Ubisoft announced it will begin selling NFTs through its new Ubisoft Quartz platform. Starting with Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Ubisoft will start selling collectible NFT items that can be re-sold to other players on the Quartz platform. The company joins a concerningly large number of companies making ventures into the cryptocurrency-backed scheme.
Introducing Ubisoft Quartz ?
We're bringing the first energy efficient NFTs playable in a AAA game to Ghost Recon: Breakpoint!Try it in the beta from December 9 with three free cosmetic drops and learn more here: https://t.co/ysEoYUI4HY pic.twitter.com/owSFE2ALuS
— Ubisoft (@Ubisoft) December 7, 2021
Starting December 9, 2021, Ubisoft will begin beta testing the Quartz platform and give away three cosmetic items in the process. According to the official announcement trailer, each NFT item — called “Digits”, for some reason — will come with an engraved serial number that makes the item “unique”. The serial number is also viewable to other players in-game, just in case you wanted to let people know that you’ve bought an NFT. Furthermore, the NFT platform will only be available to certain countries. That is the US, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Australia, and Brazil.
Users to quick to point out that Ubisoft’s Quartz NFT scheme added no value to the actual game experience. While the ability to trade cosmetic items with other players seems to be the main selling point, it’s also what is most concerning about this new platform. As Valve saw with the explosion of the Counter Strike: Global Offensive skin market during the mid-2010s, the exchange of cosmetic items for real-world currency can be abused to launder money. It also doesn’t help that Ubisoft is allowing the exchange of Digits on other “authorized” third-party platforms.
Additionally, Ubisoft also claims Digits are “energy-efficient” NFTs, but there is a simpler solution: just sell cosmetic items without NFTs.
You know, like every other video game company?
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