Do you remember when there was a time when a few persistent people insisted that NFTs were the future? That we couldn’t live without them and that they would mark the separation between two eras? Well, it’s been three years since then and they seem like an eternity, especially for those who were creating games with NFT technology and have no idea what the heck to do with them now. This is the case with Ubisoft, which in its new title has prepared a mishmash that I’m not very sure they know how to get out of.
NFT: New Farcry, dude
The game in question is called Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E, and it aims to rekindle interest in Captain Laserhawk, the Netflix spin-off series of Blood Dragon, which was itself a spin-off of Far Cry 3. You can see it’s off to a good start. The game has appeared without a marketing campaign around it or making much noise, and there’s a reason for that: it seems that Ubisoft is embarrassed by it.
And it’s logical. The most interesting thing about the game is that Rayman appears as a television presenter (no, it doesn’t make any sense, of course), exactly what fans of the character wanted: a cheap gimmick in a title funded by NFTs. Because yes, the game promises that you will “own” one of the 10,000 different characters, brave warriors of Eden. And how much does this fun cost, you may ask?
The cheapest one costs about 12 dollars (0.0037 ETH) and the most expensive -mind you- 162,957 dollars (50 ETH), in case you like to throw money at a game that is likely to fail. So far, it is estimated that about a hundred people have entered the game of Captain Laserhawk, which promises crossovers with other Ubisoft sagas like Assassin’s Creed. Isn’t it exciting?!
No, obviously. The game arrives late, when the NFT fever has already passed, it hasn’t made any impact and, although it is promised that its “full version” will appear in 2025, what they seem to have overlooked is that there might be no one (literally no one) to try it. Will this be the last vestige of NFTs we see in the industry? Hopefully.
