Last 12 months, CMON (Zombicide, Rising Sun, Blood Rage) introduced that it was partnering with Monsoon Digital to launch an NFT buying and selling platform. It appears to be like like they’re lastly prepared as final evening, CMON despatched out an electronic mail to its large Kickstarter backer checklist saying the pending launch of its Zombicide Digital Collectible Cards.

The electronic mail says that they’re gifting away “$2 Million” in free packs to CMON backers. Each Pack has a retail worth of $10 and comprises:

• 5 x Common playing cards
• 1 x Rare/Legendary card
• 1 x Backer Exclusive Promo card

There is a countdown on the linked Monsoon web page saying the official launch of the product on September 15.

With that out of the way in which, I’d wish to editorialize for a second. As I discussed in our put up about Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu NFTs, NFTs are pointless at greatest, and a rip-off at worst. They’ve lengthy been an answer searching for an issue. You don’t truly appear to personal something with NFTs, aside from a hyperlink pointing to a picture/merchandise that anybody can entry. Yet at one level folks have been spending thousands and thousands of {dollars} on them. With this 12 months’s crypto crash, the NFT market has tumbled together with it.

And CMON right here appears to be combining NTFs and randomized booster packs in a win for nearly no person. You’ll be capable of promote your “cards” on Monsoon’s market (after they take out their charges) to different folks, assuming there are literally those that need these. This additionally brings up the query of who truly would need these. I’m unsure why anybody would need Zombicide digital collectible playing cards, as they don’t seem to have any gameplay worth. Is there a large demand for digital buying and selling playing cards? These aren’t bodily promo playing cards you possibly can throw on ebay. Just pictures on a pc display screen. But I additionally don’t perceive why folks would pay a ton of cash for computer-generated ugly monkey artwork, so perhaps I’m out of the loop.