UbiSoft's NFT Items and Quartz: Also, the own developers criticize NFT

The Game Honors 2021 was an honor show that honored the most effective video games of 2021. The occasion was organized by Geoff Kafka, designer and producer of The Game Honors, as well as was held to a welcomed audience at the Microsoft Cinema in Los Angeles on December 9, 2021. The preshow ceremony was held by Sydney Goodman. The event was real-time streamed across more than 40 electronic platforms. It included musical performances from Think of Dragons, DID, Darren Orb, as well as Sting, as well as discussions from celeb visitors consisting of Reggie Filename, Keanu Reeves, Ben Schwartz, and Ming-Na Wen. Activision Blizzard was left out from the program beyond its chosen video games after the business was taken legal action against by the California Department of Fair Employment as well as Real estate on accusations of sex-related harassment and also worker discrimination in July 2021; Kafka's remarks concerning the company received some objection. Death loop led the program with 9 elections; it won The Finest Game Instructions and also Ideal Art Direction. Fora Horizon 5 as well as It Takes Two linked for the most wins with 3 honors, as well as the latter also won Game of the Year. Wonder's Guardians of the Galaxy was awarded Best Narrative, as well as Maggie Robertson won The Finest Efficiency for her duty as Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Wickedness Town. Numerous brand-new video games were introduced during the program, including Alan Wake II, The Expanse: A Telltale Series, and also Sonic Frontiers, as well as the first full trailers for Halo and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 premiered. The ceremony got a mixed reception from media publications, with some praise routed at new game announcements and also criticism for the program's length as well as concentrate on announcements over honors.

Last week, Ubisoft has presented a new sales platform for In game Items named Quartz and harvested a lot of criticism and a true shit storm from players — developers have also negatively expressed developers in internal news at Ubisoft. But before we come to this, we summarize the topic NFT and what Ubisoft is now organizing in this context. We reported on 10 December as well as before the details about the new business idea of ​​Ubisoft. Over quartz, NFT items can be obtained. NFT means non-fungible token — this is a kind of digital watermark that makes a file unique and intended to characterize an original as well as the ownership rights.

The NFT items at Ubisoft are in turn items, which there is not only a single time, but in limited quantities and individually numbered. At first, there are only skins, i.e. optical items. For example, Ubisoft could offer a weapon kin, from which there are 2000 pieces — each skin as NFT with its own number. You can imagine this in this way as a special edition of a game or a musical album, from which there are 2000 pieces worldwide, which are identical in each case, but for example by a print of 1 to 2000 are numbered — for NFTs is still coming that you also saved the owner as an info. The difference to normal as DLC-buyable in-game skins is that as a player is not simply just buys the activation of the activation associated with the account for use in the game, but that this one NFT skin is really heard with a specific number the player — this For many a player who has no problem with monetization, can increase the value of the item.

Ubisoft NFT items harvest negative voices

The criticism of the players, however, is aimed that these NFT items put the crown again in the negative sense of microtransactions in the negative sense. Ubisoft would basically sell normal items and by the addition NFT require more money for it — especially because of Krypton currencies. Thus, Ubisoft is indirectly accused of helping the controversial crypto feed market. In addition, Ubisoft prohibits many things that could be started with the NFT items, and the security of transactions as well as future developments are in the stars. In our above-mentioned news of December 10, you see that Ubisoft probably already clearly was clear that criticism would come — because the video to Quartz at YouTube was marked as not listed right from the start.

Even developers are not enthusiastic

Meanwhile, developers of Ubisoft have clearly expressed themselves critical, as Kodak reports. It works, at least not in clear words to the same concerns as with the players. For example, the developers of the studios responsible for the Assassin's Creed Series do not know what to do with the NFT scheme of Ubisoft at all. This was clear about internal news at Ubisoft, which was apparently played Kodak. The developers do not know what the advantage should bring the NFT items at all, especially is also doubted whether the whole thing is worth the negative public impact. This is certainly meant that the developers are the loss of sales by players who do not buy this thing and therefore reduce a game or reduce their playing time, for higher than the sales gain through gamers who find NFT items so well that they find a game Buy or spend more time in the game and thus more here, sometimes perform a microtransaction.

An employee also writes that he normally looks at the positive aspects in announcements, but these plans would annoy him more. Kodak also mentions an exemplary thing that the players are very annoyed — so there is a NFT helmet at Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, which you can only get to 600 hours of playing time. Players now fear, especially if there are other such conditions for items, a flood of bots in the game, which are sent by users to the game to get such items and then resell them. Fair, however, one has to say that this example could lead to such bot farmers even without NFT and that the idea of ​​demanding 600 hours of playing time has nothing to do with the pure principle NFT, but could also be organized with normal items.