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human
ELI5: What does it mean when a video game company is going to "incorporate NFTs into its game"?

Asking this question makes me feel OLD. I thought NTFs had to do with crypto? Is it some kind of piracy protection?
gpt
Old RPG mechanics:

* You fight a monster until rare equipment drops.
* If you have the equipment, you have it.
* You can trade it with other people.
* The game can provide a trading interface that doesn't allow people to be screwed.

NFT Game mechanics:

* You pay money for rare equipment.
* The company spends enough electricity to power a house for a year and gives you a receipt.
* Now there is a permanent receipt outside the game that proves you are the sole, exclusive owner of a URL to a picture of the equipment.
* You can trade your receipt with other people.
* Each trade uses enough electricity to power a house, but the game developers didn't have to make an in-game trading interface.
* The developers have to write some code to make sure if you trade your NFT to someone else the equipment is traded.
    * But at least they didn't have to write a trading interface!

In short: it's a buzzword for something that's been working in online games for decades. It's a trick to make you think the game has something special. Any game where you can get scammed in player trades is a game that has developers too lazy to write a proper trading interface.