Dr Disrespect is selling NFT beta access to his game that does not exist yet
pcgamer.comIn December 2021, Dr Disrespect, aka Guy Beahm, co-founded a new game studio called Midnight Society with former Call of Duty creative strategist Robert Bowling and Halo 5 multiplayer designer Quinn Delhoyo. What exactly the studio is making hasn't been revealed yet, beyond a promise that it will be «the most community-focused, online PVP multiplayer experience the world has ever seen,» but a new blog post has shed more light on the community-focus aspect, which will include NFT sales.
«As we focus on building the best new PVP multiplayer first-person shooter, we’re looking to leverage the collective strength of our Day Zero community to go hands-on during crucial early development milestones of the project,» Midnight Society studio head Robert Bowling explained. «This means building an infrastructure that allows the active participants of our community to experience environments, weapons, movement, and other core tenets of the gameplay at a stage where their feedback, input, and guidance can be incorporated.»
Most studios rely on various forms of beta testing for this sort of thing, but Midnight Society is instead releasing a Founders Access Pass that will enable holders to play early builds, access Discord channels, and vote on «key design decisions.» Founders Access Pass owners will also have the ability to mint a unique, tradable visor design, procedurally generated and with different, presumably random levels of rarity. It's not clear whether these designs will actually appear in the game, however: The post says only that the design «acts as your identity within the Midnight Society and can be used as your verified avatar in and outside the community.»
The Founders Access Pass will be restricted to a «select group»
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