A sizzling potato: Activision Blizzard, a firm with a reputation tarnished by several sexual harassment lawsuits, has been failing to endear by itself to customers after once more by hoping to gauge fascination in NFTs, which the vast majority of players hate. But organization president Mike Ybarra has seemingly confirmed non-fungible tokens are not coming to Blizzard video games, at the very least not but.
Activision Blizzard, at the moment in the method of becoming acquired by Microsoft, sent out a YouGov survey to pick out fans about the weekend that tried out to gauge fascination in “rising and foreseeable future developments in gaming.”
So it seems Blizzard/Activision is striving to see if players are fascinated in crypto and n.f*t in video games. I got a survey from them and it is on the survey. I mentioned extremely disinterested to them. pic.twitter.com/dIT4bVokDK
— Okage Tadaka BlackLivesMatter StopAsianHate (@OTadaka) April 16, 2022
Some of the spots in the study involved system cross-participate in, synthetic intelligence content technology, Synthetic/Virtual Truth titles, and cloud gaming. When that all seems realistic enough, there ended up a several topics that in most gamers incite feelings somewhere amongst apathy and downright hatred: the metaverse, enjoy-to-generate video games, and NFTs.
While several persons would locate a Blizzard study inquiring about perform-to-make games and NFTs undesirable adequate, the company went that more mile by ending the questionnaire with a redirection to its Blizzard.web online retailer. 1 person documented that answering “no” to the segment that requested if they’d played any Blizzard game titles in excess of the very last 12 months finished the study and opened the store.
@Blizzard_Ent This survey finished with
A) “thank you” landing website page
B) “your responses have been recorded” landing site
C) The Store
It was C. It was very abrupt. I get that you are a massive business and there is a whole lot of relocating parts but arrive on! pic.twitter.com/eYRzh6pm0c— Oaks | Stuart J. (@Oakshadric) April 16, 2022
It seems that Activision Blizzard president Mike Ybarra, formerly the company vice president at Xbox, was aware of the controversy surrounding the study and responded with a tweet that examine, “No one is undertaking NFTs.” Ybarra was then questioned why Blizzard even despatched out the poll, but he hardly ever answered. Probably he just meant no one at Blizzard is executing NFTs *yet.*
No one particular is carrying out NFTs.
— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) April 17, 2022
NFTs have not been owning the very best of periods lately. From Jack Dorsey’s first tweet getting an present of $6,200 in its place of the $48 million the owner envisioned, to F1 Delta Time shutting down and the Axie Infinity hack. As for Blizzard, it was hit with an additional sexual harassment lawsuit in March.
