Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?

On Mon, 5 May 2025 08:50:23 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

>

I haven't heard anything about NFTs in awhile. Surely they've gone the
way of the Dodo (but I mourn the Dodo.)

Also:

Apparently Charlie Guillemot, son of Yves Guillemot (CEO of Ubisoft)
is returning to the company. Charlie is, apparently, a big crypto-bro
and had run off for a while to found his own "web3" video game
company, Unagi. Now he's back at Ubisoft.

I'd always wondered why Ubisoft had dived so deep into the crypto/NFT
hole back in the early 2020s, and suspected it was less because they
saw it as a viable business or something players wanted, and more
because somebody in the C-levels had a hard-on for the tech. But who?
Well, now we know. Whether it was Charlie himself, or Yves shilling
for his son, that's probably where the need to forced NFTs into
Ubisoft games came from.

Whether Charlie has learned his lesson from his four-year sabbatical
at Unagi, or if he's going to push more of this shit down our throats
in coming years has yet to be seen. But Ubisoft has been struggling
for some time now (and while "Assassins Creed: Shadows" has garnered
some good reviews, Ubisoft has been weirdly coy on actual sales
figures, so things may not be getting better). So Charlie's
NFT-fascination may appeal to the desperate company; it's a quick way
to scam money from the foolish. And right now, with the Guillemot
family's hold on the company becoming increasingly shaky --especially
if "Shadows" flops financially-- quick money, however they come by it,
probably looks pretty good.