LogFAQs > #961715588

I was thinking a bit about NFTs today and I'd like someone to tell me why this gross idea isn't going to happen... Or god help us maybe it's happened already...

Say there's a rouge-like game. For the purposes of this post, lets just use Spelunky as the example. In Spelunky, each play is randomly generated, based upon a seed. And there are millions of seeds.

Could you sell each of those seeds as an NFT? One would think the answer would be yes.

Now lets get to the insidious part. What if, once someone owned a seed, you couldn't play that seed unless you paid the owner? And maybe each owner could set their own rates. So for seed 12345, owned by me, I want 5 cents. But for seed 67890, owned by SBAllen, well he wants 50 cents.

And then you get to an eventual endpoint where you can't play the game anymore without paying because every single seed is owned. Likely because some big company bought half the seeds for half a cent each as an investment opportunity. There could be a day where it's like "hey you gotta pay for seed 48576 because that's the one where you can get Achievement X really easy."