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[Kotaku] Ubisoft started giving NFTs to employees, who hate NFTs
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Playstation acquires Ubisoft, introduces Ubisoft formula and NFTs to Playstation franchises.
It's probably the most public form of money laundering I have ever seen.
Can I acquire it, fire Pouard and their entire "Innovation Lab", and then give it back?
These things will make you rich because they have digital scarcity and thus are really rare.
We just made a bunch of them on a whim in the hopes of shutting you up.
I'd be so mad if someone ever gave me anything crypto as a gift. It's such a blatant move to try and lure people into that ecosystem, which has a direct material benefit to people currently holding crypto. The gift is saying "please be a greater fool for me".
"In the meantime, the core use-case for Quartz NFTs remains in-game hats."
All this shit for this? It's not worth it, fam!
All this shit for this? It's not worth it, fam!
Like we all know they are scams and a cancer in this world but I keep seeing these assholes say "NFTs open possibilities for other kind of games that we do not see yet." Have they ever actually said what those possibilities are? Cause lmao it's comedic
Try to visualize space aliens having a discussion among themselves to figure out the reasoning behind human behaviour patterns, then take a look at this exchange.
reminds me in the part of REAM.DE by neal stephenson where theyu make the GRRM standin mine something in game (there's an mmo as part of the plot) and then sell it on ebay or something and see real money appear in his bankaccount and then he gets it
I'd rather have the $200 you flushed paying the gas fees for the minting. If my employer ever gave me an NFT I'd immediately start looking for a new job.
I mean we're talking about a company where 'christmas present' to employees was allowing said employees to BUY games from the company at a discount for holidays.
Yes - the christmas bonus was actually a net-cash benefit to the company.
So the employees will be taxed on whatever Ubi says is the value of these NFTs regardless of how much then can end up selling them for? RSUs and Options are complicated enough from a tax perspective, what the hell do you use for the cost basis of an NFT as part of a compensation package. Are they even thinking about this?
This is such a horrible move. "Eeeh, we heard you don't fully support our move towards features that are nothing but predatory and literally gambling and also very likely legally questionable in many countries? How about here, take this, now you're actively forced to make use of it, too, regardless if you want to or not."
I have a feeling Ubisoft is gonna lose more people over this than keeping or making happy ones.
Really wonder if they also created wallets for everyone to have them immediately invested as well.
I have a feeling Ubisoft is gonna lose more people over this than keeping or making happy ones.
Really wonder if they also created wallets for everyone to have them immediately invested as well.
From what I understand that is something you can do with them. Just place them in someone's wallet. And the fun part is they could essentially be viruses that activate when you try and remove them.
NFTs are stupid.
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That is still up in the air. They reserve right to get cut but for now they are apparently not taking cut
Did you even read the article??
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Even if they discontinue game usage, the tokens will stay on the Blockchain.
This is all in the middle of the biggest talent exodus/brain drain they've suffered in Ubi's history.
Absolute geniuses heading this company...
Absolute geniuses heading this company...
I was thinking that they could sell it to get rid of it, but I guess that would mean they'd have to willingly participate in this scam.
Yes, and that's exactly the thought behind "gifts" like these. The whole point is the employees will either sell it (thus implying "value") or keep it (thus implying "scarcity"). The employees really can't win, especially so if they just got the wallets forced onto them.
Gotta get em hooked on the product first, otherwise how will they really understand the cravings of the audience.
I'm not 100% confident this is correct but as I understand it: if someone has a digital wallet, and you know the address for their wallet, you can place anything in it without the owners consent, including cryptocurrency and NFTs.
They won't necessarily do anything until the owner interacts with them, however, placing Trojan NFTs into people's wallets is supposedly one of the scams people run, and another glaring security issue that surrounds the whole thing.
Again, not 100% sure on the details, so anyone who knows better, feel free to correct me.
The fucking nerve. Forget spot stock or a bonus as a thank you, you can't even spring for some team swag? The thanks you get is essentially digital toilet paper (that Ubisoft takes a cut of any profit from?)
THAT'S what Ubisoft decided to go with in THIS current job market? LMAO. Enjoy getting your talent poached. Fuck right off.
THAT'S what Ubisoft decided to go with in THIS current job market? LMAO. Enjoy getting your talent poached. Fuck right off.
And thus a mass exodus will further be accelerated at Ubisoft.
Fuck this nonsense. Those devs need to to bail; hopefully lots of places opening up to the talent being mismanaged.
Fuck this nonsense. Those devs need to to bail; hopefully lots of places opening up to the talent being mismanaged.
I must be blind I didn't even see that, my bad but in my defense it was a article about NFT'S so can't blame me for not wasting my time on reading it fully
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