There's tens of millions of people that disagree with you regarding cosmetics in games. Gamers largely have disposable income and are happy that they can support their favorite game developers and look "cool" (show off their status) while doing it.
They don't buy cosmetics just to show off their status, but to actually make their character look different when playing with a group of people who can see it. It's rarely "oh look - expensive" it's more "oh look - freaking Cowboy Ursa lmao"
When you avatar persists across multiple different games, it makes sense to have an ownership mechanism that isn't managed by a single central authority.
In VRChat, you can be any model.
If I had a game, I wouldn't care who owned the NFT. It's not a value add. As far as I'm concerned, anybody could use it.
Games don't honor any fiat currency or stocks I hold, any unlocks I made on other platforms, or my Reddit upvotes.
This is going to go nowhere.
It's going to be huge for VR in particular:
- https://www.roadtovr.com/getting-social-oculus-unifying-mult...
Even granting people who buy limited amounts to show support, its very easy to price them out of the market fast.