News business Activision Blizzard: NFT, cryptocurrencies… a survey asks players about many topics
Published on 04/18/2022 at 14:14
It’s Activision Blizzard’s turn to ask players about NFTs and cryptocurrencies. It is through a survey that the editor takes the temperature, with questions on various subjects.
Summary
- NFT and video games
- Activision Blizzard also on the spot?
NFT and video games
This is one of the hot topics of recent weeks in the video game industry: cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The latter is an English acronym meaning Non Fungible Tokensor non-fungible tokens in the language of Molière. It is a technology that accredits an individual with an authentication contract that binds him to a virtual object such as an image or a video and makes him its official owner.
A controversial technology. It has its share of skeptics and its share of insiders, as evidenced by the various initiatives taken by certain studios. For example, Ubisoft launched its Quartz platform while Ghost Recon Breakpoint: the game time invested by players allows them to recover cosmetics that they can either use in game or resell on a dedicated platform.
Activision Blizzard also on the spot?
Of course, the French studio is not the only one to have taken up the subject. On this subject, it is Square Enix and especially its CEO Yosuke Matsuda who has expressed his desire to integrate NFTs into the studio’s next games. SEGA, for its part, still wants to experiment before launching. A hesitation that we also find on the side of Activision Blizzard: last week, the publisher shared a survey. The latter seems to take the measure with the players regarding certain features. And among them, the NFTs:
So it seems Blizzard/Activision is trying to see if players are interested in crypto and n.f*t in games. I got a survey from them and it is on the survey. I said very disinterested to them. pic.twitter.com/dIT4bVokDK
– Okage Tadaka BlackLivesMatter StopAsianHate (@OTadaka) April 16, 2022
In the survey, we can also note interesting questions concerning the graphics, the cloud gaming but also the functionality of crossplay which allows players from different consoles to play together. In any case, this survey is witness to Activision Blizzard’s desire to show new things and to listen to players. An initiative for the takeover by Microsoft?
Par CharlanMhgWriting jeuxvideo.com
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