Allowing some/any assets from other games to be available in a specific game would be a design decision. Just another game mechanic that game developers could incorporate.
> This only makes sense for like gambling games / other financial stuff that values those items as a substitute for money.
Here's another scenario outside of gaming - suppose I once bought some content on Apple Music, but now use some other platform. If music streaming services stored ownership information on a public ledger, then those permissions (and possibly playlists) could just be imported into arbitrary platforms. What's better, startups that build a better experience than Apple Music could access that data without Apple's permission.
The core idea is that the end-user owns their data by default (ie, no explicit export); not the 3rd party platform.
It's reasonable to doubt that Apple would want to allow this, of course - they do seem to like their walled gardens. But it does give another concrete example.
I'm going to reiterate my main point - a public ledger that no particular party can control is the only mechanism that I see for avoiding vender lock-in as we (for better or worse) lean ever more heavily into online and virtual systems.
> This only makes sense for like gambling games / other financial stuff that values those items as a substitute for money.
Here's another scenario outside of gaming - suppose I once bought some content on Apple Music, but now use some other platform. If music streaming services stored ownership information on a public ledger, then those permissions (and possibly playlists) could just be imported into arbitrary platforms. What's better, startups that build a better experience than Apple Music could access that data without Apple's permission.
The core idea is that the end-user owns their data by default (ie, no explicit export); not the 3rd party platform.
It's reasonable to doubt that Apple would want to allow this, of course - they do seem to like their walled gardens. But it does give another concrete example.
I'm going to reiterate my main point - a public ledger that no particular party can control is the only mechanism that I see for avoiding vender lock-in as we (for better or worse) lean ever more heavily into online and virtual systems.
EDIT: Tried to reword to make my point more clear