10 Times Video Games Found A Way To Be Even Worse
2. NFTs - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Nothing indicates desperation in the modern video game landscape quite like NFTs.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon franchise has admittedly been on the skids for a little while now - 2017's Wildlands was fine if forgettable, but 2019's Breakpoint received largely mixed-to-negative reviews for its shamelessly generic Ubisoft Game formula and underwhelming gameplay.
Breakpoint was a commercial disappointment for Ubisoft, but that basically seemed to be the end of it. They'd just try again and hope for better next time, right?
Not quite.
In December 2021, long after general interest in the game had dried up, Ubisoft announced that it would be receiving integration with their new NFT platform, Ubisoft Quartz.
The service would allow players to obtain weapons, gear, and cosmetics using cryptocurrency, a decision so unpopular that the initial announcement video ended up with a 96% dislike ratio on YouTube.
Ubisoft plowed ahead regardless, but player uptake in the NFTs was so pathetically minimal that they discontinued the service just three months later.
Not content for Breakpoint to merely be an aggressively mediocre, also-ran shooter, Ubisoft decided to outright bury it by tethering it to gross money-grubbing practises - years after most people stopped playing it, no less.