Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?
I think &quot;effective rebranding for marketing purposes of database technologies&quot; alone justify all the fuss, business wise.<p>I&#x27;m working in gaming, and in pc gaming today, when you ask 5$ pretax and preplatform fee, customers think you own them to dedicate your entire company to support the product fot the next 10 years for no additional fee, you will never heard of 90% of your customers, 5% will insult you on your steam page for any trouble they encountered, 4% will insult you and your game on youtube and social media for entertainement and self promotion, and maybe 1% will have positive feedback.<p>Meanwhile with a good marketing, you can potentially sell low effort proceduraly generated random png 30$ to 3000$ piece in blockchain collection&#x2F;games and each of your customer will probably actually spend time promoting your game even if he disliked it, if nothing to resell that it bought or earn interests.<p>Of course i&#x27;m greatly exaggerating, but no wonder gaming company dream to develop the market.<p>And I think video game market today is awfull. Every one want everything for free and no one want to actually pay. It&#x27;s probaly a big part of why VR market is nearly empty : investing what is required to make good content is probably nearly impossible to recover on sales.<p>It need a way to reinvent itself and allow content maker to make profits, and it may be the blockchain where it&#x27;s &#x27;normal&#x27; to pay around 100$ to try a new game and be ready to see it fail more often than not.<p>The fact it&#x27;s purely psychological is irrelevant marketing and business wise. I even think today the console market exist for purely commercial reasons. Console player accept to spend more on video game than computer players. Then developping for console make sense, even if probably today you could probably have exactly the same game on a same price range computer.