Fans are angry at the announcement Ubisoft On the launch of crypto currency in its games and the introduction of NFT’s. Earlier this week, Ubisoft announced the arrival of NFTs to Ghost Recon Breakpoint via a YouTube video. The video revealed a blockchain service called Ubisoft Quartz, And drew angry reactions from fans of the company and other gamers around the world. The reviews were all massive that the company has meanwhile decided to download the video from various sites. The clip can still be found on YouTube but a search will not necessarily bring it up in the results. Of course these things can change at any given time.
Ubisoft has now Unlisted their Quartz NFT announcement, after the huge amount of backlash, with the video having 95%+ of its video votes being dislikes.https://t.co/dCOrtvU9dh
— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) December 8, 2021
On Tuesday, game developer and distributor Ubisoft unveiled to the world a blockchain platform called Quartz, which will be used for NFT trading. The letters are an acronym for Non-Fungible Token. These are virtual assets that display ownership of digital creations, such as drawings, photos, videos and also characters and objects from the gaming world. Ubisoft’s system – known as “Digits” – will be offered as in-game digital items with unique serial numbers that can be bought and sold.
In uploading her video to the web, the French studio certainly did not expect such a response from internet users. The video announcing the promotion of the quartz currency received a lot of comments on the YouTube page. The video reportedly received a total of 26,000 likes, for just 1,000 likes. Which results in a 96% negative opinion percentage for this single video, and more certain that the numbers will continue to rise as this topic gets more and more exposure.
Ubisoft for its part referred to its project as“A new experience for our players, built on our vision to create a greater connection between you and the gaming worlds you love.” The studio plans to offer its first three NFT items to players who have played a certain number of hours against Breakpoint. The studio explained that adding unchangeable objects would simply make the game more interesting. Despite this gamers are not willing to hear about it at all, and rightly so.
While in some areas NFTs are slowly gaining popularity, in the video game industry things are more complicated. NFTs are a very controversial issue. The big reason is divided into the types of people and how they look at the world of NFTs and in general the world of blockchain which has become how the hottest topics in the world of technology and high tech. Some people see NFTs as a practice aimed at privatizing digital collectibles. Others see tokens that cannot be changed simply as theft.
Already a number of big names in the industry have given their opinions on projects of this type. The first is Jeff Kelly who opposed the idea of including NFT in the Game Awards in 2021. The second is Phil Spencer, head of Xbox gaming studios, who has openly criticized NFTs. In addition, Steam has decided to ban all blockchain games from its store.
However, this has not prevented other video game companies from looking to emulate Ubisoft by logging in to NFTs. These include Neopets, Sega and Gamestop. So it is impossible to know for sure if this is a trend that will devour the entire industry or it will be something that will slowly disappear from the gaming industry specifically.
Introducing Ubisoft Quartz ????
We’re bringing the first energy efficient NFTs playable in a AAA game to Ghost Recon: Breakpoint!Try it in the beta from December 9 with three free cosmetic drops and learn more here: https://t.co/ysEoYUI4HY pic.twitter.com/owSFE2ALuS
– Ubisoft (@Ubisoft) December 7, 2021
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