PUBG developer Krafton wants to add nft skins to PUBG: Battlegrounds

By admin On Mar 7, 2022

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South Korean game developer Krafton is considering adding to PUBG: Battlegrounds the ability to create skins that use NFTs that players have purchased. The studio asks players in-game what they think about this via a survey.

Krafton, the company that includes PUBG Studios and Bluehole Studio, emphasizes that it doesn’t plan to mint or sell NFTs itself, but would like to add the ability for players to create in-game skins using NFTs they own. bought outside of the game. PUBG would get an ‘nft ecosystem’ for this, the developer writes in an in-game message to players.

The in-game message that PUBG players will see.
Screenshot: tweaker TheDevilOnLine.

If the idea becomes a reality, players will be able to add NFTs from ‘their favorite creators’ to base skins, based on NFT art, symbols and ‘souvenirs’ taken from outside the game. Krafton says he will not earn from the NFTs, but players have to buy the base skins, similar to normal skins. In-game it cannot be seen that the skins are made of an NFT, the studio writes in the message to users.

It is not Krafton’s first step in the field of NFTs. In February, the studio wrote that it is investing $5.8 million in two companies to develop “nft-oriented projects” and that it has partnered with metaverse developer Naver Z to build an “nft metaverse platform.”

Speaking to the Asia News Network in March, Krafton CEO Kim Chang-han said the company is making a “major transition” to the metaverse, NFTs and create-to-earn games. The most important step is the development of the metaverse platform together with Naver Z. That should be a virtual world based on Unreal Engine, and builds on the developer’s knowledge in the development of PUBG, Kim says. At the same time, he promises that the studio’s priority will remain on making games.

The South Korean studio isn’t the only game studio that sees an advantage in NFTs. For example, Square Enix is very enthusiastic about NFTs, Ubisoft added NFTs to Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Fable developer Peter Molyneux is working on an NFT game. Nevertheless, NFTs cannot count on the undivided enthusiasm of gamers. GSC Game World recently canceled NFT plans for Stalker 2 after heavy criticism from the community and Team 17 also stopped an NFT project surrounding the Worms franchise after criticism. It is also striking that in December last year it was said that NFT games might be banned in South Korea.