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Ubisoft’s NFTs are barely traded – Gaming – News

The NFTs that Ubisoft has added to Ghost Recon Breakpoint are virtually non-traded. This is evident from analyzes of the marketplaces that Ubisoft works with. Players seem to have little interest in the publisher’s experiment.

Twitter user Liza Edwards was the first to notice that only 15 trades have been made on the two marketplaces that Ubisoft works with. The NFTs in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, which are called Quartz Digits by Ubisoft, have been available since December 9. It concerns digital items such as skins, which can be traded as NFT. Among other things, Ubisoft gave players free items if they played the game for more than 100 hours or 600 hours; they can now be traded.

The Ubisoft Quartz platform for NFTs operates on the Tezos blockchain and all trading of the Digits to date has accounted for a volume of 279 Tezos. At the time of writing, this represents a value of about 1049 euros. One of the two marketplaces that Ubisoft is partnering with is Rarible and at the time of writing there are ten Ubisoft Quartz NFTs sold, of which four to one buyer.

Axios journalist Stephen Totilo delved further into the transactions and writes on Twitter that there are more transactions than sales on Rarible, but they are almost all performed by one account. According to Totilo looks like a person is using Ubisoft NFTs hoarden is.

Recent Ubisoft NFT sales on Rarible

Ubisoft announced an experiment on December 7th te starten met nft’s in Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The publisher calls this system Quartz and the digital items are so-called Digits. Ubisoft’s NFTs are currently not available in the Netherlands and Belgium.

The concept received a lot of criticism from players when it was announced and the announcement video on YouTube got a lot of thumbs down, after which Ubisoft Of video on unlisted put. According to Kotaku Ubisoft employees have also internally criticized the arrival of the NFTs. However, the top of Ubisoft continues to insist that NFTs in games have a future. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has, according to Kotaku addressed employees and said that ‘nft’s are only the beginning’. According to company employees, that speech was full of buzzwords like ‘metaverse’ and ‘web 3.0’.

Last week, Stalker 2 developer GSC World also revealed plans for NFTs in that game, but after a deluge of criticism from gamers, the company backtracked and all plans around the integration of NFTs deleted.

Valve announced in October ban games that use nfts from steam. Epic-topman Tim Sweeney zei in September that his company will also not work with NFTs because “the entire industry is currently a jumble of scams, interesting decentralized tech foundations and even more scams.”

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