Solidaires Informatique, which represents workers at Ubisoft Paris, came out hard against Ubisoft's NFT plan.
Ubisoft's dive into the cold, murky waters of NFTs did not go over well with fans, who very quickly expressed overwhelming dislike for the idea. They're not the only ones: The French trade union Solidaires Informatique, which represents some workers at Ubisoft Paris, criticized the decision in a statement calling blockchain technology "a useless, costly, ecologically mortifying technology."
"Ubisoft has recently entered the blockchain and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) market. A decision that has been widely criticized by our players, bringing no improvements or benefits to our games," the union said in a statement. "Many of us in the company feel the same way and say that blockchain is harmful, worthless, and without a future."
It's not just the technological side of NFTs that Solidaires Informatique has a problem with: Sketchy NFT creators and games, which have been rife with scams and rip-offs, also come under fire. "You like dividends, subprimes, financial derivatives, crises, speculation, fast trading, money laundering, etc?" the union said. "This is the assured and unspoken promise of NFT. We are far from the enjoyment of videogames."
As if that isn't enough, Solidaires Informatique also pointed out that the implementation of NFTs as collectible cosmetics in Ubisoft games really isn't anything new: The big innovation of the blockchain, the union said, "is to do the same, but inefficiently."
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