Ubisoft Re-enters the NFT Gaming Arena with Release of Champion Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles
Ubisoft has a history of exploring Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in gaming, and the company is continuing to delve into the NFT gaming space with a new release. The Paris-based publisher, known for popular titles like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, recently launched Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles. This free-to-play turn-based RPG incorporates NFT integrations and is now available for download via the Ubisoft Connect launcher.
Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles is a multiplayer tactical RPG set in the dark fantasy world of Grimoria. In this NFT-integrated game, players collect digital “Champions” with unique abilities to form teams for strategic, turn-based battles against other online players. These Champions are NFTs, meaning they can be traded or sold on the marketplace. Players can also combine two existing Champions to create new ones for a fee.
The game’s official website describes the Champions as magical playable figurines in Grimoria. To play the game, players need an active Ubisoft account, must be at least 18 years old, and have a supported Blockchain wallet like Metamask or Sequence.
There are 75,000 NFT Champions available at the game’s launch. These NFTs can be minted on the Oasys public blockchain network that uses a proof-of-stake consensus protocol. The NFT Champions are priced starting at $6.33 worth of OAS (the native token of Oasys) on the game’s marketplace.
Players can invest in NFT Champions to use them in the game’s ranked mode and earn rewards. By using the game’s Forge system, players can merge two existing Champion NFTs to create new characters with special qualities for combat, paying the crafting fee in Gold or $OAS (crypto).
Champions Tactics was unveiled in 2023 and went through closed and open betas before the official launch on October 23. The PvP title is exclusively available on PC via Ubisoft Connect.
This is not the first time Ubisoft has explored NFTs. In 2021, the company introduced the Ubisoft Quartz platform with playable NFTs called Digits. The project was discontinued in 2022 due to player feedback and limited interest.
NFTs are digital collectibles based on blockchain technology that often offer trading value, rewards, and unique benefits in gaming ecosystems. Despite some backlash, many game publishers are incorporating NFTs into their games to tap into the growing market.
According to Global Markets Insights, the global gaming NFT market size was valued at $2.76 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow by over 60 percent between 2024 and 2032. Another report by Fortune Business Insights forecasts the blockchain gaming market to reach $614 billion by 2030.
While NFTs in games have faced criticism, Web3 games offer internal trading of game-related NFTs, promising players passive income. In-game asset sales have shown a growth rate of 21.8 percent between 2017 and 2021.
In April, Samsung partnered with the Wilder World Metaverse Game to provide NFT rewards as part of its Web3 TV bundle.
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