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.
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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. 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:
You would think that a video game studio connected to the internet in any way in 2021 would have seen this coming, but then:
Anyway, 24 hours after making the announcement, and having taken flak for all of those 24 hours, the studio decided it was time to tweet out an “apology” letter. Of course it didn’t actually apologise for anything, aside from a perceived “miscommunication”:
Even this “apology”—and really, it’s just a list of explanations for things they’re going to do with or without your “support”—was a fuck-up. Not long after publishing the tweet (and being called out all over again) GSC went and deleted it.
An hour later they instead, announced the decision to “cancel anything NFT-related in STALKER 2,” with an incredible statement. After outlining in their earlier tweet how NFTs were going to help fund development, this time they essentially blame fans for depriving GSC Game World of a scammy source of revenue:
Life, and game updates, come at you fast.
