Three years ago, Ubisoft promised it would start making its own blockchain games. And now it appears to have done it, having stealth-launched a full-blown web3 game last week called "Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles" on PC.
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.
dear fuck this is incredibly generic. the game series is… Champions? of which this is a tactical installment and also the chronicles of Grimoria, a fantasy name so bland I can’t believe it’s not copyright infringement? this shit — name, concept, and all — definitely came from an LLM
But fundamentally, Ubisoft's perspective on the tech seems surprisingly bullish; the vice president of its Strategic Innovation Lab seems to think gamers just "don't get it."
yeah! your target audience just refuses to get what you’re going for! I wonder what that’s called again? oh yeah, failure
To signal their foray into NFTs they should drop the FT from the name. Ubiso. Short for, U should Bi So lucky we make any games for you at all, peasant.