Dec 13, 2022
Putting blockchain and NFTs into games and marketing that as Play to Earn promises a revolution in gaming that will make money for both game studios and players. It’s a win-win for everybody! – or is it just hype created by cryptobros to ruin games by turning them into money-making machines? What is the promise of Play to Earn supposed to be and what ethical concerns does it raise with regards to how it treats both players and developers?
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Our guest for this episode is Dr. Tom Rodgers, a Sociologist and Criminologist working at the University of Sunderland UK. He is interested in the commercial logics of the videogames industry, specifically how the industry has experimented with – and ethically justified – methods of measurement and monetization. He has also published work on how videogames offer up ‘ethically exceptional’ experiences in the British Journal of Criminology. Tom is also the co-founder of the international video games research network MultiPlay.
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