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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8551582" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>There have been concerns expressed in the various ENWorld threads here on NFTs that companies, like Chaosium, could tie gaming elements into their NFT offerings. An adventure, a map, a character option. But that hasn't been the main thrust of the discussion here.</p><p></p><p>The discussion here is covering NFTs as a category, rather than being hyper-focused on what Chaosium and VeVe are doing . . . . but that's why we're talking about NFTs, because of what Chaosium is (or isn't) doing with them. It has everything to do with the gaming community, as the upset is over Chaosium's choices to partner with an NFT company with their Call of Cthulhu brand.</p><p></p><p>I agree, the motivation behind the strong NFT stances expressed here isn't ALL about gaming. But that is a part of it, folks are concerned about what a gaming company is doing now, and what they might do down the road. I see strong parallels in how folks are reacting to Chaosium's NFT plans to how folks are reacting towards Cubicle 7's decision to do a D&D system-based Dr. Who game, and many other industry choices in the past.</p><p></p><p>Of course, many of the video links provided are from non-gamers . . . or I suppose from folks whose gaming hobbies aren't the focus in the videos . . . and plenty of folks who don't play TTRPGs feel strongly that NFTs are <em>all-evil, all-the-time</em>. That conservative impulse, <em>fear-of-change</em>, isn't limited to the gaming community. And it isn't all bad, as change isn't always for the better. But an overwhelming and unreasonable fear-of-change, IMO, has an unhealthy foothold in a lot of lifestyle hobbies, including the TTRPG community.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8551582, member: 18182"] There have been concerns expressed in the various ENWorld threads here on NFTs that companies, like Chaosium, could tie gaming elements into their NFT offerings. An adventure, a map, a character option. But that hasn't been the main thrust of the discussion here. The discussion here is covering NFTs as a category, rather than being hyper-focused on what Chaosium and VeVe are doing . . . . but that's why we're talking about NFTs, because of what Chaosium is (or isn't) doing with them. It has everything to do with the gaming community, as the upset is over Chaosium's choices to partner with an NFT company with their Call of Cthulhu brand. I agree, the motivation behind the strong NFT stances expressed here isn't ALL about gaming. But that is a part of it, folks are concerned about what a gaming company is doing now, and what they might do down the road. I see strong parallels in how folks are reacting to Chaosium's NFT plans to how folks are reacting towards Cubicle 7's decision to do a D&D system-based Dr. Who game, and many other industry choices in the past. Of course, many of the video links provided are from non-gamers . . . or I suppose from folks whose gaming hobbies aren't the focus in the videos . . . and plenty of folks who don't play TTRPGs feel strongly that NFTs are [I]all-evil, all-the-time[/I]. That conservative impulse, [I]fear-of-change[/I], isn't limited to the gaming community. And it isn't all bad, as change isn't always for the better. But an overwhelming and unreasonable fear-of-change, IMO, has an unhealthy foothold in a lot of lifestyle hobbies, including the TTRPG community. [/QUOTE]
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