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    Dec 30, 2021 6 minutes

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    Across the universe

    Reading your article on NFTs [E365], I found myself agreeing with the sceptical tone. NFTs in games seem daft at best: a solution looking for a problem, or potentially the worst innovation to come at the worst time; pointless, environmentally damaging tech bobbins for grifters to hype while we’re looking down the barrel of potential climate catastrophe. That said, I couldn’t help but try to think of what an interesting use case might be, and I think I’ve found one: NFTs should be a curse.

    What about a scenario where, if you’re killed or invaded in a -type game, ownership of a curse gets transferred to you? The curse then wreaks havoc in your game – or maybe it’s a creature that hunts you like Mr X in ; its target indelibly

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