S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Developers Remove NFTs After Fan Uproar

 

 

STALKER 2 developers GSC Game World announced yesterday that they’d be adding NFTs to the game. Public reception was, as you’d imagine, not kind.

 

 

NFTs (and the blockchain itself) are an environmental disaster, a pump-and-dump scam and a pointless assault on existing technologies and systems that don’t need fixing all at once, so whichever approach you want to come at them from—or all three if you like, I’m not here to stop you—they suck.

 

 

I think fan reaction was best summed up by this top-voted comment on Reddit, which simply said

 

They literally had to do nothing to keep me hyped for that game and still fucked it up.

 

 

You would think that a video game studio connected to the internet in any way in 2021 would have seen this coming, but then:

 

 

I stopped playing Stalker a) because I was terrible at it and b) because I read this conversation and became sad. Women, famously, are never in dangerous situations. pic.twitter.com/Rxd4uTEhro

— Alasdair Beckett-King (@MisterABK) December 15, 2021

 

 

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