Ubisoft Continues Its Push for NFTs in Video Games

Highlights

Ubisoft partnered with Double Leap.Tokyo on integrating Web3 applied sciences into Champions Techniques: Grimoria Chronicles.
The corporate’s first blockchain sport continues to be with out a launch date.
The transfer suggests Ubisoft stays unwavering in its efforts to implement NFTs into its video games regardless of client pushback.

Ubisoft is continuous its NFT gaming push, having simply introduced a brand new partnership to that impact. The transfer alerts that Ubisoft continues to be unwavering in its pursuit of the expertise that has already obtained vital pushback from its followers.

The corporate’s NFT foray started in late 2021 with the launch of Ubisoft Quartz, a platform for getting and promoting Digits, its jargon for non-fungible tokens. Whereas the service exists to today, it by no means expanded past Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint. It additionally incurred a barrage of public criticism, with many shoppers proclaiming it to be pointless and solely geared towards promoting easy digital objects at unacceptable costs, thus concluding how it could be greatest if Ubisoft’s NFT initiative would crash and burn.

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Ubisoft Continues NFT Push With Double Leap.Tokyo Partnership

That backlash seemingly did little to dissuade the corporate from pursuing new NFT initiatives. One other such enterprise was introduced on July 4 within the type of a partnership with Double Leap.Tokyo. The collaboration will see the Japanese developer present help for integrating Web3 applied sciences into Ubisoft’s first blockchain-based sport, Champions Techniques: Grimoria Chronicles. Step one in that endeavor will likely be to implement the proprietary gaming blockchain Oasys Layer 2 HOME Verse into the PC-only sport.

The 2 firms didn’t present a timeline for when precisely the combination is supposed to be accomplished. The sport, which is touted as a aggressive multiplayer turn-based RPG, continues to be ready for a launch date. It is presently unclear what implications this partnership could have on the way forward for Ubisoft Quartz, which the corporate insisted nonetheless existed as an “underlying infrastructure” in a late 2023 assertion issued to PC Gamer. However this newly introduced collaboration implies Dobule Leap.Tokyo would be the one accountable for offering the blockchain infrastructure for Champions Techniques: Grimoria Chronicles.

Trying on the greater image, it could seem Ubisoft’s stance that gamers simply “do not get” NFTs but stays unchanged. The corporate beforehand touted Web3 applied sciences as having a future in gaming by offering an avenue for creating experiences that help proudly owning, buying and selling, and controlling in-game belongings utilizing NFTs and different blockchain options. Avid gamers, for his or her half, stay largely unimpressed and even outright hostile to the concept.

In between the launch of Ubisoft Quartz and this Dobule Leap.Tokyo collaboration, the Murderer’s Creed maker struck one other Web3 partnership with Sydney, Australia-based developer Immutable. Introduced in November 2023, the initiative has but to yield any consumer-facing content material. Ubisoft’s newest blockchain companion has beforehand additionally been connected to a few of Sega’s NFT initiatives, together with an as-of-yet-unreleased Web3 sport referred to as Battle of Three Kingdoms – Sangokushi Taisen. Whereas that title continues to be stated to be in improvement at Dobule Leap.Tokyo, Sega itself dropped its wider NFT ambitions again in 2023.