Ubisoft's new NFT project video received 96% dislike

The recently announced non-fungible token (NFT) project Quartz by French gaming giant Ubisoft Entertainment SA faces opposition from the gaming community.

Ubisoft announced a short YouTube video on December 8 announcing the release of Quartz beta, and at the time of this writing, viewership has reached 214,721. The campaign focuses on technology integration NFT and blockchain to existing AAA games, and announces that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint is the first game to join NFT.

The video presents Quartz as a platform for gamers to "write expansions for the first time and save power on Ubisoft NFTs". These NFTs are called "Digits".

YouTube recently changed its policy to hide the number of likes it receives on movies, but that number is still available in Google Chrome. Currently, the video has 1,400 likes and 37,000 dislikes, which you can check through Google Chrome, which is 96% of likes.

One of the ads posted by users of "OperatorDrewski", which currently has 2,600 likes and 0 dislikes, criticized Ubisoft's NFT project as a way to make money faster than to improve all of them. Games.

“To me, this is a clear sign that you've clicked through every piece of the game in the Ghost Recon series, and the effort to invest in the real game itself is minimal. Playing GR more has been ..”

This view appears to have been endorsed by part of the community, and Twitter users also criticized the company's new announcements, threatening to shut down the company's activities, and were totally against Ubisoft.

Not because of the environment, but because of my personal view of NFT, I will now delete all content about you and not purchase your game.

That's it. If you don't like the Ubisoft industry now, please don't buy.

- Skyeeeely - Chat paresseux VStreamer (@Sukaaaily) 2021 12 7 日

An announcement on the Reddit r / gaming page on December 8 revealed that people were protesting against Ubisoft's new NFT project. The ad, titled "No Support for Ubisoft's New NFT Marketplace" Quartz "on" u / WolverineKuzuri93 ", received 2,500 comments, over 13,400 likes and 93% likes.

One Reddit user mentioned a similar problem to top commentators on YouTube videos and pointed out:

"You have to fight this practice ... Another way to mislead players with skepticism is instead to focus on creating good deep products." We have to tell the company that this is an attitude to protect consumers.

They say, "I did not object to the idea of ​​using NFT systems in digital games. For example, not only licenses, but actually copies so that they can be sold with the money of the players. others. It's Ubisoft's way into gaming accessories. "

Player refuses to NFT

This is not the first time that large companies have come under fire for concentrating or advancing in the field of NFT. Cointelegraph announced last month that the community messaging app Discord is expected to phase out Ethereum-based NFT integration plans after community players criticized CEO Jason Citron.

Citron first outlined the company's plans with a video showing the beta of the Ethereum NFT wallet, but was quickly prompted by thousands of questions asking it to cancel the plans. , users threaten to withdraw their Nitro subscriptions.

Unlike Ubisoft's problem, cryptocurrency skeptics at Discord believe that NFTs are Ponzi schemes and that the energy needed to mine the cryptocurrency could be damaging to the environment.