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The year is 2030. It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon. You’ve just finished mining 30 obsidian ore playing Crypto Crush Saga, a match-3 mobile game.
You open up The Elder Chains Online and feel a rush of excitement. Your buddy from school has spent the last 2 years becoming a Master Blacksmith, and he has agreed to turn 10 obsidian ore into an Obsidian Battlestaff, a HUGE upgrade over the Mithril Mace you’ve been wielding for the last weeks.
It’ll take him an hour or so. In the meantime, you hop into Clash of Guilds, and use the remaining obsidian to upgrade your town hall to the next level. That should keep your village safe for now.
You wish you could fast forward time to tonight. Your Guild has plans to go for a deep run into the wilderness in Old School Rune Chains, and your prospects of a successful run (and great loot) have never been better.
All members have been spending the past 2 weeks grinding for better weapons, and you’ve agreed (through a vote) to use the Guild treasury to buy everyone a new full set of Red Dragonhide Armor.
Tonight’s objective is to kill the level 128 Frost Giant hiding in the Cave of Sorrow. He has a 5% chance of dropping an Immaculate Orb of Brilliance, of which there are currently only 4 in existence.
The Orb can be used as a power source in an upcoming space exploration game, and should give your guild a great advantage in reaching distant galaxies first. A 5% drop rate is low, but you’re feeling optimistic.
In the distance, you hear a faint ‘BloCkChAIn doEsNT bRiNg AnYtHiNg nEW tO gAmES’. You shrug, and join your friends in the Discord voice channel.
Life is good.
#blockchaingaming
You’ll be shocked to learn that this guy is now in the AI space.
I had to read this twice to realize he wasn’t doing a bit on how bad gaming would become in 2030.
Sounds like an awesome time to grind in a mobile game so I can grind in an MMO for an item that can potentially be used in Star Citizen. Not to mention that none of this requires the blockchain to work.
Wasn’t there an Assassin’s Creed game that had a mobile game counterpart where you could do shit to get various currencies for the main game? There’s a reason they don’t do this shit anymore because it’s fucking trash.
Black Flag had a mobile app where you could send ships out on missions to get resources. I don’t think the app was necessary, you could do that from within the game itself, but I don’t remember that clearly.
I think I’m melding that Black Flag feature up with this Facebook game thing that unlocked shit for Brotherhood (after trying to look it up). I do remember doing the ship thing being entirely in the game (maybe, who really cares lol), but taking IRL time.