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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 18 Apr \ on: Does Bitcoin need to be "inside" games? bitcoin
I think such future would be great. But currently, most/all the implementations of games that include LN micropayments follow the hypercasual game approach where they bombard you with ads as that is their monetization model.
It'd be nice to find another model that does not require ads. And that would allow to focus on actual gameplay rather than gamification tricks to have you keep coming back play stupid games.
I think Thundr (see #451194 if you don't know who they are) has a goal to evolve into that kind of game, but I haven't checked in on them in a long while.
Yeah those hypercasual games... hmm
I played on ZBD and Thundr games a while back. Have they changed much?
Thing is ads in games that are free, are a sad norm.
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Just to clarify, I was specifically talking about the big games and cost money, and then
people still spend money in them.
Having the payment not be coins or whatever and be actual bitcoin/sats.
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Not sure if they've evolved. I think at some point there were talks about a tool that would allow one to incorporate LN in Counter-Strike, but not sure where that ended up going.
I think one possibly meaningful way to add it in a real game is where part of the original "purchase" price gets pooled in a large pool where people compete for these sats. The problem with real money is that people will game it.
Well, they kinda already do with the CS skins, etc, so maybe that's the way to go.
Ok, I'm rambling, not fully focused... waiting for my python script to make me a nice interpolated colormap, but it's taking too long with more than 10 million entries in the original data...
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