>EVE would have been a neat place for smart contracts and programmatic corporate structures and so on
I don’t know if you’ll laugh or cry to hear this… last month, CCP accepted an investment led by a16z to develop a blockchain-enabled game.
In the press release, they say:
“With key game systems developed on-chain, this new project will also leverage smart-contract blockchain technology, focusing on persistence, composability and truly open third-party development to create a new relationship between virtual worlds and players.“
As far as I understand, it is possible for the devs to hand over control over aspects of the game such as the in-game market or the corporation-related contracts to the players via the blockchain. The dev servers would query the blockchain for this information instead of storing it. This allows for potentially massive and breaking changes to the game engine, without players losing any progress they had in the game. Or, potentially, if the dev studio dies for some reason, the community could be given the sources. Or, other games could be developed around EVE which also have access to this blockchain. The possibilities are big. It's similar to how Steam untangled player inventory, market, and mods from the games themselves, but with blockchain, you don't even need Steam to do this.
I don’t know if you’ll laugh or cry to hear this… last month, CCP accepted an investment led by a16z to develop a blockchain-enabled game.
In the press release, they say: “With key game systems developed on-chain, this new project will also leverage smart-contract blockchain technology, focusing on persistence, composability and truly open third-party development to create a new relationship between virtual worlds and players.“
[1] https://www.ccpgames.com/news/2023/ccp-games-has-secured-usd...