French gaming big Ubisoft Leisure SA’s new nonfungbile token (NFT) mission Quartz is dealing with sturdy pushback from the gaming neighborhood.

Ubisoft unveiled the Beta launch of Quartz through a short YouTube video on Dec. 8 that has 214,721 views on the time of writing. The mission aims to mix NFTs and blockchain expertise with present Triple-A sport titles, and introduced Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint as its first sport to formally combine NFTs.

The video introduces Quartz as a platform that permits avid gamers to “acquire the primary playable and energy-efficient Ubisoft NFTs” which can be dubbed as “Digits.”

YouTube just lately changed its coverage to cover the variety of dislikes a video on the platform will get, nonetheless the quantity can nonetheless be accessed by Google Chrome extensions. Upon utilizing an extension, the video presently exhibits 1,400 likes and 37,000 dislikes which equates to a dislike ratio of roughly 96%.

One of many prime feedback on the video from consumer “OperatorDrewski” presently has 2,600 likes with zero dislikes, and blasts Ubisoft’s NFT mission as a fast money seize versus enhancing the general gaming expertise:

“To me, this can be a blatant sign that you just’re simply milking the Ghost Recon franchise for actually each cent whereas placing in minimal effort into the precise sport itself. Not taking part in a GR sport sooner or later if there’s this stage of degeneracy within the crew.”

“You took a strong franchise and completely made it a laughing inventory,” they added.

This opinion seems to be shared by a major variety of the neighborhood, with customers on Twitter additionally lashing out on the agency in response to its newest announcement as they threatened to uninstall the agency’s video games and boycott Ubisoft fully.

Due to my private view of NFTs and never due to the environmemt solely, I’ll now proceed to uninstall something associated to you proper now and stop additional purchases of your video games.

That’s all. For those who dislike Present Ubi’s advertising, simply cease shopping for.

— Skyeeeely – Lazy VStreamer Cat (@Sukaaaily) December 7, 2021

A Dec. 8 publish over on the r/gaming web page on Reddit exhibits a concerted effort to boycott the brand new NFT mission. The publish titled “don’t help “Quartz”, the brand new NFT Ubisoft market” from “u/WolverineKuzuri93” presently has 2,500 feedback and an upvote ratio of 93% at greater than 13,400 upvotes.

The Redditor highlights related points to the highest commenter on YouTube, noting that:

“We’ve to face in opposition to this follow. […] That is simply one other option to nickel and dime gamers with cosmetics somewhat than specializing in making high quality merchandise with depth. We’ve to let corporations know that is anti-consumer.”

“I am not solely in opposition to the idea of utilizing an NFT model system for digital video games. For instance, really proudly owning your digital copy somewhat than only a license so you’ll be able to promote it to a different consumer’s account. That is really the way forward for digital gaming. What I am in opposition to is how Ubisoft are doing it with in-game objects,” they added.

Gamer backlash to NFTs

This isn’t the primary time a serious agency has been flamed for , or launching into the world of NFTs. Cointelegraph reported final month that neighborhood messaging app Discord was compelled to stroll again its Ethereum-based NFT integration plans, after the gamer neighborhood bombarded CEO Jason Citron.

Citron initially teased his agency’s plans through a screenshot of a beta characteristic displaying Ethereum NFT pockets help, nonetheless he was promptly hounded with hundreds of feedback calling on him to desert the plans together with customers threatening to cancel their paid Nitro subscriptions.

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In contrast to the case of Ubisoft, the place the neighborhood seems to be peeved by what they assert is a money seize, the crypto-skeptics on Discord consider NFTs are a Ponzi scheme and injury the atmosphere because of the power required to mine cryptocurrencies.

Cointelegraph has reached out to Ubisoft representatives for remark, and can replace the story in the event that they reply.