- Video game developer group Climate Replay called on developers and gamers around the world to sign their NFT pledge.
- This document invites developers to assess the potential danger of NFTs for ecological, venal, and mental health reasons.
- One week after the signing request was made, the document has only accumulated a total of 72 signatures.
Although in recent years, despite a health crisis that generated a financial crisis in various parts of the world, the digital assets sector has had a positive and growing development, attracting the eyes of millions of people and breaking several historical records .
However, its great growth has not been enough to convince the whole world of its dynamism, as several nations and companies have expressed their doubts about crypto assets.
According to the medium Decrypyouthese fears are related to security and inflation issues and the rise and fall of the value of virtual currencies, so in some countries they are prohibited while in other instances, movements are created to eliminate them or at least stop them.
This is the recent case of a group of game developers who recently put online a guideaccompanied by a commitment to raise awareness about what they consider to be the dangers that come with non-fungible tokens and digital assets.
Raise awareness about the dangers of NFTs and cryptocurrencies
The group of developers made up of various members of Minecraft Mojang Studios, known as Climate Replay, urged international developers and gamers alike to sign a pledge which requires developers to assess the great danger posed by non-fungible tokens, especially thinking from an ecological and mental health perspective.
The document places special emphasis on titles known as “play-to-earn”, games in which gamers can acquire digital assets and NFTs after successfully completing a series of tasks or missions.
Crypto video games, they ain’t fun
According to what the developers pointed out, the video game they should be fun, however, in this case, they just don’t do the job, because they don’t work.
“By ignoring the key points of risk in addition to the obvious issues, those who are adept at non-fungible tokens as well as other forms of digital property that equally meet these issues undermine efforts to have an equitable existence and sustainable for all”, indicates part of the original text of the aforementioned commitment and highlights that NFTs in video games simply do not give gamers any kind of significant value.
A campaign with low impact
However, Apparently the signing of the document has not had the desired impact, since, one week after the request for signature was made, the document has only accumulated a total of 72 signatures.
Despite this, those behind the organization of this very special petition claim that the document is a reliable representation of the thinking of a large group of developers.
In this regard, Cory Scheviak, co-author of the writing, pointed out in the Climate Replay Discord group:
“TWe have faith that this message can be spread to all corners of the world.industry members and get as many companies and individuals to sign on as possible.”
Scheviak added that, in addition to the 72 signatories, a total of five consortiums had also given their yes to the commitment. However, Climate Replay is currently in the process of verifying their signatures.
main concerns
The commitment is based in part on current environmental concerns related to proof-of-work blockchains, which are well known to spend large amounts of energy.
Likewise, the document does not mention any of the current actions to reduce said energy consumption, such as the case of the Ethereum block chain, which has to its credit the vast majority of NFT minting. It is in the process of migrating its entire infrastructure to a proof-of-stake consensus model, which will allow it to exponentially reduce its carbon footprint.
Another reason for people, gamers, companies and developers to sign the commitment is the growing concern about the lack of security in the ecosystem, with a large amount of hacked dollars every year.
The clearest recent example of this argument was Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge hack, in which gamers collectively lost $600 million.
Likewise, despite this proposal becoming a reality, it is clear that the tokens will be present to a greater or lesser extent in the industry, at least that is how the co-founder and director of operations of The Sandbox, Sebastien Borget, considered it, who pointed out in an interview that :
“Every studio I know of, from the largest to the smallest, will have at least one product, if not many blockchain related”.
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