Video games have traditionally been seen as just a hobby to pass time. They have had little connection with real life. As a gamer, all your achievements in a particular game stayed in the game, known only to you or your co-players. But whatever items you earned/collected like weapons or skins within a particular game eventually belonged to the game’s developers. There was little you could do with them outside the game. So, if the developers chose to shut down the game or strip certain feature...