General Gaming News

[Iceman]

Inside Team17, following the Worms NFT firestorm

 

[Gee]

Ubisoft Employees Push Back Hard on Blockchain Initiative - BNN Bloomberg

A conflict between Ubisoft Entertainment SA and many of its employees over a plan to adopt crypto technologies in the company’s video games intensified this week.

The French publisher, which makes popular titles including Assassin’s Creed, outlined its thinking on the use of blockchain technology in a message to staff on Thursday. The announcement on an internal message board prompted hundreds of negative comments from employees posted for all of their colleagues to read.

“Are we competing with EA for the ‘Most hated Game Studio by the public’ title? Because this is how you do it,” wrote one.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

They are a company circling the drain awaiting/needing a buyout like Activision even if they fought off the Vivendi takeover.

 

[Sithborg]

Ubisoft Employees Push Back Hard on Blockchain Initiative - BNN Bloomberg

I mean, it distracts from the sexual assault....

 

[Iceman]

Sucks that the biggest (non-platform) publishers all seem to have major issues. The problems in gaming companies are spread far and wide.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Imagine a future where the capitalists stop paying you money and instead give you bitcoin and NFTs and other digital crap instead. That's what they want.

 

[Teelie]

Yep, more evidence NFT's are a scam, as if there wasn't already an abundance of evidence of that.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

It's funny to me how often the games industry will make the same mistakes. Just read the room guys. It doesn't matter how badly you believe NFTs are the future, if your audience hates it, nothing else matters.

 

[Iceman]

The Biggest NFT Video Game's Economy Is Collapsing Because NFT Games Don't Work

 

[Sithborg]

Sucks that the biggest (non-platform) publishers all seem to have major issues. The problems in gaming companies are spread far and wide.

Its tech in general.

 

[metaphysician]

Imagine a future where the capitalists stop paying you money and instead give you bitcoin and NFTs and other digital crap instead. That's what they want.

Thankfully, this is very unlikely to happen, for a couple reasons:

1. Crypto currency, despite the name, is almost useless for actually purchasing things, so if all you offer is Bitcoin to your employees, the result isn't "More money for us", its "Wow, we don't have any employees". You can underpay people a lot of the time, but you can't just not-pay and expect anyone to work for you.

2. In order to not violate all the current laws about minimum wage and such, the government would have to view cryptocurrency as *money*. There are a wide variety of reasons why the same crypto-bros pushing for adoption would *hate* that, not the least being "Now you have to treat your bitcoin account as income, not investments".

Even if a company were giant enough and powerful enough to force it through anyway because cyberpunk, there would be no incentive to actually do so as opposed to just issuing company scrip. More benefits for them ( they'd have even more control over scrip usage than crypto-currency ), and cheaper too ( none of the blockchain overhead ).

 

[Iceman]

Heard a bunch of things about CrossfireX being a disaster on both the multiplayer and campaign fronts.

CrossfireX executive producer apologises, says team hope to "regain your trust" (trueachievements.com)

 

[Iceman]

Platinum’s CEO says he wouldn’t dismiss acquisition offers ‘as long as our freedom is respected’ | VGC

 

[Iceman]

Hideki Kamiya says he’s ‘totally serious’ about resurrecting Xbox exclusive Scalebound | VGC
Hideki seems to really want to do this lol.

 

[Iceman]

Former CD Projekt Red Developers Announce New Studio | GameWatcher

 

[Gee]

Former CD Projekt Red Developers Announce New Studio | GameWatcher

A cRPG, nice.

 

[Iceman]

Feels like 1 a week at the moment.

Nacon acquires Daedalic Entertainment for €53 million

 

[Snow Queen]

 

[Iceman]

Absolutely no surprise there.

 

[Iceman]

Ubisoft says it can stay independent, but ‘would review any buyout offers’ | VGC

 

[Iceman]

What a crazy combo!

 

[Lily Adler]

Hideki Kamiya says he’s ‘totally serious’ about resurrecting Xbox exclusive Scalebound | VGC
Hideki seems to really want to do this lol.

Switch exclusive.

 

[I Am The Knight]

*Cloud Switch exclusive

 

[Iceman]

Call of Duty Warzone cheaters will have to face God Mode opponents in this latest anti-cheat initiative
Quite inventive.

 

[Sithborg]