Brendan Greene, the creator of the online battle royale shooter PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) — who left the game’s development team in 2019 — has unveiled his plans to create a new generation of a gameplay-focused metaverse called “Artemis” — though non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unlikely to make an appearance.
Speaking to IGN on Jan. 4, Greene said he’s “not even thinking about” including NFTs in the project, which is currently under development at his game studio PlayerUnkown Productions.
“Not even thinking about [NFTs].”
The crypto industry has consistently championed NFTs as the best way to secure IP and in-game assets across different gaming ecosystems, but Greene doesn’t appear to be buying the hype.
“Our concern is about getting the engine to a state that we can make things in it and then as I said, Game Two, we’ll test ideas then, but really now, not even thought about it. More just getting some fun games made.”
While NFTs are probably not showing up in Greene’s metaverse, he said it’s possible for blockchain technology to be integrated somewhere along the line.
“Blockchains are an interesting financial instrument, as a layer within a digital world […] maybe some future iteration of blockchain or hashgraph or that tech will be interesting,” said Greene.
“Ultimately, it’s a digital ledger, and if we can use a digital ledger, we’ll find the best one and use it. But that’s really it,” he added.
Greene said the metaverse had become a “dirty word,” dismissing the efforts of other metaverse creators of “[intellectual property] bubbles” of sub-par tech that failed to deliver on the hype.
“I want to build a metaverse because I don’t think anyone else is.”
“I think everyone’s building IP bubbles that might talk to each other at some stage in the future, maybe if we’re lucky, but it’s not the metaverse,” Greene said.
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