Ubisoft’s first NFT experiment was a dumpster fire

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Ubisoft's first experiment with non-fungible tokens (called "Quartz Digits") in Ghost Recon Breakpoint is already winding down just four months after it started. The short saga serves as a prime example of the problems that can arise when a company just throws "the blockchain" into its plans without thinking about why it's doing so.

Ubisoft announced on Twitter on Tuesday that the company has released "our final piece of content" for Ghost Recon Breakpoint after rolling out 11 updates since the game's 2019 launch. While Ubisoft says it will "continue to maintain our servers" for Breakpoint and 2017's Ghost Recon Wildlands for the time being, Breakpoint's relatively limited player base means that online multiplayer support probably won't last that much longer. (Ubisoft will shut down the gameplay servers for battle royale shooter Hyper Scape later this month).

On the Ubisoft Quartz website, the company confirmed that "the last Digit for Ghost Recon Breakpoint was released on 3/17/2022."

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