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>>7734621
No. And that is all dApps will be able to do until LINK solves the oracle problem.

>>7734914

how does the oracle problem prevent games from being interesting? im not 100% sure i understand

why do games even benefit from being on the eth chain

>>7735014
I didn't say games. I said dApps. Games, or should I say """games""" will always be ponzis or pyramid schemes.

the point is, link is a bet against ethereum, or there even being one dominant smart contract platform, because if there is, it will clearly have to have its own oracle network.

>>7734914
Yeah man, affordable/secure random number generation is what we need.

I was thinking about a really cool pokemon type game on blockchain today.

If an engine like unity could 'talk' to blockchain somehow, You could make something pretty amazing. Although I'm an artfag, I'm also a brainlet so I don't think I could make something like that though, even though I'd really like to.

>>7735014
Avoid duping? This is the only real benefit I'd see from a game on a blockchain other than make it into a ponzi scheme

>>7735014
Random Number generation is difficult on Ethereum without oracles. Also off chain processing via oracle, ie amazon lambda... although I am going to have a crack at using something like golem via kyber network for something like this.

>>7735014
To go a bit further, most games rely a klot on random number generation. Lets take a simple rpg as example. Pretty much everything in an RPG battle system relies on random numbers ie: virtual versions of dice rolls that you would have in classic tabletop games like DnD

>>7735229
I am working on a mogul style game at the moment, pretty much a copy of one of the earliest trading games that became popular on MS DOS and fuck me, secure random number generation is a pain in the fucken ass, there are solutions but they are expensive. I am hoping that if I cant get it right in the next couple of months then Enjin may offer what I need.

>>7735107
>>7735161
>>7735229
>>7735306

wow i thought this whole thing was some kind of fuckin joke but it seems like random number generation is actually annoying in solidity (https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/191/how-can-i-securely-generate-a-random-number-in-my-smart-contract))

still it seems like a solved problem, certainly etheroll figured it out

>>7735161
>>7735481
>use last numbers of randomly generated block hash
>????
>profit
fugg guys oracles are obsolete, should i sell?? ;)

>>7735521

i am a stinky linky myself and i think oracles obviously serve an obvious and important purpose, but random number generation?! how is the existing solution not satisfactory?