Wednesday, December 15th 2021
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 To Integrate NFTs, Offer a Winner the Chance to Become In-Game "Metahuman"
GSC Gameworld is hard at work on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. As a highly awaited sequel to some of the most acclaimed games, the company is naturally looking to cash in on as much awareness for the game as possible. And since one of the hot buzzwords in the market are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), the company has now announced that these will be present, in some forms, in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. One such NFT will be particularly special: its holder will have the digitally-recognized, intamperable right (and that's what NFTs are mostly about, in theory) to become a "Metahuman" - an in-game character modeled after the actual NFT holder.
"The idea of the related NFT is to give the right to recreate its owner's identity within the game through one of the NPCs," clarified GSC. "The person will need to come to our studio for a detailed scanning procedure and after that, we will have everything to make this person appear in the game world as one of the characters." The feat is being pulled with the help of NFT platform DMarket. DMarket will be holding an NFT auction dubbed the "STALKER Metaverse" in January 2022 through its partnership with GSC; there, users will be able to bid for an NFT offering that prize. Like any NFT, it can then be traded - up until a deadline specified by GSC, which will lock the prize to whoever has blockchain-verifiable possession of the NFT at the time.GSC also said that more NFT offerings will be added to the game besides the pinnacle "Metahuman" one, and said in a press release that its NFT drops "won't influence the gameplay itself or give in-game advantages over other players." With NFTs being so easily translatable into the world of videogames, rest assured - this is only one of the ways in which NFTs and other blockchain-based technologies can become assets to both gamers - and companies. We just have to find the right ways to go about this integration first.
"The idea of the related NFT is to give the right to recreate its owner's identity within the game through one of the NPCs," clarified GSC. "The person will need to come to our studio for a detailed scanning procedure and after that, we will have everything to make this person appear in the game world as one of the characters." The feat is being pulled with the help of NFT platform DMarket. DMarket will be holding an NFT auction dubbed the "STALKER Metaverse" in January 2022 through its partnership with GSC; there, users will be able to bid for an NFT offering that prize. Like any NFT, it can then be traded - up until a deadline specified by GSC, which will lock the prize to whoever has blockchain-verifiable possession of the NFT at the time.GSC also said that more NFT offerings will be added to the game besides the pinnacle "Metahuman" one, and said in a press release that its NFT drops "won't influence the gameplay itself or give in-game advantages over other players." With NFTs being so easily translatable into the world of videogames, rest assured - this is only one of the ways in which NFTs and other blockchain-based technologies can become assets to both gamers - and companies. We just have to find the right ways to go about this integration first.