A decentralized game could change the world? Similar to Second Life but with BTC

[Gliferas]

Hi Everyone,

Don't know if you guys remember, but back in 2006 there was a huge hype with Second Life.

Basically for those who don't know it is a game where you can have a second life literally. (It still exists today)

This game, has it own currency, called Linden. You could buy stuff, own land, property, etc. Back in 2006 there was a huge hype with this game, such a huge hype, that even banks, BIG banks, were literally creating virtual banks inside the game, where people could deposits their Lindens.

Of course this game is centralized and so is its currency, so back in 2006, the US jumped in to impose regulations on the company owning the game.

This generated some changes, like restrictions with their currencies, ban of casinos and other stuff inside the game, etc. (All the US legislation bullshit basically was forced upon the game)

And so the hype died.

Now I'm wondering, what if we had a similar game, but this time, decentralized (no centralized servers for anything), using bitcoin as its currency?

Imagine a second world where you could do anything, such as: own land, build property, buy/sell stuff, open a casino, open an online business, without any US bullsh*t legislation? And all of it with bitcoin.

What do you guys think?

[franky1]

there is a bitcoin game called Dragon's Tale www.dragons.tl

i did mention to the owner to open up the ability for players to own market stands and casino's ... but it fell on deaf ears.

still its a good game to play as a more interactive faucet type of thing

[albert11]

I think it's a good idea but is it feasible to create a decentralized game with the same quality of graphic,etc.? I don't even know of any decentralized game..

[onlinedragon]

there is a bitcoin game called Dragon's Tale www.dragons.tl

i did mention to the owner to open up the ability for players to own market stands and casino's ... but it fell on deaf ears.

still its a good game to play as a more interactive faucet type of thing

That looks like a nice game, is it taking a lot of time each day or is that nice balanced.

[franky1]

I think it's a good idea but is it feasible to create a decentralized game with the same quality of graphic,etc.? I don't even know of any decentralized game..

well games like call of duty online.. have all the graphic data locally on peoples PC. the only reason for a server is to link people together to share their current position on a map and what they are doing (crouching jumping shooting)

these vectors and actions can be decentralised by people linking direct between each other (simply changing the server IP to a direct person)

[franky1]

there is a bitcoin game called Dragon's Tale www.dragons.tl

i did mention to the owner to open up the ability for players to own market stands and casino's ... but it fell on deaf ears.

still its a good game to play as a more interactive faucet type of thing

That looks like a nice game, is it taking a lot of time each day or is that nice balanced.

its not aimed for the faucet raiding greedy mo'fo . its just a nice way to to play around with bitcoin.
(you get punished with time delays the more you try to raid)

its for people to have a few satoshi's (the real purpose of a faucet) .. not the greedy income hounds abusing it for themselves

[Gliferas]

... I don't even know of any decentralized game..

Exactly, back in 2006 nobody heard of any decentralized money either....

I seriously think, a game like this would not only revolutionize the internet, but also it would revolutionize bitcoin.

[Amph]

a game built on blockchain could be decentralized, there is already one i don't remember the name, but it's a card game, if they can make some competitive complex game on the blockchain akin to starcraft or some random good fps, it would certainly attract more people

another thing that i want to see would be in a rts for example, where the resource ingame are based on bitcoin/alt, you can make a game like starcraft(again sry but i love starcraft , Broodwar more than sc2) and use as a main resource bitcoin and an altcoin for the second resource

basiclaly your scv will mine bitcoin ingame while you play, would be awesome

[maokoto]

I have always though that a role playing game with bitcoin as its currency will be great. The one mentioned here is too simple and text based, but just imagine a world of warcraft or similar with satoshis instead of "golden" coins.

Great for adoption to be sure.

[defaultking]

Yeah would be great playing the auction house on world of warcraft with bitcoins. I read a few people played the Diablo 3 real money auction house and made some decent money. Never actually played second life but excited about the thought of an mmorpg based around a digital currency

[LiteCoinGuy]

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Now I'm wondering, what if we had a similar game, but this time, decentralized (no centralized servers for anything), using bitcoin as its currency?

Imagine a second world where you could do anything, such as: own land, build property, buy/sell stuff, open a casino, open an online business, without any US bullsh*t legislation? And all of it with bitcoin.

What do you guys think?

hello my friend  

i made pretty much the same statement/thread 2 years ago and this scenario is still amazing in my view.  
important is, as you pointed out , that this game is  decentralized. and also the creators should not be able to add more land or commodities. there has to be a fixed supply like on earth. just imagine a world like GTA  !

unfortunately i think that this kind of game is too complicated at this point but a game like this could have massive value.

[onlinedragon]

there is a bitcoin game called Dragon's Tale www.dragons.tl

i did mention to the owner to open up the ability for players to own market stands and casino's ... but it fell on deaf ears.

still its a good game to play as a more interactive faucet type of thing

That looks like a nice game, is it taking a lot of time each day or is that nice balanced.

its not aimed for the faucet raiding greedy mo'fo . its just a nice way to to play around with bitcoin.
(you get punished with time delays the more you try to raid)

its for people to have a few satoshi's (the real purpose of a faucet) .. not the greedy income hounds abusing it for themselves

I will try to install it on windows system. There is no app for IPhone or something but that don't Mather to much. I am not there to abuse there system only play a bit for fun.

[mtnsaa]

It's definitely a good idea and concept. The way I think it could be implement right now is if facebook or google implement a platform like this, where you actually have a virtual self. We already have that of course in our profiles but it's all fragmented into different sites and services like twitter, youtube, facebook, instagram, etc. Many of this digital goods you could buy or gain access to like movies, music, etc, are actually experimented by your virtual self, they never materialize.

Perhaps Second Life can be sort of "Myspace", and the new platform would be Facebook. It was actually very similar to Myspace if you think about it but more restricted and focused and with that sense of elitism in its college origins.

[Gliferas]

....

Now I'm wondering, what if we had a similar game, but this time, decentralized (no centralized servers for anything), using bitcoin as its currency?

Imagine a second world where you could do anything, such as: own land, build property, buy/sell stuff, open a casino, open an online business, without any US bullsh*t legislation? And all of it with bitcoin.

What do you guys think?

hello my friend  

i made pretty much the same statement/thread 2 years ago and this scenario is still amazing in my view.  
important is, as you pointed out , that this game is  decentralized. and also the creators should not be able to add more land or commodities. there has to be a fixed supply like on earth. just imagine a world like GTA   !

unfortunately i think that this kind of game is too complicated at this point but a game like this could have massive value.

Exactly

I forgot to mention GTA... Perfect game would be something like Second Life  + GTA V + Decentralized + bitcoin

Second Life for its concept of land ownership and currency, GTA V for the concept of gun ownership and killing others : )))

You can't kill others on Second Life lol, gets boring over time.

Basically a decentralized game with a decentralized currency with total freedom, something like an internet but with graphics.

This would really be huge if something like it ever comes out...

[Gliferas]

It's definitely a good idea and concept. The way I think it could be implement right now is if facebook or google implement a platform like this, where you actually have a virtual self. We already have that of course in our profiles but it's all fragmented into different sites and services like twitter, youtube, facebook, instagram, etc. Many of this digital goods you could buy or gain access to like movies, music, etc, are actually experimented by your virtual self, they never materialize.

Perhaps Second Life can be sort of "Myspace", and the new platform would be Facebook. It was actually very similar to Myspace if you think about it but more restricted and focused and with that sense of elitism in its college origins.

facebook or google?

They would only create a centralized system... those companies wouldn't dare to create a total decentralized system, they have to follow the US legislation bullsh*t.

First there was paypal... then bitcoin.

First there was second life... then [insert future decentralized game name here]

Something like this has to come out! Call Satoshi to make it!

[Snorek]

The 'game' doesn't have to be decentralized. In fact it is not that good idea imo. Creating game for idea of decentralization itself is not that appealing for me.
There should be one team of developers with clear aim and goals. I would like to have  good game with bitcoin incorporation in core mechanism.

[Erkallys]

What is the advantage for the game to be decentralised ? If it is good enough, I think it could still attract people. Your idea is good. I think this could bring a lot of people in the Bitcoin game (literally this time ).

[franky1]

The 'game' doesn't have to be decentralized. In fact it is not that good idea imo. Creating game for idea of decentralization itself is not that appealing for me.
There should be one team of developers with clear aim and goals. I would like to have  good game with bitcoin incorporation in core mechanism.

games in the 1990's were decentralised. you had to manually type in IP addresses of friends to create connections. (back in the good old LAN party days)

[mtnsaa]

It's definitely a good idea and concept. The way I think it could be implement right now is if facebook or google implement a platform like this, where you actually have a virtual self. We already have that of course in our profiles but it's all fragmented into different sites and services like twitter, youtube, facebook, instagram, etc. Many of this digital goods you could buy or gain access to like movies, music, etc, are actually experimented by your virtual self, they never materialize.

Perhaps Second Life can be sort of "Myspace", and the new platform would be Facebook. It was actually very similar to Myspace if you think about it but more restricted and focused and with that sense of elitism in its college origins.

facebook or google?

They would only create a centralized system... those companies wouldn't dare to create a total decentralized system, they have to follow the US legislation bullsh*t.

First there was paypal... then bitcoin.

First there was second life... then [insert future decentralized game name here]

Something like this has to come out! Call Satoshi to make it!

Ok those are better analogies I guess, I was just making some examples and points of comparison regardless the decentralized aspect. But I think there's definitely room for something like this, the problem is that nobody here can really "see" it, if not we would be millionaires.

[Batelk]

Is it possible to use bitcoin as currency in a centralized game? Will that be allowed by American Law?