I read through all of @ballmatthew's mega report "The State of Video Gaming in 2025" so you don't have to.

As a bonus, I also looked through various reviews/criticisms (including some truly brain dead LinkedIn takes).

221 slides into ~35 tweets 🧵👇 LFG Caveats up front: this is based on the 1/17 version. The deck is still being updated.

With that out of the way, let's start with Mr. Ball's TL;DR on the state of the industry in one...long...sentence:

Everybody's excited about DAOs, yet no one has really explored the implications of DAOs for gaming communities beyond the @YieldGuild model.

Sit back, grab a ☕️, have a gm, and come take a look at how DAOs will change the way gaming communities operate in 2022 and beyond:

(🧵) In my latest @naavik_co piece, I go DEEP on gaming DAOs:
- 🤝Why DAOs work for games & gamers
- 🔮Where Gaming DAOs are headed next
- 🚧Obstacles to greater adoption
- ...and a whole lot more
naavik.co/business-break…

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An often misrepresented aspect of NFTs in gaming is the promise of interoperability (🧵) One one hand, crypto gaming true believers often mention interoperability as a benefit of NFTs without considering the many implementation challenges.

(For a quick primer on this, I highly recommend Part I of @raphkoster's "How Virtual Worlds Work") raphkoster.com/2021/09/23/how…