After criticism, STALKER 2 gets rid of all NFT -apkrig
The GSC Game World developers’ initiative to sell the NFT in connection with STALKER 2 lasted less than two days. As we informed you yesterday, through three tokens that were to enter the auction before the end of this year, players could get the opportunity to have their own NPCs created. to the mentioned game. Everyone else could then look forward to digital items that would belong to them within the rules of the NFT and blockchain, with the potential to earn something from them in the future. But while the developers emphasized that the NFT would not interfere in any way with gameplay and would be purely cosmetic, the players voiced their disapproval, which the people at GSC Game World no longer wanted to ignore. They made a perfect turnaround tonight and confirmed in a brief statement that they were canceling the entire initiative and that no tokens would be associated with the game.
“Based on the reactions we received from you, we have decided to cancel all NFT activities in connection with the game STALKER 2. The interest of our fans and players is a priority for us,” wrote the developers on social networks. They underlined that he created the game in order for the players to enjoy it to the full, what ever it takes. “If you are not indifferent to something, it is not indifferent to us either,” concluded the people from GSC Game World. The Twitter post received tens of thousands of hearts very quickly, until one would say that it served the NFT developers as great marketing. The players praise that the developers reacted so flexibly to what was happening around the game, removed something from it that had not yet been sufficiently tested in this area, and calm and good mood prevailed again. It’s just not clear at the moment whether the players will look into the game in the form of their digitized self, or whether these plans will be canceled by yesterday’s intervention.
The fact remains, however, that not everyone reacts so positively to the change, which is returning to its original ways. Comments that, regardless of whether or not the GSC is involved, see the NFT as a future and remain a matter of time before they become a natural part of the games. To some extent, this may be similar to what has worked in games for many years – the market itself, in which items can be traded and other items can be bought for the money that cannot legitimately be taken out of the ecosystem. However, according to many, the right to own a given digital object should be a great attraction that players can start calling for themselves, and for developers it could mean a secondary or rather tertiary supply of money if they collect sales fees on their own platform. , or they got paid for the production of the NFT, as the studio 22cans intends to do in Legacy.
In any case, there is no consensus yet on whether NFTs are a benefit or just an unnecessary weight, which potentially carries with it the risk of various frauds and ambiguities, for example in determining the price of specific items. Although it might be easy to say that the price is determined by the market, just being able to create another crypto wallet and buy your own NFT anonymously just to give the false sense of value is controversial and very risky.
