Earlier this week, GSC GameWorld announced that it would be implementing NFTs to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl. NFTs are the latest trend in video games, and are even worse than micro-transactions. To put it simply, NFTs let you spend money so that you can digitally own something. They sound dumb, they are dumb, and they have no place in video games. And, after a huge backlash, GSC GameWorld decided to remove them from the game.
Now what’s funny here is that before deciding to remove them, GSC GameWorld tried to justify their inclusion. Below you can find the deleted message that GSC GameWorld shared yesterday.
Needless to say that a lot of gamers weren’t happy with this explanation. And again, NFTs have no place in video games. Dear publishers and developers, stop following every trend that appears online and just focus on making great games.
Now the good news here is that after this huge backlash, GSC GameWorld decided to back-pedal and remove the NFTs from the game.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl is using Unreal Engine 5 and will release on April 28th, 2022.
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Wise move, everybody whats a piece cake, but at what cost?
Gospel truth.
Big games like this are just so much trash nowadays, the indies are where the best stuff is. Smaller more simple games with minimal politics, at least overt, in them. Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Hob, Shovel Knight, Deaths Door etc. As a bonus none of those type of games need the juiced up, pricey gpus which are most likely just another scam of fake “scarcity”. Or niche games that are focused like sim games, racing, sports, flying etc Online crap is also just revenue and marxist social programming focused for the most part. I think we can all see how even a studio which the original Stalker trilogy came from is going to royally screw up the next game in the series, standard procedure now really. These fools that have hundreds of games in their game library just encourage this never ending garbage, most of which they’ll never have the time to play anyways or not even play but slog through out of not wanting to waste the money, sad. It’s like a job to play games for them. Then you have the dregs/locusts which just eat it all up as an addiction, dogs that will eat anything just to eat.
If this isn’t reason for global regualtion of this sh*t, then videogames are dead.
games by EA and Ubisoft are already all work and no fun. Having to grind for 100 hours to unlock that specific attachment or gun you want. NFT will change little, apart from adding another reason to grind to earn a jpeg with a questionable value.
It’s the same story as always. The first who try it get a sh*t storm but very very slowly it becomes the standard because the backlash gets weaker every time and in a few years it’s totally normal.
Just like microtransactions.
I still remember Oblivions Horse Armor, and I was fine with it when it was F2P.
But then people started eating up that sh*t up on AAA Pay2Play games and I knew it was over.
Then again, the copious amounts of DLC by said AAA games weren’t much better.
i was gonna say exactly that my dude. First its “yeah we doing this stupid fad thing that makes things harder for consumers” then people whine, then its removed and then they slow re implement it and it takes over the industry.
People were against microtransactions and seasonpasses but here we are.
Exactly what I was gonna say! Sooner or later it will become a norm…unfortunately!
But atleast in this case they listened and quickly retracted…
It all started when Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion decided to sell DLC horse armor for $2.50. Look at where we are now. Pretty much everygame has DLC and they all ship with bugs or unfinished.
You mean they wanted to turn STALKER 2 into something like Second Life??
They are going to simply wait until the game launches and then sell the nfts so the sales of the game at launch are not hurt.
What if you have a crown of thorns as an image in Forza 5? Will you be censored or banned for that?
dude got banned for 9000 years for a kim yun on or whatever the north korean’s dude name is and KFC on it.
completely agreed. Best game of the year for me is ashes 2063 and its free on moddb.
If this isn’t reason for a global ban of this crap, then videogames are dead.
This industry just gets worse by the day.
This is simply the tip, the shaft is yet to come. This NFT bulls**t will be fisted through, after they get the morons of the world acclimated to the notion, with a few more events like this.
Tell that to those shtheads who bought 3090’s like there’s no tommorow. The same dotards who ruined gaming development. They just take whatever devs or Huang inserts into their mouth. Sad but true…
Stan Lee wouldn’t agree with this decision.
The people who down vote you has no fkg clue on what is going on right now in every aspect of this s**t sick and twisted life.
Hurr durr muh gay agenda
lol calm down Adolf
we don’t care, loser
if ubisoft wants to make a “lefty overthrow dictator” game then that’s their prerogative, its called free speech. get over yourselves
all of you online addicts need to f*king touch grass
it’s only bad if you choose to hate it.
Marxism/Communism/Socialism, Identity Politics, paraphilia, and the abolition of the family — all of which have as their goal the undermining of Western Civilization — are evil and should be opposed.
Latex is right about all of that; it’s the anti-Semitism and irresistible urge to turn every other word into a paraphilic pun that are the problem.
His cause deserves better than that.
Were Muhammad, Hitler, Hirohito, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or Castro Jewish? And even if they had been, would that have been the reason that they were totalitarian fiends?
The Clintons, Obama, Biden, Pelosi — what do they have in common? Care to tell?
>The Clintons, Obama, Biden, Pelosi — what do they have in common? Care to tell?
They cleaned up Republican messes.
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Reagan had a Democrat congress. Bush is a RINO. Trump was completely neglectful of the Debt, Inflation, and the Dollar. Biden and the Democrats have the National Debt at 30 trillion and counting and Inflation at all time highs.
Which of course was not the point; the point was that they’re not Jewish; they’re Gentile Democrats destroying the Republic, a fact that you admit with your clumsy deflections.
(Must’ve struck a nerve.)
Believing in “all men are created equal” makes one an American and a decent human being.
Being a mini-Hitler makes you a — what do you call it? Ah, yes — “scumbag.”
children of satan
Thanks, Legion.
nft’s must die and everybody supporting them boycotted
Pressure from Valve and MS are what caused this, not the developers themselves.
What a mess!!!!