When will video game developers ever learn? The backlash to Ubisoft's earlier NFT announcement should have been enough to dissuade others. Although Ubisoft still pushed it through, they're one of a handful of companies that can take the financial brunt of such negative comments and come out relatively unscathed. Others? Not so much.
This would explain why GSC Game World just announced its decision to cancel all plans to sell NFTs in STALKER 2.
GSC cancels all NFT plans in just 24 hours
, the developers of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl confirmed that it was going to auction NFTs that, in a nutshell, would let gamers paste their likeness onto the heads of one NPC in the game. The studio made everything sound like a big deal, describing it as paving the way for us to become "the first metahumans" where all that they were going to do is just scan a select few's faces inside the game.