Brian Fargo, a veteran of the gaming industry and the founder of Interplay Entertainment and inXile Entertainment, has recently opened a new online PC game store that offers certain benefits to publishers and gamers who use it. Namely, Robot Cache is a “decentralized” platform that allows developers and publishers to gain a higher percentage from selling new games, and players can sell digital games that they have finished.
So, the Robot Cache service encourages players to buy new digital games using credit cards, as it is custom when purchasing on Steam or PSN, and they will be able to resell them later and retain up to 25% of revenue. However, the value will be transferred into digital money called IRON, the Robot Cache cryptocurrency that the player can use to buy new or used video games on their platform. It is worth mentioning that you can get IRON with the so-called mining.
On the other hand, Robot Cache will allow publishers/developers to keep up to 95% of the sales value for new games, compared to the 70% on other platforms like Steam. Also, the publisher/developer offers an option to set the value of the resale title, and for each such transaction it will save up to 70% of the revenue.
As far as IRON is concerned, it is based on the ERC20 standard supported by Ethereum, one of the most famous cryptocurrencies; and Robot Cache has started selling tokens last week, which will be turned into IRON during the launch of the service in the second quarter of the current year.
Finally, it should be emphasized that Robot Cache initiates the “power, flexibility, security and transparency of the blockchain technology”. Blockchain is a system that monitors and secures digital property or, as the founder of the service claims, “the safest known technology that takes care that there are no duplicates or copies of the original.”
It is no exaggeration to say that this is an ambitious move by Brian Fargo, but we still need to see if Robot Cache can really compete with Steam, Origin and other digital distributions.
What do you think? Does Robot Cache have any chance or is it already sentenced to being the last hole to play?
