Eve Frontier is a survival game spin-off of Eve Online and, yup, it's full of blockchain bullshit
Eve Frontier is a survival game spin-off of Eve Online and, yup, it's full of blockchain bullshit
Eve Frontier was previously known as Project Awakening, and it will make heavy use of blockchain technology that few fans of video games likes or wants.
So, it’s Roblox for people who like spreadsheets, NFTs and spaceships?
10Hard to get too much detail on it yet. But looks like you'll be able to build market tools (probably smart contracts) and other functionality.
If any game can leverage a public blockchain properly, it's EVE. They've already got market driven economies and an in-game currency. Both historically annoyingly locked behind a TOS, limited APIs, and heavy-handed control of CCP.
Their community marketing system to unlock the closed beta looks like some bullshit though. I gotta perform actions like tweeting their trailer to get tickets to get access to the beta. I'll pass.
5Lmfao using smart contract functionality for an in-game currency actually makes a ton of sense. It's basically just a more extensible version of any in-game currency.
The caveat I think of is fees required to transact being a potential issue, otherwise the article just screams of "I hate block chain and refuse to see how it could be used in any way"
3What makes a block chain better than a PostgresDB for a private currency that can only be spent in their stores?
10Extensibility, lots of collaborative development work across the crypto landscape rather then only being done by the company producing the game.
A quick obvious example mentioned was smart contracts, a company attempting to create that functionality from the ground up would be a lot more work then hooking into an already existing infrastructure where many lessons have already been learned from prior failures.
It doesn't actually state in the article (because the writer was mostly just whining that crypto exists) but I am curious if the idea would be for the tokens to be transacted or utilized outside of the game itself in some fashion while still being completely track able.
Edit: It'd kinda be like instead of using a standard email format/protocol, developing a whole new "electronic mail messaging system" from the ground up. Why do that when the functionality you want has already been created and heavily documented.
Edit2: Going back to my prior point about potential for transacting outside of the game itself, if a company wanted to make that happen, they'd have to build all the infrastructure/APIs/etc to interact with the database.
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