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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 07:54:24 -0700
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On 5/21/2025 7:29 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 May 2025 08:50:23 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
> 
>>
>>> I haven't heard anything about NFTs in awhile. Surely they've gone the
>>> way of the Dodo (but I mourn the Dodo.)
> 
> Also:
> 
> Apparently Charlie Guillemot, son of Yves Guillemot (CEO of Ubisoft)
> is returning to the company. Charlie is, apparently, a big crypto-bro
> and had run off for a while to found his own "web3" video game
> company, Unagi. Now he's back at Ubisoft.
> 
> I'd always wondered why Ubisoft had dived so deep into the crypto/NFT
> hole back in the early 2020s, and suspected it was less because they
> saw it as a viable business or something players wanted, and more
> because somebody in the C-levels had a hard-on for the tech. But who?
> Well, now we know. Whether it was Charlie himself, or Yves shilling
> for his son, that's probably where the need to forced NFTs into
> Ubisoft games came from.
> 
> Whether Charlie has learned his lesson from his four-year sabbatical
> at Unagi, or if he's going to push more of this shit down our throats
> in coming years has yet to be seen. But Ubisoft has been struggling
> for some time now (and while "Assassins Creed: Shadows" has garnered
> some good reviews, Ubisoft has been weirdly coy on actual sales
> figures, so things may not be getting better). So Charlie's
> NFT-fascination may appeal to the desperate company; it's a quick way
> to scam money from the foolish. And right now, with the Guillemot
> family's hold on the company becoming increasingly shaky --especially
> if "Shadows" flops financially-- quick money, however they come by it,
> probably looks pretty good.
> 
Given the current trend in the American Monarchy expect LOTS more crypto.

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