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The future of AAA games and NFTs

Capcom created 1,000 Street Fighter NFT card packs and sold them on WAX. Many of the cards can be found on secondary NFT marketplaces. (Source: Capcom)   Gamers hate NFTs. Consumers on any Twitter chain, any subreddit, balk when people mention adding NFTs into their games. A Twitter account titled Crypto Bros Taking Ls (for the uninitiated, “taking an L” ...

Tristan Perona

Capcom created 1,000 Street Fighter NFT card packs and sold them on WAX. Many of the cards can be found on secondary NFT marketplaces. (Source: Capcom)   Gamers hate NFTs. Consumers on any Twitter chain, any subreddit, balk when people mention adding NFTs into their games. A Twitter account titled Crypto Bros Taking Ls (for the uninitiated, “taking an L” means taking a loss) has almost 500,000 followers. They post content about people who engage with crypto and NFT culture losing their money and getting hacked, among other things. On the other hand, gaming companies love NFTs because they mean
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