Ubisoft Quartz is the company’s new Non-Fungible Token (NFT) system coming to Ghost Recon: Breakpoint.
Beginning Dec. 9, the tactical third-person shooter will make use of Ubisoft Quartz — blockchain technology tied to in-game cosmetics. How it works is unique serial numbers are attached to items (called Digits) like helmets or gun skins that players can trade with each other for agreed-upon prices. A literal in-game economy, more or less. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint on PC will be the first title Ubisoft to utilize the technology, though.
Ubisoft Quartz will be available in the following regions:
- USA
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Belgium
- Spain
- Italy
- Australia
- Brazil
A trailer for Ubisoft Quartz in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is below. And yes, Ubisoft wants you to pay real money for these completely dull skins at the ultra-low-cost of (potentially) destroying the earth!
Ubisoft knew its community would be furious over the implementation of NFTs, not unlike how Dead By Daylight fans roasted Behaviour Interactive’s did in October. In a preventive damage control measure, Ubisoft addressed the environmental impact element of the controversial technology on its website.
“Digits are the first Ubisoft NFTs, playable in a HD game and stored on the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain Tezos,” Ubisoft explains. “PoS blockchains work on a consensus mechanism that does not rely on complex computational efforts to validate transactions and therefore does not incentivize extreme amounts of energy consumption.”
NFTs in gaming is a hot-button issue. Recently, Xbox head Phil Spencer said what he’s seen from cryptocurrency is ‘exploitive’ while Valve Software outright banned the technology from Steam.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
