What do you think about Bitcoin and the games industry?

[SquallLeonhart]

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.

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.

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.

[deisik]

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!

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

[Lanatsa]

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

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.

[amishmanish]

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
2. A space shooter MMORPG: Space Misfits
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

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.

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.

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.

[todiboa]

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

[tiedcoin]

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.

[linenoise]

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.

[AlaEhBTC]

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.

[Oyarebu]

gamer and gamblers will use what will be easy and secure and which gives good privacy and bitcoin and crypto is made for them good , bitcoin is growing huge in games industry

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.

[nightxglow]

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.

[Nnuego]

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.

[vintages]

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

[Artemis3]

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

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.

[Mor254]

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

[timerland]

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.

[barbara44]

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.

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.

[Jonyshake71]

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

[takngantuk]

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?

[jake zyrus]

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.

[Janation]

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.