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Head of Valve Gabe Newell calls NFTs “super sketchy”
Public reception for the unveiling of Ubisoft’s Quartz, an NFT platform for Tom Clancy Ghost Recon, cataclysmically bombed in December of last year. That never stopped the French publisher from doubling down on naysaying people for their supposed ignorance regarding blockchain technology—we “don’t get it,” they said. Square Enix chose to its teeth, grin and publish a sunny, bombastic, and not-at-all forced endorsement for its own NFT-related plan. EA too joined the choir, calling blockchain the “future of our industry,” though CEO Andrew Wilson would later walk back that statement somewhat. Valve on the other hand steered clear of the herd; it banned all blockchain, crypto, and NFT-related media from their own platform, Steam.