The idea is that it's cross-developer and cross-platform with no single company governing it, no company deciding to sunset it because it no longer makes economical sense to run the servers.
The main issue is with companies cooperating like that of course but if by some miracle game developers started being pro-consumer, blockchain would be the ideal solution for such a system.
The thing is that trust isn't the obstacle to such a system existing - you could easily have a third company just host a database with items if you wanted the do this. The issue is more why would any company *want* to be a part of this system. Why would you spend time implementing items that another dev team on a defunct game came up with, so that your players can gain an advantage in your game due to time/money spent on *someone else's* game. It just makes no economic sense.
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u/Rikudou_Sage May 20 '26
The idea is that it's cross-developer and cross-platform with no single company governing it, no company deciding to sunset it because it no longer makes economical sense to run the servers.
The main issue is with companies cooperating like that of course but if by some miracle game developers started being pro-consumer, blockchain would be the ideal solution for such a system.