PUBG creator ‘didn’t even think about NFTs’ in upcoming Metaverse: Report
Brendan Greene, the creator of online battle royale shooter PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), who left the game's development team in 2019, has announced his plans to create a new generation of metaverse focused on gameplay called “Artemis” – though not fungible, tokens (NFTs) cannot emerge.
Speaking to IGN on January 4th, Greeney said he “didn't even think about” including NFTs in the project, which is currently under development at his game studio PlayerUnkown Productions.
“I didn't even think about it [NFTs]He said.
The crypto industry has consistently championed NFT as the best way to protect IP and in-game assets across various gaming ecosystems, but Green doesn't seem to be buying the hype.
“Our concern is to get the engine into it where we can, and then like I said game two, then we'll test ideas, but honestly right now, we're not even thinking about it. Just having more fun games.”
While NFTs probably won't appear in Green's metaverse, he says blockchain technology could be integrated somewhere down the line.
“Blockchains are an exciting financial tool as a layer in the digital world. […] Maybe in the future it will be interesting to see blockchain or hashgraph or iterative technology,” Green said.
“Ultimately, it's a digital ledger, and if we can use a digital ledger, we're going to make the most of it. But that's the truth,” he added.
Greeney says that metaverse has become a “dirty word”, “discrediting the efforts of other metaverse creators.”[intellectual property] Sub-tech bubbles that fail to deliver on their advertising.
“I don't think anyone else is because I want to build a metaverse.”
“I think everyone is building IP bubbles that can talk to each other at some point in the future, maybe if we're lucky, but that's not the style,” Greene said.
Three games of the Green Metaverse
Greaney says the final phase of the Metaverse project is called Artemis — it's actually the third game of three separate projects under development.
The first game named “Prelude” is a realistic survival game built on a world-generation engine trained on NASA Earth data. The game is currently online for testing and is slated to launch in 2025.
Beta preview game theme. Source: PCGames
The second game – currently untitled – will focus more on large worlds with “millions” of characters. Both projects will be combined at the final stage of Artemis.
Green says that the ultimate goal of Artemis is to create a “3D Internet” where players can create, improve and participate in multiplayer games in different worlds.
“Metaverse 3D is the Internet. You should be able to create your own world and have them all run over the same protocol like HTTP. So the world is a page, and that's what I'm trying to do with Artemis.”
Greene added that the gameplay in Artemis follows a similar structure to earlier games like Minecraft and Star Trek Holodeck – with a focus on user-generated content and creativity.
Related: AI models predict the ultimate crypto portfolio for 2025.
Green left PUBG's active development team in March 2019 to focus on building new games and technologies within PUBG's special projects and production at his spin-off game studio PlayerUnkown.
In the broader tech scene between 2020 and 2022, the metaverse was one of the two hottest narratives. During this period, several crypto projects promised to deliver a working metaverse and delivered impressive reviews.
Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg rebranded his social media company and burned more than $40 billion trying to create a viable metaverse.
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