Cpvr Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 (edited) Three years ago, Ubisoft promised it would start making its own blockchain games. Now it appears to have done it, having stealth-launched a full-blown web3 game last week called Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles on PC. Champions Tactics is billed as a "PVP tactical RPG game on PC", and is both developed and published by Ubisoft. It involves collectible figurines of various warriors from the in-game fantasy world of Grimoria, which players assemble into squads of three and then battle in turn-based combat that looks oddly reminscent of Darkest Dungeon, of all things. It's not evident from the trailer that this is a web3 game at all, but a quick glance at the game's website or even its official X/Twitter page reveals this immediately. The web3 comes into play as a method of collecting figurines to battle with. When you first start the game, you're given some temporary figurines to play with, but you'll eventually need to either purchase actual figurines, aka NFTs, from other players using either in-game gold or cryptocurrency, or craft your own using the "Forge" system which also requires either in-game currency or crypto. At the time of this piece, five days after launch, the in-game marketplace has figurines for sale ranging from around $7 to a whopping $63k for something called a "Swift Zealot". That said, just because a figurine is listed for that much doesn't mean people are paying that much. The next-highest listed champion currently runs around $25k, and while a handful more cost thousands the high-end stuff mostly appears to be capping around $335. Champions Tactics is free to download, though you have to have a Ubisoft account and a supported blockchain wallet to actually play it. While it appears you can technically play the game entirely for free without ever engaging with NFTs using in-game currency, the viability of this strategy is likely going to be dependent on how the prices for actually powerful characters fluctuates over the game's lifespan. It's a PvP game, with no campaign and no PvE beyond a "Training" mode, so free-to-play players will inevitably be at the mercy of people willing to engage with the NFT marketplace and spend real money to buy or forge the absolute best champions — a real pay-to-win dilemma. Source: Ign Edited October 30 by Cpvr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 Looking forward to seeing this flop and die within weeks and I hope both Ubisoft and the crypto-twats who lap this up loose everything they put into this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 On 10/30/2024 at 4:25 AM, Shagger said: Looking forward to seeing this flop and die within weeks and I hope both Ubisoft and the crypto-twats who lap this up loose everything they put into this. I agree. I want to see this crash and burn so badly. I've already got the popcorn out - I think this might beat Concord's record of crashing and burning within a month of release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
