{"id":138979,"date":"2021-12-19T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=138979"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:17:23","slug":"stalker-2-creators-abruptly-dropped-nft-related-things-after-public-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/gaming\/stalker-2-creators-abruptly-dropped-nft-related-things-after-public-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"STALKER 2 Creators Abruptly Dropped NFT-Related Things After Public Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creators of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl have abruptly ditched NFT content for the game.\u00a0According to the representatives of the firm, they clearly heard the opinion of the audience and decided to agree with it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mffnmpiQiw\">pic.twitter.com\/mffnmpiQiw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; S.T.A.L.K.E.R. OFFICIAL (@stalker_thegame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stalker_thegame\/status\/1471620399997886472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on the response we received, we decided to cancel all NFT-related activities in STALKER 2. The interests of fans and players are a priority for our team.\u00a0We make a game for your enjoyment &#8211; whatever the price.\u00a0If you care about it, we care about it too, &#8211; the developers wrote on Twitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, the gaming studio announced the STALKER&#8217;s Metaverse project, which will allow exchanging NFT items on the popular DMarket trading platform.\u00a0It was assumed that users could receive tokens that would correspond to in-game items.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the popular post-apocalyptic franchise have expressed disappointment over the decision, stating that the idea of \u200b\u200ba non-fungible token is harmful to the environment due to the enormous amount of energy that goes into maintaining blockchain technology.\u00a0Some critics have even accused GSC Game World, the developer of the upcoming STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl, of pursuing the trend in order to increase profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creators of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl have abruptly ditched NFT content for the game.\u00a0According to the representatives of the firm, they clearly heard the opinion of the audience and decided to agree with it. pic.twitter.com\/mffnmpiQiw &mdash; S.T.A.L.K.E.R. OFFICIAL (@stalker_thegame) December 16, 2021 Based on the response we received, we decided to cancel all [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/gaming\/stalker-2-creators-abruptly-dropped-nft-related-things-after-public-criticism\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":138980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[777],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-138979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}