I have spent years watching how digital economies grew inside games long before blockchains existed People traded items in early MMORPGs people farmed resources to sell to other players people formed guilds to raid and explore but none of this activity produced real ownership because the assets were locked inside proprietary servers controlled entirely by game studios.
When blockchain technology arrived it did not invent digital economies but it gave them something they always lacked a foundation of true ownership and a way to convert digital value into transferrable property The moment NFTs