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all this nft horse shit has done is convince me that it is very possible that being dumb as fuck might be the norm amount humans rather than exception.
Maybe you should do your own research? Because a lot of "NFTs are bad..." arguements are not compelling and get debunked shortly after they are posted.
As long as they're entirely cosmetic and there's some kind of way to just turn that content off if you don't want to be exposed to it or know about it (seriously, there should just be a normalized check box in the options, default it to on if you want, but let me turn it off), I don't really care that much as it seems the writing is on the wall w/r/t NFTs being forced as "the next big thing". I think it'll die as a fad, and outside of a few collectors NFTs that manage to actually gain value, most of this stuff will be ignored or forgotten.
The problem is, I don't trust them to do that, to keep the gameplay and experience sacred. There is eventually going to be some kind of NFT you have to have to buy in order to get story content or an extra mission that should just be in the game regardless, or whatever, and that, to me, is significant, and I'm going to be very, very upset. It's only a matter of time.
The problem is, I don't trust them to do that, to keep the gameplay and experience sacred. There is eventually going to be some kind of NFT you have to have to buy in order to get story content or an extra mission that should just be in the game regardless, or whatever, and that, to me, is significant, and I'm going to be very, very upset. It's only a matter of time.
This cements that I wont buy any Ubisoft titles anymore. Company is dead to me.
The only benefit NFT could ever bring to gaming would be able to sell your used digital game that you have no interest in playing anymore, but no publisher is ever going to do that. They spent so much effort trying to kill the used game market, they would never let an used digital game market exist.
The only benefit NFT could ever bring to gaming would be able to sell your used digital game that you have no interest in playing anymore, but no publisher is ever going to do that. They spent so much effort trying to kill the used game market, they would never let an used digital game market exist.
I guess he heard that NFTs are an assault on the environment and got hard at the idea of assaulting something.
Fuck this prick and his fucking company.
Fuck this prick and his fucking company.
Just the beginning...
It's bad enough already. Imagine how fully integrated this shit will be in games that are at the start of their dev cycle right now. Assassin's Creed Infinite NFTs.
It's bad enough already. Imagine how fully integrated this shit will be in games that are at the start of their dev cycle right now. Assassin's Creed Infinite NFTs.
You have yet to provide any meaningful argument why NFTs are necessary and what they bring to the table. And you got a lot of arguments against them that you chose to ignore.
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That's because there aren't any.
Even Ubisoft's Quartz FAQ had a question "Isn't it possible to do all this without NFTs?" and the answer was a simple "Yes."
Don't know why that question was there though, maybe legally required.
The point is that there's literally nothing that NFTs can do for games that we weren't already be able to do, there is absolutely no reason to use the technology.
I told him to actively seek information not just to form an opinion based on comments, problem?
There's too much fud on this subject right now. I read through this forum occasionally and when it comes to NFTs and blockchain there's a lot of misinformation. Like this post for example:
Parrots the environmental arguement (which has already had it's irony highlighted) when NFTs or blockchain aren't inherently environmentally unfriendly. In fact UBISOFT is using a proof of stake system so the arguement doesn't work here.
This benign tech will be used for what people want it to be used for, just like AI or robotics. Can be good or bad. If posters want to get up in arms every time it gets mentioned then let's at least try to make the arguements factual...
For example, NFTs and blockchain aren't inherently a grift, Ponzi, or laundering scheme either, it's just tech that will be used by whoever to do what they wish to do with it. If and when you find some that are bad and do those things, by all means, direct your ire there. I wont stop you, I'll probably join in...
I ignored them because they amounted to "let's just keep the status quo because I fear what will happen" based on the same mentioned arguements. I'm not as invested as some of you seem to be...
I don't need to make a case for these technologies btw, all these threads are doing it for me. This tech is in use and posters are still here asking 'tell me what uses their are!' ... 'why would any company ever use it?'
We are not doomed, the world is not ending, this tech will not bring about the end of gaming or life as we know it. It will be here in 5 years and barely anyone will recall the initial friction in places like these...
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Ubisoft ToS for Quartz is kinda crazy. They literally say in ToS that NFTs are for consumption only and that they shouldn't be used for speculative trades and generating profit. And then they go and use "you can sell them" as one of the marketing points.
I feel at this point we've had enough people explain NFTs in Era for me to get the idea... But is the "metaverse" exactly supposed to be?
Because the only things it makes me think of is Seto Kaiba and Digimon and if I don't get a Palmon out of it, I couldn't give a damn.
Because the only things it makes me think of is Seto Kaiba and Digimon and if I don't get a Palmon out of it, I couldn't give a damn.
I remember when people were hoping the Yves family held on to the company since the "evil corporate overlords" were going to take over years ago. Such irony.
I won't defend Yves, but Vivendi would have been infinitely worse, I have no proofs but I have no doubts either. Ubisoft was in a good position back then.
Battlefield 2042 sacrifice the core of the franchise to put specialists only to sell skins and cosmetics.
The only cosmetics have impact on the design.
It's basically Second Life, Matrix, Ready Player One etc. Not a new concept but companies are heavily investing in it because of the rise of VR/AR and other stuff, it's creepy af but what you can do.
To this day I don't get why it had ammunition loaded for presentation
For not needing to make a case you try to make one pretty hard tbh.
Royalties. Companies like NFTs because they get a slice of profits from all sales volume.
When you sell me your shitty DLC skin for $1000 to me, Ubisoft will receive $100 of that through the royalties address assigned in the metadata of the NFT.
In perpetuity.
A new revenue stream.
You make it sound like PoS is somehow completely carbon neutral, rather that it being an utterly frivolous addition to our energy consumption.
Ubisoft is using the tezos blockchain, not Ethereum. Its carbon footprint is tiny. It doesnt use any more energy than a regular server room of the same scale would.
Haha it does sound weird when you think about it but I can see it especially because Dick Jones strikes me as the type of guy that doesn't mind loss of life.
There's only one thing Yves should say, and this isn't it.
"Somebody wanna calll a goddamn paramedic?" is such a perfect line after that happens.
"Somebody wanna calll a goddamn paramedic?" is such a perfect line after that happens.
But games filled with that shit still sell gangbusters, AND make bonus money with it. Going by his logic, you'll still buy the next Ghost Recon, AC or whatever, and if 5% of players buy some NFTs, that's just free money on top.
NFT for them is actually genius. They do nothing and take a cut on every transaction, every time the same object gets sold over and over again. It's literally free money to them, how can we expect them to not do it.
The future of not buying Ubisoft games ever for me
Facebook thinks middle aged parents and racist grandparents will buy Oculus products if it had just one realistic Roblox they own, when the reality is every big company will have their own realistic Roblox if there's any money from it. And considering how sanitized all these big money projects would be, all you're getting is a palmon shirt that costs $30 in real life and can't resell.
Move them goalposts...
But seriously, as someone already alluded to, mostly none of us on this gaming forum are carbon neutral if you wanna go down that route. Listen, if being carbon neutral is your metric then fine, it isn't neutral. Wasn't the point I was making though. PoS is clearly not an environmental concern anymore.
The same object won't get sold over and over again, they make more money selling new objects and forbidding reselling.
So Nintendo is still in bed with them for that Mario+Rabbids game, huh...
Shame I'll never play it.
Shame I'll never play it.
I would assume games like this are required to be "always online" too since they'd need connections to whatever marketplace is selling the tokens, right?
