The French publisher is once again turning to NFTs, as the company led by Yves Guillemot has announced a new agreement.

At the end of 2021, Ubisoft’s NFTorture started with the launch of the French company’s own platform, Quartz (it hasn’t been very successful so far…). This was where you could buy and sell Digits, so it was their NFT market. The service still exists today, but only one game featured the non-fungible tokens, as apart from Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Ubisoft’s NFT fever didn’t really spread to many other games due to the highly critical opinions. Many gamers saw it as unnecessary and a way to sell simple digital items at an unacceptable price (and of course Ubisoft took a cut).

The company didn’t really care, as it announced a deal with Double Jump.Tokyo on July 4. The Japanese developer will help the publisher integrate web3 technologies into Ubisoft’s first blockchain-based game, Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles. The first step will be to integrate the Oasys Layer 2 Home Verse game-focused blockchain into the PC-exclusive game. We don’t know when the integration will be ready, but we do know that the game is a competitive multiplayer turn-based RPG with no release date yet.

Last year, Ubisoft said that Quartz’s infrastructure was still in place, but presumably Double Jump.Tokyo will be the company responsible for the infrastructure instead, and the French continue to take the position that if you don’t like NFTs, don’t buy them. In the past we have heard them say that web3 technology has a future in games because it can be used to create experiences that facilitate the ownership, trading and control of assets (e.g. textures, models) using NFTs.

But the point remains the same: NFTs are mostly not well received by the public. They are either condemning or neutral; a very small percentage of them are supporters!

Source: GameRant, PCGamer