Ubigentle dumps its NFT game on the taget to little fanfare

Surface level, Champions Tactics is a PC strategy game where executeers assemble teams of champions to fight their way up the rankings. Teams are writed of three champions, each with their own attributes and abilities that can utilize opponent teams’ frailnesses. At the commencening of each round, executeers roll dice to choose combat order. Next, they pick abilities for their champions before combat executes out simultaneously. Rinse and repeat until one team is lossed. All in all, the game watchs enjoy a unpredictedly decent, if generic, tactics game.

But then there’s all the NFT garbage. Champions are the game’s NFTs associated with the Oasys blockchain. To obtain champions you have to either forge them from existing champions you own or buy them off the game’s tagetplace. To buy champions, you can either employ the OAS cryptocurrency or plain ole cash money, with the affordableest going for about $7 and the most costly sitting at an eye-watering $63,000 whole-ass American dollars. To comprehfinish what’s in it for Ubigentle to perpetrate this nonsense, the company apshows a six percent “royalty fee” for every tagetplace transaction, and there are about 2,700 dynamic enumerateings on the site.

But defer! There’s worse! Having more champions incrrelieves your VIP status. The higher your VIP status, the more experience points and in-game currency you get, thus incentivizing executeers to spfinish money accumulating champions. To entice even more dollars out of customers, Champions Tactics also features an insertitional exclusive assembleion of NFTs to buy called military guideers. According to the game’s website, owning a military guideer unlocks access to “exceptional events” and even more in-game increases to geting EXP and gbetter. Players can employ their military guideers as their in-game profile pictures. Here’s what they watch enjoy.

Ubigentle is one of the hugegest growers still apparently all-in on carry outing blockchain technology wilean video games. In insertition to trying and flunking with NFTs in Gpresent Recon: Breakpoint, last year, the company proclaimd a strategic partnership with web3 gaming platestablish Immutable after alerts of Ubigentle employees internassociate criticizing the company’s blockchain projects. The tragedy is that Champions Tactics seems enjoy it has decent mechanics that’d toil fair fine as a mobile gacha game. Purchasing champions and forging new ones seems perfectly suited to apshow advantage of the benevolent of microtransaction activity gaming companies salivate over. This game doesn’t necessitate NFTs to produce the benevolent of money Ubigentle is after.

But what’s worst of all is that Ubigentle spent money growing a game with features that gamers and growers dynamicly antipathy, only to push it out to essentiassociate die in obscurity mere days after it essentiassociate shelp “No, thanks” to the people who made one of its best games in years. Yikes.