Oddbean new post about login | logout What are the most common things gamers pay for? (I'm not a gamer at all)
Skins, which is to say purely cosmetic status symbols that do not affect gameplay.
How this could be done for nostr clients: imagine your user profile glowing in a purple color, flames around your pfp. Why? Because you're a super-supporter of this client, so that client will show your profile in a different way.
Certainly would not hurt to at least try this approach! Apparently the gaming industry is bigger than like all sports combined, so i think you’re onto something here by taking some notes from them
If it helped fund ACTUAL development , I'd prob buy something like that. Nostr needs a game maybe ? Like , the way Facebook had Candy Crush and Farmville. Then use the proceeds to fund Nostr development?
I am working on my very first game my idea is to make a nostr arcade in the future… at the moment I can only envision a site where you auth with nostr and pay with lightning… but that may change as I’ll be studying nostr seriously on Q1 of next year
Sounds awesome. Keep building!! Also check out https://crashglow.com/
Being able to have a song start playing when people go to your profile old school MySpace style would be cool too! I’m hesitant to suggest this, but clients could offer an explore-like page where paying subscribers get featured, or where you can feature a post per month or something. Also some sort of shop page in client would be rad. I would pay for a spot on a shop page for my art. Maybe people still have to leave the client to actually purchase, but a featured product page of some kind possibly?
Purchasing visibility… that’s advertisement. This form of advertisement would appeal to value signaling crowds.
Bingo! 💯 nostr:nevent1qqs8rcgtxhwz9t53pg3zg9skskk2r87fd6l6xvfdfrvmnyc9r8z4mxqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qdy7zsvk7jwd547xvmpptzlc9muhd64g7txvf60zwlxjyj4aj78asxpqqqqqqz4ayf2v
That sounds amazing to me if that could happen. #BTC #Zap #Nostr #Bitcoin
@jb55 / Damus did this with zap match with a star. Depending upon the color of your star by your name was decided on what % you were matching every zap to donate. Apple hoodwinked that feature like the “think different” 🤡 they have shown to be.
This is a significant part of Discord's business model, as far as I can tell.
And Discord business model work like a charm ? What do you think about ordinals https://m.primal.net/HRcG.png ?
Seems like a good spam prevetion/verification method as well
That sounds like a good idea.
Very Interesting! I have been including them in some designs, along with badges, but didn't realise they were the n° 1 thing gamers payed for. The big downside of doing this on a protocol though, is that it's not ONE platform guaranteeing your status across the experience of ALL users.
From kids in Roblox to adults playing CoD, skins make mega millions 🤙
They don’t affect gameplay but are visible within the arena. Ie colorful skin effects and animations
Hats!
Oh, I see you're a man of culture as well.
Vanity items. The big thing currently (?) is people buying a season pass with about 100 rewards. The more they play, the more they unlock. Be it Skins for their avatar, their weapons, emotes, basically anything that can promote the 'individuality' of a player. If people enjoy the action loop within a game and the 3-5 seconds of actions which they repeat for 8 hours straight... and we can emulate that without becoming an endless feed of doom... Maybe we should get everyone hooked on a daily Nostr dosage. Like the season/battle pass every time people logon they get rewarded with something. Should there be achievements/trophies within Nostr for accomplishing things? I'm way overthinking this and the gamification aspect. In MMORPGs like WoW it's very common for people to spend 8-12hours in that world. There's vanity items of course but the best items in the game are those earnt through time and persistence. Will the unification between something like https://www.onosendai.tech/ , Nostr, Bitcoin and Gaming be the huge leap forward I wonder. Perhaps @arkinox could think of a way to entice people to stay in the Nostrverse? (Sorry for @'ing you chief!)
I basically never stop thinking about this. We are going to gamify Nostrocket and Yondar. I am figuring out how to build mixed-reality games on the #cyberspace meta-protocol. Gamification is a way to unlock human potential and productivity, as well as making experiences more rewarding. https://yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/octalysis-complete-gamification-framework/ has incredible insight into how to design gamification that rewards effort without being addictive or evil.
Damn, this might be a way of gamifying apps that I might actually like. Fascinating framework 🤩. Seems like Nostrocket could easily beat quite some apps on the meaning front.
