Comment by duskwuff

> This is really where blockchain comes into play. Diablo 3 tried to do this, but they were too early and too greedy.

Diablo 3's in-game real-money market wasn't based on a blockchain, and was doomed to failure for game design reasons alone.

> And, paradoxically, it's nothing new: Steam store "items" are basically NFTs. Fortnite skins are basically NFTs. It's just that without a decentralized marketplace, you can't sell them.

You can sell Steam in-game items just fine on the community market (https://steamcommunity.com/market/). You just can't cash that out to real money because Valve, quite sensibly, doesn't want to be classified as a money transmitter.