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There were already crypto app/games with NFTs on google play store before this announce AFAIK. But apps that can make users wager, I think is more appealing to users that could lead to adoption. They still are suppressing this kind of apps so, there might just be no effect at all after this announcement.

But those casino apps, may get around of this kind of policy. The Utopia project does have a poker game in their app, they may be able to update their app now for playing casino games to be available.

first of all, stop making posts that are entirely in large font. All you achieve is that your post looks like shit that's hard to read.

Secondly, what would most increase the adoption of NFTs in games would be to find the utility that people actually need and wants to use and not that the NFT creators want to force on them.
When someone play mobile game, he just wants to downloads a new game and start playing by pressing on the screen and making the bird jump. they don't want to set 12/24 words, top up their etherum account to handle transactions, but first buy ETH on the crypto exchange, and so they can start playing in just 3 days as soon as the transfer arrives from his bank to binance.

I thought a large font would be easier to read. Thanks for the advice I appreciate it.

Partially, I agree with you about wallet creation and minimizing barriers to NFT adoption. However, cryptocurrency is definitely going to become more mainstream and when AAA games will implement crypto it will be a game-changing moment for the industry.

Casino games are a big problem for P2E creators. While I don't see any positive effect from it let's wait and see what happens.

But have you asked yourself why they don't do it if it's such a game changer? Because the average person, when he needs money, goes to work and when he needs relaxation, he plays a computer game. Attempts to explain to him that items obtained in the game can be in the form of NFTs and tranfered on blockcha... (this is where the average person's attention ends and if the game is not already turned on, a negative review on Steam is sent, the money is refunded and another game is purchased).

Moreover, in my opinion, blockchain is used where trust is not enough. That's why bitcoin is a great invention, because storing your life savings in something over which another entity has complete control is not the best solution. However, this is not the case with computer games and computer games items. Steam Community Market where you can trade knives from CSgo is more than a dream come true for an ordinary player and the risk that steam will run away with the knives and leave players without these "valuable skins" is zero. None of them will pay extra 5$ eth transaction fee to be sure his skin is on blackchain and no one will steal it as long as his 12 words are safe.

In 2050-2100, when whole world will be gamified NFT in AAA games will be a must have. Not in 2023-2050.

Quite an interesting timing, considering Google has recently allowed advertisements which refer to cryptocurrencies and Non fungible tokens.

In my eyes, Google is doing this because they have realized there is much potential for earnings of they decide to lax those ad rules.
Also, since the market of NFTs has already decreased in a substantial way, it is a bit less likely some scammer will try to pull a big scheme off in order to defraud millions. Many of them have already moved to Artificial Intelligence (the newest buzzword).

Let us just wait and hope Google has some intention to provide some filters to this new policy, so scammers won't have it easier to pull the rug under us.

By the way, Sony recently joined the run, the next bull run is a matter of time. 100%

Everyone is speculating and believing that it's going to be after the halving of Bitcoin.

While the craze for P2E and NFT games has been so great during the past bull run. If there will be involvement of bigger names and companies aside from Google allows this, then it is for sure that there will be a significant effect on these specific projects that have their own markets and the same goes for the bigger market. This could be one of the driving forces that will push it again to the positive angle of the market prior to the bull run.

Google Play's latest policy change isn't a kindness; it's a scheme to profit on NFT and blockchain excitement. Are they modifying their policies because they love technology or to attract people? They're doing this to maximize profits. Remember that Google sets the rules: what's allowed and what's not. A cohesive body for distributed assets? So funny.

NFTs may become popular in mobile games. Google sets trends, so they probably will. Keep our eyes open. This is about making money for major tech companies, not enhancing user experience or blockchain adoption. Want to join? Be aware of the risks.

I hope so...

the people should know that when a big company is doing this stunt, they are simply seeking for additional profit, i could guess they are trying to maximize their profit and reach that yearly target by allowing NFT ads, unfortunately though NFT right now aren't a big thing anymore so I guess this decision is already too late to be made, then also considering the fact that this company is also trying to make additional profit off  their youtube by blocking the adblocker users, I think they are pretty desperate at this point.
but if there's ulterior motive like this company trying to make their own NFT we don't know for sure, but the obvious thing is that they are just trying to maximize their yearly revenue and thats it.

but it still makes me wonder why they are so indecisive as a company, back then they outright banning it because they deemed that NFT is just a fad.

I think Google update its terms to accept NFT because they felt they were missing out on profit.  It is all about money that they decided to update their terms allowing NFT advertisement.  Way back in 2018, they banned cryptocurrency from advertising in their platform and updated it in 2021 by allowing centralized crypto exchanges to advertise on their platform then now the NFTs.  But I think it is too late for the Google Platform to accept NFT advertisement because NFT nowadays is not that popular but instead are being frown upon by some individual due to its exploits way back years ago.

Okay, can someone list crypto games that are on googleplay now?

It is clear that they do not have a problem with NFTs, but rather with gambling, so the policy included many provisions related to clarifying this publicly, but I see that NFTs were a wave and will turn into a natural event like ICOs. It is true that they will continue with us, but they will not be with the same hype that occurred in the past, so I hope we don't see annoying ads.

I am not an expert in such things, but I wonder if these games are famous and what are the most famous ones, or if they are part of games that already exist.

I hope so.

But I still want them to filter out everything. Some developers may try some shitty games or applications that could lead to users being scammed so if they want to upgrade the permission to this level might as well increase their security too. Because there are so many applications out there one could become a money-making app without any return on investment and this type of problem might ruin their reputation too. If not, then put a warning that it will not be up to them if something goes wrong.
An addition to their feature doesn't always mean a good thing, this will also mean more work for them as they enhance the protection of each user. Sure, it's nice to follow the trend but this will be about spending money so it could be messy if not done right.

I see lots of NFT game ads on Facebook right now and they may already loosen their rules regarding it next we will see some of it in YouTube ads as well after Google permits them to do so. They should know how to filter these ads because some of those blockchain ads are not even real and they are just stealing some information from others especially email addresses and some sort of info they can scrap for their scams. Also after they get permission, others will create some fake games that have no road maps just to confuse others and eventually lead to other legit NFT games closing because they lose huge numbers of users.

Although I hate google because they're spyware, but I support this move because P2E games and NFT are completely scam.

If they keep listing P2E games, it will ruin Google Play's reputation too, so it's a win-win solution for both Google Play and the users. After all if those stupid people still want to play this scam games, they can check it by themselves.

Let's just hope so so that people that are still can't move on with these blockchain games, NFTs and P2E projects will have that hope. But let's all conclude that 99% of them have already died and with this Google Play policies and adoption, we will see within several months prior to Bitcoin halving if there's going to be significant effect.

Facebook isn't that strict with ads and even with the news before of banning crypto ads, still I am seeing a lot of them so filtering them will depend on them and the same goes with YouTube. But the difference is that with YouTube, I don't see it that much anymore.

What do you mean google is a spyware? This is such a huge accusation for google, in fact you could win a million dollars if you prove that they are a spyware. I think you've been pretty fed up with the ads that you are having while gaming on phone, or getting random emails but that doesn't mean that they are spying on us, it only means that you didn't read all the terms and put a check on every boxes they provided without reading  ;D I don't think they are spyware, they are just opportunist.

Big yes on this, but games on play store does not guarantee any security though they pass at google. Still the developers hold 99% of what's going to happen on that game, say P2E games and NFT, they might just pass google and scam people when it gets huge enough.

If they cannot filter scam wallets or applications that steal user data, how will they filter games that require personal experience to judge whether they are fraudulent or not? On the contrary, it is good for them because when you are defrauded, you cannot ask Google to return the money or any policy to protect your assets.

The level of advertisements is deteriorating suspiciously, and I would not be surprised if you find fraudulent advertisements.

You must read this https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/chrome

It's really wrong if you assume a huge centralized project is safe and secure to use, they're selling your data to other project or they use your data to manipulate you. Let's say you're searching about a good shoes for work in Google Chrome, but when you open your Instagram account, you will see a shoes ads when you're not even search about it!

What make it worse if they promote their products, so they're use your data and sell their product.

It seems to me that Google is starting to be slowly enlightened about the Web3 blockchain games. I would really welcome this move but they should be more selective in terms of approving those Web3 games to be listed in the Google Play Store.

Hopefully Steam would do the same too as I know that they also ban Web3 blockchain games from their system.

It’s all about changing the narrative where these games are supposed to be mainly for fun and entertainment and not for earning purposes to make a living. But the advantage however is that we can earn tokens as bonus perks and can flip NFTs in the open marketplace.

Pretty unlikely Steam will backpedal in the decision to ban web3 or nft based games (Microsoft also did something similar with Minecraft by the way). There are two main reasons why Steam won't do such a thing:

1. They do not need to do so in order to keep the market share and also keep earning money from their online store.

2. They already have a huge ecosystem with their own collectibles (specially when we talk about Counter Strike skins), they do not need nor want to have competence within their own store.

Epic games is more likely to open to those decentralized games, once stigma on Nfts calms down and slowly disappears, when people do not see it as a way to launder money or profit by playing.

these are all valid points, steam quite literally just trying to kill themselves by allowing NFT games so therefore they won't undo their decision of banning these games in general.
I mean they are making good profits from those DLC and skins sales how can they decide, nah I want to sacrifice this profit to embrace NFT definitely bad decision ever.
these companies are all about making money, people should just focused on creating their own platform for NFT and blockchain games because these companies won't ever agree to P2E economic model which
could reduce their profits.

Well yeah, NFT games are available on Google Play that started a couple of years ago and I even played few of them like MIR4, Thetan Arena and more. NFT games for me is much more attractive than those casino ones. The only thing that Goole Play is lacking is the ability to detect or ban a scam app most especially earning apps.

Just google it mate!

A tech giant's step into the crypto world is a good thing, and the fact that it's developing that opportunity is definitely a good sign. But we should be aware of their motto; that's, of course, profit-making. This move is a shift from Google's previous stance, which banned all crypto currency-related advertising. After this approval, now Google, Apple, Tesla, and Microsoft can easily hold Bitcoin. And there are influencers who played Google games, so we can know how legitimate they are. Imagine playing games and earning crypto rewards; it's a gaming revolution. This isn't just about ads; it's a Google nod to the future of Web 3. It's a step closer to a world where block chains and crypto become part of our everyday lives.

What that even leaves us?
Every game that awards nfts for winning something (like gods unchained) could be categorized as a social casino. As long as those nfts have value, they are going to attack them, as they are not novelties, but could be worth lots of money. For a Google play that could be a legal nightmare, or they are afraid that they will be persecuted for money being a laundering platform etc.