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Sega calls video games that use blockchain technology 'boring' (gamerkick.com)
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Shuji Utsumi, Sega’s co-CEO, comments in a new statement that there is no point in implementing blockchain technology if it doesn’t make games ‘fun’.

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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Simple rule of thumb; any time someone says blockchain in a sentence, replace it with "big slow database". Now you can think about it clearly.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks, that's helpful! I've had a lot of really good responses from everyone about various use cases for blockchains in games, but "big slow database" does seem to sum up most of them remarkably well!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Ofcourse it's a over-simplification since it's actually an "append-only geo-distributed database with non-centralized control" but the former works quite well when talking with people who want to sell me blockchain.

    I always ask them what is the problem that a standard DB can't solve that a blockchain can and they stumble a few steps.

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