Worms NFTs are totally environmentally friendly, honest, promises Team17
Team17 is the latest studio to get into NFTs, but it swears its Worms ones will be the good kind.
Reset the clock, it’s been zero days since another video game studio has announced their own NFT strategy. In this case, it’s Worms developer Team17.
The studio is partnering with NFT gaming company Reality Gaming Group to release limited edition pieces of computer-generated art for sale. If they look anything like the Glitter Worm on Team17’s new website, they’ll be ugly as sin, but that’s par for the course really.
Curiously, Team17 hasn’t formally announced its NFT plans via its website or social media channels. Instead, the announcement comes through Eurogamer, almost as if Team17 knew its social media would be overrun with negative feedback and backlash.
There is a Discord server with, at the time of writing, 122 members, but it’s clearly still in its infancy as it’s otherwise empty.
No doubt in an attempt to cancel out any criticism, Team17 swears its NFTs are environmentally friendly, and it will be donating a portion of any proceeds to another NFT firm called Coin4Planet, which ‘provides a blockchain-based financial infrastructure and marketplace that enable companies and private investors to invest directly in regenerative activities.’
Specifically, the money would go into the ReFeed Worms project, which invests in worm beds to process food waste. Considering the very creation of NFTs is environmentally damaging, this feels like the equivalent of burning down a forest and paying to plant a few trees to make up for it.
The environmental impact is, of course, not the only problem many take with NFTs as a concept, considering paying for one doesn’t mean you own it. You just get the rights to look at it.
In the case of artwork,
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