NFT and the Future of Digital Content
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@BlueFingers, have you tried buying gift cards instead of the products directly? That always works for me!
Forty thousand USD for a NFT of a line drawing of Brooklyn Bridge by some 6-year old... Scam... Where did you get that idea?
Perhaps thats why the try Ethereum?
@tsroemi Funny thing is, I tried buying a gift card when it stopped working.
The John Cleese one?
I think you are missing the point of the angst and heartache here.
I can't count how many products I have bought in the past year that have had glaring quality issues. Issues that I spotted almost immediately.
Or waiting for days or weeks for replies from Customer Support.
I'm not taking this out on you, Richard. I know you're the messenger. I am hoping the messenger also works in reverse.
I'm stunned that DAZ didn't anticipate the negative feedback they would receive for this. They should have considered it and had some sort of a plan for communication.
Currently all of the NFT's are processed entirely in Ethereum, so you would have to add money to an etherum wallet and make the purchase on the ethereum chain.
One of the plus sides of the Etthereum blockchain is that they have completed development on their ecologically friendly method of doing the blockchain. Instead of the current extremely wasteful proof-of-work (crypto mining, which needs a ton of energy so that people who don't trust each other can trust that everyone is doing hard work as proof than nobody is cheating the system) into proof-of-stake where you "ante" up your money and then process the transactions more like a normal computer doing some database work.
P.S. If your Paypal isn't working with Daz and you aren't trying to buy any Cleopatra bundles please contact customer support, looking at the logs we have a lot of Paypal transactions coming through and processing without any issues, so there isn't a system-wide problem.
Oh, for the ecologically friendly proof-of-stake, Ethereum has not moved over to it yet but are planning to sometime early this summer. Just want to be transparent about that.
Oh sh...! Can't believe this hasn't been sorted out for you for over two weeks. Makes the NFT thingy seem really urgent and important, that sort of customer problem hanging around unresolved for such a long time ...
You're assuming there is a vision behind this.
I'm trying to be optimistic. :)
I'm already in contact with customer support, still waiting for an update.
I can think of one way you could discourage people from selling NFTs on your art. Remember that an NFT doesn't "contain" the artwork itself, but rather a pointer -- such as a URL -- to it. And if you happen to control that URL, you can, at any time, substitute something else for the original work. So if somebody happened to buy an unauthorized NFT on your heart-breakingly beautiful work of digital art, there's always a danger that they might one day come back to find that you'd replaced it with an 8-bit Microsoft Paint image that just says "YOU SUCK!" in crude, blocky graphics ...
Of course the people selling NFTs on other people's work will catch on to this sooner or later, and might start copying the art they steal to servers they control. But then at least you have a copyright case against them.
Personally, I think NFTs are likely to be a self-correcting problem. After the first few high-profile cases of someone minting an NFT on something they don't own, buyers will get wary. And as for NFTs in general, I suspect that after the initial hype dies down, interest will fall off quite rapidly. There's a case to be made that NFTs are little more than someone's attempt to monetize FOMO.
I might be totally wrong about this. I might spend the rest of my life telling people "You know that Shudu NFT that just changed hands for sixty kajillion dollars? I was on that DAZ site back in the day, I could have bought that for next to nothing. But instead I chose to spend all my money on digital models of a squinty-looking lady alien and a guy in a steampunk wheelchair wearing a pickelhaube. What a fool I was!"
But I'd be surprised.
I appreciate your effort here, and also the efforts made by the Ethereum people, but unfortunately, 'less wasteful' is just not the same as ecologically-friendly'.
That's only a few months away, so why didn't you wait?
I want it on record that although I may well be putting in an order today (for regular content, DEFINITELY not NFTs), that money is already tied up in non-refundable store credit, where it only benefits Daz and hurts the PAs to leave it sitting there.
If Daz want me to consider refilling that store credit at any future point, they need to think very carefully about how dismissively and flippantly they are responding to the concerns of their customers regarding this deeply divisive matter, because "It's okay, LOL, some of you are better than Andy Warhol" is not the right way to restore customer confidence.
I am staggered that this absurd NFT got beyond concept.
They did see that coming. That was potentially the reason why one of my early posts in this thread was silently removed. I usually get a heads up mail if a post has been removed by one of the admins. That post was just gone. And so were some others.
I also still have two products in the ticket queue that have not been touched by anyone since two(!) months. Premium customer servivce, I suppose.
Paypal has been working fine, if you are having an issue, please reach out to customer service so they can look into it. The issues with paypal were on the paypal side and they have assured us that they are resolved.
I have read the Diigitals verbiage, and... Understanding of any underlying rational thought eludes me. If my understanding is correct, what is on offer is a certificate of authenticity certifying that.. err.. nothing much in particular is authentic.
It rather feels to me that abstraction has been taken to the illogical limit.
Can someone stop the world? I want to get off, if this is what is considered rational in this one.
Can you please let me know your ticket numbers? Customer service has had a backlog due to Covid, but it's certainly not two months, we'd be happy to look into it.
(Sorry if this was already brought up, can't stand to read 4 more pages.)
Speaking of this (and earlier related comments), what about the Nazgul+Unlockable https://opensea.io/assets/0x63e0eab409f1c1e737aad225003d709b57dbe9e5/4 featured on that brand spanking new NFT page? Has Daz made legal arrangements with Prof. Tolkien's estate to use that? Tolkien's estate isn't quite Disney level when it comes to protecting IPs, but they've never been laissez faire about it either. There's a very good reason why D&D's "giant, sentient, talking trees" have been called "treants," not "Ents" for 40+ years but licensed Lord of the Rings RPGs can use "Ent."*
And please don't get me started on whoever conflated Tolkien's works with the Bible book The Revelations of St. John the Divine on the description of this "product." (Both were written by Christians but they are not the same.)
*D&D, Daz, and lots of others may use "halfling" and "orc" because those terms exist in real world folklore unlike "Hobbit" and "Uruk-hai."
I will have nothing to do with this.
I tried to raise awareness about the issue and daz shooting themselves into their foot with those NFT on the blog. However, currently, the blog is swallowing all comments.
Which also brings me back to my initial question of how to DELETE an NFT once it's out.
I think so, but remember that the NFT isn't the image (or whatever) itself.
So again...what is the point exactly, short of scamming people on buying nothing? If I want a piece of artwork, wouldn't both myself and the artist be better served if I licensed the piece directly from the artist? This still makes no sense to me...and I'm being told it makes no sense exactly because I'm trying to apply logic to something that has no logic.
See, this is where the confusion is Richard. You are contrradicting yourself.
Earlier you said that DAZ will not sell gallery images.
Now you're agreeing with most of us by saying that DAZ isn't selling images, they are selling the NFTs,
This is the information that should have be finalized and approved, then posted when this whole affair began.
It would have been nice to have heard this from customer support whom i've been in contact with and prommised to update me as soon as the issues we're resolved. Look, I am not angry with the customer facing folks, you guys have a tough job, but being a Daz customer is quite frustrating as well.
I was amused by the NFT that was created when someone burned a 'Banksy'. There again I've never seen a Banksy that I believe was worth more than the material it was painted on.