It’s a simple idea. Card style NFT’s of Grim Dawn assets.
A few ideas -
Everything would be separated by rarity. Legendary, epic, common, etc.
Backgrounds, monsters, characters, classes, weapons, armor. Each could be a separate NFT. They could also be mixed and matched, a Warlord in mythical armor with a legendary background, etc. Anyway, the details don’t really matter, I’m sure you’d figure it out.
The point is, you guys have a tremendous amount of assets, locations, characters and story to work with. Do a release with 5000+ NFTs (the more the better) and see how it goes. Look into Cardano for minting them (100x cheaper to mint than Ethereum).
Maybe I’m overestimating how well this would do, as I have 1500 hours in to the game, but I don’t think so. Pictures of pixelated cats from unknown artists are minting for $100 each with runs of over 1000.
Why would gamers be interested in playing… trading… collecting or whatever it is you do with these?
Looks like miners are trying to build a stock market and make some sheep inflate prices of “goods” for them.
Although blockchaining sounds like a way to guarantee that items are legit, I wonder if it’s good for a game, if virtual items have a value outside the game.
Apart from the challenge to implement this into an existing game, I think this idea clashes with one of Crate’s initial promises:
It does not address NFTs, which I guess were not yet a thing in 2010, but to me it expresses an opposing spirit.
Edit: I think I misunderstood your suggestion. You just want Crate to offer NFTs of their assets? Well, not sure about that either.
I could message you on Steam. Not sure if you can look me up, but my Steam name - aullus2 - and I was wrong, 1629 hours.
Addressing the others, it’s fine if you don’t like NFTs, but I like collecting them, and so do other people, obviously. It’s just an idea. There are so many junk projects out there, that have just came out of nowhere. I feel like a really well done project from a respected company, and a respected game, would do extremely well.
Also, people seem to be misunderstanding what type of NFTs I’m talking about. These would be completely separate from the game. Imagine if there were physical collectable cards based on Grim Dawn. Now imagine them being digital art instead. That’s it. That’s the NFT.
This isn’t something that would affect the game, at all, in the same way that Topps selling Star Wars collectable cards does not affect the current or future movies.
Idk, joining forum some hours ago then start right away make NFT topic just after some guy do the same days ago. Sounds like a try hard trolling for me.
Honestly, the idea of it being digital makes less sense to me. At the very least with physical cards, there is a somethign of reason if some of them are limited if there are only semi-regular reprints of various cards that add more of a type of card into the pool every so often (e.g. yearly releases) but there’s no need for that on the digital end - you’re just restricting how many of something can be obtained/owned to a certain amount of people for no discernible reason.
Especially in a card game as well, having what the community will eventually perceive as the best cards as a limited, obtainable number is going to skew balance towards those that have them i.e. the people the pour time and money into the game and chase away potential newcomers weeks, months or years down the road. By far, one of the core ideals to any card game or strategy game in general should be giving everyone an equal chance of obtaining and using all the tools at their disposal.
As someone currently working on an NFT game, hard pass. It would be just a slapped on gimmik to make cash, and that ruins games. An NFT implementation has to be designed from the ground up, and Grim Dawn aint it. Wouldn’t object if they decided to go this way for GD2 but GD is already firmly stablished and great as it is.
There would be nothing to balance. It’s literally just collectable cards. Collectable pictures with different rarities. They would not be collected from inside the game. These would have nothing to do with the game, at all, except for being based on the game. Also, in the same way that collectable sports cards don’t have unlimited runs, these wouldn’t either.
There seems to be some severe lack of understanding of my idea. Read the above paragraph 10 times before responding.
Remove “NFT” from your thoughts. Think collectable cards. Now think digital collectable cards where ownership is easily proven. People seem to be responding to the other post someone linked, instead of to my idea. To be clear, I do not like the idea in the linked post.
So, you’re basically just asking for/suggesting Steam’s style of trading cards but to have 5 000 or so of them, the game part sounds redundant to me if they don’t really do anything except look pretty. Am I right or do I still not get it?
Just digital collectable cards, that’s it. Go to a website - buy cool looking Grim Dawn card. That’s it. The blockchain would prove that you are the owner. A picture of the Mad Queen standing over your corpse could be yours, forever.
Don’t see why it has to be an NFT or why proving customer ownership (other than confirming and recording orders/purchases) is important then. It’s practically no different to buying soundtracks, wallpapers or other game related merchandise/media no?
I suppose in an actual NFT, you would own these cards and be able to resell them to other traders, but the way you are leaving that detail out in your posts like the last one:
Even worse if its not connected to the game and serve no purpose other than inflating the NFT bubble of useless shit being flung around. NFT as a technology is great, but 99% of the stuff being done today will be worthless pretty soon imo.
