Ubisoft workers resisting NFTs in games

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Ubisoft workers resisting NFTs in games

A conflict between Ubisoft Entertainment SA and many of its employees over a plan to adopt crypto technologies in the company’s video games intensified this week.

The French publisher, which makes popular titles such as Assassin’s Creed, outlined its thinking on the use of blockchain technology in a message to staff on Thursday.

The announcement on an internal message board prompted hundreds of negative comments from employees posted for all of their colleagues to read.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Swa]

We don't want microtransactions to be abused as "NFT"s, we want to be able to prove we own a game so we don't have to buy it across multiple platforms.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Personally, I don’t think Ubi’s Quartz is as bad as many people are making it out to be. It is clearly a product to compete with the Steam Marketplace, but most NFT supporters want a speculative ecosystem. You can’t make money with Quartz, as simple as that, however, Ubi is investing in NFT gaming start-ups, and recently announced another partnership with Sandbox, and Sandbox is hype driven. No dev in the Steam Marketplace ecosystem has taken a stab at Valve, other than those who are banned or suspended.

What are gaming companies suppose to do when MS, Facebook (and Instagram), Twitter, Reddit and Twitch are sounding the NFT horn?

People hated microtransaction, but people are also buying microtransaction. People are willing to buy uniqueness, always been the case.