Team17 Cancel Worms NFTs After Devs & Studios Revolt, Troy Baker Apologizes, EA Now Scared Of NFTs

[@YongYea]

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[@MrSmf500]

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[@Mushr88mBreW]

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[@LSDireWolf]

Here for the period

[@murrarotz7082]

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[@MichaelHenderson777]

first

[@E1evenDegrees]

These companies think they can convince gamers to want NFTs when all we really want is completed games at launch

[@Venator631]

Exactly all we want is for the games to be complete with all the major problems fixed also make sure any single player games don't require a internet connection.

[@Spike2276]

Those are some "brutal expectations" you have there man

[@widdershins5383]

Jeebus, why are you asking for the moon guy? Don’t you know those are unrealistic expectations from billion dollar companies? Lol

[@cmdraftbrn]

@@Venator631 forgot the moronic "anti-piracy features" you glorious bastard

[@Venator631]

@@cmdraftbrn I guess i did oops.

[@LadyZubat]

"I fucking hate it here" has to be one of the best lines I've ever seen in a statement from a fucking video game developer

[@Hammerite]

should be on a shirt.

[@pm.meowth4850]

@@Hammerite im sure its out there lemme check yeah they out there but they are missing the key word fucking

[@LadyZubat]

@@Hammerite would buy that in a heartbeat

[@EvilOdysseus]

Imagine if people were like this against microtransactions when they first came out. So many games could've been saved from a shitty design

[@KnakuanaRka]

Hindsight is always 20/20. :-(

[@ferminangelcarhuajulcaguil1196]

I mean, everyone using thr mtx argument in favor of NFTs is getting blasted with the 'but at least'

[@ifrit1937]

TBF...you usually need an example/precedent of bad shit to learn not to take anymore bad shit (microtransactions for this point...well more loot box style microtransactions tbh...dlc could be good if done right like say large expansions like FFXIV ARR or the Witcher 3 dlcs (granted CDPR fucked up with Cyberpunk) unfortunately most dlcs wind up being on the more scummy end (costumes/cosmetics or even worse loot boxes)).

[@vanslanzerdefanel]

the issue was micro transactions at their inception...were actually using the micro word literally. We were eased into the MTX stuff and by the time they became Macrotransactions there was no way back. However that same power of hindsight lets us see EXACTLY where NFTs are going to end up.

[@DiscreetHobo]

Remember when Gamers gave shit for Bethesda attempting to sell Horse Armor DLC with Oblivion in 2006? yeah. me neither

[@Meanlucario]

Just to clarify, NFTs aren't the image. NFTs are a slot in an invisible line to nowhere, and the image is there to represent the slot/lure people in. It's even more of a scam than you realize.

[@rodel7636]

Absolutely, people are buying the receipt of the digital bullshit and not the digital bullshit itself. That's it. Fcking scam.

[@xxmlgguyxx1167]

Basically.. Buy this RTX card for $0.01! Except it's a scam!

[@62cky4powerthirst]

theres a really good video diving into how it's all a scam called "Line Goes Up, the Problem With NFTs" you should check it out

[@sock2828]

It's a bit like those companies that claim a star is now named after you because you bought an expensive certificate from them saying it is. Except people are trying to use the certificates as investments and stores of value, for some reason.

[@FinnFann]

Buy this air. But we represent the air with this generated image! Isn't it a nice image? That air is totally worth something! ...it's literally selling nothing for something. The only way value exists is because people think the value exists. The moment people think it's valueless it collapses as there is no physical backing. ...It's literally beenie babies, but with just the reciept instead of a plush.

[@UnfoundFilms]

I love how no one wants NFT’s in games, they’re having a horrible backlash but companies are just like “b…but we wanna..”

[@DisDatK9]

And then there are people like the upper corporate management at Square Enix, where they think we are all dumb as shit and they’re SO much smarter and buy a huge investment into crypto markets selling studios right before a massive crash. Yeah, we are the idiots to them.

[@maggiejetson7904]

The Wall Street investors force this onto the management.

[@Microfire69]

The original announcement of "You can hate. Or you can create." seems contradictory with Troy Baker now claiming ignorance because the tweet indicated that he knew there would be some kind of backlash or "hate" with the decision to do NFTs.

[@No-sr5fb]

Yeah its such a half assed attempt to back pedal

[@wat146]

He knew. He just undercalculated.

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

@@justcows7772 Nor are NFTs much about the art itself as well anyway as said by NFTards in response as to why all NFTs are ugly as hell, so they basically admitted it themselves that it's solely because of money.

[@pokehybridtrainer]

Ethereum took a nosedive since he made that announcement, so I think his investments took some hits.

[@drrisen-9442]

@@donkeydarko77 I would honestly give him the benefit of the doubt. The people shilling these NFT deals are professional con artists and confidence tricksters. They probably did every trick in the book to mislead him about what NFTs were and why people were so senselessly mad about them. Maybe not, but it’s a possibility.

[@aisadal2521]

We're truly in the dark timeline if EA doesn't want NFTs, while Nintendo is considering them in the future 😰

[@thenoobgamer95]

Nah ain't no fucking way boy. Is that true?!

[@thejman5683]

@@thenoobgamer95 nope, they said they were more interested in a metaverse, not NFTs

[@Zathren]

@@thejman5683 Really hope Nintendo looses intrest in the metavers.

[@jimboydejuan7869]

Literally EA scared of NFT and Ubisoft has fallen to into hands of NFT. Nintendo seeming a bit of interest metaverse not NFT.

[@noivern666]

I mean, it's Nintendo. It's EA Games but japanese...

[@Wastingsometimehere]

The heavy pushback from everyone who plays games is working, but lets not forget this is the video game industry. They will try again in a usually less blunt way. You have to keep at or they will keep pushing until they find away to get NFTs in gaming. Always be aware.

[@ThePowerOfOneThePowerOfTwo]

Exactly. Some pub/dev will just make a more "digestible" model to implement NFTs after this and people will begrudgingly accept it because it's "not as egregious" as what was proposed before. Gotta keep telling them to eff off with whatever model they come up with

[@jaioncebollero1168]

Ppl are dumb, they get a fake bs apology and forget everything or think the same companies giving apologies won’t do something just as scummy next week

[@joelhodoborgas]

@@ThePowerOfOneThePowerOfTwo We must fear the fanboys when they do. They will defend the pratice and boom, a new and worse lootbox will be born.

[@toshineon]

This is what I also believe. It's called anchoring, this is frequently done in mobile game monetization, you start off with something you know is unacceptable to the customer, an anchor point, after that you introduce something that by comparison isn't as bad. It's a psychological trick, and we can't let them do it this time. Stay on your guard, people.

[@elielc.8459]

​@@toshineon I've seen this happen, and WORK on more than one occasion in the games industry, let alone in modern society in general. Be safe everyone. Be aware.

[@coolermonkey3549]

I love how companies are releasing NFTs after several top companies have failed releasing them. Like "Yeah I know ubisoft failed but maybe we, the creator of worms, can do it!"

[@jamescanjuggle]

😂

[@DiscusvissenRocken]

Corporatism at it's finest :😜 sad.part is though: eventually it will work, and as long as they make teh moneyzz they couldn't give two shits about their reputation since developers will be mocked while the greedy executives rake in the benefits. People need to stop shooting the messenger and start attacking the actual culprits: executives and shareholders.

[@joshuagonzalez8645]

Now imagine if the amount of backlash they're receiving for NFT's was given way back, when the gaming industry first introduced micro transactions

[@dub3140]

Right lol

[@RaidenX196]

We can still make the push, the future isn't written in stone.

[@adad87821]

@@RaidenX196 yeah but normie sports gamers dont know dont care

[@seto007]

When even EA themselves are scared of negative publicity, you know it's bad.

[@thetemp7858]

Ironic, it's probably the compagny we thought would implement them first

[@gravekeepersven82]

EA Games: NFTs are so bad even our chaotic evil selves aint touch this with a 10 ft pole.

[@thetemp7858]

@@gravekeepersven82 after being corrupted for so long, I guess you become immune to corruption

[@linhza501]

They probably don't want another Battlefront 2 situation on their ass.

[@josefarias5216]

@@linhza501 exactly! They're evil, but not dumb

[@BKPrice]

"We want to deliver the best possible player experience we can." I see EA is branching out into comedy now.

[@WadsworthGaming]

this gave me a good chortle 👌

[@x2star606]

Get this guy a medal.

[@Droogie128]

They should branch out into gaming.

[@absolutezero6423]

@@Droogie128 They should branch the hell away from gaming.

[@The_Queen_Chrysalis]

might be listed under dark humor

[@hedgehoundable]

It feels satisfying as hell to see such a united front against NFTs in a way that we all couldn't rally when loot boxes snaked their way into the industry. Providing a common enemy has got to be the only good thing NFTs have done for this medium.

[@MarylandDude9005]

Glad to see that Troy came to his senses and backed out from the nft voice partnership.

[@Zathren]

EA "scared to do NFTs" Gamers "good"

[@heistingcrusader_ad3223]

Excellent

[@Foreststrike]

@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 Muy bueno.

[@simonw3858]

Don't care actually EA is dead to me so it makes no difference.

[@atavusable]

@@simonw3858well they killed dead space, titanfall, battlefield , dragon age and mass effect. So I want them begging on the floor for my money.

[@corneliusvaginus5380]

@@atavusable You forgot the saddest one of them all, Battlefront 1 and 2.

[@dylanmalone14]

Even EA of all companies are terrified of NFT's backlash Now that's impressive

[@RichSmithson]

Now we need to make them terrified of releasing broken 1/2 finished games.

[@christopherboye5498]

Won't matter. NFT will win anyways. Casuals will make sure of it.

[@ConnorTheUndying]

When Nintendo, the guys who strike down game soundtracks by the thousands, say they can't figure out a way to spread joy through NFTs or the metaverse, you know things are _fucked_ for that sector.

[@ultrawariowarefan1431]

It’s mainly metaverse that they are talking about

[@ConnorTheUndying]

@@ultrawariowarefan1431 Yeah. It's also very possible they said that just to appease investors and shareholders, since it was done in a Q&A Meeting for them.

[@ultrawariowarefan1431]

@@ConnorTheUndying also there are speculation that the thousands strike down are not from Nintendo

[@300IQPrower]

@@ultrawariowarefan1431 you’re delusional if you believe that

[@ultrawariowarefan1431]

@@300IQPrower I’m not delusional

[@panqueque445]

"EA now scared of NFTs" Good. Let's keep it that way.

[@Sombody123]

IT'S AFRAID!

[@50ksavagegoodsavage4]

Why is EA afraid of NFTs?

[@Sombody123]

@@50ksavagegoodsavage4 Because they bring universal backlash and implementing them is still not free.

[@Naruku2121]

If that's actually true or sticks that's probably the most profound push back I've ever heard.

[@Khaisz.]

The Team17 situation is actually a good example of that it's not the Devs fault, it's the higher ups fault and all blame should be aimed at higher ups and not the Devs.

[@SA-mo3hq]

Glad the gaming community is finally growing a backbone and torpedoing dumb exploitative horseshit before it gets its fangs into our necks.

[@Venator631]

Too bad this didn't happen to loot boxes.

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

@@Venator631 agreed

[@SA-mo3hq]

@@Venator631 Or battle passes, or day one DLC, or Gatcha, etc. We can't unshoot a bullet wound, but at least we take the gun off these bastards before they blow any more gaping chest wounds in our torsos.

[@heistingcrusader_ad3223]

@@Venator631 loot box is the wake up call. Plus it already had a foothold in Gacha games before AAA titles implement it. NFT is still new. We can snuff it out before they can even lift a finger

[@MrlspPrt]

@@Venator631 this may be a beacon of hope against lootboxes, this NFT reaction gives me a little of hope...

[@remybaker7831]

The overwhelming backlash to NFTs in the gaming community gives me hope for the future, let's keep it up!

[@mattf967]

I genuinely believe them with the whole "They've listened and decided not to" thing but that's only because I also genuinely believe they made no fucking mention of this to any of their boots on the ground developers who thus never had the chance to shit on this stuff beforehand. This was absolutely an executive decision made with a third party company so far over the heads of the average staff that they didn't even know it was happening.

[@marybdrake1472]

Gamers, and ground floor developers need to make NFTs so terrifying that these publishers won't touch them.

[@marybdrake1472]

@@XaldinLonkhe They are definitely bad news.

[@prime_optimus]

NFT of the EA logo.

[@henryviiifake8244]

The solution is the same: *stop* buying their games until they learn. They don't care about anything but their bottom line. The problem is that way too many people still keep buying the games _anyway,_ removing any incentive for companies to stop with their bs.

[@marybdrake1472]

@@henryviiifake8244 Unfortunately, this is true.

[@miecraftandmoregames]

for once i am actually proud of the gaming community for standing up to this, we failed with microtransaction, we failed with lootboxes(even though it's improved now), we must remain vocal to executives and publishers.

[@SirNeedle]

We have actually revolted against everything but the reason we "failed" because you have a group of people with mom's credit card in there hands buying shit 24/7 and you can't do anything about it so it's a situation we can't do shit about

[@miecraftandmoregames]

@@SirNeedle 100% agree. But with this it seems its not even making the money they think.

[@SirNeedle]

@@miecraftandmoregames oh definitely, they won't profit from NFTs. They gotta understand that most of their audience are made of teenagers/adults who have a life and can't just spend their money on shitty investment ( it's actually adults who have a life but you get my point).

[@raistlarn]

Unfortunately based on video game history nfts will be normalized like lootboxes, microtransactions, dlc, and season passes. If anything we are already seeing nfts evolving with Atari's bs nft lootboxes (hopefully that actually brings the ire of all the gambling regulators down in them.)

[@livingcorpse5664]

I mean there are companies that use DLC in an ethical way, giving us extra content and new stories and characters when a game is a year old or more, giving it an extended life and giving us something cool while we wait for a sequel, but yes too many game companies abuse DLC.

[@blank6377]

The fact EA is NOW scared to do NFTs should be taken as a warning to all companies. The little mess for these companies are just the sh*t that keeps on giving.

[@freack3333]

Pirating Konami "content" is million times more effective in preserving it than NFTs.

[@andreimalinao1137]

Don't think that they're doing this out of the kindness of their own hearts. Once they find another opening, they'll pull the same stunt again.

[@aninternetuser4306]

Absolutely

[@dr.science_0177]

You know people hate NFTs when EA is afraid of doing them

[@Ace-ye1nf]

Probably because they received enough backlash from bf2042's failure, if they never made 2042 from the beginning they will definitely consider nfts

[@landotucker]

@@Ace-ye1nf Good point. They're on shaky ground as it is.

[@zephyr8072]

EA also received the most bloody noses when it came to continued lootbox exploitation. While they pretty much get away with it with their sports games, the moment they tried to tie progression to lootboxes in other games they got slapped down hard. They're more aware than others than nakedly obvious greed that doesn't even provide the illusion of benefit to players will go down like a lead balloon.

[@Imikeh]

Gamers: "Are you scared?" EA: **hand shaking** "I must be." Gamers: "Good." EA: "Why is that good?" Gamers: "It means you're not completely moronic."

[@juliorodriguez6156]

I still find it funny that a certain CEO told us that we don't get it, yet they still have yet to give a good explanation themselves.

[@silos-_-]

Self-Destructive Companies: No seriously, this is the future, you just don't get it. Everyone: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson Old Man?

[@Popziclez]

It's almost as if everyone knows that NFTs are useless in gaming.

[@charliebrewster2809]

The period should have been placed after 'useless.' Full stop.

[@akmal94ibrahim]

@@charliebrewster2809 There is one industry it's useful in. The scamming industry

[@iqbaalannaafi761]

NFTs are the modern day equivalent of snake oils, after all.

[@TarotPolitics]

Useless PERIOD. 🗑 🗑 🗑 💯 GARBAGE!!!

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

It's a scam. Like selling a bridge.

[@syco579]

I just love how a lot of these companies saw the visceral reaction NFTs were getting and still decided to push forward with plans to make their own NFTs

[@thorveim1174]

its a gold rush. they all want to be the first to get their share of that money cake, and make investors happy.

[@TheDaxter11]

"Physical NFT's" Hold on. Isn't that called limited edition? Like if Hasbro re-release a Transformers figure but with a fancy cell-shaded G1 paint job and only make a limited amount of them.

[@serina3872]

You know its bad when even EA doesn't want anything to do with NFT's

[@Wolfoso]

Not gonna lie, I'm really impressed and proud of how the VAST majority of people are not only against En Ef Tees, but actively fighting them. If only we had done the same against lootboxes and microtransactions.

[@ChipsMcClive]

Big money supports microtransactions and loot boxes because it makes them vastly richer. NFTs, however, don’t give them anything more than they got out of players before, *and* if used as DRM instead of silly jpgs, NFTs can democratize game prices by allowing the gaming community to set game prices amongst itself.

[@TrianglePants]

Or bad QA or CM.

[@celestialcolosseum]

@@ChipsMcClive If you think that's how it will work you are a delusional embarassment. Yeah, come on guys EA will give us games as NFTs and we will set the price, not the greedy multibillion dollar company! Yes it really makes sense how a greedy company would give the control to the customer, what a great idea! Dude you should honestly stfu if your opinion is this embarassingly bad... If you think people won't torrent something like NFT "DRM" game, then you clearly don't understand how this works. Enjoy your monkey NFTs, i will be supporting indie devs who actually has passion for games and doesn't get involved in schemes like NFTs which don't provide any benefit. Imagine supporting DRM as a customer, disgusting.

[@JoViljarHaugstulen]

The thing with NFTs is that they bring absolutely nothing to the table that wasn't already possible to do. The obvious example is the Steam Market which functions without the use of NFTs it is just that publishers haven't needed or wanted it before suddenly now wanting in on it with NFTs probably because they see it as profitable now. Not to mention it is huge waste of resources with pretty much no benefit as far as I can tell

[@sleepy_boi7552]

at this point it might need bloodshed and gas to cleanse the gaming community and the industry as a whole

[@FakeJeep]

EA caring about what their customers might want? Why does this terrify me?

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

Yeah, Ubisoft is taking their place now.

[@onlywithbuts1781]

It's like bunch of kids that were told " don't touch the stove while its hot or you get burned " ... 100 companies later and they still keep touching the stove yo i am in stitches. Do they honestly think they will be the lucky ones to not burn? Also NFT normalized? Not Freakin Tolerated...

[@ragnarok7976]

Their intent behind trying to add them is so transparent it makes optical grade glass look cloudy.

[@96miffy]

NFT : No Fucking Thanks.

[@CarlosPlata]

I like the little trilogy we formed - Players fed up with EA - EA ashamed to share sales - EA scared of NFTs Truly, we live in the best timeline

[@lukasegeling5205]

Game companies introducing NFTs and hoping they won't get mass backlash is like shoving your hand into a running blender and hoping the blades don't shred it.

[@HyperSonicX]

Shoutout to Johnny Gioeli, vocalist for Crush 40 and several other bands, who wondered if NFTs were worth doing, genuinely asked his Twitter audience for explanations and advice since he didn't know anything about them, and after a few hours concluded from those replies that he didn't want anything to do with them. (mainly citing environmental concerns).

[@SHINIGAMI6774]

This makes me happy dev teams are on our side I hope they continue to fight

[@TrianglePants]

I wanna see em fighting back against MORE THAN just these, or abuse like from ActiBlizzard. Shitty management from Niantic. Unprofessionalism from Kingsisle. Perpetual greed from Konami. ALL. OF. IT.

[@akaimizu1]

They are also on their side for being on our side. The going whole hog with NFTs is a nightmare for developers. If they were to try to make good with the ability CEOs are trying to promise, that would mean these already underpaid, overworked, devs would have to double, if not triple, their efforts to support cross game items. It’s both an overall anti-consumer move, but also anti-employee. Not only would they not pay their employees more for way more work, they stand to increase the amount of stress and burnout by an extraordinary degree.

[@charlescaulkins8306]

It's kinda sad in hindsight that devs and studios have to openly say "we don't support NFTs" to get positive attention. It's like getting a participation award for being a decent human being. I'm glad they're fighting against this, but I don't really want to award companies for saying "ok we listened we'll ease up" because we've done this song and dance before.

[@-Zikade-]

Only in gaming industry will you get thunderous applaud if you say "We promise not to be scummy assholes." (And then when they break that promise nobody is surprised.) It's pretty sad really.

[@treykeele2186]

They're scared. Good. Keep em scared.

[@lightbluewaves5526]

Now this puts a smile on my face, finally some good news. Also the fact that even EA, the most greedy company along with activision, is getting scared of nfts shows how bad nfts are

[@Deadpool-ef3cy]

In the middle of the video the ad that interrupted the video was a ad for nfts. Saying "so you've finally found your forever nft" before I skipped.

[@magoichi75]

Remember it is morally correct to bully crypto bros pushing this

[@HangOnThereSlick]

Bro I am loving that NFTs are screwing with devs reputation. We finally have a small amount power over these scummy publishers! Hopefully Ubisoft takes notice to do the right thing before it's to late, there's still time. Now if we can do the same with microtransactions. I've hated them since their origin and I've hated it more that they've lasted this long.

[@frankjoz2803]

I was happy paying for downloadable missions or side quests added long after the og game was released (Cup head kinda content) but microtansactions and now NFTs can suck my balls

[@dreadn1ght11]

This is the kind of energy we need in the gaming community! Speaking out against predatory practices of any kind

[@CrimsonTHRAK]

So glad there is a massive pushback for these nfts. If this is the way that gaming is going in the future, I'll stick to indies and retro games.

[@simplus1980]

There's no point in NFTs, there just isn't that big a market for overpriced speculative microtransactions. Their decentralized nature is pointless, as far as the video game industry is concerned. Who in their right mind saw any value in there? No need for backlash, this is something that should and will die with nothing more than a whisper.

[@freehugzhere865]

I'm so sick of hearing about NFTs. I hope this shit blows over soon.

[@thorveim1174]

On the contrary. I hope NFT bastards keep being talked about and pointed at until they dont exist anymore.

[@daniell1483]

This is kind of heartwarming for me. I wish the gaming community at large had rejected the DLC train as vehemently as it has denounced NFTs. If it had, maybe we'd still be getting great expansions like Oblivion's The Shivering Isles instead of "surprise mechanics" that we all love so much.

[@daniell1483]

@puckay I don't defend the Horse Armor DLC, for the record. But to the best of my knowledge, The Shivering Isles was the last triple-A style expansion. It was the profitability of the Horse Armor DLC that kicked off the DLC trend, and it has only gotten more onerous from there. I really think that was a pivotal moment for the industry and now we have loot boxes and publishers are pushing NFTs hard now. It looks to me to be a direct progression in the style of content delivery.

[@guybrush20X6]

I think the reason is that NFTs cant be sold to the non tech savvy while FIFA UT crap is sold as "just like trading cards"

[@StrikeNoir105E]

@@daniell1483 "the last triple-A style expansion" Kinda false - there's been a lot of expansion packs for games since then, such as XCOM 2's War of the Chosen DLC, or Monster Hunter World's Iceborne DLC, both of which are practically expansion packs in all but name. They may not be called "expansion packs" anymore, but many large DLC's tend to be similar to expansion packs in terms of size. Fact is, microtransactions are not inherently bad, and we've had cases of where MTX had been used tastefully to provide added value to a product, instead of being abused to create cash grabs.

[@worldlinezero4783]

Well, we still have some holdouts in the industry. FromSoftware, for example. The Ringed City was a fantastic DLC.

[@f1r3hunt3rz5]

We have lost the battle against game companies on microtransactions, lootboxes, DLCs, and season passes. Don't make the same mistake with NFTs.

[@thorveim1174]

MTX passed by unnoticed (and doesn't help that the idea behind them could be legitimate especially for free to play titles as a way to allow for long term support for games without having to rely on a subscription system). Lootboxes stirred the beast, sadly too late as they were already everywhere by the time outrage happened. But NFTs, now we are ready.. and we are already mad from all the other BS AAA companies keep shovelling.

[@shr1mpsush1]

I like to imagine that the only reason Ubisoft hasn't given up is because they dug their heels in the dirt so hard that they're stuck in place.

[@wizendrew6369]

Which would be quite the achievement since they've already got their collective head stuck very firmly up their own ass and have done for years now... it'll take a really motivated cave rescue team and a world-class proctologist to ever save them from that one.

[@Marky-Mark1337]

They already invested in the infrastructure. Not sure if there is an upkeep for it, but if there is, that’s a double whammy.

[@connormccann7254]

Good, remind these companies that consumers hold the real power.

[@Fosten12]

We should do this with bad games. Wait for release and buy after some weeks of watching reviews

[@thisguy3500]

Referring to NFT's as technology is an insult to real technology. A single roll of toilet paper has infinitely more value than all the NFT's combined.

[@kyonbrace5487]

Considering how pandemics went...

[@Secret_Takodachi]

Its nice to see game companies taking us seriously when we say "if you make an NFT for your game: we'll burn you to the ground even if we must take ourselves out with you..." Because players ARE serious. Dead. Serious.

[@Secret_Takodachi]

Cue the burning movie theater scene from Inglorious Basterds lol

[@vasilis1380]

Nobody asked for any of this blockchain crap. They want to see us in block chains. Hooked into the meta verse neurolink, constant injections, and no free will of our own. We just want to game and forget about this crappy world they created for us. I’ve had enough.

[@Aurumfae]

Someone’s awake in here! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@lennysmileyface]

That's what the government and banks already have ;)

[@Pyxis10]

And the world you hate will continue to creep into your escapism. The only way out is to collectivley fight back.

[@aethertoast4320]

The fact that NFTs are so much more financially punishing than releasing broken games is both amazing and frustrating beyond belief. Like seriously it is good that NFTs are so bad for companies that even EA will back off, but releasing broken games isn't bad enough for them to back off from doing it is a sad state of affairs.

[@sgtkeebler]

Saying NFT's are environmentally friendly is like saying clean coal. I think CEO's of gaming companies just wake up one day on a random day and say "huh what is the quickest way I can sink my company? Oh I got it! NFT's!"

[@paperluigi6132]

I think I found a good analogy. NFTs are basically like Cloud Gaming; you don’t actually own it, you’re renting it. And when the server shuts down, you had wasted money for a key to something that isn’t permanent. Also, this is good. We couldn’t stop microtransactions and lootboxes in AAA gaming, but we CAN stop NFTs.

[@ninawon]

For once, I gladly endorse online bullying against all NFTs.

[@JP_Crimson]

Bully the idiots NTF bro

[@clipCommander101]

I'm glad team 17 dropped Ready or Not. I'd be pissed if they destroyed a great game like that with bullshit NFTs

[@lumineniananubis4161]

If it gets to the point where EA....EA: is afriad of doing NFTs, then it should tell you that its a VERY BAD idea.

[@thorveim1174]

dont worry they wil get to it.. first they gotta rename them to something else on the same level as "surprise mechanics". Also bet thay they do it because they have already enough hate and bad PR coming their way with battlefield. But I promise you they wil get back to it when people stop throwing rocks at them for even just a minute

[@Palexite]

I was honestly worried that this NFT trend was going to be successful because degenerates wouldn’t listen fast enough. Glad to see us coming together to finally knockdown something we all knew meant no good.

[@Excalibur-Sonic]

The zoom in when Yong was talking about Santa XD

[@literatedegenerate3800]

Gamers sick of bad business practices be like: THIS IS WHERE WE HOLD THEM!

[@12345673260]

"Fuck NFT's" - George Washington, probably.

[@ThePowerOfOneThePowerOfTwo]

"He who buys NFTs is a certified lint licker" - Sun Tzu

[@poisonive45454]

The slow zoom when he talked about Santa's gift was *chef's kiss*

[@biggestfanof300]

As an artist, there are a lot of people trying to take advantage of the trend, both for standard illustration and in regards to video game artwork/development. It goes beyond people trying to milk NFT's for any money they can, a lot of them are trying to take advantage of artists, especially since a lot of artists are not in the loop in regards to the fact that they are entitled to royalties; which leads to people trying to pay cheap for art, then cash in with it as an NFT. A lot of artists are very fed up with people trying to hire them, many people as well as myself simply refuse to consider anything involved with crypto. As one artist so eloquently put it "NFT should stand for 'No Fucking Thanks'".

[@genoramirez7885]

Why don't they explain to us players what they do know about NFTs that we don't? Or is it only for the investors that they can't explain to us players?

[@RoadKamelot2nd]

If they explained in layman's terms, pretty much everyone would know that NFTs are essentially a scheme to sell people nothing.

[@_kal_storm4785]

Jolyne: Whats wrong Pucci? Why do you want to reset the universe? Yongyea's Pucci: *thinks about NFTs*

[@demonboy619]

We can all agree. Screw NFTs . In gaming and in real life

[@Fosten12]

the point of nfts is, they're not in real life

[@PRchris13]

Gamers - we don’t want NFT Ubisoft - gamers do not know what they want EA getting. Demolished by gamers not buying their shit and not liking nft EA: wait I thought u digit said gamers didn’t knew what they wanted ?? Wtf?

[@UKKOVP]

How much energy was consumed to pull all the resources out of the ground, transport to factories, turn into the product, ship to warehouses, then ship to you for the quote on quote "Physical merchandise actually has practical applications, be it wearable merchandise that can serve as cloths, or art, or just the collectibles, I mean look behind me, serve as decoration." ?

[@Kagatoamv]

I can't help but wonder if some small part of the rabid rush for NFTs and the metaverse is, in a way, inspired by the heavily monetized VR world of "Ready Player One". The OASIS' monetization of various elements of IPs, fueled by obsessive nostalgia, must seem like nirvana for these corps. The way some people have described gaming NFTs, like you can carry skins to any game you want, reminds me of how characters, skins, vehicles and weapons transferred between the RPO VR worlds.

[@CrimsonBlasphemy]

While that may be drawing in some people into the brain dead hype. That's like saying the cyanide capsule is cotton candy flavored. When you dig into the root of the "Blockchain" and "Cryptocurrency" world you will find the same types (and often the exact same people) who pushed and profited from Subprime mortgages. You can also find Dot-Com Bubble personalities making a comeback. Con-artists, nothing but scammers and charlatans. And they have always been great as separating Venture Capitalists (who are actually quite stupid people) from their money.

[@Kagatoamv]

​@@CrimsonBlasphemy True, the bigger picture is an overall sense of it being a big scheme, the opportunity to create a bubble and fleece anyone they can draw in. I wasn't aware that the sub-prime and dot-com bubble guys were back at it. Kind of reminds me of the whole sealed video game collecting market, people trying to insist something is collectable as an "investment".

[@vorpalblade6525]

I'm incredibly glad NFTs have brought the gaming community together to unanimously shit on them and any publisher/developer who supports it.

[@tdsdave]

Hey, do you know of a good detailed summary of why NFT are so hated? . All I glean from the tirades I see on this are, there no detailed examples of how they will be used in game , that being block chain they have environmental issues, that they are seen as another monetization route. It's often pointed out that the same expected uses can be achieved with existing tech, and have been , so apart from the environmental concerns what is setting NFT's apart from this existing tech that now the "community" put it's foot down? Is not pandoras box already open , and the community in large part already , seemingly willingly, participating in the markets released?

[@mfThump]

@@tdsdave line go up by folding ideas. in a nutshell NFTs in their current form (addendums onto Ethereums blockchain via 'smart contracts') are worthless (and 'smart contracts' as a whole are basically useless as the size limit is Twenty four KILObytes. ) . people buying in or have bought it are playing hot potato. the asset they spent real money on has no future. therefore if you spread the word about it, you get the next idiot to buy you out, passing the potato.

[@tdsdave]

@@mfThump Hey , not sure I got to see all your post, it seems to start mid thought "line go up by folding ideas"? Reference to another commentator's comment?. So if I parse what you do write, you'd say the/a problem is that at some point the NFT items will become un-sell able , the smart contract capacity to track can be exhausted. At this time people buy things in game that have no future , they are not even trade able , the "investment" lost. What difference to these people would such a purchase be if NFT backed? Obviously it would be misleading to say you can sell something which in reality you cannot . It reminds me of leaseholds on property in the real world, where the possibility of renewing it , is up to the freeholder . It maybe that I do not understand these crypto models well enough to really see the problem, probably likely . Personally I never buy anything superfluous to my game experience , I do not participate in any micro-transaction systems of a game, my main concern for such things is pay to win. If someone , imo is foolish enough to buy a virtual hat in game, I do not understand this horror narrative about how in particular they do it. Cheers for your thoughts.

[@kuzehotarubi6912]

@@tdsdave IDK what you are trying to achieve by writing this essay, but in all regards, NFTs does not help in any way in term of improving gaming experience. That is the most important part, ALL of them tried to get around saying that it will improve gaming experience, but have it ever been true since they introduce mircotransaction and lootbox? NOPE. That alone is enough for the hate honestly, why would we ever approve it when it's purpose is purely to give more money to these companies? Instead of NFTs, they can just sell physical and digital merchandises. The environmental impact is just a supporting point. The fact that they desired to use "Crypto" itself is shady, "Cryto"s are meant to hide the source of money by using hashes. Why would you want to use such a thing in gaming?

[@monody]

@@tdsdave Can say from a development side, NFTs are an annoying distraction. Alongside the case of doing nothing valuable or new compared to existing markets and resources, they do it at a cost to core development of other game features. We waste more time building and integrating games with marketplaces than actually revving and delivering playable content. It actively distracts from core game development, which inevitably becomes counterproductive to making a valuable asset to warrant having spent so much time on establishing/ integrating a crypto marketplace.

[@linkesocke4533]

In 1961 the artist Piero Manzoni took his poop, sealed it in metal cans and sold them for money. Today these are quite valuable despite the fact they tend to explode. And even thought it's just 💩 in cans, it's still more useful than nfts. And probably a better investment, too.

[@kievitz]

Now people, do this for the microtransactions and lootboxes as well, just call them out on their BS that is an addicitive, abusive and predatory scheme. Shame on them all.

[@peony4175]

EA saw Ubisoft only sold 15 and they were like "uhhh, nope. Not very effective at money-making."

[@exudeku]

EA took many Ls now

[@zzz43344]

My God, you KNOW this whole NFT thing is absolute bull when even *EA* (perhaps THE greediest gaming company in the industry) is having second thoughts about it... This is insane!

[@dante8506]

Gotta love the fact they could give us ownership of our digital games, but since that would bite on their bottomline earnings by creating a second hand market, all of a sudden they can't do that. This whole thing is bullshit.

[@luc5483]

After all these years, finally some good news

[@TobeasJ]

I think this is the first time EA actually listened to the community.

[@Dennis-cj5oc]

Fr man. That was quite surprising.

[@LightSage89]

I think the famous movie quote goes "Every time video game NFTs fail, an angel gets its wings."

[@chrisz5z]

Companies: NFTs are great, they are the future Everyone: WE DON'T WANT NFTs NFT bombs Companies: I don't understand what happened

[@ironbear7589]

I got a genuine NFT advertisement while watching this. "You finally got your hands on an NFT! But how do you prove its yours?" The level of bullshit istg

[@akaimizu1]

Top executives are kind of heartess here. They've gone from "Better to ask for forgiveness, than to ask for permission" mentality, *to* "Better to surprise and force them (our underlings) to ask for forgiveness, than to ask for permission." Knowing darn well who is more front-facing.

[@LordHonkInc]

"[...] based on one of the most beloved IPs in indie games" Wait, so Worms, a series that's been around since 1995, from Team 17, a company that is publicly traded at the London Stock Exchange, is an _indie game?!?_ Could've fooled me

[@riotkitty]

The mere fact people and smaller companies have to apologize merely for association is insane. Everyone has to chill out, focus on the actual companies if ya must but don’t drag everyone else down because of one company.

[@FanaticalRanger]

NFTs are effectivly that one spot in Fallout New Vegas where you can buy a Dinosaur toy for a lot of money only for you to find out that the room next to the counter has like a hundred.

[@LookMaNoHands-e6d]

Saw this is a title “US Treasury Department Warns of NFT Risk in Art-Related Money Laundering”

[@mightylink65]

At this point I'm really glad Microsoft bought Blizzard, they would of tried so hard to bring the real money auction back as NFT's if they where still owned by Activision.

[@billpogi23]

Microsoft is scared now,

[@Rayjaya]

I am genuinely proud of the gaming community at large because of their strong stance against NFT's.

[@TotallyNotASpy1]

Every game company today: "Let's put NFTs in our newest titles, we're sure players will LOVE em!" The community: "Not this shit again..."

[@thorveim1174]

"we will have NFTs in our next game!" Cue an angry mob with pitchforks and torches somehow instantly appearing under the window of the one who DARED say these filthy words

[@TotallyNotASpy1]

@@thorveim1174 I HOPE this starts happening.