Climate Replay Warns Against The Use Of NFTs In Games "For The Health Of The Planet"
NFT games are here. Some of them succeed, some of them fail, and many of them either turn out to be scams or get hacked and cost their users millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, but there’s no denying the fact that NFTs and blockchain technology aren’t going away. There’s been so much money invested into the promise of what NFTs can provide that at this point it seems impossible to dissuade companies from inundating us with NFT games just to see what works.
Knowing this, Climate Replay has created its NFT Guide that lays out everything wrong with NFTs and what developers, publishers, and players can do to fix them. As reported by Bloomberg, Climate Replay is an organization founded by Minecraft developer Mojang with help from Xbox Game Studios, the International Game Developers Association, and leading climatologists to explain why NFTs are bad for the climate and how to implement NFTs in a game that might actually be fun.
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"Games give us hope in a world that is increasingly uncertain. They help us unlock our creative potential and free us of real-world constraints – physical, financial, or otherwise," wrote Climate Replay.
"Most NFTs, and by consequence most forms of digital ownership, in their current state serve the exact opposite purpose – their value defined completely by artificial scarcity and speculation and powered by an unnecessary expenditure of physical resources. It is imperative for the health of the worldwide gaming community, planet, and society as a whole to ensure any adoption of blockchain-based technologies such as NFTs occurs only when they bring demonstrable value to games and their communities, and then in such a way that
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