9 Biggest Horrible Gaming-Related Things Of 2021
1. The NFTs Are Coming
Game publishers are always looking for more ways to make money out of their games, and if 2021 is anything to judge by, it looks like NFTs are the next big way that's going to happen.
NFTs - or non-fungible tokens - have set many a tongue wagging in the industry this year. At its core, an NFT is a digital piece of something that is sold to someone, and that person retains the rights to it. Imagine if you bought a cosmetic on a game, and then you are the actual owner of that because you paid real money for it.
It sounds like a dirty practise already, doesn't it? We can't help but think that games are going to be absolutely riddled with this stuff in the years to come, and it's already started.
Ubisoft is already apparently aggressively looking into NFT options, and everyone's favourite serial liar Peter Molyneux recently revealed he's making a comeback with a game that's entirely based around the concept of NFTs. Big. Fat. Yay.
It almost makes you pine for microtransactions and loot boxes to come back.