Item Customization and sNFTs, a perfect match

Did you even think about what happens when the Servers get turned off? r/Showerthoughts/

We had a 2 AM Discussion with a few Members of a Popular YouTuber’s Discord Community. These Members had a lot of criticism towards a Project that is aiming to change Gaming. Nevertheless, one of their main arguments was:

What is the use case for sNFTs in a Video Game?

Besides the case we previously made in our Article regarding Hacked Pokémon…. (to be fair, they probably didn’t read it), there are legitimate uses for sNFTs in Gaming. Today we will be covering sNFTs, IPFS, and Item Customization.

sNFTs, the future of AAA Gaming

Whats a sNFT?

A sNFT (Smart NFT) is Gravity Collisions bid (in the form of ERC-821) to solve Blockchain Interoperability. It is a Framework that allows NFTs and sNFTs to be easily imported and exported from any Blockchain. sNFTs are also Containers that hold up to 128 other sNFTs. So, a single sNFT can really be up to 128 sNFTs. This will reduce fees when transferring on or between Blockchains.

More importantly, this allows the Items in our Games, to contain up to 128 interchangeable parts. For a Min/Max Gamer, this is a dream come true.

We are taking the “drown them in loot” approach to our Games, and the Items within. We are also using a Post-Release System we are calling Monthly Content Drops.

Starting 1 Month after our Games release, we start releasing Monthly Content Drops. These have different themes, in game events, and challenges. If Poison Weapons are strong this Month, maybe next Month Shadow Weapons are the hot item. This is why we have our Marketplace. Trades and sell items between each other, as you please. Build the Weapon that is 100% Poison, and time the Content Drop. Be really powerful that Month, or make a lot of coin, the choice is yours.

IPFS

The last item I want to talk about today is IPFS. This stands for, InterPlanetary File System. This is a distributed Peer to Peer Filesystem. IPFS solves one of the biggest issues in Gaming, without even knowing it.

Our Games aren’t Walled Gardens. Just something to think about.

I’ll be specifically throwing a jab at that Discord Community here. Eventually a Game will cease to exist. World of Warcraft Servers will eventually be Shutdown. What happens when they turn those Servers off? What happens to all of the Achievements, the transmogged Weapons, the Mounts, and the Pets? They cease to exist. Without change in the Gaming Industry, all of that time spent, is lost forever.

I’m sure you’re thinking, that’s their choice to make. Well, we think it is anti-consumer, and a real slap in the face to Players who devote so much time and energy into a Game. This isn’t 2004 anymore. IPFS should be the Industry Standard.

NFTs and sNFTs allows their Content (a Photo, a Song, an In Game Model) to be hosted on IPFS. Although it’s expensive to do, once it’s in IPFS, its there to stay. Our In Game Models will be hosted on IPFS, by us. We are taking this approach, because one day (Years and Years from now), our Servers will go Offline for a particular Game.

Games that are Walled Gardens (100% of them, as of today), host their Files, Player Data, and Databases in a Centralized place. When they turn those Servers off though, the 10,000 Hours you sunk into WoW, will never be accessible again.

Maybe there is a use case for sNFTs after all.