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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 21:30:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 14:54 this Wednesday (GMT):
> 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.


can't wait.
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