Blizzard Promises It's Not Doing NFTs After Asking Fans How They Feel About NFTs

While many video game companies are going all in or at least considering future incorporation of NFTs into their games (much to the chagrin of their fan bases), Blizzard Entertainment is now gauging how its fans feel about NFTs … and it seems they don't like them.

The company recently put out a survey to its fans to gauge opinions on a variety of hot topics in gaming culture today, including cross-platform gaming, virtual reality and 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

Naturally, Blizzard asking its fans what they thought about NFTs led people to surmise that Blizzard was pondering the inclusion of NFTs in its games, and as has nearly always been the case in situations like this, it was met with considerable backlash.

blizzard PLEASE no nft's that is the worst thing you can do for your already damaged reputation

— 💙🏳️‍🌈Siggy is going to megacon?🏳️‍🌈💙 (@siggykuu) April 16, 2022

NFT's in WoW. The WoW shills will defend this move, like they defend anything else Blizzard does.

If this happens I'm gonna laugh so hard.

— Accolonn (@theaccolonn) April 17, 2022

casts dubious look at Blizzard survey asking about interest in NFTs and play-to-earn

— I'm so tired y'all (@dragovianknight) April 15, 2022

The rumors led Blizzard President Mike Ybarra to shut down the idea that Blizzard was getting into NFTs on Twitter. "No one is doing NFTs," he stated firmly.

No one is doing NFTs.

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) April 17, 2022

Though Ybarra's comment was intended to be reassuring to NFT opponents, it raised the question of why Blizzard polled its fans on NFTs in the first place, and several people weren't entirely convinced by Ybarra's statement.

Well that's reassuring in the short term, but errr why are you polling it then? At best that makes me think there's disagreements on the topic between the CEO and the company, and at worst it seems like an easy win to bat it down after a sneaky testing of the waters.

— Kristian (@Kritigri) April 17, 2022

The invisible "yet" looming large here https://t.co/qlRTynIjiI

— John Rathiganthan (@JRathiganthan) April 19, 2022

You know damn well Blizzard would hop on this in a second if there was any interest or engagement. This is Ybarra trying not to drop stocks. https://t.co/vUSCYF4baP

— //pentagear.gg 💙💛 (@Pentagear) April 19, 2022

For the time being, Blizzard's official position on NFTs is "no," but only time will tell if Blizzard is committed to that stance.