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Inspiration for Writing:
David Beckham’s Guild Esports to float on London stock market - BBC News
I’ve been a little bit puzzled for the last six months that tokenomics hasn’t completely just been ingrained into gaming yet. I mean it’s actually been primed for it ever since fortnite had v-bucks. I’m really not sure where the disconnect is on that, surely they have some team members that are investing in crypto portfolios?
Especially with the recent fall out with apple/epic over all things “money” and taking 30% share of being on the app store — whatever side you sit on that topic it’s constantly had me thinking why none of these gaming giants have done anything yet, surely it’s the way money is going to go, digital, tokens for cash, involvement in their eco systems.
I mean, apple maybe not so much because they have automatic fans over the devices they build and the software they make but someone like epic, who’s making 1984 videos using their unreal engine and complaining after making millions and millions already surely have to see the benefit of having this group of teenagers earning real world, tokenised funds they can spend later on, save, often them financial services, upgrades later on, incentivised for being focused on their products.
Seems like such a big disconnect to me — I do think that once one company, game, product does it that we will start to see an influx of partnering with blockchain integration, the time of proving itself as a technology for me is well and truly over, it’s here and it’s not going anywhere, the way it’s deployed and the way it operated however, well that’s another thing all together, we gotta get those TPS up if we are gonna go realtime and trust me, gamers want it all and get PISSED if they drop 30ms in their games so they are a tough crowd to please.
I expect going into next year, the next pandemic, the smaller our floating islands get and the higher the water reaches around our shores the more “operators” and “guild” owners are going to start moving their fiat portfolios into vested interests for their childrens future, people who have a great team on the ball watching this arena are already making the moves to be early adopters of the next arena that millions of dollars of advertising money and spend will go into.
David Beckham is now a proud co-owner of Guild Esports, a new organization that will initially focus on Rocket League, FIFA, and Fortnite.
It’s also gonna be interesting for the players that have been hustling and taking small cheques for the last decade or more, well known, respected, earned many awards and won many contests finally seeing money like they have always dreamed off, setting some of them up for years to come and the potential for themselves to fund and become operators in this space in their own right.
I’d certainly keep an eye on those with sports money in this space, but also keep an eye on NRG, Huntsmans, H3CZ, 100thieves and their “content houses” to see how culture, product, brands and gaming is merging together to make massive creative agency powerhouses over night.
Lotta cash out there sitting in bank accounts in places that welcome them but the spotlight on money and how it’s earned and what’s done with it is become the defacto conversation for those that seeing prices rocketing for their daily meals and jobs vanishing to never come back.
It’s a prime time to be investing in the changing waves of culture that power these industries and to carve out yourself a bit of that gaming e-sports pie.
Cheers for Reading,
Humble x
. ... just happened this morning, a few hours after i wrote this, lotta money coming into the gaming/e-sports space.
p.s -- BREAKING: Microsoft is planning to buy Zenimax/Bethesda, an industry-shaking acquisition that will give Xbox ownership of Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Wolfenstein, Dishonored -- Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion for Zenimax/Bethesda src