I'm hoping the wallet was more of a proof-of-concept for the backend development, and that PLAYR will have a wallet behind the scenes to juggle whatever's needed for the marketplace to work, but just speculation on my part there.

I have a loopring wallet for collecting red packets, so going to migrate the wallet bits to that, but can I connect to my existing wallet with my seed phrase like how the gamestop wallet could host two accounts? I suspect that would avoid the gas fees of transferring my assets from the gamestop wallet account to the loopring wallet account, but not sure how this works.

Sharing some of my initial rambling thoughts I sent to my IRL shrewdness after the wallet news:

Yeah I think there is 100 percent wider regulatory games at play here. I do think it makes sense to focus on the marketplace and GameStop Playr (assuming there was an issue with running both the marketplace and the means of access (think DTCC + Broker)) then it makes sense to drop the wallet. Probably easier to partner with (and possibly acquire) the smaller companies already making this stuff than to try and bring that in house. I think we maybe found that out the hard way on the wallet side. Shitty but not largely material from a wider business perspective I don't think (it even said in the last few quarterly reports that the Marketplace and NFT sales were immaterial at this time). Fail fast and small I suppose but I still wish I didn't need to ditch it lol

At this stage there is still a lack of quality Web3 gaming content...but it's coming and I have faith that GameStoo is positioning themselves well for when it's ready.

I was hoping it would be integrated into PLAYR. This is disappointing but I have hopes that PLAYR will be the final nail in the coffin of of the bears and that the company becomes increasingly more profitable after it launches.

Glad you posted this, thank you!! I just don’t browse Reddit much anymore hence less stonk

I suppose I’ll be moving back to my Loopring wallet so as to preserve the layer 2 access and all that…. Need to get my IMX wallet separated as well I think?

Not loving this but I understand it

Why does a retail store need a crypto wallet in the first place? Just sell me games.

It's unfortunate more how it was communicated rather than that it is happening, in my opinion. The marketplace is the killer app.

The sticky on this community might be helpful for people.

https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/c/metaverse

First I had heard about this. What happens to our assets being held in that wallet currently?

If it helps the company focus, then that is fine with me.

I don't know any 'gamers' personally that have a positive opinion of NFTs so I doubt that the wallet going away will be noticed by GameStop's main customer base.

How about moving to loopring vs MetaMask ?