State of the Game Industry 2022

A recent survey revealed that most game developers and their studios have no interest in developing or working with nonfungible tokens (NFTs) or crypto payments. The survey released by the Game Developers Conference on Jan. 21 titled State of the Game Industry 2022 polled 2,700 game developers on their level of interest in NFTs and cryptocurrency. Results were less than favorable for gamers themselves, who have shown great interest in NFTs. A resounding majority of respondents indicated that their studio is ‘not interested’ in cryptocurrency as a payment tool (72%) and is ‘not interested’ in NFTs (70%). Only 1% responded that they were already developing NFTs or already using cryptocurrency as a payment tool. Of the 14 comments on NFTs and crypto from developers published in the surv...