Ultra is orchestrating a transformative shift through its proprietary blockchain technology. It seamlessly integrates players, game developers, and publishers into a fairer, more sustainable paradigm and aims to benefit everyone in the ecosystem.
Embracing this technological innovation and forever securing its status as the world’s first tradable game is the indie title Josh Journey: Darkness Totems from Provincia Studio. Users now gain the unprecedented ability to purchase and resell captivating digital gaming content among themselves, heralding a new era in video game distribution. Ultra’s recent independent survey of 2,000 PC gamers – the full findings of which are set to be released in January 2024 – showed that the vast majority (64%) of PC games are already bought at a discount, in a bundle, or downloaded for free.
This leap addresses an unspoken truth in digital entertainment: that users have no real ownership over the content they acquire. Buying a computer game or other digital material grants only an individual license – a temporary privilege open to revocation.
Nicolas Gilot, Co-CEO at Ultra, said the following;
For the majority of mainstream PC gamers, true ownership of their digital games isn’t a burning issue – until it is. Recent history has clearly shown that digital content in users’ libraries can be removed at short notice as platforms, companies and licensing agreements change. By tokenizing the games on Ultra and providing developers with the option to make their titles tradable, we hope to unlock new revenue streams and community engagement features for developers of all types of PC game, while giving all users true ownership of their content – even if they don’t know they need it yet!”
Guilherme Araujo, Co-Founder of Provincia Studio, added:
“We’re excited that Josh Journey will forever be the very first tradable title on Ultra Games! This is a great opportunity for us to understand more about this new business model for games and see how it can enhance existing revenue streams and create new ones. Blockchain and tokenization are not familiar concepts to us, but the enthusiasm of the Ultra community is enormous, and we can’t wait to see them enjoy and share Josh Journey.”
Ultra, a dynamic gaming hub, introduces a groundbreaking feature: tradable game technology. Available across every game on its cutting-edge PC store, this innovation empowers developers to make crucial decisions. They can choose whether to enable reselling of their titles and establish rules—such as minimum resale prices and revenue splits.
Ultra Games has an extensive catalog of games, including web3 titles Phantom Galaxies, R3V3NGE, and Aether: Trading Card Game, and much-loved PC games and gaming series such as Lords of the Fallen, The Walking Dead Definitive Series, WRC7, the Syberia series, and the Beholder series. Ultra is powered by its custom-built layer 1 blockchain and native token, UOS.
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