Blockchain = no cheating possible on gear or weapons possible anymore!

That’s interesting, I have never heard of it.

trying to wrap my head around the idea, maybe they are going to use it for better drm?

***While it’s best known for powering the cryptocurrency phenomenon, the use case for the technology extends far beyond the finance sector. ***

It doesn't power crypto currency, it protects it from being stolen.

***For a game like The Division 2, that would allow a player to locate or create a unique item in the game and actually own it. The player can then trade that weapon, switch it between their accounts, retain it even after a server crash or game failure, swap it to another title like Ghost Recon, and never run the risk of losing it to a hack.***

None of this makes sense as this isn't something people worry about right now. I've never thought I was going to have a game on my console crash or have the game server go down and then restart it to come back to items suddenly deleted from my characters. The only time this would happen now is if a database rollback occurred due to rampant cheating and was needed to stabilize the in game economy.

People in WOW aren't losing items in game to hackers but to people who gain access to their account via social hacking methods. So those 'hackers' would still obtain the necessary access to sell or trade your items legitimately just as they would now and a blockchain wouldn't prevent it from being sold or transferred as the account access is all you would need to identify ownership of the item. Additionally, server crashes and the like don't cause item loses as that data is stored in a database with multiple backups and not on the server. There isn't some major issue with loss of data in this method, no more so than with blockchains. The whole point of blockchains is distributed security layers.

Furthermore, you will never own an asset obtained in a game, it will always be owned and controlled by the developer. They can and will change it as they see fit.

All blockchain is right now is an alternative for security, it's not going to suddenly give you asset control or ownership and it's not going to implement features that couldn't be implemented already. If an item could be used from one game to smother, it can happen now. Every item you obtain is tracked by the developers and they could easily flag an item on your account to be available in another now just by detecting the association of the item to the account across both games.

People are blowing blockchains way out of proportion here and associating capabilities with it that already exist but aren't used because you don't own in game assets and they don't want you to use a weapon across games because they design content by game. If they give you access to a weapon, it will be by their design and is already within their control. Oh, and if possible, they will charge you for it.

Wuht?
Edit: Nevermind.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau