Ubisoft Just Quietly Launched a Full-Blown NFT Game - IGN
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Three years ago, Ubisoft promised it would start making its own blockchain games. And now it appears to have done it, having stealth-launched a full-blown web3 game last week called "Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles" on PC.
  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    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

    • DdCno1@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      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?

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • psmgx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles

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