Stalker 2 has just announced a “metahumans” initiative – a new way for players to be immortalized in this game as an NFT. The lucky winners of an NFT auction will receive the distinctive honor of becoming an NPC for all to see, but with the added technology. Speaking to The Verge, developer GSC Game World attempted to explain why the team is following these directions with Stalker. “The aim of the related NFT is to give the right to re-examine the owners’ identity in the game through one of the NPC’s players,” said CEO Evgeniy Grygorovych. The person will need to go to our studio for a detailed scan process. Afterward, we will have to have everything to make this person appear in the game world as one of the characters. Developers giving fans the opportunity to become an NPC in a game is nothing new. In fact it has been done a while, without necessary NFTs and blockchain. This makes the Metahumane in Stalker 2 the latest example of a controversial technology that seems to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Before this, the notorious Peter Molyneux shrew his hat into the ring. Molyneux unveiled a new “blockchain business sim”, which sounds unabundant to a normal business sim but uses a solution to let people’s lives hurt while playing. In a similar way, Ubisoft has added NFTs to Ghost Recon Breakpoint. In this instance, they look pretty similar to the microtransaction we bought last years. Just, y’know, it is probably much more expensive. There’s some new stuff.
