The founder of Atari and inventor of Pong, Nolan Bushnell has praised Web3 games for their educational potential and for “transmitting ownership” to virtual worlds in a conversation with Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu.
, as games become a more ubiquitous part of everyday life.
Siu said that despite games originally taking the form of “player versus environment” systems, where gamers play against the non-player characters , the world of gaming — as seen through the rise of Minecraft and Roblox — has evolved to become a multiplayer ecosystem. When asked what he saw as the biggest promise provided by Web3 games, Bushnell said that the combination of “KYC and the immutability of blockchain” were the best ways to ensure that players in online games were not bots or bad actors.
“When you introduce Web3 and blockchain to any system, including games, you're introducing capitalism. And so the problems we have seen in the last 12 to 18 months comes from the fact that these games have become not just capitalist to the studio that produced it, but to every participant,” Siu said.apparent in the “toxicity” of play-to-earn games
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