Blockchain Games: A Benefit or Pitfall for Ethereum?
Overall I see these games as beneficial. They’re a perfect example of being the kind of real-time, real-world workload that any crypto may face when it’s adopted widely.
Cryptokitties taking off like it did was wonderfully beneficial, even the knockoffs that spun off of it and failed. We need more applications like Cryptokitties to prove that blockchain is not only mature technology now, but is also flexible, adaptable and expansible to fit needs so that real folks will be continually willing to bet on it, use it, grow it, and help it to grow and succeed.
Without the distributed and realistic workload on the network caused by such games; there’s plenty of room for FUD to be sewn; and with the recent move of major US banks still deciding to forbid giving credit for cryptos; there are very much major players in the world who DO NOT WANT this technology to mature before they feel like using it. They will do whatever they can get away with to hold it back.
Thus, each time a new application of Ethereum explodes into the forefront, into the news, and into the minds of those with significantly powerful amounts of capitol that they are willing to divest some to things that they see as possibly being successful, we gain another very crucial chance to propel proper and diverse blockchain implementation into wide use, and we acclimate those in big business to the idea; thus reducing their fears, uncertainties and doubts about how beneficial the technology can be for all of us if used cleverly, correctly and fairly.
