Ubisoft giving NFTs to employees despite Quartz backlash Ubisoft has decided to gift its employees commemorative NFTs despite the relentless backlash they faced after announcing Quartz. In December 2021, Ubisoft announced Quartz. This is their new NFT platform where players can buy usable non-fungible tokens. These include one-of-a-kind weapon skins and cosmetic items players can equip in-game. Unsurprisingly, this announcement was met with harsh criticism. Comments called for the company to \u201cbe better,\u201d and Ubisoft delisted the announcement video after 95% of responders disliked the video. Despite the obvious outcry for change, Ubisoft is still pushing forward with NFTs. A Ubisoft executive recently stated that the backlash was because players \u201cdon\u2019t get it.\u201d However, the reported gifting of NFTs to employees is leading some to question which party actually doesn\u2019t \u201cget it\u201d. Ubisoft gifts NFTs to developers According to a report from Kotaku, Ubisoft recently offered the developers working on Ghost Recon Breakpoint a free NFT. Breakpoint is the testing grounds for Ubisoft\u2019s Quartz NFTs. \u201cWith the opening of the Ubisoft Quartz platform in December, we thought of creating an exclusive Digit for you, the \u2018Ghost Recon 20th-anniversary cap!’\u201d wrote Ubisoft in an announcement to Breakpoint staff, \u201cIf you want to receive this exclusive [NFT], we will inject it into your crypto-wallet on the 9th of March.\u201d The exclusive NFT is a dark-grey baseball cap with the Ghost Recon 20th Anniversary logo plastered on the front. Since Breakpoint is the only Ubisoft title currently supporting Quartz NFTs, the developers can play their own hard work wearing a cap they could have modeled themselves. The gifting of NFTs to developers is ironic after Ubisoft employees recently reported their distaste for Quartz Digits. Ubisoft employees called Quartz \u201cupsetting\u201d and questioned whether the endeavor is worth the negative publicity. While Ubisoft has yet to comment on this most recent NFT news, spectators on Twitter have already weighed in with their dismay. We will continue to keep our reader\u2019s updated as more news comes to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ubisoft giving NFTs to employees despite Quartz backlash Ubisoft has decided to gift its employees commemorative NFTs despite the relentless backlash they faced after announcing Quartz. In December 2021, Ubisoft announced Quartz. This is their new NFT platform where players can buy usable non-fungible tokens. These include one-of-a-kind weapon skins and cosmetic items players can […]<\/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-85904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85904","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=85904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}