The NFT they were going to be “the future of video games.” Many studies were convinced that this new technology disruptive came to do the players a favor, allowing them to be done with collectibles unique and even earn money through their hobby. However, many of these revolutionary promises have fallen on deaf ears, and more and more companies are undoing their future plans with non-fungible tokens.
NFTs do not sneak into a punished video game market
I could have snuck in with any other community, but not with the gamers. If we take a look back, the video game industry has regressed in the last 10-15 years. Player now has access to vcheapest ideo games, and even thousands of titles free-to-play. But in exchange of what? Well having to mess with micro transactions, loot box, Wacky DLCs and all sorts of macabre new ways to take money from the consumer, most of them, unethical, but very lucrative.
When some of the most famous game developers came out in favor of NFTs, the community stood up to them. Not even the waves of “cryptobros” have been able to prevent dozens of youtubers of video games have made their exposition about it, using their respective elevated positions to create a negative public opinion about the integration of NFTs in the world of video games. After all, this market will only work if people swallow, as happened previously with micropayments, gold, skins and the loot boxes.
These are the companies that have canceled their projects
Team17
It seemed easy to convert worms, one of its most popular franchises, in an NFT game like Axie Infinity. But nevertheless, the British studio has decided to take a step back due to pressure from some of the company partners, which is speculated to be Playtonic and Aggro Crab. MetaWorms has lasted only two days, and the community has celebrated that the movement has been internal, regardless of the position of consumers.
Electronic Arts
At the beginning of November 2021, Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA, was quite excited about the world of games. nft collectibles. I would have put my hand in the fire for this technology and its implementation in video games. However, on February 1 of this year he no longer thought quite the same. He acknowledged that collectibles still have a bright future ahead of them, but the environment surrounding NFTs within the industry of the entertainment seemed enough risky como to move on.
Discord
chat service for gamers announced the Metamask portfolio integration on its platform in November 2021. Just two days later, user pressure made Jason Citron reconsider continuing to explore this path. In order not to lose face in front of his community, he simply said that the roadmap he had published was simply an internal concept that they were not going to put into practice.
Discord announces integration with blockchain wallets https://t.co/BvYm7jCaX1 and Square Enix announces that they are fully involved in https://t.co/yLLleaiyHz
— Willyrex (@WillyrexYT) November 9, 2021
GSC Game World
In December of last year, this team announced that it would join DMarket to create NFT’s from STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl. The idea was that the players of the shooter they could trade weapons and other objects. They sold it as the most ambitious integration of all time, a wonder that was going to mark a before and after in the video game sector. However, the fans jumped on it. In a matter of a few days, they generated so many negative opinions that GSC Game World decided to take a step back as long as they didn’t sink the beach bar.
