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Take-Two Interactive Hints At NFT Integration

Despite widespread negativity from the public regarding non-fungible tokens, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick alludes to future integration.

gamerant.com

Regardless, in an interview with Nintendo Life, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick briefly addresses a possibility where NFTs are incorporated in forthcoming releases as he is "highly convinced there’s an opportunity for NFTs to fit with Take-Two’s offerings in the future." Zelnick, who does admit that he and the company are concerned with the rampant "speculation" that currently shrouds the technology, evaluates by reaffirming that "We believe in rare goods, we believe in collectibles."

Whilst Zelnick considers that non-fungible tokens go hand in hand with the collective side of video games, Reddit's Grand Theft Auto Online community does not share such sentiments. This notion was revealed after user BadDecisionSM posted a screenshot of the Nintendo Life interview and captioned it "on behalf of 99% of GTA players. No thanks." Just from looking at the top replies to the post, the common criticizing consensus is that "Rockstar would be making a big mistake if this turns out to be true" because NFTs are a "fad" that will "eventually be completely irrelevant soon enough."

 

[Kuranghi]

Here's a big hint for him: Fuck off.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Anybody who has played NBA2K knows Take Two are one of the worst MTX offenders. There’s no surprise here.

 

[SJRB]

Strauss Zelnick is such a fucking parasite. Him, Andrew Wilson, Bobby Kotick.. They're all the same.

A blight of the industry.

 

[Anos Voldigoad]

Fuk NFT

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

They get a lot of money from GTA5, but no they now want to scam people, beautiful.

 

[Kilau]

Why treat the fans this way?

 

[Punished Miku]

This isn't surprising from these guys.

 

[tanners]

One word:Cringe