Something strange happened in Ubisoft’s NFT game last weekend, and the player who is said to be responsible for it isn’t even the bad guy in the end.
Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles is an NFT game from Ubisoft that was released last week. Players assemble a team of champions and fight against each other in turn-based PvP matches.
Champions are created in the forge by merging two of these heroes and can then be traded as NFTs on the marketplace. By the way, the most expensive one currently costs a whopping 300 million dollars in cryptocurrency. But even with that, you wouldn’t have stood a chance last weekend.
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Friday
In the feedback channel of the official Discord from Champions Tactics, numerous reports of faulty matchmaking are received. The players receive an error message after the opponent has been found and the game does not take place.
Despite the message that statistics and placement were not affected, the failed matchmaking attempts count as defeats During the course of the day, it turns out that the bug affects the entire competitive matchmaking system, but that’s not all.
The entire community is matched with the same player: Paulstar111 The community demands an immediate ban, but the Discord mods have bad news. Over the weekend, the developers have no access to the office and can only react on Monday.
Saturday
The community can breathe a sigh of relief. The game director logs on to Discord under the name Biloukat and announces that “strange behavior” had been detected in the Paulstar111 account and that it had been banned for the time being first banned
The joy was short-lived, however, because minutes after the announcement, a player named Schilleri11 emerged and received an automatic win from everyone who wanted to play because of the same matchmaking error.
Sunday
Nothing happened there, except for the auto-wins for Schilleri11 from everyone who didn’t know about the problem. Everyone else was probably at church praying to the crypto god.
Monday
Game Director Biloukat started the new week with some good news: matchmaking should be back to normal. He also shared an amazing insight.
Paulstar111 and Schilleri11 had nothing to do with it. Neither player was trying to hack the game to make a bunch of crypto money, but were just victims of a matchmaking bug.
Biloukat publicly apologized to both of them and called on the community to be lenient. If that isn’t a happy ending and plot twist! So now everyone can continue to craft champions, fight each other and save up for the $300 million – or earn it, who knows?
