Riot say "Whoopsie!" after accidentally suggesting a Valorant character liked NFTs

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With NFTs in games proving unpopular with almost everyone who doesn't plan to get rich by fleecing other players, even appearing to support them is controversial. This is a situation Riot Games found themselves in after a lighthearted tweet about one of the Valorant wizards visiting an art exhibition on a day out. Turns out, the picture seen by Killjoy is an NFT. Cue Riot scrambling to make clear it was unintentional and say, literally, "Whoopsie!"

Valorant's regional German-language Twitter account this week posted silly tweets with the game's cheery German wizard touring her hometown of Berlin. She had a doner kebab:

Nach dem ganzen Sport erstmal einen Döner gönnen und wie wir alle wissen, Döner macht schöner. pic.twitter.com/rL0knBANzz

She rode the U-Bahn:

Ich treffe mich später mit Raze, sie will mir Inlineskaten beibringen, ich freu mich schon so! Let’s go. pic.twitter.com/j4KNV6kLOC

And she briefly admired a piece of computer-generated art by Australian artist Martin Houra, who sells his work as NFTs for cryptocurrency. NFTs being as controversial and unpopular as they should be, Riot quickly deleted this. Not before the Wayback Machine archived it.

"Whoopsie!" the German account said in a bilingual statement posted later. It explains the team were just having fun and japes, they thought people might enjoy sightseeing with Killjoy, and they thought "since Killjoy loves programming" some computer-generated art would be nice to include. Whoopsie.

"However, we were not aware that the selected work as an NFT," they stressed. "In no way did we intend to include NFTs as part of Killjoy's work and hobbies."

NFTs, so poisonous that a company rush to insist that a popular fictional character does not like them.

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