It really depends on what they will use the blockchain for, but I think they would use pre-existing blockchains:
- EOS, NULS, ETH, ADA, NEO,etc... already have communities around them
- They would have to pay extra devs to actually build the blockchain, update it etc...
- The blockchains(EOS, ETH,etc...) are already decentralized, isn't the whole point of this not to trust big companies? EOS for example can run side-chains, customizable ones, NULS can too... I think EA, Ubisoft and Sony would rather create side-chains in the EOS ecosystem, or the ETH ecosystem, instead of starting their own chain from scratch... How would they decentralize the whole thing? And if they didn't decentralize it, the company would be the owner of the blockchain and they would be able to freeze ur funds and do whatever they wanted!
I think they will use pre-existing blockchains to create side-chains, and even if they didn't and created their own blockchain from scratch... there is a thing called cross-chain smart contracts ( I think these will solve this problem, but I still need to do more research so I won't get much into it here, might write a post about it though...)
Started playing EOSknights, I like the game... it could be better, and the market looks a little dead, but I still need to play more to really do my review of it, atm the problems that I find are: The time it takes to confirm something, dead market, node lag, needs better optimazition for the chrome browser.
I agree, it will be more economical to run side chains than a new chain from scratch. These companies might not want to make it decentralized completely, and that would be fine. as long the game works well and users can earn real tokens that can be converted to cash, the company can own a large amount of their tokens.
I also noticed all of those problems on eos knights too. seems blockchain games are hot for the first few months they came out and everything slowly dies off eventually, especially when new features aren't being added and people get tired of speculating. lol
That's why I like EOS so much, they aren't decentralized, they are semi-decentralized, they can still freeze accounts if a big consensus happens, they can restore wallets and even revert some wallets, is this a good thing or a bad thing? It really depends, but I think that, for big companies, it's a really good thing, if they got hacked they could freeze the hacked wallets immediately, if they lost their password they could recover them easily, semi-decentralization is good for large companies, full-decentralization is hard to adopt around the world, we got way too much "unintelligent" people in this world that don't know how to properly follow safe procedures to keep their funds secure
I still need to check a higher lvl of EOSKnights, maybe the market is only dead this early in the game... I'm still lvl 4 and can't get past floor 4 xD
LOL. Must try harder.