Ubisoft's Latest Effort to Convince Employees That NFTs are Good Falls Flat

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Ubisoft’s latest effort to convince employees that NFTs are good falls flat.

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They failed to convince employees about the merits of its NFT strategy earlier this week.

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Major publishers are making a point of slowing their approach, or staying away from NFTs entirely.

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Ubisoft wants to push ahead with the technology even with negative reactions from gamers and employees.

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On Thursday the friction between Ubisoft management and employees grew more intense.

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The employees gave hundreds of negative replies on their strategy for blockchain technology, according to the report.

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One of them said that it was a deeply embarrassing day to work at Ubisoft.

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Their biggest problem is that they have not been able to explain what’s the end in this case.

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They criticized blockchain technology in December 2021.

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Then in January they said that gamers don’t get what a digital secondary market can bring to them.

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The proposed system doesn’t appear to offer anything that isn’t already available in video games but they offer unique numbers.

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