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True digital ownership replacing DRM. You own the game, not a revocable license.
Every game you have ever bought digitally is not actually yours. Read the terms of service: you purchased a license that the platform can revoke at any time. NFT-based licensing changes this by representing game ownership as a token on a public blockchain. That token is in your wallet, not on someone else's server. You can transfer it, resell it, or hold it forever, and no platform can take it away. This also opens up secondary markets where players can resell digital games just like they used to trade physical cartridges. For developers, smart contracts can encode perpetual royalties into every secondary sale, creating a revenue stream that never existed in the physical era.
Example
Imagine buying a game as an NFT on Base chain. You play it for six months, finish it, and resell it to another player at a discount. The original developer automatically receives a royalty on that secondary sale through the smart contract. The buyer gets a cheaper game, the seller recovers some cost, and the developer earns revenue from a transaction that would have generated zero dollars in the traditional model.
Why it matters
Digital ownership has been a lie for two decades. Players have lost access to purchased games when storefronts shut down, accounts get banned, or publishers delist titles. NFT-based licensing gives players genuine ownership for the first time in the digital era, while giving developers a new revenue stream through secondary market royalties.
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