We’ve had contests before in games where “the winner gets to be in the game!”
We’ve had games with and without cosmetic upgrades, and it seems if you don’t have them now, then “there’s no incentive to keep playing” and “why can’t I make my character more unique?”
But with them, then “they’re just trying to take more money from us” and “I don’t care about this cosmetic stuff so neither should anyone else”.
NFTs are an additional layer on top of what has been part of gaming in some capacity for a long time.
There are a couple of additional arguments to be made around the ecological impact with NFTs, but otherwise it’s the same old, tired debate that just seems to get more angry and less rational with every iteration, and I don’t get it.
Mostly, I don’t see any scenario where anyone ends up actually happy with the result. Like people are complaining just to complain. When there is a rational complaint to be made, it gets downvoted to oblivion by one side or the other.