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Hey guys, I was wondering about Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptos in general and their relation to the games industry

We all know, people at my age (31 years) growed up playing games, surfing the internet and they are  very close to technology in general

Games always have put new technologies to evolving the market, like: Internet to play multiplayer games, virtual reality and 3d to have a deeper experience, photorealism, payment inside app/game and etc

But until now, games industry didn't use any new technology related to cryptos

Do you think they will use?
And if yes, how they can use BTC, blockchain and cryptos in general?

The only and most obvious for me is use cryptos to pay games, in steam, psn, xbox live and etc, but I'd like to see your ideas guys

There are games out there that is using blockchain technology.

As far as I know this is not a new thing. There is this game I've read about that while you are progressing in the game, you will be able to mine cryptocurrencies. That I think is the future of gaming and cryptocurrencies since the world is slowly shifting into that kind since games nowadays are being priced with a lot of money, in the future it will be a stable job for a lot of people not just the professionals.

I find it really, really strange how gaming has such a blind spot when it comes to crypto. You'd think they'd be running towards it but the silence is deafening.

Crypto integration is likely to come from the left field as ever and it'll be indie developers who do something with it. The gaming behemoths are full corporate and some have their own financial systems to protect just like banks.

There's nothing strange here, crypto doesn't offer much to gaming industry. Bitcoin was dropped by Steam when fees skyrocketed, other coins are not adopted because they don't have any users, Few gamers care about "truly owning their gaming assets", and only people from poor countries are interested in using games as a way, and you can't make much money off them.


Crypto and blockchain are useless in single-player games, and most indie games are single-player, they don't have resources to build large scale mmo projects. And I've seen some games that are built around blockchain, they are really lame and I wouldn't play them even if they paid me to.

I'm talking purely about in game money.

No one needs a 'blockchain' game. That said, the ongoing creep towards being permanently tethered to a developer's whim and your game being forever a lowly lease is ripe for a kick in minge.

If it didn't happen, it is unlikely to happen in the future

I refer to indie developers here. I'm not much of a gamer myself, but as far as I know many role-playing games (or whatever they are called) have their internal currencies for use inside the game (i.e. to buy things to raise your level in the game's pecking order). Crypto is a competitor to them, so why should they care?

As I see it, it is a matter of control but you can't control crypto, so it is kind of banned from being used inside such games (I mean, as a game currency). However, we can always gamble our coins away at online casinos where cryptos have established a pretty firm foothold since the very beginning

In-game money doesn't need crypto either. The main properties of in-game currencies is that they are meant to be created out of thin air to reward players, and then consumed by being spent on in-game items. Linking it with real economy, which is what many crypto-for-gaming enthusiasts propose, is generally undesirable, because it screws the in-game economy (attracts botters, cheaters, hackers, farmers) and spoils the fun of playing the game.

if by "use technology" you mean using the blockchain technology in the gaming industry by using the technology itself then the answer is no, it won't happen because these two technologies have nothing in common and can't be integrated in each other! think of blockchain as an inefficient database in this case.

if it is just usage of the "product", then it has already happened in a smaller scale. meaning usage of bitcoin as a payment in gaming industry and that is how it should happen since bitcoin is a currency and that is how it should be used.
the scale is still small because of the volatility, higher fees in some cases and the low adoption that bitcoin still has. we first need to reach semi-mass adoption and reach more stability to see a widespread usage of it.

Bitcoin and game industry have connection each other how to build an easy way to purchase your needed using bitcoin as payment way, keep connecting bitcoin and game industry.

Well, well. I am surprised that people don't already know about it. LOL.

Crytpo integration into games has been going on for a long time gentlemand. You are right though that it is not the gaming behemoths who are doing it. The integration has happened in terms of usage of crypto as in-game currency as well as using the blockchain itself for the gaming mechanics.
I am sure a lot of people have heard about EOS Knights. Its a shitty RPG with shitty graphics but a lot of people have been making EOS selling in-game items there. Like everything else in crypto, it is heavily tilted towards the early adopters than the better gamers.

The best in-game integration that I have yet seen is with Enjin. They even have their own minecraft server. There already have been games launched where you can actually earn blockchain items that look beautiful on their wallet. They use an ethereum standard called as ERC-1155 which is different from ERC-20 and ERC-721 (that cryptokitties used).

They already have a bunch of games out including:
1. A dungeon crawler: Forgotten Artifacts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa35V2CU4Zo)
2. A space shooter MMORPG: Space Misfits (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OVCifskFy4)
3. There is a crypto puzzle game with an in-game reward of 20 BTC, Age of Rust. The alpha isn't out yet i think. It started here at the forum years ago and I believe has grown really well.
4. A PVP RPG  9Lives Arena (https://www.9livesarena.com/)

I am a BTC believer when it comes to cryptocurrency. In gaming, I find Enjin really credible. If you have even a slight bit interest in gaming, I encourage you to try some of their games.

This idea is very good, we are currently trying to integrate with cryptocurrency in a MUD game, and it may become very interesting in the future.

you already answered your own question because you are aware that you can now use your cryptos on those gaming platform  that you stated above  .

 also there also blockchain/crypto inspired games that you can grab on the appstore and playstore    .

there were also called dapp/s   in which there are apps and games that also uses those technologies that i stated above  .

 sometimes all you need is a research and activenes on the web to be able to discover those exciting and new trends that are present thesedays  .

Yeah, Steam is a known gaming company and once accepted bitcoin before but sadly they've removed that option to pay for their credits. I see that usecase with what they did although there are services that you can use to enjoy gaming while paying bitcoin.

I think Gabe Newell will come up into consideration to start accepting payment through bitcoin again. There's just lack of suggestion and reach out to their support since they are listening to their customers feedback.

IIRC, Steam was accepting bitcoins for their marketplace correct? I'm not a PC gamer so wouldn't know much about that. There are already a number of games which are built for the crypto markets. Like I'm talking about the games that use crypto as their main source of the action. As long as PSN is concerned, they're not going to do it in the years to come as you know how exclusive they're with their technology.

Not bitcoin but cryptocurrencies in general are already being used in the gaming industry. I remember Enjin coin which also launched their signature campaign on bitcointalk.
Recently it had a big spike in it's price after a rumor spread saying Enjin had partnered with Samsung but then the price went way down.
If we ignore the speculation then Enjin coin has done really well over the years and better than any of it's competitors.

I look for these games you posted, it's interesting, no doubt, but I feel that they are only a small thing compared to the games industry
Maybe it's hard to mix games and cryptos together

Let's see if anyone have any more ideas or thoughts

I know there are many more possibilities, but already blockchain has introduced the ultimate gambling industry. We can see right now there are many pokers, bingo, dice, and related to probability games are available on blockchain even many gambling enthusiasts are trying to connect existing gaming platform to the blockchain which can give more mobility to users.

Still many testings are going on with blockchain technology to enhance many factors comparing current gaming platform.

Tokenization is great tool offering users to perform gaming activity which can be easily exchanged against fiat, and this can happen with the only blockchain.

They are not yet popular at this moment since blockchain and crypto in general are not that popular right now. Maybe in some countries, blockchain is popular but to use it in gaming industry is a different thing. I believe that it will be used in the future. More games that involves blockchain technology will arise in the future for sure.

Actually, they are using it now like the game I played last time, they allowed their game ITEMS to be paid with bitcoins. and also you can use bitcoin to trade with the other players.

Some other games right now run with their own Altcoins their game currency is Altcoins.

The bigger gaming companies does not want to touch Bitcoin, before it is classified as a currency by more governments. They have to adhere to their local laws and most of the governments does not officially accept Bitcoin as a currency.  ::)

I have send several emails and posted a lot of request on gaming platforms to accept Bitcoin and the answer is always the same... They cannot accept it, because it is not a recognized currency.

The smaller companies have already incorporated Blockchain technologies and Alt coins in their games.  ::)

For me it will become another great industry that can be achieve for both party.
Why ?
As we know that E-sport game industry keep advance from time to time and cryptocurrency also getting known so by it's simplicity , it will become the advantage for the payment

A bunch of small games with tiny playerbase is nothing, in fact it's a good example of blockchain/crypto hype pretending to disrupt or revolutionize something, while in reality it's just a small experiment that is irrelevant in grand scheme of things. No serious gaming studio is talking about blockchain, they understand that it brings nothing to them, gamers don't care about it and it won't help them make better games.

We may see Bitcoin as currency in the games rather than USD.

Games or gaming gadgets can be available to buy using Bitcoin in few years

There are some blockchain based games already available.

A lot of casinos make money on gamblers, who play for Bitcoin. As we know, most gamers lose - only a couple in a couple of hundreds wins. So, when they replenish their accounts with BTC and lose, this money is accumulated in a casino. The casino can wait until the market can go to the Moon, and make several times more than they could do it before, with fiat.

Bitcoin is unlikely to be widely used in the global gaming industry. For this, fast, light and cheap coins such as Tron are used. There are a lot of different ICOs on the Tron platform, which are associated with the release of various tokens in the gaming industry. In my opinion, bitcoin is too expensive for this, and too slow in transactions.

In my opinion, right now people doen's have reasons to pay in BTC because it's easier to pay in cash, credit cards etc, everyone have one of these ways
If cryptos can reduce the price of games for example, I'm sure that people will think and prefer cryptos

Just remember, not everything is suitable to blockchain, at least not the type of distributed ledger like Bitcoin where everything is stored on blockhain. Imagine if I as a player and 100 other players played the whole day how would we find the data storage space to keep all our transactions (walking, playing items, killing, stats so many data!) and then how would we wait for blocks to be found before our transactions take place?

Blockchain is not necessary for everything!

You're outdated, there's a lot of gaming platform now that used bitcoin as the payment method to buy games and in-game items.
If you remember steam, they allow bitcoin as their payment and it's quite useful for me since I'm a gamer too who usually buy games a lot.

But recently, they stop this method;

If a company having a hard time to adopt bitcoin, it will have lost in the market due to its sudden change.
I hope they figure it out 'cause the bitcoin payment method was very reliable since we're paying 1:1 on the game.
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Regarding the other gaming platforms that adopt bitcoin, I hope they do their best to maintain since eSports was very mainstream today and bitcoin was also reaching its peak.

Personally, I play a couple of online games which support buying cosmetics or skins like Dota 2 and CS:GO. There are many sites which allow users to deposit major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum which is automatically converted into the dollar value at the time of transaction.

Additionally, there are altcoin projects like Dmarket which are based on the online gaming marketplace provide a platform for buyers and sellers to effectively trade items across games while avoiding much of the middleman fee involved.

I guess you are missing out already, there are so many gaming industries that has applied the technology of blockchain to their gaming system and has also been using cryptocurrency, especially that of bitcoin and that of the ones they personally created through the ICO market, so there are really lots of gaming sites into cryptocurrency.

Recently, there was a record showing that cryptocurrency is moistly used in the gambling sector, and wonder why is used their most, and don’t forget that gambling is also a game, and gambling does not have to be played Physically alone, there has been gambling gaming sites and most of them has virtually shifted their attention to the use of crypto, as we can see casino crypto, even this guy TRON has also created one using crypto.

I really don't know if OP is talking about using the blockchain technology in the the gaming industry or whether if the gaming industry has already accepted the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, but if it's the latter, I know there are lots of gaming platforms that accepts cryptos as a means of payment.

Actually, the OP is referring to both,

I've already come up thinking about the usage of blockchain technology to some gaming platforms. It seems that gaming industries don't need transparency feature or network that will develop the server of a game. They usually prioritize the development of the game itself to have better gaming experience. But I hope there's a use of blockchain in the game soon, I know it will give a big change in the gaming industry.

So the most common thing that gaming devs focusing is the structure of the game and how will people buy those in-game items, so they implement the usage of bitcoin as payment.

There are many gaming project that incorporate blockchain technology into gaming but the core features of the designs are still lacking block chain. What many of them use block chain technology to make payment and also store gaming data. Deep learning language and Artificial intelligence are few of other technology that major core game development used especially most of the game being developed at the 21 century. I will be glad to see a game that use block chain technology at least 95%

I think that the blockchain technology can be applied at the moment only to online gambling that has a problem-it is a lack of trust on the part of users.Although in fact, using the tokens standart ERC 721,you can tokenize a number of games.The whole crypto industry is evolving and I think its symbiosis with the game world is about to happen.

and a lot of them will soon employ crypto on their games. just take a quick read in the following articles

https://www.unlock-bc.com/news/2019-04-30/the-link-between-esports-and-cryptocurrency-usage-is-strong
https://news.bitcoin.com/why-the-future-of-esports-is-tied-to-cryptocurrency/
https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/06/15/family-offices-pour-billions-into-esports-can-crypto-be-next/

also when it comes to gambling sector, you can find a huge number of online casinos integrating crypto as their payment method. you can find that in the gambling section of this forum and you dont know where to begin because you have a long line up of those casinos.

Maybe in the future there will be a crypto project related to the game. Of course, by creating a new altcoin and ecosystem for the utility in the purchase of game tokens, gamers will be easier to make purchases of paid content in the game. And if you see this opportunity, I'm sure there will be many Blockchain gaming projects going forward.

There is no serious relationship between Bitcoin and Gaming other than processing payments. Any other blockchain nonsense is just a useless innovation that may never fly nor be adopted.

As for Casino, Bitcoin has made the casino gambling more accessible and easy to play with peace of mind.

Games have played a crucial role in everyone's life either as a way of entertainment or as a stress buster; Bitcoin rewards or crypto rewards is an emerging trend in the online gaming industry. Online gaming can be turned as an entry pass for Bitcoin to enter into the mainstream and for common people, the gaming industry can play a role of tutor to understand it while playing.

as i know, for now it's only smaller companies have already incorporated Blockchain technologies and Alt coins in their games. maybe in the near future I am sure there will be a big gaming industry that adopts cryptocurrency for all gaming activities and needs. because for now the online gaming industry is experiencing rapid development that might be equated with cryptocurrency development.

I also think so, so currently blockchains are still under development and have not yet reached the point where the industrial world needs blockchains
but blockchains will definitely be adopted by various industries, we only need to wait for time and blockchains will be adopted everywhere

Tron has its own separate gaming application and site that their money will be useful for, so as we have so many other gaming sites that has developed their own cryptocurrency for the gaming application that they have, but general speaking, we are taking of bitcoin, being the most popular coin, I have seen few people use bitcoin payment in their gaming site.

Some people have even been using bitcoin to bet, don’t forget that not everyone will be able to have their own cryptocurrency for their gaming site, but there is one that has already been established which is more popular and I think will be better and fast in making gaming transactions easy, so there is need for moist gaming sites despite that they have their own crypto, also encourage the use of bitcoin too on their site, this Is how bitcoin can gain wide recognition among the gaming industry.

There seems to be some misunderstanding

If you want to keep all your actions in some storage to retrieve them later for whatever purpose (let's assume that), you would still need that storage and some software to manage the storage in a useful and easy way. In other words, you would need a database and a DBMS (which stands for a database management system, just in case).

And blockchain is a special variety of a database crafted specifically for resiliency and redundancy (a distributed database, to be exact). Indeed, you can go with a simple database and DBMS which handles it like SQLite, for example, but that doesn't mean you won't have to save all this data somewhere for future retrieval if that was your point

Adoption is still on the move and there were several companies that do consider out bitcoin to be integrated.Ex. Steam, but as you know they do already remove it to their platform
because of unstable price and fees and management decided to cross it out on the option which is sad since I'm a gamer using steam.

For now,we wont have any choice but to hope and observe on how these companies would consider btc into this industry.

Apart from the ones i listed above, there are around 15 more games planned and under development. You are right that its a small number and everything related to blockchain is mostly considered hype.
Yet, for the Indie developers, this also promises a different mode of gaining traction as well as funding. The revenue model utilizing what they call blockchain "Game-assets" is also a novel approach. I hope not all people will write-off these small experiments so easily.

Blockchain is used quite successfully by some gaming platforms for monetization. Let's say some platforms love to create their own coin for the implementation of the store inside the game, and coins based on the blockchain can provide security

It is of no surprise that even in 2019 the gaming industry has not found its touch with Bitcoin or Crypto Currencies in general. There are many reasons for them not indulging into the crypto market though.
The crypto currency market is highly volatile. The prices fall and rise too often and that is dangerous for any business accepting them as a mode of payment.
Steam tried to give the crypto game a try but it badly failed because the transaction fees for Bitcoin rose from $0.20 to $20 in just a week.
Although all these factors hinder the gaming industry from including crypto into their systems, I am pretty sure something is being worked on to overcome this problem. After all, the world is now adopting the inevitable phenomenon that is Bitcoin and Crypto.

The mobile space will not move to crypto in game as it would hurt Google and Apple's profit share of in app purchases. In fact the development agreements don't even allow sharing of in game currency/coins between 2 games. There have been a few ICOs that were successful and are working on making a crypto app store however the general public will be hesitant on allowing foreign apps on their smartphones.

The gambling industry has embraced crypto because banking regulations can be brutal for that space.

PC / browser games will probably be the best bet for crypto usage to come about. It won't be mainstream anytime soon.

I think it will contribute to the price of bitcoin if we can use it on games like Fortnite, PUBG etc to buy skins and any upgrades for the game character. And also if we can use bitcoin to buy games for example in steam. Maybe in the future they will consider these as more and more people and establishments use bitcoin now.

With the given privacy from Bitcoin and the Blockchain many gamblers have fallen in  love with the gaming industries and am a.living testimony as before now I wasn't interested in gambling but right now because of the privacy am kidda ready to gamble anytime without the fear of the government tracking. As time goes on, we are going to see more gamers into the industry and this will give room for.more adoption.

Maybe it's because of my lack of knowledge but i seriously can't think any of the idea how to use bitcoin or cryptocurrency in a game industry. Except for allowing users purchase game and items using bitcoin and cryptocurrency. But it's just normal because cryptocurrency and bitcoin is commonly used as payment. So nothing surprising anymore.
But reading the replies here i kinda get the idea and picture of it. Even someone inform some games. I never even thought about this before so thank you for writing this post, this makes me have larger view of bitcoin usage and stuffs.

The cryptosphere is undergoing some significant changes recently. The blockchain world has brought us some incredible advances. Many project are developing and creating strategies through games that will serve as a hub for our daily activities to earn tokens by getting involve with it.

If they intended using, the blockchain technology will be their best choice.
Hopefully, it will bring about transparency in the gambling sectors.
It will possibly reduce script manipulation and promote provably of casino developers and their sites. These issues has mostly been the shortcomings of some gambling sites

I used it to buy a few games on Steam until the idiots of Valve broke their association with Bitpay and did not bother with replacing that with anything else. But yes, that would be the first "obvious" use.

The not so obvious, but i have proposed it before, is ingame money. Instead of creating imaginary money, you could actually use some real crypto inside. The game would need to be designed carefully so that this money cannot unbalance it, but perhaps do the usual time vs speed divide from: Players with little time but lots of money, vs players with lots of time but little money, that some games attempt to cater these days.

There are many games where you can win cryptocurrencies
There are also many sites and roads online
As an example of Earncrypto, you can get cryptocurrencies for things you already do online.  By playing, watching entertaining videos, completing surveys, referring your friends, and more you will be able to earn any digital coin you are intended to collect

I've always thought they'd be perfect fits for each other, but it's hard for other people to understand my views when there's been so much controversy in the gaming industry related to cryptocurrency. Take a look at a fairly old scandal where the popular gaming client ESEA (hosted professional lobbies for CSGO players) when they injected malware on thousands of PC's and secretly mined cryptocurrency for 48 hours. Link here - https://www.hltv.org/news/10629/esea-caught-in-bitcoin-scam.

One of the best ways for the 2 industries to work together would be in marketplaces, and it makes me very happy to see companies like Opensea, Enjin, and others try and take advantage of these features. A good example to relate this to, would be the CSGO trading scene, which faced a range of issues and now have 7 day trade holds from a freshly traded item, if you could these items in a decentralized P2P network, which had items from other games, an instant-sale option, it'll be great. Sadly, companies like Opensea are unable to link together all the popular games, due to their restrictions and unwillingness of decentralization from big companies like Valve.

There are not really many advancements one can make now, we need to wait for large developers to start incorporating blockchain technology in their games, sorta like banks currently. Ball's in their court.

Who said so, I think that the gaming industry are even the ones that has accepted the use of cryptocurrency more than every other industries we have there, let me mention some of the big games to you, such as BMI Gaming, dice, craps, keno, video poker, roulette and many more, they all play these game in bitcoin now, so they are gradually expanding, they might still be few but their number still corresponding with the level of acceptance of bitcoin generally.

The more the adoption of bitcoin grows, the more some of these gaming industries will also start to adopt the use of bitcoin for their game too, so we should just look at the future, majority of them have plans for it, but they are just trying to watch as things takes its shape in crypto generally.

There is no matter of wonder,  about the relation between Bitcoin and the games industry. I've already seen their are a lot of  games industry who allows bitcoin as their payment method especially for casinos.
Morever they can have their won coin/token as their payment method. blockchain & others maybe possible in future Csuse I belive technology will have much more advanced than now

Other than for payment, I think bitcoin (Blockchain technology) can be used to overcome the game piracy problem. we know the problem at this time there are many pirated games that can be downloaded for free on the internet, and this is very detrimental to game developers and distributors.

the current system is too easy to hack, if using blockchain I'm sure this kind of problem can be overcome.

one product key/activation key/private key for one device. and all stored in the blockchain network, isn't that great?

The idea is good but I think the correlation between the two is low. It's possible to use crypto as a way of payment in a game but since most people still don't have an idea about it, game developers maybe haven't thought of it as an option. Also, I don't think people would pay in games using crypto.

I think they thought about it but there are some problems with it.

The first thing I can remember here is Steam when they accepted Bitcoin as a payment method. Some players are happy about it since they will be able to pay using their BTCs but the thing is that there are a lot of videos teaching people how to get a paid game for free in Steam using Bitcoin payment, one of the reasons they remove the payment method.

Because payment by bitcoin is much simpler than using CC, debit, or paypal. not only the game industry but many online-based
industries are starting to partner with bitcoin for payment. in industry 4.0 and above bitcoin will be king in terms of payment.

it is really strange that gaming industry is very cautious in adopting crypto
I'm talking about the mainstream companies , so far they only ventured into the "you could pay for games in crypto "
G2A and MMOGA come to mind , but if Steam accepted crypto again , for example ....
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/260106-valve-ends-bitcoin-experiment-will-no-longer-accept-payment
for some reason Valve found the experiment was a failure :(
so far the games you can play are all gambling related or collectibles like Kitties
this is a huge market to explore , it is only a matter of time when a good blockbuster game about crypto is created

it is only a matter of time when a good blockbuster game about crypto is created

Yes I agree, but I see on thread that people have good arguments about the legality if BTC and another cryptos, the big companies do not want to have their brands linked to cryptos if this will cause any problem or any bad advertising fot them
And I agree with that, is a delicate subject

But I hope they found a good use to this technology

Yes, there are game developers adopting and using blockchain technology in the development of their projects. I recently participated on such project that focus on game development that aims to utilize blockchain technology thru game system items and services to its user using their platform. Gaming industry is huge, so it's very a good investment to those who are into gaming.

There are games that represents how the bitcoin works. It gives the knowledge to all the users about the blockchain and cryptos. I think in the future they will use the bitcoin for payment and of course a way to give some knowledge about how the digital world works.

Many people are grow together with games in their life. We all know that in the past years, there are a lot of famous games that actually get the highest rate not just only rate but percentage of income that they get because of the players that play the game. Together with the coming up of the internet connection, they develop online games that can communicate with the other people around thr globe. With this, we can put here the cryptos in a way that many games right now are needed some expenses for their own happiness. Game industry will adopt cryptos in their games someday.

In regards to bitcoin's market value and lucrative potential, it would seemingly be alluring
to the gaming industry. It's simply a good payment option with a good market value, that
too can change if it spikes up for some reason. I think bitcoin and other altcoins are a
forthcoming player who has this bigger role to play in the gaming industry, gambling and
other sectors that involves money. That's the beauty with bitcoins, its's potentiality is
immensely wide.

Using bitcoin as payment gives you convenient. No means of using fiat to get what you want through internet. There are some game industry are accepting bitcoin as payment, most of the time are gambling games. It is much easier for everyone.

Well, I do think they would use in the near future, little by little. As if it for isn't as compact as it is for now. Sure thing, if the company has the interest with the flow on how crypto works, and if they got the nerves of carrying the risks behind the decisions.

They might use it as an investment I guess? Nothing more, nothing less. May be they would letting the money be in crypto value when the crypto price itself got sky-rocketted.

If we talk about online casinos, today cryptocurrency is very actively used and it is important to consider that there are leaders whose platforms are the most popular in the field of gambling, such as Tron, as well as Dash and EOS coins.  But I am sure that if bitcoins are used in everyday life of a person, then undoubtedly bitcoins can be used for physical casinos too.

Most of the games ( especially mobile games ) has pay-to-win gaming system. I think Bitcoin can be added to games as a payment option. By doing that, there will be an increase in Bitcoin usage.

What you have mentioned or answered to your questions I think are the only ways we can incorporate bitcoin to gaming. Gaming do not have much offered to bitcoin, some gaming giants even drop it.  Also, we have different kinds of games, ofcourse in offline games we can't do much about it. It could be just on the payment system but in other aspects, I think it is hard to incorporate bitcoin on it.

I can see some example on how some games or gaming platforms will use cryptocurrency. As for games, they might use cryptocurrency as a way to pay for in-game purchases as a start. For gaming platforms, they might use it as a way of payment to buy games and such. There might be more uses to it but I think that will be the first step for adoptions in the game industry.

I've read that Ripple was to merge Blockchain technology with video games with the cooperation of Fort. So, it has allocated a $100-million capital which is handled by Fort, a specialized firm in using Blockchain technology in the game industry. But I think bitcoin is unlikely to be widely used in the global gaming industry. I mean I can't imagine how to use bitcoin or cryptocurrency in a game industry except for purchasing game and items using cryptocurrency. Maybe it's because I am not good at understanding gaming industry properly.

I think you are pertaining to the mainstream games such as dota 2, csgo, Apex Legends and much more. I think, the reason why these games aren't using cryptocurrency is because of the volatility of the market price of such cryptocurrency like bitcoin and ethereum. I that case, they will need a cryptocurrency expert to determine the price that they need to set whenever they wanted to start utilizing cryptos to their games.

Bitcoin or cryptocurrency itself has nothing to offer to the gaming industry except one thing, bitcoin can ease the player's way of paying for in-game topups and recharge. Steam already implemented this but lately got removed. This is the only thing I can see cryptocurrency, in general, can bind with the gaming industry now

Maybe he is, but I dont think those popular games will adopt to bitcoin as payment method for now, there are a lot of circumstances they must review to avoid any issues. Because if the volatility of the market, its also posible that the amount of crypto in the game may differ depends on the price of bitcoin.

This is incorrect really, using BTC to pay for "top-up" or game credits are actually probably the part of the gaming industry that needs the least amount of changes to be made.

The real innovation behind this would be using crypto-currency as money for most popular games, and then the currencies being transferrable from game to game, helping consumers and businesses. This could also work with setting up marketplaces where items can be traded from different games.

if you mean like buy diamond (top up) with bitcoin or other crypto, who party that want to ensure this method? this is really good if playing game and we can transaction with cryptocurrent.
there are many game with basic crypto but its just a game, it dont give you coin as reward if you winning something

What's Steemit provided is just a part of the service. Cryptocurrencies have got lot many things to do with the games industry. In terms of buying games bitcoin is being accepted on several stores. Apart from this there were more games being added to the gambling websites that can be played betting with cryptocurrencies.

Right now there is not much of stores as well online service renders related to the gaming community integrated with bitcoin. Gambling industry is the one that is much advanced with the cryptocurrencies usage. Also those gambling sites were the one that contributed good to the circulation of bitcoin during the early days of bitcoin into usage.

That's a big help since it can be use same as other payment process, by this way it can attract more people to come and start to embrace the industry, Bitcoin would be a good alternative for paying and transacting. If more developers from the gaming industry seen this and take advantage of every possible use. Things will be more interesting in the near future.

I am waiting for online games MMORPG which can be played by any user and the main money is bitcoin!
I am sure that there will be a huge number of players to join the game.
You can loot satoshi instead of gold and the game doesn't need email but BTC address.

The most projects now are into gambling platforms, dice and sports betting.
I really hope they can come up with online games like Ragnarok and Mobius Online.

More also, the anonymity that Bitcoin has brought has promote more gamblers to gamble, knowing fully well that they are fully shielded by the anonymity of Bitcoin. As a gambler, i have never wanted to gamble on the traditional ways again, becasue of what happened to me. I was beaten black and blue to give up my winnings on Gambling; that i did gave them my won profits. But the advent of cryptocurrency, i can now bet anonymously and go home with my profits without anybody harassment.   

I think it will be better if game industry will real start to accept cryptocurrency in buying games or use it as an payment because it will be easy for us to make transactions without converting our cryptocurrency into fiat currency. I think game industry could also make an investment in cryptocurrency if they will start accepting it.

Maybe he is referring to the diamonds top ups , I can't see any game that offers a diamonds for an exchange in  bitcoin, I hope that we can directly used bitcoin in our purchase so we don't need to convert it, because if we will convert it ,the amount will be lessen because of the fee. In this case bitcoin will be more attractive if and only if there is a game who will get this idea .

Mostly is in fiat then to diamond, maybe game industry didn't use new technology related to crypto for now because they are still studying on it before they make any move especially in using crypto as a payment but I do believe that in the long run game industry will be able to recognize crypto as a payment so that many people will be happy to play then they will be earning big profit on it.

Bitcoin have be part of game industry because the way how to make many gamer love with bitcoin have to joined with game industry. Bitcoin could working with game industry by using purchase payment with bitcoin, this way how to get investor from many gamer like using deposit their diamond with bitcoin.

If you'll do simple research, you can find games that use cryptocurrency as a part of their system or their rewards which are convertible to cryptocurrencies. It's their way to attract more players and it's actually an advantage for both parties. I'm sure that there will be more games in the future which would use cryptocurrency as a mode of transactions. It isn't possible since it's convenient if online games would use digital currency.

I don't think blockchain would help gaming that much. As a mode of payment, it can help since it opens more options on how to pay something related to the game. However, by the blockchain technology itself, I don't think it's of any use. Online games require fast transfer times to avoid delay, which decentralized system of blockchain would not be a good alternative. Aside from being an alternative payment method, I can't see any great contribution bitcoin will offer to the industry.

The are games that can reward you with altcoins and then convert it to bitcoin. You can check this list : https://blocksdecoded.com/best-cryptocurrency-games/.  They may not the game that you expected but they are reward their players with cryptocurrency and bitcoin.

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I have not seen much of the game that integrate Bitcoin in their ingame system.  Probably because of the complexity of the needed knowledge,  The only gaming sector that had fully taking advantage of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency is the gambling industry.

Basically, most game doesn't really need to adopt bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. But with regards to payment method, every time you'll buy something in the game, they could also add bitcoin or cryptocurrency as a payment method. Because if the game focuses on bitcoin, it'll just become an online gambling site/app for bitcoin. It's hard to relate this two especially when the purpose of the game is to just entertain people.

It would be a great experience if all the online store starts accepting bitcoin as an alternative payment method and it is a safe payment method when ever you purchase anything online, i know there is prepaid debit and credit cards but bitcoin should be the currency to use for any forms of transaction in the web as it gives you the protection and there is no charge backs too and it will be a perfect solution for merchants too.

Bitcoin is widely used in gambling and iGaming. However, not only Bitcoin is used. the most popular gamblers' cryptocurrencies are Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dogecoin. Crypto casino owners choose only those cryptocurrencies that are supposed to grow with time, and those, which will never disappear. Besides, faucets (games where crypto awards are given fo players) are popularized.

i just know if bitcoin used for gambling, and it is game. i dont know if any online game can purcashed something with crypto.
im sure if many crypto member is gamer. and it will be good choice if they provide some service to user, buy some item on their game with bitcoin or altcoin. and it can be great promotion for crypto itself.

Maybe you mean famous gaming company such as sony, nintendo and etc. who had adopted blockchain tech or accepted crypto. I've seen some projects here that are somehow related to gaming, but I've never seen any who had survived by far. I mean if some online games accept have gaming credits to buy weapons or gaming subscription or VIP pass, I think they should step up and start enggaging their selves to crypto.

This is an interesting development - https://twitter.com/GodsUnchained/status/1181487505180258304

www.cnet.com/news/blizzard-pulls-blitzchung-from-hearthstone-esports-tournament-over-support-for-hong-kong-protests

As gaming becomes ever more lucrative in certain areas and heads ever more toward a leasing-esque model rather than anything approaching old school ownership I wonder whether this might wake a few people up and inspire some new avenues.

https://bitcointoprofit.com/dont-be-stupid-teach-your-kids-about-cryptocurrency/ I wrote a full length article on this if you're interested.

I've read a lot about Blizzard's shitstorm today, but didn't realize that Gods Unchained is a blockchain game.

Still, it's not a problem that blockchain would solve, the core of this problem lies in the fact that Blizzard is a giant company that has to comply with the laws of all the countries where they want to operate. Blockchain games aren't really decentralized, they still have centralized servers owned by a company, and if that company would become big enough to get noticed by regulators, they'll face the same challenges that Blizzard has.

Many games right now are adopting cryptocurrency to gain more users and players in their game. Also many games are now using blockchain technology as a platform with different transaction to other people. Most of this are gambling games, dice games, sportsbook and different faucet of money that helps many people in giving people opportunities to earn and gain some profit .

The gambling industry capitalizes on Bitcoin's popularity and value

Okay, you may rightfully ask why other sectors in this industry don't do the same and that would be a fair point. The short answer is that their business model is different. If they tried to integrate Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency into their games, they would lose control over some parts of the game as people would definitely find a way to exploit that distinction somehow (for example, building a market for game things outside the game itself). With an in-game currency the company behind a game retains its full control of the game

I gave up on this happening anytime soon. There have been many gaming coins with all sorts of promises that they never even came close to achieving. The one that really made me laugh was when they said they plan to have a platform like steam. They all talk about it as if they already have a platform and are going to be big with big games being hosted and their coins used in these games. There haven't even been indie games with crypto as a currency that have done much. There have been a few games but only one game, not a platform and most of those games are not being developed much or are very slow to update or are simply dead.

I remember earning a bounty for two gaming platforms and I should have sold right away but I never since I decided they need a chance but they gave up and never continued development right after the funding was received. You can never take these people seriously. They just give up and it is pathetic since they could have made something and did put a fair enough effort in. It is just they make things look too fancy with too many promises but no actualy working product. There is no skill set on show.

I believe that bitcoin will be soon adopted by the gaming industry because of its huge opportunity about finance. Gaming industry includes gambling, that is why there are a large possibility that it will adopt by other online games like Dota. Since a lot of people are interested with the power of bitcoin, many people will try to have it by playing computer games online. It is possible to manage an event that will give bitcoin as a price if they win the game. This was really cool.

Game industries have many people are joined there, they always purchase money to buy game energy like buy diamond in online game, but when bitcoin want to join with game industries and gamer will use bitcoin for purchase if want to buy their energy game I think is the best solution how to make bitcoin popular with gamer and be easy for purchase game features.

The game industry is as promising as cryptocurrencies, but I’m not sure that Bitcoin will be actively used inside game structures, you can consider bitcoin as a prize pool, but not as a functioning unit within a game or platform, at least with its current bandwidth.

Blockchain tech should be applied everywhere , in every domain and Games are not different from this. Lets not forget that Steam, g2a , kinguin and a lot of website of games are accepting Bitcoin for a while now and in the future I heard some rumors that they will implement Ethereum too ( this remain to be see ).

I think that Bitcoin should be applied not only in games but in esports as well as that would do to Bitcoin a good promo and maybe who knows a bookie will sponsor a Dota 2 team or a CS:GO team sooner than we think because gaming industry is booming like never before.

Although Strategic, but I observe a lot of projects that do not seem to run according to expectations. For example, Play2Live and Playgame are both game bases and I see that their development is not so maximal that it tends to be stagnant. if on average the game industry on the basis of the blockchain has no innovation then it will not be able to compete. The data above is 2018.

I would say that Bitcoin and gaming industry are kind of naturaly connected. Industry that highly uses new technologies is naturaly oriented to cryptocurrencies and gamers like to use it both for gaming purposes or in real life. Gaming industry is also opportunity to promote Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Applying blockchain to gaming as an industry is in no way beneficial, or even remotely needed. There is absolutely no problem being solved by this, in practice all this will allow for is in-game microtransactions to be paid in tokens, and over-saturation of a niche vertical market of independence and mobile gambling games.Microtransactions, rewarded game play, and optional ads are a natural combo. The game data does not need to be stored on the blockchain to benefit from the advantages of crypto.

As an example paypal won't process micro transactions at all. With crypto you can have near instant payments, no transaction cost, and wallet authentication. If people want to collect tokens or store game data on the block chain, I can appreciate that approach. Just as there are a variety of games and gamers, there will be a variety of solutions used in development.

I think if you look at both bitcoin and the blockchain industry are relatively small at the moment that is why the game industry is not focusing on either of them. But I believe in-time when the bitcoin and blockchain industry has matured enough the gaming industry has no choice but to implement both in the future.

That's an epic combination, I think. Both have unique niches with large communities, some games also use digital money to buy and upgrade items. If that can be changed with cryptocurrency it will certainly be more interesting. We all also know that this is starting to be developed, adopting blockchain really provides many benefits. So many projects based on games use blockchain.
https://i.postimg.cc/D0QrnWgj/gameblockchain.png
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I agree, but it seems that a ton of businesses have an aversion to cryptocurrencies.  If they didn't, we'd be able to buy stuff on amazon with bitcoin.  In fact, I've heard rumors about that for at least a couple of years now but it's never become a reality.

Steam was accepting bitcoin for a while, but they stopped if I remember right.  I'm not sure why that was, but I would imagine it was because of a lack of people using that option.  Anyway, I think bitcoin (or any crypto) is underutilized in the gaming industry.  There are so many in game purchases that could be made using bitcoin, and I would think gamers would love this.

Maybe as the newer generation progresses they'll eventually boost adoption, but I don't know.  Bitcoin is in kind of a dead period as far as adoption goes.  I'm hoping it will pick up eventually.

I think the best for crypto to be part of the game industry is to create a game where crypto would be the currency of the game.
Just imagine playing a similar game like Ragnarok but the currency would be crypto and it would be real money and your loots would also be crypto but if you die or a player kill you ,
You would lose some crypto that would go to the killer and to the game.

Gaming companies are getting bigger also the gaming community I don't think they should use Blockchain or bitcoin as one of their assets or how could they benefits in using bitcoin or cryptocurrency but it my opinion i think using cryptocurrency since they were developers imagine if you could buy a coin in the game using your bitcoin easily, in my opinion, it will be a great assets and adjust for the gaming community and developer to use bitcoin as one of the payments and obviously they could benefit in this kind of transactions also cryptocurrency community is getting bigger so they should have a lot of use of this method.

Yes and actually the global gaming industry is still and rapidly continuously growing so fast, especially now that kids and even 30+ years old are doing mobile games, and the market for this gaming industry has reached a revenue of over 130 Billion $ last year. So, if this will be connected towards each other then, crypto will be widely used, and will have a big market and big impact when it comes to demand.  

There are gaming platforms out there that are based in blockchain technology and apart from that, there are gaming platforms that do not run in blockchain technology but their betting currency is bitcoin, just take a look at the signatures of most high ranking members in this forum and you would see them wearing signatures of online casinos, mossy of those casinos accept BTC payments and as for those that run in the blockchain, it's usually Altcoins like EOS that it's blockchain is mostly used for decentralised apps especially those of the gaming variety.

if the game industry, make games made must have potential and not boring. if the game industry and bitcoin technology are connected I think it would be good especially if the game made can be played by all people

Gaming industry are trying to adopt bitcoin as another mode of payment and i think Steam has already done this before by adding bitcoin as additional payment platform in 2017 but in late 2017 they already removed it due to the reason of high transaction fees and volatility of it and that time was the blocksize debate was very hot topic that time. Anyway i think that bitcoin and gaming industry don't stir very well unlike in gambling cause not all players were pay to win...

If we talk about the gambling industry then surely Bitcoin would click them together very well since websites who are involved in gambling don’t ask too much information even if you win and on top of that there are no taxes to be paid which would be deducted to your prize.

Though personally, I think that the gaming industry would soon accept Bitcoin since the issues in the past had already settled.

What game industries kind with bitcoin and altcoin? if using gambling game platform I think is not good for bitcoin with many investors are Moslem, if using with gaming platform to adoption of bitcoin will have positive side for bitcoin come to higher price. Never use gambling gaming site to adopt with bitcoin because have investor not agree with gambling gaming project.

Cryptocurrenty was actually has been popular because of games, many people has been into crypto because they are using Bitcoin and other altcoins as way for them to earn thru games, and now adoption arises and even casino are adopting it, as they think it can attract more users, as well as advantage for Bitcoin too as it is widely used in different ways.

Yeah it is hard to spot a game service company or literally a game that accept any form of cryptocurrencies. However, I have read an online article that there's a game service company which is Steam have once used to accept Bitcoin but due to high fees and volatility of crypto they terminate this kind of method. According to Steam they might still reconsider of bringing back this payment method if Bitcoin becomes more stable.

As of now the market is recovering I hope it will continue until it reaches high value again just like what happened last 2017 it actually reaches twenty thousand dollars, it is considered golden era because almost all of the ICO gone successful because there are actually lots of investors that time. In terms of games, there are actually online games that are accepting bitcoin as their payment when you want to buy some item. It is famous as of now, as far as I know Dota is accepting that. I dont know any other games that are accepting bitcoin as payment when buying items. There are other online games like gambling, it is requiring bitcoin sometime as your bet.

I saw it here today in bitcointalk it's like Agar.io Maybe let's take a look at this one. It is a rewarding game for its players. Their concept is great because they adopt such popular games and apps.

PS. I do not endorse it, and I am not a part of it. I only said this for our knowledge

Website: https://play.agareum.com/
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Bitcoin was built around a poker game. When it was released it was orignally released with a version of Texas Hold em. I believe it will be added to more games in years to come. The only issue is when the price of bitcoin skyrockets. The fees go up as well. Who wants to spend high fees to transfer Bitcoin just to play a game? Not to mention that when the Bitcoin blockchain gets backed up you could wait hours for a transaction to go through.  I think blockchain is great for gaming but I do not think that bitcoins blockchain is the best for it. I like TRX its fast and with the smart contracts and tronlink you can be gaming in 30-45 seconds!

For me, the bitcoin and the gaming industry have a massive factor if it comes to online gambling using cryptos. But if we are talking about the well-known gaming industry, they much focus and partnering on the huge computer companies so that games will buy new computer rigs so they can play smoothly, with maximum effects, etc. But speak off accepting bitcoin as a currency. Some companies accept cryptos like regular currency, as some ppl said, so I think that there still a possibility that the gaming industry uses any technology that relates to cryptos, but not that high for this moment. :)

actually, game is the best way to promote bitcoin or other crypto. if some game platform accept payment use bitcoin or crypto, im sure that game will be crowded. for example like gambling, many people lose and gain profit, and its really popular until now. and its more interesting if some game (rpg, or anything) use this method. it will more excited and a lot of poeple may join on crypto

Game best method how to promote bitcoin become popular in gamer, when they have know with bitcoin maybe gaming will adopt bitcoin as legal purchase payment, so far only with fiat currency if gamer want to buy tools in gaming and they have ready cash money too, after bitcoin receiving in gaming platform very easy to purchase game tool for gamer.

The majority of online game lovers are Millennials which in my opinion are the most effective choice for introducing Bitcoin to them through games that Millennial likes.
with the method of purchasing a game using bitcoin on condition that the game must be on par with the most famous games today and as attractive as possible to attract them to buy it using bitcoin, and provide game tools or other tools with purchases using bitcoin.

Bitcoin as payment tool is gradually being introduced to the gaming industry, although the kind of game I am talking of here is that of gambling game, you could see some gambling game already using bitcoin for casino games and some other spirit betting. As time goes on and as we get deep, I believe that all other gaming industry too will begin to see the need for why cryptocurrency should be used.

There are thousands of people in the gaming industry and if game merchants can introduce bitcoin to them, it would have a very massive effect on the bitcoin value because it will tend to make the community grow bigger and there will be more demand on bitcoin. Two major industry that I will really appreciate now is the gaming industry and the entertainment industry.

Considering all the ICOs I saw that was claiming that they would be the first to use Cryptocurrencies as in-game rewards and not a single one of them turned out to be a reality, it's quite disappointing but I think this is just the early stage, many of these gaming giants are based in countries where Cryptocurrencies are still seen as slightly illegal and it's likely that most of them are just waiting for the government to give the green light on Cryptocurrencies and we would start seeing an improvement in that area, infact there might be a competition on who might do it first.

gaming and bitcoin would be a great idea. no credit card info scope, just an anonymous transaction, and you won't get bills delivered at your home.  ;D

There are a lot of games on blockchain but actually none on them are really intresting. Small browser games

What do you think about Bitcoin and the game industry? My opinion about bitcoin and the game industry is very profitable and I learned a lot about it, because of the positive impact that I realized from all crypto and game currencies. because the gaming industry is closely related to bitcoin because on the one hand it is very profitable to be studied and mined.

ive seen a lot of ICO last year they all failed in their projects , I dont know why it happens, maybe because the team and developer doesnt have enough support on their projects, maybe also their plan is not possible and feasible, they can use bitcoin for online purchases of items in their games I dont know any games that are already doing it or having it I hope that someone will have an idea with this.

Due to scam ICO's around the internet, so most of the project was failed and that includes ICO's for gaming industry, and we cannot blame investors for getting tired in investing because they have no return with their investment, and most of them are scam. Gaming industry is one of the thing that makes crypto famous actually so I am also wondering why most of them failed, maybe because people chooses trading now over gambling.

More than bitcoin as a currency, its underlying technology blockchain is a breakthrough in gaming industry. Blockchain can make sharing resources and assets exchange decentralized and instant which will help the developers largely. Moreover, in game buying and transfers will be easier through blockchain technology. 
Decentralized game creation which is already in work is the best possible blockchain solution to gaming industry.

Yawn, old news. Everyone knows what steam is you don't have to post about it like you made this amazing discovery. Btw you still can buy steam games with crypto and steam brining back crypto payment is sueless since all you need to do is buy a steam gift card from just about anywhere with crypto.



Om what is wrong with you peopke. ANYONE in ANY country can buy steam gift cards with crypto. You do not need steam to accept crypto. If you buy in bulk you can even get a small discount on steam cards which steam would never get you. It might only be 1-2% but it is something you otherwise wouldn't get.

It's in favor with us 'cause I'm a gamer and very happy that some gaming platform or online website that is related to gaming are already accepting bitcoin as a payment. There's also a gambling site where you can bet about your favorite games which is LoL, Dota2 and other popular games.

Some platforms are already accepting and engaged to cryptocurrency.

I think in the near future we will see that video games will start to support bitcoin and we can even use it in the game, like purchasing skins or even maybe we'll have the change to earn some bitcoin inside online games like for example battel royals video games. It's just a matter of time in my opinion and we'll see not even bitcoin but also other famous altcoin available in video games.

if you games that are connected and integrated with bitcoin it is certainly very in demand by all bitcoin hunters, because making your way through games is one of the human hobbies, moreover besides that it also gets bitcoin. if that happens, I will play the game hard, until it's rich.

Indeed, it's favorable to gamer since those gaming websites already learning and adopting bitcoin to their platform as means of payment, time will come that the actual games will be developed under the umbrella of blockchain technology. Aside from that, E-sports also is gaining strong demands gambling sites who accepts bitcoin and some other crypto coins are being used to this business.

It is a matter of time till every game company starts using it.
Think of it as a chain, once it gets started everyone will want a piece of it just so it not becomes a monopoly from one sided company.

Overall i believe it's not that easy due to politics and agreements.
In fact it might be that exact issue companies are facing thus not making it available as just snapping fingers.

Not all payment processes accept these type of payments and speaking of taxing you can not tax on crypto except during exchange <-> bank / fiat if there's some possibility for it.
So yeah probabily in more months / years we will be able to see these kind of excessive adoptations.

Many bitcoin investor have hobbies playing game, when connecting bitcoin and game platform I think give best feature for bitcoin have side job as gamer how easy to purchase and buy game tools, they will easy when need to buy game diamond and purchase what tool game needed by using bitcoin as payment transaction, bitcoin have looking which one site game want to support using and adopting bitcoin.

Gaming industry really plays a big role in the crypto world, it was once becomes the hit during the past years that's why most of the holders, new users are the gamers online or were IT employee, those person who are doing a lot of research online. And as of today, there's a lot of projects who has been successful and until now new games are launching with the use of crypto.

There are many games use Blockchain technology that allow people to own virtual items and they will exist forever in the network. User can sell their items for ETH or Bitcoin.