News Ubisoft quietly launches blockchain RPG with playable NFTs priced up to $63K

[Admin]

Ubisoft launches free PvP blockchain RPG with NFTs priced as high as $63,000.

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[hotaru251]

Anyone who pays for this stuff should be banned from spending $ on any game.

it takes a special kind of person to actively say "im dumb and love being con'd"

 

[Dementoss]

Well, they can only charge what players are prepared to pay, more fool them if the do pay.

I agree on the "special kind of person" sentiment.

 

[salgado18]

I believe that what NFT brings to the table is uniqueness of items. Probably thereare only a handful of those 60k characters to be bought, so in a world of a million players, three would pay the price of exclusivity. Well, if it gets to one million players, obviously. Still, all that could be done the traditional way, I think ther's nothing that an NFT brings to the table that can't be done with a database.

 

[Notton]

Does noobisoft have any whale fans leftover that they can milk?

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

I believe that what NFT brings to the table is uniqueness of items. Probably thereare only a handful of those 60k characters to be bought, so in a world of a million players, three would pay the price of exclusivity. Well, if it gets to one million players, obviously. Still, all that could be done the traditional way, I think ther's nothing that an NFT brings to the table that can't be done with a database.

NFTs are just a receipt, so this is the dumbest take ever, don’t hand anything to dumb “tech”.

They can do the same via server-side unique items matched to a user account upon purchase, and the receipt can be done on cheaper technology both to them and the planet.

 

[rad666]

Asinine blockchain BS aside, the name sounds like it came out of a boardroom using a buzzword generator...

...probably because it did.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Just waiting for this Dumpster Fire to burn Ubisoft.

 

[why_wolf]

I believe that what NFT brings to the table is uniqueness of items. Probably thereare only a handful of those 60k characters to be bought, so in a world of a million players, three would pay the price of exclusivity. Well, if it gets to one million players, obviously. Still, all that could be done the traditional way, I think ther's nothing that an NFT brings to the table that can't be done with a database.

NFTs a are literally just a link to a database. Just with a bunch of cryptography that make them insanely inefficient compared to a normal database.

 

[JTWrenn]

Everyone who has ever spent on in game anything contributed to this coming about. If you buy it....corporations will come!

 

[Amdlova]

Ubisoft is close to death. talking with my friends no one got one single game from ubisoft in years...
Last ubisoft title I have played is farcry 4. Almost ten years back

 

[Notton]

Everyone who has ever spent on in game anything contributed to this coming about. If you buy it....corporations will come!

Ubisoft was one of, if not THE, pioneers of the Freemium games genre.
The games industry went with it, and it has been a scourge ever since.

It was a bad idea 10-15yrs ago, and look at all the games that tried it in the past and failed. There were so many titles in 2023 (mostly from Square Enix) that abruptly ended less than a year after launch, it was hilarious.

However, hindsight is 20-20.
Brains don't fully develop until 25yrs of age.
The freemium games are designed to lure in customers and trap them using social engineering.
Gambling addictions are a thing, just look up why Casinos and Pachinko style noise and lights are addictive.

So try not to blame the victim. It's an elaborate scheme to extract as much cash as possible without running afoul of the law.