Ubisoft Executive mocked for NFTs claims that gamers \u201cdon\u2019t get it\u201d UbisoftIn an interview about NFTs, a Ubisoft Executive claimed that gamers don\u2019t get the concept of NFTs and what they can do. The response to this statement has been a negative one and led to much mockery. The NFT debate continues to rage on as the non-fungible token craze builds steam and more and more companies and celebrities like John Cena get on board with it. Whatever your feelings on them, their popularity is increasing, and all parties are trying to get involved. Ubisoft recently announced their \u2018Ubisoft Quartz\u2019 scheme and it instantly generated a huge backlash. The feeling is that the company has fallen into familiar traps such as making the same games with very little innovation and a heavy emphasis on microtransactions. Ubisoft Quartz added more fuel to the fire and comments by a Ubisoft Executive has only made things worse. Nicolas Pouard is the Blockchain Initiative Director at Ubisoft and in an extraordinary interview with Finder, he explained why he thinks NFTs are a good thing and why gamers need to embrace them. \u201cI think gamers don\u2019t get what a digital secondary market can bring to them. For now, because of the current situation and context of NFTs, gamers really believe it\u2019s first destroying the planet, and second just a tool for speculation. But what we [at Ubisoft] are seeing first is the end game. The end game is about giving players the opportunity to resell their items once they\u2019re finished with them or they\u2019re finished playing the game itself. So, it\u2019s really, for them. It\u2019s really beneficial. But they don\u2019t get it for now.\u201d The interview soon made its way to social media and predictably drew the ire of many gamers. Twitter user The Squishy Stream realized that Ubisoft will actually get a percentage of the profit if you decide to sell an NFT. The thing I found staggering from this, that I had previously missed, is that when you resell the NFT that you bought and “”own”” from Ubisoft they could get a percentage cut. NFTs are a scam for idiots. https:\/\/t.co\/35Sw4t4Yqe \u2014 The Squishy Stream (@gamewithsquishy) January 28, 2022 A comment from Mythos condemned Ubisoft\u2019s ignorance and accused the company of being arrogant when it came to knowing the needs and wants of the players. What is it with game developers and arrogance? In every area, whether that be politics, culture, or finance, they believe they know better than the consumer. \u2014 Mythos (@QuantumDreams1) January 28, 2022 Whereas one user made an amusing comparison between the story and Ubisoft\u2019s mantra for recent open-world games. https:\/\/twitter.com\/William_Masso\/status\/1486912414625013762?s=20&t=8bmEjgb7h6N1PLv8pVY1SQ There are countless other Tweets expressing an incredible amount of hate for Ubisoft\u2019s NFT philosophy. Ranging from the popular meme of The Simpsons\u2019 Principle Skinner saying the kids are out of touch, to blunt claims that NFTs are stupid. We are genuinely curious to see how aggressively Ubisoft pushes the idea of NFTs knowing the early response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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