Web3 Gaming
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Coogan: Major Game Studios Have Zero Incentive to Adopt Crypto
“There was always just this big problem with like the crypto stuff like sounded good, but there was very little reason for a game company like Valve or Electronic Arts to say like, yeah, sure. You can take your assets out of our beautiful ecosystem that we taxe…”
Jin: Simple games will figure out Web3 before AAA studios
“I think you can get there with pretty simple game dynamics like what Neopets had. Neopets was literally playable on a dial up modem. And so I think those are the games that are going to figure it out first in advance of the AAA games that probably will take fi…”
Bloom: Breakout Web3 games will come from major AAA studios
“Yeah, I think they're going to have to create like a You know, like a separate entity that kind of allows it to be more free ownership and it'll come from one of those big studios. Not a, I actually don't think it'll be a new studio that raises money.”
Dixon: Majority of top studio spinouts are building Web3 games
“Those game developers, I would say the majority of them are now doing NFT web three gaming.”
McKeon: Web3 gaming requires fast, low-fee environments to work
“All the activity is happening in these low fee environments because you need fast and cheap to make the game use case work.”
McKeon: Web3 asset ownership enables cross-game reuse for first time
“The interesting thing about Axie is it started out as a singular game, but because people own the characters and because people own the board, you can repurpose these assets into new games. This has really never been possible in gaming before.”
Liu: Magic Eden plans to invest deeply in Web3 game developers
“The category that we're super bullish on going forward and we want to invest deeply in this gaming, right? In-game assets, in-game purchases, that's been a tried and tested business model for a decade for the gaming industry and users that are very tech savvy …”