Ubisoft's New Pay-To-Win Game is So Broken No One Can Play It

Ubisoft's New Pay-To-Win Game is So Broken No One Can Play It

From Hardcore Gamer (Written by Jonathan Klotz) on | OpenCritic

Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles is a new turn-based dark fantasy RPG from Ubisoft that focuses solely on PvP combat. The free-to-play title provides players with a free set of heroic figurines, which resemble Heroscape models when in action, but in order to get more and create your team of highly-trained combatants, you need to use the in-game currency, which is standard for most free-to-play games these days, but that's only one option.

The other option, is to use cryptocurrency, and purchase figurines, or "Forge" your own, because as it turns out, every character is represented by a NFT (Non-Fungible Token), with the high-end heroes on sale in the marketplace for over $300. If the pay-to-win gameplay wasn't bad enough, for the last few days, the game has been dominated by one player automatically matched up against every player, who wins their matches immediately, ringing up an astronomical 52,000 matches in under a week and making it so that no one can actually play the game.

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