> What happens if I get hacked and someone steals all my cards? Blizzard / Supercell would have no way to make things right short of giving out free copies of cards to people
The blockchain is a distributed public ledger, but everything in the actual game itself is controlled by the game developer's centralized servers.
The provenance of any token can be known just by looking in the ledger, and the game's developer could simply blacklist that token on their game's servers, rendering it useless.
The blockchain does next to nothing in this game token scenario. It's still mostly a centralized system.
> About the only benefit here is the ability for users to trade items without the involvement of the company in question, but there's very little benefit to the company to allow that, and it carries far too many serious issues.
Exactly. Although, given that you can't use the tokens when the game servers are down, being unable to trade them when servers are down is probably not a big loss.