Cryptocurrency

"Ubisoft Celebrated Its Employees' Hard Work By Giving Them NFTs"

2022-02-06 [vendor] Ubisoft gives employees NFTs [chain] ethereum
Primary Source ↗
Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

Players are not the only ones questioning Ubisoft’s decisions to incorporate NFTs into their games (such as their newest Tom Clancy game), though Ubisoft has done little more than brush those aside with statements from executives that players simply “don’t get it”. Questions and concerns have also been raised by Ubisoft employees, to the point where the company held an internal workshop to address questions like “How can you look at private property, speculation, artificial scarcity, and egoism, then say ‘yes this is good, I want that, let’s put it in art?’” Bloomberg reported that an internal announcement pertaining to NFTs received hundreds of negative comments from employees.Meanwhile, Ubisoft announced that they were creating a celebratory virtual hat NFT to gift to their employees in early March, in honor of the opening of the Ubisoft Quartz NFT platform. Maybe just give them a cash bonus next time.

Technical Details

Vendor / Product
Ubisoft gives employees NFTs

Timeline

  1. 2022-02-06 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-02-06 Publicly disclosed