it's twenty frickin 24 and Ubisoft just launched an NFT game

Ubisoft Just Quietly Launched a Full-Blown NFT Game - IGN
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having stealth-launched a full-blown web3 game last week called Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles on PC.

Champions Tactics is billed as a "PVP tactical RPG game on PC", and is both developed and published by Ubisoft. It involves collectible figurines of various warriors from the in-game fantasy world of Grimoria, which players assemble into squads of three and then battle in turn-based combat that looks oddly reminscent of Darkest Dungeon, of all things.

dear fuck this is incredibly generic. the game series is… Champions? of which this is a tactical installment and also the chronicles of Grimoria, a fantasy name so bland I can’t believe it’s not copyright infringement? this shit — name, concept, and all — definitely came from an LLM

But fundamentally, Ubisoft's perspective on the tech seems surprisingly bullish; the vice president of its Strategic Innovation Lab seems to think gamers just "don't get it."

yeah! your target audience just refuses to get what you’re going for! I wonder what that’s called again? oh yeah, failure

Is my product concept fundamentally bad?

No, it's the customers who are wrong.

Didn't some Ubisoft exec (possibly the same one) already blame gamers for the lack of success that this pirate "AAAA" game I've already forgotten the name of had?

Shows no gameplay, and the marketing is nft shit and generic trashy free to play bullshit games. "Become a legend!" No big surprise it was a failure.

In pursuit of bag holders, Ubisoft has become a bag holder.

A day late and a bitcoin short

One of the nft figures in the game goes for $65k.

This should be illegal

Sold for 65k or offered for?

To signal their foray into NFTs they should drop the FT from the name. Ubiso. Short for, U should Bi So lucky we make any games for you at all, peasant.

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OR they could drop all the letters *but* NFT and start a newspaper focusing on economic current affairs

Never give Ubi money.
Or EA.

Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles

That is the most 2020 generic gatcha name I've ever heard

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If the game items had price tag in XMR, it'd be very cool. No one asked for buying Blender models with Ethereum.

NFTs. I'm so glad it died so quickly. What a scam.

Can't wait to see Ubisoft's first AI only game.

It’ll come out a year or two after the AI craze crashes!

I mean, for all we know, only AI is playing this game!

Quick, we need to bring up a few more old and leaking nuclear reactors to handle the energy demand of this nonsense!

I irrationally hate the term “web3” (or maybe it’s rational). It feels like someone tried to force a paradigm rather than the natural evolution.

There used to be a respectable web 3.0 but now we just have web3 crypto grifters.

Francois Bodson, studio director at Ubisoft Paris, responded as follows:

of course, none of the questions were answered

Our shared goal is to explore new ways to play alongside bringing more value to players based on empowerment and ownership

Holy shit

Empowerment and ownership are the new pride and accomplishment.

It's like recreating the vacuum of space with words.

PR talk needs to die a fiery death.

I love this picture you are painting. I will definitely steal the metaphor.

You own the figure in the game, but don't delude yourself into thinking you actually own this game. We reserve the right to remove your access to your property at our own discretion

A bit late to the party for this particular grift id say.

I know it will fail but I really hope it will fail big time to accelerate the dowfall of this soulless corporate piece of shit company.

That was a delayed grift release, no wonder they stealth launched it (given it would've tarnished them even more). I hope they get a lot of shit for this scammy 'game'.

Death to Ubisoft. Let's make an example out of them by simply laughing from the sidelines while they bury themselves.

What, Guillemot thinks Ubisoft's share price is still too high?

Whoever is responsible for this deserves hot, wet pillows, scratchy blankets and lumpy mattresses for life.

This is what happens when you try to develop as a triple a studio against trends. By the time your game comes out, you are too late to the grift.

Is there any public record of anyone actually buying that tripe?