MPQ needs to move to NFTs

jlaureano0615

Imagine being able to sell your covers/characters to other players.

Or, imagine a limited edition 'Iron Man' cover/character where there are only 1000 versions.

It would take MPQ to the next level.

I'm waiting D3Go!

ThaRoadWarrior

Aside from it being trendy, what is user-facing difference from say having to earn infinity stones via winning a PVP season or some other exclusive thing?

jlaureano0615

From how I understand it, the users would be the owners of their chars.  The users then buy and sell the char (a limited resource in an NFT model) among themselves.

For example, a new 5* char is released.  At the time of the release, D3Go announces there will only be 1000 made public.  Users gather that char up and now the char increases in value because users who missed out want to get it.

D3Go makes a marketplace where the char can be bought and sold among the users and takes a small cut of every transaction.

It becomes more like comic collecting with scarcity driving value.

Phumade

There is nothing inherently wrong about that moneitization model.  The real issue is lack of devs, artists infrastructure etc.   if blizzard couldn’t make that work in Diablo, it would be wishful thinking that D3 could execute.  Remember they just streamlined work flow to eliminate the iOS aspect ratio, so real questions exist on what their long term goals are.

jlaureano0615

Yeah, I mean to do something like that would be a massive shift from what they are doing right now.  I was just mentioning it as a possible way to freshen up the game as the years progress.

They seem to have interest in doing something like it -- isn't the costumes feature a nascent scarcity=value play?

Maybe it's on a 10 year time horizon. 

ThaRoadWarrior

I think you'd have to weigh the idea of whether or not selling costumes directly is more or less lucrative than skimming a percentage of a player-to-player transaction or not I suppose. 

acescracked

I've got some YouTube videos for sale.

ThaRoadWarrior

Saw this elsewhere and thought of this thread lol

Sam99

Peeps, I've been saying this MPQ team on Facebook for a while. 

There is a company known as VeVe who were doing NFT collectibles. Now they've got a deal with Marvel and they've released NFTs of different sorts; digital collectibles and comics with variant covers. 

https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1453006006447972360?t=gaw0S--9UJw0KyzjBI6QZg&s=19

Just check this Twitter link of Marvel Entertainment

dianetics

Honestly, for a f2p game this is seems like a terrible idea.
You could have dev resources lost to time with players who just never return.

If you know about marvel heroes to most popular costume was locked to a prepaid $300 account. At the time of closing less than 5 of the original buyers were still playing.

The worst part about it in this game is that you would never see it, just the individual users. This game separates users on a variety of levels so you potentially would never see it live in action.

dianetics

3 posts by the originator of the thread 1 post by the user that agrees with him. That user shows a use case.
screw these guys.
Take your unregulated crypto **** away from the gaming community and let the devs focus on what actually matters. The game that people want to play.

ThaRoadWarrior

A brief allegory about NFTs conceptually:

Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on being well dressed. He cared nothing about reviewing his soldiers, going to the theatre, or going for a ride in his carriage, except to show off his new clothes. He had a coat for every hour of the day, and instead of saying, as one might, about any other ruler, "The King's in council," here they always said. "The Emperor's in his dressing room."

In the great city where he lived, life was always gay. Every day many strangers came to town, and among them one day came two swindlers. They let it be known they were weavers, and they said they could weave the most magnificent fabrics imaginable. Not only were their colors and patterns uncommonly fine, but clothes made of this cloth had a wonderful way of becoming invisible to anyone who was unfit for his office, or who was unusually stupid.

"Those would be just the clothes for me," thought the Emperor. "If I wore them I would be able to discover which men in my empire are unfit for their posts. And I could tell the wise men from the fools. Yes, I certainly must get some of the stuff woven for me right away." He paid the two swindlers a large sum of money to start work at once.

They set up two looms and pretended to weave, though there was nothing on the looms. All the finest silk and the purest old thread which they demanded went into their traveling bags, while they worked the empty looms far into the night.

"I'd like to know how those weavers are getting on with the cloth," the Emperor thought, but he felt slightly uncomfortable when he remembered that those who were unfit for their position would not be able to see the fabric. It couldn't have been that he doubted himself, yet he thought he'd rather send someone else to see how things were going. The whole town knew about the cloth's peculiar power, and all were impatient to find out how stupid their neighbors were.

"I'll send my honest old minister to the weavers," the Emperor decided. "He'll be the best one to tell me how the material looks, for he's a sensible man and no one does his duty better."

So the honest old minister went to the room where the two swindlers sat working away at their empty looms.

"Heaven help me," he thought as his eyes flew wide open, "I can't see anything at all". But he did not say so.

Both the swindlers begged him to be so kind as to come near to approve the excellent pattern, the beautiful colors. They pointed to the empty looms, and the poor old minister stared as hard as he dared. He couldn't see anything, because there was nothing to see. "Heaven have mercy," he thought. "Can it be that I'm a fool? I'd have never guessed it, and not a soul must know. Am I unfit to be the minister? It would never do to let on that I can't see the cloth."

"Don't hesitate to tell us what you think of it," said one of the weavers.

"Oh, it's beautiful -it's enchanting." The old minister peered through his spectacles. "Such a pattern, what colors!" I'll be sure to tell the Emperor how delighted I am with it."

"We're pleased to hear that," the swindlers said. They proceeded to name all the colors and to explain the intricate pattern. The old minister paid the closest attention, so that he could tell it all to the Emperor. And so he did.

The swindlers at once asked for more money, more silk and gold thread, to get on with the weaving. But it all went into their pockets. Not a thread went into the looms, though they worked at their weaving as hard as ever.

The Emperor presently sent another trustworthy official to see how the work progressed and how soon it would be ready. The same thing happened to him that had happened to the minister. He looked and he looked, but as there was nothing to see in the looms he couldn't see anything.

"Isn't it a beautiful piece of goods?" the swindlers asked him, as they displayed and described their imaginary pattern.

"I know I'm not stupid," the man thought, "so it must be that I'm unworthy of my good office. That's strange. I mustn't let anyone find it out, though." So he praised the material he did not see. He declared he was delighted with the beautiful colors and the exquisite pattern. To the Emperor he said, "It held me spellbound."

All the town was talking of this splendid cloth, and the Emperor wanted to see it for himself while it was still in the looms. Attended by a band of chosen men, among whom were his two old trusted officials-the ones who had been to the weavers-he set out to see the two swindlers. He found them weaving with might and main, but without a thread in their looms.

"Magnificent," said the two officials already duped. "Just look, Your Majesty, what colors! What a design!" They pointed to the empty looms, each supposing that the others could see the stuff.

"What's this?" thought the Emperor. "I can't see anything. This is terrible!

Am I a fool? Am I unfit to be the Emperor? What a thing to happen to me of all people! - Oh! It's very pretty," he said. "It has my highest approval." And he nodded approbation at the empty loom. Nothing could make him say that he couldn't see anything.

His whole retinue stared and stared. One saw no more than another, but they all joined the Emperor in exclaiming, "Oh! It's very pretty," and they advised him to wear clothes made of this wonderful cloth especially for the great procession he was soon to lead. "Magnificent! Excellent! Unsurpassed!" were bandied from mouth to mouth, and everyone did his best to seem well pleased. The Emperor gave each of the swindlers a cross to wear in his buttonhole, and the title of "Sir Weaver."

Before the procession the swindlers sat up all night and burned more than six candles, to show how busy they were finishing the Emperor's new clothes. They pretended to take the cloth off the loom. They made cuts in the air with huge scissors. And at last they said, "Now the Emperor's new clothes are ready for him."

Then the Emperor himself came with his noblest noblemen, and the swindlers each raised an arm as if they were holding something. They said, "These are the trousers, here's the coat, and this is the mantle," naming each garment. "All of them are as light as a spider web. One would almost think he had nothing on, but that's what makes them so fine."

"Exactly," all the noblemen agreed, though they could see nothing, for there was nothing to see.

"If Your Imperial Majesty will condescend to take your clothes off," said the swindlers, "we will help you on with your new ones here in front of the long mirror."

The Emperor undressed, and the swindlers pretended to put his new clothes on him, one garment after another. They took him around the waist and seemed to be fastening something - that was his train-as the Emperor turned round and round before the looking glass.

"How well Your Majesty's new clothes look. Aren't they becoming!" He heard on all sides, "That pattern, so perfect! Those colors, so suitable! It is a magnificent outfit."

Then the minister of public processions announced: "Your Majesty's canopy is waiting outside."

"Well, I'm supposed to be ready," the Emperor said, and turned again for one last look in the mirror. "It is a remarkable fit, isn't it?" He seemed to regard his costume with the greatest interest.

The noblemen who were to carry his train stooped low and reached for the floor as if they were picking up his mantle. Then they pretended to lift and hold it high. They didn't dare admit they had nothing to hold.

So off went the Emperor in procession under his splendid canopy. Everyone in the streets and the windows said, "Oh, how fine are the Emperor's new clothes! Don't they fit him to perfection? And see his long train!" Nobody would confess that he couldn't see anything, for that would prove him either unfit for his position, or a fool. No costume the Emperor had worn before was ever such a complete success.

"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

"Did you ever hear such innocent prattle?" said its father. And one person whispered to another what the child had said, "He hasn't anything on. A child says he hasn't anything on."

"But he hasn't got anything on!" the whole town cried out at last.

The Emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, "This procession has got to go on." So he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn't there at all.

dianetics

  
that wasn’t brief 

ThaRoadWarrior

The abbridged version costs extra lol

dianetics

  
Seriously though report this thread and try to get it removed.

Sam99

It's a shame my post has been marked as spam. If you don't like NFTs that's your problem. There is a alot of man hours put into championing a character. If I'm given the option to sell a championed character, I would. D3 could also take a cut in the marketplace. 

Strange this post has been here since March and now that I've commented on it, it's being treated as anti gaming. 

ThaRoadWarrior

It is my opinion NFTs are useless and won't add value to this or any game really, but it's also my opinion you should be allowed to hype them if you want. I don't think "Flag" is the right thing here, it should not be used simply as a "dislike" button.

Sam99

dianetics said:

Honestly, for a f2p game this is seems like a terrible idea.
You could have dev resources lost to time with players who just never return.

If you know about marvel heroes to most popular costume was locked to a prepaid $300 account. At the time of closing less than 5 of the original buyers were still playing.

The worst part about it in this game is that you would never see it, just the individual users. This game separates users on a variety of levels so you potentially would never see it live in action.

Seems you are not happy with my comment. I've played MPQ since 2013. I've got 6.5 years of playtime on it. I'm not here just to advocate Crypto and NFTs. I'm here so that ppl in the community Im playing in also get the chance to make money and the developers also make a good profit. If you feel this is wrong, then by all means report me. 

Sam99

ThaRoadWarrior said:

It is my opinion NFTs are useless and won't add value to this or any game really, but it's also my opinion you should be allowed to hype them if you want. I don't think "Flag" is the right thing here, it should not be used simply as a "dislike" button.

Have you looked into NFTs like VeVe? There are other marketplaces like Opensea. The thing is that companies like VeVe hold licences from different corporations and obviously digital collectibles opens up the market for non collectors. I never collected physical comics but now I've got 8 digital comics and other NFTs on the app. 

I simply wish MPQ D3 could have done the digital comics edit. It would have been really nice. 

I hope D3 reads this forum and gives it a thought with their license with Marvel. I feel all NFTs should be spread across.

Mayo

Nobody forces anyone to play a game. If you feel you have wasted half a decade playing it, well, the only winner is the owner of the game. 
NFT will in my opinion cut short the live span of this game.

entrailbucket

Sam99 said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

It is my opinion NFTs are useless and won't add value to this or any game really, but it's also my opinion you should be allowed to hype them if you want. I don't think "Flag" is the right thing here, it should not be used simply as a "dislike" button.

Have you looked into NFTs like VeVe? There are other marketplaces like Opensea. The thing is that companies like VeVe hold licences from different corporations and obviously digital collectibles opens up the market for non collectors. I never collected physical comics but now I've got 8 digital comics and other NFTs on the app. 

I simply wish MPQ D3 could have done the digital comics edit. It would have been really nice. 

I hope D3 reads this forum and gives it a thought with their license with Marvel. I feel all NFTs should be spread across.

Do you work for VeVe (whatever that is)?  Your posts read like you're trying to sell us something, which is against the rules, and is probably why you're getting reported.