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The success of Fornite shows that the gaming industry can still be taken by surprise. Fortnite is an entirely free game that makes its developer Epic Games billions of dollars in annual revenue. Nothing in Fortnite that you buy with actual money will make you a better player. All in-game purchases, from angelic wings to questionable dance moves, are purely cosmetic. Fortnite is a shining example of how free games with only cosmetic in-game purchases can make buckets of money, giving the Team Fortress 2 “Hat Economy” a run for its money.
In a similar spirit, not many gamers and developers today believe blockchain could suddenly and quite dramatically upset the traditional gaming industry. However, there’s an increasing upward trend in decentralized gaming (Dgaming), not to mention the very passionate industry bubbling up towards the mainstream. DGaming.com tracks the projects that are growing most rapidly.
Here are five increasingly Dgaming projects set to disrupt how gamers take real dollars-and-cents ownership of in-game items, and gaming as a whole:
Source: Destructoid Five DGaming projects challenging the traditional gaming industry