games and blockchain games
From the above figure, we can see that players can get income from the game and have ownership of game assets.
Serious gamers spend a lot of energy and financial resources to earn "game rewards". These rewards are only stored in the game server. These items owned by the player are actually only temporarily used. If the player stops the game or closes the server , He will lose these electronic items, the player does not actually own them.
Blockchain technology can turn game assets into real assets for users! The application of blockchain technology in the field of games is a major innovation that promotes blockchain technology to ordinary players. All props or things purchased by players, including additional assets generated during the game, can be stored on the Ethereum blockchain through smart contracts.
The perfect integration of blockchain technology and games solves the possibility of developers' dark-box operations, giving players a fair and open game environment, and the most exciting thing is that players can get benefits in the game.
3. Conclusion
We believe that the combination of blockchain and games is very promising. With various combinations, blockchain can fully solve the pain points of the game industry, and games can also bring a lot of fresh blood to the blockchain.
The combination of blockchain and games is the only way in the future, but due to technical limitations, there are still big problems in project landing. The existing landing scenes only include the circulation of game assets and gambling games. The real blockchain games are not completely on the chain, but have reached the level of asset on the chain. Phenomenal blockchain games still need time to brew. .