FIFA 23：お気に入りのゲーム内のNFTは避けられません

The gaming landscape is an ever-changing one, not just with a relentless array of new titles coming out, but also with different ways to play and engage with games.

• The Future of Gaming
• Pro Advice
• Something out of Nothing
• マネーメーカー
• 目標vs EA

With eFootball, GOALS, and UFL all opting for a free-to-play model, FIFA 23 could have some stiff competition upon release, and EA may make changes in Ultimate Team to give players more ownership of in-game items.

NFTs are a relatively new addition to gaming and something that could have a huge impact on the future of game design.

But what actually are they? How do they work? We spoke to an expert to try and shed some light on the situation.

The Future of Gaming

As mentioned, we are seeing lots of free-to-play games hitting the market, which is flowing over to the football titles as well.

Konami's eFootball is already out, with in-development games GOALS and UFL also stating they will be free-to-play, putting even more pressure on FIFA 23 to live up to its ever-increasing price tag.

Not only will the non-FIFA titles be free to play, but the team behind GOALS issued a statement about their intent:

As revolutionizing as traditional football games once were, it is time for a new era. Users deserve a free-to-play football game with enjoyable gameplay and full ownership of their assets.

Through the play-and-own model, all users will be the rightful owners of their assets, which are earned for free through gameplay. By introducing digital ownership in GOALS, users will at all times be able to sell their assets in an open marketplace for real-life money if desired.

By making users the owners of their digital assets, GOALS is bringing NFTs into the equation, something that could spread throughout other football games.

If you don't know what that means, don't worry, you're not alone! We're here to help explain the process.

Pro Advice

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are definitely an area where some expert advice is needed to guide you through the ins and outs, so luckily for us, we knew exactly where to turn.

Oliver Barsby is the editor on Planet Crypto, which is Gfinitiy's cryptocurrency section, and he has been keeping an eye over NFTs as they evolve.

"I've been around the cryptocurrency space for a good year and a half and that's in a year and a half when NFTs really took off.

"People didn't really start talking about them until the summer of 2021. I knew about them before that and I've been on it, seeing the rise and the falls and then tracking the big ones which are going up and down."

Don't worry, this shouldn't be too heavy a read, as Ollie is also into gaming, which is where he started his career in journalism.

"I play first-person shooters, I play FIFA when it comes out for like a couple of months and a lot of turn-based games.

"So I have a gaming angle on NFTs and I do have a look around that as well."

＃＃ 単純にする

We started off our interview with a big question but requested a simple answer. What are NFTs?

"It is a big question. The simple thing is digital assets that are stored on a blockchain."

Uh-oh, more new words. Luckily, this isn't the first time Ollie has had to dumb down his answers to explain the complex subject that is NFTs.

"But that often doesn't help because then you get asked, what is a blockchain?

"A blockchain is basically a big sort of spreadsheet which everybody has to validate.

"I think of it like a digital trading card, except their ownership isn't on one big company. So Steam have trading cards that they own and they are the ones to have the platform.

"With NFTs, it's on a blockchain which is publicly supported, so it's on an open-source blockchain. Once it's on there, you can't take it away, as it's already out there.

"So if you put an NFT on the Etherion blockchain, it stays there permanently, or until a blockchain collapses, which, I don't think it will for a while - if it ever does - because the amount of people who support it is in the millions."

Cool, so NFTs are digital assets stored on a big digital spreadsheet that is corroborated by millions of people, so there are plenty of eyes on it making sure nothing suspicious is going on. You still with us?

Something out of Nothing

To us, it seems like it is something, but also nothing, much like how we can see numbers on a screen at an ATM, which represent money but they aren't actually the cold hard cash.

"Obviously it's a digital asset, it's not a physical thing.

"People think that you own, for example, the photos, but you don't own any photos. You own an NFT of the photo.

"There will be one tokenized version on this blockchain, which has been uploaded by someone at one point and there'll be a link to that photo - or something like that - but everyone knows there's that 1.

"I've seen someone describe it before as a way to take the mick. They said it's like if you go into a museum, and you see the Mona Lisa, and behind the Mona Lisa is a note saying, X owns the Mona Lisa.

「誰かがそれを使ってミックを取り、あなたは実際にそれを所有していませんが、それはそれを説明する良い方法です。誰かがこの写真を見ることができ、彼らはこのnftを見ることができます。この写真を使用して、何でもしますが、実際にその写真のNFTを所有している人が常にいます。」

マネーメーカー

それで、あなたは今、モナリサに相当するデジタルのNFTを所有しています、あなたのために所有者として何が入っていますか？

「あなたはそれを売ることができます」、Ollieの反応です。

本当に、それはとても簡単です。

「あなたがNFTを持っていて、誰かが「ああ、これは本当に良いNFTです、私はそれが欲しい」のようなものであるなら、彼らはあなたをもっと買うことができます。そのお金の側面のために。」

では、現在、NFTは現実の世界でどのように使用されていますか？

「現時点では、彼らは実際にはそうではありません。それは主に芸術に使用され、投資と見なされています。その多くは非常に投機的であり、価格が上がると考えているので、人々はそれを購入しています。

「しかし、それ以外ではニッチな使用がいくつかあります。いくつかのイベントでチケットに使用されているのを見てきました。NFTとしてチケットを持つことができます。

「メタバースは明らかにNFTにとって大きなものです。そこにあるアイテムにとっては、ソーシャルメディアは別のものです。より多くのユーザーがいるので、Twitterでは、プロフィール写真としてNFTを持つことができます。デジタルアイデンティティはゆっくりです。入ってきます。

「ヘルスケアの記録など、人々がそれらを使用したい場所は他にもいくつかありますが、彼らはまだ成功していません。

「そして、ゲーム。」

目標vs EA

先に述べたように、目標はすでにNFTを含めることを目指していますが、それは彼らを自動的にサッカーの試合で大きな新しい選手にしますか？

「ゲームは楽しいのかと言うのは難しいですか？それが主なことです。

「NFTゲームについて話すとき、それはいつも私が人々に尋ねることの一つです。あなたのゲームプレイは何ですか、それはどれほど楽しいですか？

「それはまた、NFTがどれだけ公平かつどのように役立つと考えるかに依存します。目標は、NFTを取引する人々を通してお金を稼ぎ、人々はゲームを楽しんでいればNFTを交換します。」

そのように置くと、Ollieは非常に強いポイントを作ります - ゲームプレイが最初に来なければなりません。

NFTを含めて、それはすべて順調で良いですが、ゲームがスクラッチになっていない場合、それは平らになります。

FIFAシリーズはすでに大成功を収めているため、EAには有利な分野です。

EAとFIFAは、FIFA 23の後に取引が期限切れになったときに別々の道を進むように設定されています。

FIFAがEAにかける制限がなければ、NFTを特徴とするそれほど遠くない未来には、潜在的にEA Sports FC \ - と呼ばれるゲームをリリースするのを見ることができたようです。

特定のカード、キット、スタジアムをすべて購入して実際のお金のために取引できる可能性があるため、彼らがそれをどれだけ進めるかは誰の推測でもありません。

何が起こっても、お気に入りのゲーム（または将来のお気に入り）内のNFTは避けられないように見えるので、その時に来る前に、あなたが主題に巻き込まれていることを確認してください。