Blizzard president shuts down rumors over NFTs & \u2018play to earn\u2019 games Blizzard\/Unsplash: TezosBlizzard president Mike Ybarra has shut down rumors that the publishers will be implementing NFTs in their games, and potentially even making \u201cplay to earn\u201d titles. As NFTs and cryptocurrencies have taken over the internet in the last year or so, they\u2019ve slowly started creeping into the gaming space as well. Plenty of creators, game developers, and players have had their say on how NFTs could impact the space, though, to this point, they haven\u2019t really been implemented in top-tier titles. While some smaller, indie games have incorporated NFTs and Blockchain technology, plenty of questions remain about their impact on a bigger level. Most recently, Blizzard became the latest publisher to test fan appetites for NFTs, with a survey being sent around to see just how fans feel about them. As per GameRant and VideoGamesChronicle, there were some pretty despondent replies to the survey, with plenty of fans warning Blizzard about implementing the technology in their titles. In the wake of it, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra dropped an extremely blunt response on Twitter to the replies. \u201cNo one is doing NFTs,\u201d the former WoW dev tweeted on April 17, shutting down the concerns of some fans. Plenty of fans signaled their relief in the replies, thanked the Blizzard president for \u201csetting things straight\u201d in regards to their concerns. Though, others questioned why the poll had gone out in the first place if Blizzard isn\u2019t planning on implementing NFTs. It\u2019s not the first example of fan backlash against the technology, and likely won\u2019t be the last. As noted, with some many questions lingering around NFT games, and players not being interested, it makes a pretty toxic combination, and that could kill off many ideas for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blizzard president shuts down rumors over NFTs & \u2018play to earn\u2019 games Blizzard\/Unsplash: TezosBlizzard president Mike Ybarra has shut down rumors that the publishers will be implementing NFTs in their games, and potentially even making \u201cplay to earn\u201d titles. As NFTs and cryptocurrencies have taken over the internet in the last year or so, they\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}