Will "Fortress Heroes" embrace blockchain?

The well-known battle royale game "Fortnite" may use blockchain technology in the future?

On the morning of Monday (22nd), Jonah Blake, co-founder of Game Fund Partners, pointed out in the latest X tweet that we have a 50% chance of seeing the “Unreal Engine Blockchain” in the next five years. , and said that cryptocurrencies may soon be seen in "Fortress Heroes".

Epic Games CEO may relent

Surprisingly, Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney left a message below in response, and did not deny the possibility of using blockchain in "Fortress Heroes", but used the uncertain statement "maybe one day" .

However, in response to community speculation, Tim Sweeney also directly emphasized that although the future "Fortress Heroes" is likely to use blockchain technology, functions belonging to GameFi such as cryptocurrency and NFT transactions will never appear in "Fortress Heroes" in the game.

How to incorporate blockchain technology

Tim Sweeney said that he is more interested in the "underlying idea" of the blockchain: "The blockchain is a mutable state negotiation mechanism that uses transactions to ensure that the evolution of the state has the strong consistency property in concurrency theory. Others Solutions include database transactions, software transactional memory and sequential execution.”

In short, Tim Sweeney seems to prefer to use blockchain as an alternative to databases than various derivatives, like what the well-known Web3 game "Pirate Nation" does, using multiple databases (multiple Blockchain) to process user information.

When talking about the risks and problems that "Fortress Heroes" may face after adding blockchain technology, Tim Sweeney said that the speed of blockchain being adopted as a financial tool is unexpected. It did not take decades like traditional finance before. It takes time to gain a foothold, and the result of too rapid development is speculation, fraud, regulatory uncertainty and other factors, which are constantly damaging the cryptocurrency market.

Despite this, he still believes that blockchain technology will become mainstream: "I think the world will eventually be on the side of blockchain technology, and in the meantime, it's still a pretty wild west here, so buyer beware. "