I am an IT Contractor/Software Engineer, and I found an email to contact one of the head Software Engineers working on D2R, Mr. Strickland. I have always been a fan of the Diablo series as a young man. I was always interested in collecting gold, items, and making my character more powerful. I would find it interesting if they linked a cryptocurrency like Enjin Ethereum to gold and items, and maybe charge a transaction fee for all transactions, including the conversion of gold to crypto. This would be neat because as cryptocurrency is becoming higher in demand for video-games, D2 Resurrected players could farm gold, trade items, and both blizzard and D2 players would make something of a profit in a market environment, because I know in the past, there have been attempts to monetize D2 with d2jsp forums by exchanging forum gold for items, and the D3 auction house, but I think that everyone would benefit from the use of cryptocurrency.
New portmanteau word incoming… BotCoin™
Diablo introducing any crypto into this game would be questionable in my opinion.
Quite simply, I doubt that any of the cryptos could handle the volume of transactions that Diablo would generate. Delays and congestion would grind it to a halt. Crypto still needs to increase its speed, efficiency, and scalability.
i.e. Bitcoin: 7 transactions per second with 60 minutes confirmation time; Ethereum: 25 transactions per second with 6 minutes of real transaction time. Not exactly the speedy transaction you need.
Maybe with the implementation of Ethereum 2.0 (theoretical 100k t.p.s.) it might be possible but Eth2.0/Serenity is still not on the horizon despite being promised for 2021.
And if you think hacking/ cheating was rampant back in D2, just imagine the nightmare that would ensue with crypto when every bright hacker would be trying to steal yours.
And lastly, Blizzard likely doesn’t have the talent to implement it.
Zarkano,
There is no restriction on bandwidth to trading but what the Enjin Coin server can handle. Here is a resource that will help you understand how it works. I just visited the Enjin Coin Marketplace and found this. Also, Enjin Ethereum coin does not have a limit where bitcoin does, and Blizzard could fork their own service of Ethereum and name it whatever they want.
43.8M
Marketplace Volume
Tens of millions of Enjin Coin
spent on digital assets.
2.1B
NFTs
Billions of innovative items to
discover and explore.
832.7K
NFTs Sold
Nearly 1 million
items traded.
I can see it now.
Me:
“Where you going friend? Hang with us and play some ball.”
Friend:
“Sorry I can’t. Gotta get home to play my eight-hour shift of Diablo II RM so I can afford tonights’ pseudo-meat and Huel. If I get lucky and find a Jah rune worth 0.125 Enjin, maybe I can afford a piece of fruit too.”
Me:
“Bad news brotha. Looks like you gonna starve. That was last weeks Enjin prices. You be lucky to get Soylent now with 10 Jahs.”
Footnote
Soylent contains no soy, lentils or human remains. That’s a hell of a qualifier to have to put on your website, lol!
If anything, you would see inflation of Ethereum 
. Also, the Ethereum coin is not directly linked to Ethereum services, so prices of items and gold would remain the same where the overall price of Ethereum coin would fluctuate due to the other services effecting it.
That won’t happen anytime soon, and that you can convert gold from the game into money probably won’t happen at all for now.
The freedom of the denzentralen accounts of the cryptocurrencies are the owners of the world in the pyramid scheme a thorn in the eye, because it means freedom of the people and not their servitude.
If there is ever such a thing that cryptocurrencies function as directly as envisaged, the centralization of power, i.e. the monitoring of people, will certainly be carried out for these accounts first. Otherwise, the governments of this world will be encouraged by the owning class to classify these things as danger and illegal and rather ban them.
If these constructs are not allowed to bag their unproductive billions over the redistribution, that remains probably first wishful thinking.
In addition, behind money should also be a real thing on which it is based.
Transform play gold to the real value is indeed with enough machine work quite also times possible, but currently just not yet.
We still need the real economy and its crob of generated values and goods as an important mainstay.
The casino banking world and its fun money consisting of air, because behind it the real values no longer exist, can certainly not now expand to more fun money from computer games… Someone must also grow the potato and care for and harvest and offer the one then really also needs. We can live badly all from fun money of the Casino banks still from fun money from PC plays…
So to the point … Unfortunately, numbers in the computer do not fill us up and we also do not build harvesting machines that do an incredible amount of work for us, but have to be created first.
If all of that is taken over by the machines and running robotic machines one day … Can we keep ourselves in the prison of money and then make gold in the game so scarce that we can use it to create numbers with which we pay for the robot work go … Even if it is pointless, but the society pyramid is further divided into rich and poor …
Of course there will be massive taxes and other redistribution tricks to insist on such money creation … Otherwise it would not be sustainable this artificially made class system …
So if this is to work, we first need a fundamentally different system … The top of the pyramid will constantly know how to prevent this. They have 8000+ think tanks currently and they think about it all the time, the 7.6 billion people for theirs To serve purposes and to keep them at all levels …
I think it would be good to cover my costs with a little game gold and at the same time farm a little for fun … so let’s do it;)
LordByron,
You have a good point, but now that it is possible to link games to crypto, people are going to want more demand for it. It’s not like we can wave a magic wand and go back to the way things were before crypto, as the sole purpose of cryptocurrency was to decentralize governments, it is now a controlled currency by the World Bank and the Federal Reserve, as many cryptos are now available to invest in major markets or the stock market. When kids become adults they realize to get the most bang for their buck, and they want to have fun doing it, so no one is going to buy your product without the right incentive as the markets are progressing in time. I’m surely not going to buy D2R without this incentive as I can use new cool apps like InboxDollar, and install board games on my phone to get paid by the minute. ri-F-ts Δ relational-forms-in-t.i.m.e.(tacit, inform, explicit) >> resistance-to-elements << simplified-to-complicated
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