Chaosium Suspends Plans for Future NFTs
boardgamequest.comWhat a ride it’s been for Call of Cthulhu publisher Chaosium. Recently, the RPG maker began getting flack after it announced plans for another batch of Cthulhu mythos-related NFTs to be released. Another you say? That’s right. Last July, Chaosium, partnering with New Zealand based NFT company Veve, announced plans to mint and release two different models from the Cthulhu Mythos in Veve’s digital showroom. The models were the Necronomicon and Cthulhu himself and the drop occurred with mostly little fanfare. Buyers could view the two models in Veve’s digital show room. Or you can see them right here, no money required.
Yet somehow their tweet from January 10th and 30th surfaced this month and people finally took notice of what was going on. As expected, Chaosiums fans were not happy.
Don’t buy a single thing from @Chaosium_Inc again, folks. What utter trash. https://t.co/1Q0GPMftce
— Mark Meredith, Boy Wonder (@MarkMeredith) February 10, 2022
(removes $300 worth of @Chaosium_Inc products from Amazon wish list) https://t.co/cDCQiFdOm5
— Jerry Behrendt (@Dungeonleft) February 10, 2022
The fact that Chaosium was diving into NFTs spread like wildfire, as things tend to do on social media. Leading to popular RPG site, like Drive Through RPG, denouncing NFTs in general.
In regards to NFTs — We see no use for this technology in our business ever.
— DriveThruRPG (@DriveThruRPG) February 7, 2022
Well apparently Chaosium heard the outcry, because it announced today that it has suspended its plans for any future NFTs.
From the press release: “All of us at Chaosium are deeply concerned by the issues raised around the VeVe digital collectable releases from last July. We take these concerns very seriously—our fans and the communities
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