Why In-Game Purchases Need Decentralization, Part 1
In-game purchases aren’t perfect. There are a number of concerns pertaining to gaming assets, ranging from how they’re obtained to what a user is authorized to do with them once purchased.
Most games allow players to obtain assets from an in-game shop experience. This experience is usually characterized by a tab or screen in-game that allows the players to either purchase in-game currency for gaming assets or simply buy the asset outright with another medium (credit card/PayPal/etc.).
Once purchased, however, things start to get tricky. Individual developers take different approaches to how they manage in-game items and trading capabilities — in an effort to enable users to have control over their assets while also protecting them to the best of their ability from bad faith actors.
Some developers have outright restricted trading of any kind, while others have openly embraced the players’ rights to trade those assets in peer-to peer- markets. Regardless of the approach, none have successfully stemmed the tide of secondary market transactions in an effort to mitigate the fraudulent activities associated with them.
This culminates in a paradigm in which third-party marketplaces are actively circumventing developer restrictions to support their own secondary market trading capabilities (and their own economics). Some of these platforms leverage a bot system with multi-hop trades; some require account information to physically sign into your account and then run raids to obtain assets. Regardless of the methodology, these organizations consistently find means of circumventing developer rules in an effort to enable secondary market trading of gaming assets.
Decentralization, the new kid on the block, offers many potential solutions to enable a robust, user-friendly, safe and trusted means of obtaining and transferring assets between players — all in a manner authorized and guaranteed by developers.
Stay tuned for our next post “Why In-Game Purchases Need Decentralization, Part 2” to learn more!
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Published at Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:04:31 +0000
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