Near the end of October, Ubisoft’s NFT figurine PvP battler Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles quietly made its full release with almost no amount of wider fanfare and a marketplace that looked to be ripe for players’ attempts to cash out big by selling overpriced figure NFTs. This past weekend saw a different kind of problem arise: the kind where one player reportedly lorded over every single match for three days straight.
According to accounts from YouTuber Jauwn, whose whole channel’s schtick is mostly about covering NFT game slop, Champions Tactics players were unable to play the game at all as one person allegedly “found a way to win every single match before the game even begins” and ended up “somehow [being] the only person anyone ever matches against.”
Yesterday, a mod from the game’s official Discord noted that Ubisoft was aware of the problem but wasn’t able to address it until this morning. According to the studio, this wasn’t a case of a player going rogue but a matchmaking bug – and one that might reoccur, though a long-term fix is promised for sometime later.
Still, the fact that this big of a problem persisted for so long doesn’t bode well for Ubi’s continued attempt to kick the NFT football. “The fact that they have nobody supporting the newly launched game over the weekend is kinda hilarious and awesome at the same time,” Jauwn writes. “Ubisoft’s employees give so little of an F they’re happily clocking out and going home while the game melts down. I would too.”
