{"id":400589,"date":"2022-01-28T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ubisoft-executive-responds-to-the-backlash-over-new-nft-platform\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T22:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:01:50","slug":"ubisoft-executive-responds-to-the-backlash-over-new-nft-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ubisoft-executive-responds-to-the-backlash-over-new-nft-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"# Ubisoft executive responds to the backlash over new NFT platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Ubisoft executive responds to the backlash over new NFT platform <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>Nicolas Pouard,\u00a0VP at Ubisoft&#8217;s Strategic Innovations Lab, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finder.com.au\/ubisoft-interview-nfts\">commented<\/a>\u00a0on the negative <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>r feedback that Ubisoft received after introducing\u00a0Quartz and Digits, in an interview with Finder.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a reaction we are accustomed to. I think it&#8217;s great because it shows how engaged our players are and how passionate they are about their hobby and gaming in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>. And looking at that, I think it&#8217;s reassuring.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the interview Pouard goes on to clarify that Quartz and Digits are a &#8220;matter of personal choice&#8221; for players who &#8220;at no point&#8221; will be forced to use them.<\/p>\n<p>In Pouard&#8217;s explanation of Ubisoft&#8217;s motivations, however, some readers clung on to one phrase he said: &#8220;I think gamers don&#8217;t get what a digital secondary market can bring to them.&#8221; The idea that players may not &#8220;get it for now&#8221; was not taken very lightly by the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>sphere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below are some reactions from gamers to a Tweet by Kotaku, the popular video game blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well if users don&#8217;t get it, shouldn&#8217;t you avoid it. After all aren&#8217;t you doing this for consumers? I remember the time when ubisoft was one of the best places to play. Prince of Persia, AC Ethio trilogy Altair. Now ubisoft is less than a shell of its former self. It barely is<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOLdROGER1PIECE (@LdRoger1) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LdRoger1\/status\/1486986665520414722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some users were either simply &#8220;not interested&#8221; or believe that there is more gain for the company itself than for the gamers.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2022-01\/2fb8b443-9cb6-45f5-ae2b-9f4bc4a75311.png\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Related:\u00a0More evidence game devs hate NFTs and crypto<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is also sentiment around gamers having true ownership of not just a skin or a weapon, but of characters and story lines. If players can become active contributors of a gaming ecosystem, then could it be possible for them to have ownership over the games themselves? <\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft recently partnered with startup Aleph.im who will provide a decentralized storage solution for Ubisoft Quartz. The gaming giant plans to continue integrating Digits into Quartz through 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"nifty_newsletter\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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I think it&#8217;s great because it shows how engaged our players are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDEvYWFjZjQxOTUtNGU3Ni00ZGE4LTkxMjctNjVkM2Y1MWRiY2E4LmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95118,80,10751,10401],"class_list":["post-400589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-nft","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}