IS MOXY THE ACCEPTABLE FACE OF BLOCKCHAIN GAMING?


Backed by the venerable founders of Atari and MicroProse, Moxy.io is hoping to


revolutionise what play-to-earn and blockchain games are all about. Richie Shoemaker braves the slings and arrows of their outrageous fortunes


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Nolan deFouw, director of marketing at Moxy.io


t’s fair to say that decentralised ledger technology (DLT) has an image problem. This is especially true when you consider


how it has so far been presented to gamers. Mention non-fungible tokens, blockchain or even the metaverse in any reputable gaming article and you can be sure that readers will holler their disapproval in the comments below (something that we don’t have to worry about here of course). It’s understandable why there is so much


hostility. Quite apart from the money being exchanged for what are considered little more than easily replicable screenshots, advocates barely seem able to make a discernable or cohesive case for NFTs existing in or around games at all, aside from the distant promise of freedom from the tyranny that retains ownership of our digital stuff.


38 | MCV/DEVELOP May 2022 We can probably all get behind that ideal,


but when you dig a little deeper and read about the scams and the scheming, the hacks and the hacked off (not to mention the persistent environmental impact of token mining), it’s no wonder why most would rather watch from behind a barrel lobbing hand grenades at the denizens of the wild digital frontier as they go about their financial feuding. Understandable too that there are so few


high profile game developers openly admitting to embracing the blockchain. Even those whose stars have fallen below the horizon quickly pay the price when they do, as was the case when Peter Molyneux’s 22cans announced Legacy back in December. What is perhaps needed is a meat shield, something that embattled DLT-supporting devs can rally behind as they battle the tide of opinion.


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