With the growing trend of NFTs and their incorporation into video games at the hands of companies like Ubisoft, which promises to continue despite the denial of fans, Blizzard seems to have been testing the interest of its community of players towards this current, other “play to win” games in which players could hypothetically win money. At least that’s what a recent survey indicates, though the current position of the company goes through that of not implementing NFTs.
This controversy has arisen in recent hours through social networks by some Battle.net users who have been offered a interest survey including NFTs, “games to win” or the metaverseas shared by several users.
So it seems Blizzard/Activision is trying to see if players are interested in crypto and nf*t in games. I got a survey from them and it is on the survey. I said very disinterested to them. pic.twitter.com/dIT4bVokDK
— Okage Tadaka BlackLivesMatter StopAsianHate (@OTadaka) April 16, 2022
Quickly, this information has begun to go viral and several media outlets have not been slow to point out Blizzard’s interest in cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse and other current controversies in the world of the internet and video games. Something that Mike Ybarra, former Xbox director and current president of Blizzard, He has not been slow to deny through his personal Twitter account. “No one is doing NFTs,” says Ybarra, considering the matter closed.
Of course, Blizzard has a great history of recent controversies How to think about throwing public opinion on top again seeing the reaction of the gaming community to the case of Stalker 2 or Team 17 with Worms. Recently, Phil Spender, head of Xbox and CEO of Microsoft Gaming, also showed his rejection of NFTs, so it would be expected that under the umbrella of Microsoft after a purchase worth 70 billion dollars, Blizzard would stay away of NFTs.