A recent Activision Blizzard survey has been noted of surveying their players’ interest in some of the more controversial emerging trends in gaming, including NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and the Metaverse. This goes to suggest that the publisher is testing the waters on some of these topics, which will likely influence if we will see some of these trends in future Activision Blizzard titles.

Brought up over by user Okage Tadaka on Twitter, she shared a portion of the Activision Blizzard survey which gauges the player’s interest towards several topics, including highly controversial ones like NFTs.

So it seems Blizzard/Activision is trying to see if players are interested in crypto and n.f*t in games. I got a survey from them and it is on the survey. I said very disinterested to them. pic.twitter.com/dIT4bVokDK

— Okage Tadaka BlackLivesMatter StopAsianHate (@OTadaka) April 16, 2022

So it seems Blizzard/Activision is trying to see if players are interested in crypto and n.f*t in games. I got a survey from them and it is on the survey. I said very disinterested to them.

While bringing up the topics of NFTs and crypto have been largely enough to put a bitter taste into many players’ mouths, the landing page for the end of the survey was also criticized, as it redirected to the Battle.net store.

@Blizzard_Ent This survey ended with;
A) "thank you" landing page
B) "your responses have been recorded" landing page
C) The https://t.co/aB9BSPHPV5 Shop
It was C. It was incredibly abrupt. I get that you are a large company and there is a lot of moving parts but come on! pic.twitter.com/eYRzh6pm0c

— Oaks | Stuart J. (@Oakshadric) April 16, 2022

It remains to be seen jsut how far Activision Blizzard is in terms of testing the waters for these topics, and as such we may be seeing them integrated into the publisher’s titles sooner rather than later.

It’s worth noting that several huge publihers have already expressed their interest into dipping their toes into crypto and NFTs; earlier this year, Square Enix shared their NFT and Metaverse plans in an open letter, and you can check it out for yourself here.

Source: Twitter