Do you remember NFTs and the cryptocurrency craze? In a world where the big (more or less fleeting) novelty is artificial intelligence, it almost seems like prehistory. However, it wasn’t that long ago when a few influencers insisted that we had to buy ugly monkey drawings to secure our future and that a non-existent currency could make us millionaires. Ubisoft, arriving late to the matter, has just launched its first blockchain game, and its interest is… well, niche.
It costs how much?
It is Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, a game with an excessively long title for what it is: A tactical PvP RPG where to fight with NFT characters. Players fight against different characters in turn-based combat, seeking experience points and items to improve their characters. Where is the crypto aspect? Well, the characters, once grown and unique, can be sold in a market that operates with cryptocurrencies.
Most of the characters right now range from 5 to 200 dollars (or their equivalent in “gold,” the game’s currency), but there is one that currently costs 63,000 dollars. We’ll see if this becomes a new market where someone buys it and grows it, ... or if there will be someone who spends that amount of money and in a few years keeps asking themselves why they made that mistake.
I’ll give something to Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles. It’s a textbook pyramid scheme and doesn’t even try to hide it, artificially inflating prices in a game that, really, no one cares about. It’s surprising, in fact, that a Ubisoft in a state of change that wants to return to its former self would stoop to such a childish level. They already tried to introduce NFTs in the game Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and the community’s backlash made them backtrack, but… How are they going to backtrack in a game designed solely and exclusively for speculation?