Very recently, we learned that Ubisoft was ending tracking of the game Ghost Recon Breakpoint, an opus of the franchise strongly criticized for many reasons. But after this brake, what about game-related NFTs? Ubisoft left a message especially for these buyers.
A possibly fungible story
With this end of game support, the other big question we can ask ourselves concerns the famous NFT (or “Digits” as Ubisoft calls them). As a reminder, the publisher launched its Ubisoft Quartz platform in the midst of the NFT boom despite fierce opposition observed from many gamers and developers.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint was the first game to benefit from its Digits at the beginning of December 2021. Some players were thus able to buy new cosmetics limited to a few copies (between 200 and 3000 depending on the items). Each NFT has its own serial number visible in the game and can be sold to others outside the Ubisoft platform (which does not receive a commission on sales between players).
With the end of the follow-up, here is the message sent to NFT enthusiasts via the Ubisoft Quartz platform:
“Thank you to all Ghost Recon Breakpoint players who claimed their first Digits! You own part of the game and have left your mark on its history. The last Digit for Ghost Recon Breakpoint was released on 03/17/2022, stay tuned for more updates with platform features and future rollouts coming for other games! »
Ubisoft does not specify however whether these Digits can be used in the future in other games as had already been mentioned by the publisher. The risk being that they become permanently useless. What is almost certain is that it looks like other upcoming titles will take advantage of these NFTs.
Although other video game players have backed down in the face of the discontent of players who see no concrete benefit in this new market, Ubisoft is not bending. At the end of January, the director of Ubisoft’s innovation laboratory, Nicolas Pouard, declared in an interview that “gamers don’t understand what a digital secondary market can do for them”.