We Live In Hell And This Ubisoft NFT That Requires You To Play 600+ Hours Of Ghost Recon Is Proof

Sure, technically the NFT helmet is free, but only after you give up a chunk of your life playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint

I’d like to go one weekend without having to write or think about NFTs, but apparently, we all live in Hell. I mean, how else do you explain a Ghost Recon NFT helmet that can only be acquired after playing the game for 600 hours?

The Wolf Enhanced Helmet A is a new NFT item for Ghost Recon Breakpoint that Ubisoft just launched today, as part of the company’s ongoing experiment with the blockchain. The publisher isn’t selling these digital items but instead giving them away for free to qualifying players. In this case, to get this “Digit”—Ubisoft’s term for these NFT in-game items—you need to have played over 600 hours of mediocre open-world shooter Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

Ubisoft's second Ghost Recon NFT can now be claimed by people who've played the game on PC for 600+ hours.

Presumably the 600+ will jack up the price at which people who claim them will be willing to sell

Ubisoft's FAQ says it gets a percentage cut of sale value "in some cases" pic.twitter.com/DjU7eCOZz3

— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) December 12, 2021

This terrible nightmare scenario—asking someone to play 25 days of Ghost Recon to get a stupid-looking NFT helmet—is part of Ubisoft Quartz, an NFT initiative that allows people to buy artificially scarce digital items using cryptocurrency. Quartz allows players to purchase Digits, which are in-game weapons, vehicles, and cosmetics, that players can acquire in limited drops and sell freely via their preferred crypto wallets. The program relies on Tezos, a proof-of-stake currency that claims to be energy efficient. However, I suspect 600 hours of running your console or PC is using up a nice chunk of energy.

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