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Ubisoft is adding NFT in its new games. Ubisoft is a real company producing real games with real players all around the world. https://www.theverge.com/2021/12

Ubisoft is adding NFT in its new games. Ubisoft is a real company producing real games with real players all around the world. https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822410/ubisoft-nfts-quartz-digits-ghost-recon-breakpoint https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822410/ubisoft-nfts-qua...

EdwardDiego 5y ago
I'm not surprised - people want to buy them, so they'll happily sell them.
zombietfk 5y ago
But is it actually adding anything? Even the article says what they are doing (reselling digital goods) doesn't require any blockchain technology at all.
- Kinrany 5y ago
  It does make the ability to resell inalienable. Of course it's worthless when the game will be shut down in only a few years.
  - Avshalom 5y ago
    Sort of. You can sell it but Ubi can just as easily blacklist any ID it feels like, preventing you from actually using anything you bought. Which will probably happen the first time some high profile streamer gets scammed out of his special shirt or whatever.
ElonMuskrat 5y ago
Is this just protifing on a topical craze or does this have staying power? What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players that they otherwise cannot find in traditional database backed assets?
- jfk13 5y ago
  > Is this just protifing on a topical craze Of course. > What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players The warm glow of feeling they're the trendiest kids.
gambiting 5y ago
And literally every single thing they are doing could be achieved with a simple database shared across games, as they already do. The only thing NFTs achieve here is just being used for marketing. Yes, it's a "real" use in a "real" company, but that's like trying to argue that Bitcoins are useful and totally absolutely not a scam because a few real world companies decided to accept them as payment. Like, "sure, wink wink".

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Ubisoft is adding NFT in its new games. Ubisoft is a real company producing real games with real players all around the world. https://www.theverge.com/2021/12

by john37386 5y ago

EdwardDiego 5y ago
I'm not surprised - people want to buy them, so they'll happily sell them.
zombietfk 5y ago
But is it actually adding anything? Even the article says what they are doing (reselling digital goods) doesn't require any blockchain technology at all.
- Kinrany 5y ago
  It does make the ability to resell inalienable. Of course it's worthless when the game will be shut down in only a few years.
  - Avshalom 5y ago
    Sort of. You can sell it but Ubi can just as easily blacklist any ID it feels like, preventing you from actually using anything you bought. Which will probably happen the first time some high profile streamer gets scammed out of his special shirt or whatever.
ElonMuskrat 5y ago
Is this just protifing on a topical craze or does this have staying power? What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players that they otherwise cannot find in traditional database backed assets?
- jfk13 5y ago
  > Is this just protifing on a topical craze Of course. > What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players The warm glow of feeling they're the trendiest kids.
gambiting 5y ago
And literally every single thing they are doing could be achieved with a simple database shared across games, as they already do. The only thing NFTs achieve here is just being used for marketing. Yes, it's a "real" use in a "real" company, but that's like trying to argue that Bitcoins are useful and totally absolutely not a scam because a few real world companies decided to accept them as payment. Like, "sure, wink wink".