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People have been trading items in online games for real money for as long as there have been online games. Which is longer than “blockchain” has been a thing, much less NFTs. Some games welcome it, some try to fight it.

The only thing NFTs seem to offer is an extra middleman who can make money off of these transactions.

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> The only thing NFTs seem to offer is an extra middleman who can make money off of these transactions.

Even that isn't new. Valve has been taking a 30% cut of everything sold on their community market for as long as I can remember.

yeah, a lot of "web3" really seems to boil down to "I'm the person all the money runs through now instead of the existing players, also everything has a few more extra layers of complexity and abstraction for no good reason".

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