What NFT ownership does and doesn’t mean in games — items, marketplaces, and what happens when a game shuts down.
What NFT ownership does and doesn’t mean in games — items, marketplaces, and what happens when a game shuts down.
When a blockchain game closes, your NFTs usually stay on-chain — but “still existing” is not the same as “still useful.” What happens to game assets depends on how the game ends: a sunset with a successor, a studio collapse, a marketplace closure or a community takeover all produce different outcomes for the same wallet….
“NFT game” assets get described with a lot of noise. Strip it back: a game NFT is simply an in-game item recorded on a blockchain instead of only in the developer’s database. What that actually buys you — playability, tradability, or nothing at all — varies enormously per game. This is the mechanics-level version. The…