It's 2024, and Ubisoft has just launched an NFT game

Facepalm: You'd beryllium forgiven for reasoning that astir companies person sensibly abandoned immoderate plans for NFT-based games aft nan marketplace collapsed past twelvemonth and AI became nan adjacent money-making scheme. Surprisingly, 1 workplace has conscionable softly launched a blockchain game. Unsurprisingly, it was Ubisoft.

Last week, Ubisoft stealth-launched a web3 crippled called Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles connected PC, reports IGN. This free-to-play PvP tactical RPG involves collecting virtual figurines who prosecute successful turn-based combat successful squads of three. It doesn't look excessively bad successful nan trailer, which has a Darkest Dungeon vibe, but past it doesn't mention nan truth this is an NFT game.

While caller players are fixed impermanent characters to use, they will yet request to bargain immoderate of nan characteristic NFTs. These tin beryllium bought utilizing crypto aliases in-game gold, aliases you tin trade them, which besides requires in-game rate aliases crypto.

The game's marketplace shows these figures are not cheap, ranging from $7 to much than $63,000 for a characteristic called Swift Zealot. Of nan different 2,732 Champions, 1 is going for $25,000, while nan remainder are $5,000 aliases less.

A bargain!

Most companies framework F2P games' microtransactions arsenic ways to velocity up gameplay aliases they mightiness conscionable beryllium for cosmetics, but nan stat boosts enjoyed by nan premium Grimoria Chronicles' characters intends this competitory PvP-only title is astir arsenic pay-to-win arsenic you tin get.

While nan thought of spending truthful overmuch money connected an NFT crippled mightiness look bewildering to astir people, pinch nan mostly of companies abandoning them (remember that they were almost part of Stalker 2), location are those still consenting to manus complete nan virtual cash. It ne'er looks bully for nan firms down nan games, but past Ubisoft has ne'er been 1 to attraction astir its nationalist image.

Ubisoft was 1 of galore gaming companies to dive into non-fungible tokens successful 2021, adding NFT-based cosmetics to Ghost Recon Breakpoint, which very few people bought. The French patient said it would stick to its principles and not backmost down from NFTs earlier endearing itself moreover further to nan nationalist by insisting that gamers "just don't get" NFTs.

Ubisoft seemed to hide these principles successful April 2022 erstwhile it said it was nary longer making updates aliases NFTs for Breakpoint.