Many would be hard-pressed to find a person, outside of big corporations, who are in favor of these attempts at merging video games with non-fungible tokens. Pretty much any mention of it results in major backlash. This backlash often results in company's doing a 180, such as when STALKER 2 decided to backpedal on its NFT decision recently. As despised as this practice may be, there's an argument to be had that this is an area suitable for parody. With that, one person has done just such a thing by making a mod for Doom 2 that pokes fun at NFTs.
The original Doom games are rife for modding, and have been pretty much since they hit PC screens back in the mid-1990s. Ultra.Boi's NFT Doom does exactly what it says in that it marries the high-speed action of this most influential of first-person shooters with this much-derided practice that publishers are trying to push the industry towards. The mod allows players to "shoot" a series of cartoon monkey NFTs, which replace the standard enemies, only they don't shoot them with a gun. Instead, they shoot them with a camera, with each successful hit netting the player some money.
The whole idea is seemingly to mock this idea of turning easily copyable content into commodities owned by a single person. The mod's description page even makes a statement about this, saying "this mod goes hard! Screenshot it while you can." Whether it will stop the big companies from engaging in this tactic is unlikely, but it will give players some method of mocking the whole affair. With the likes of the Dead by Daylight studio recently engaging in NFT controversy, it seems that more and more franchises are in danger of being swallowed up by this practice.
For those not fully aware, NFTs are being adopted in the games industry, which is causing a lot of upset among the community. Non-fungible tokens allow people to essentially "own" digital content. Much of the backlash comes from them being part of the cryptocurrency league, which famously is causing concern due to its effect on the environment from constant mining using GPU farms. Some just find it silly that a digital icon can be the sole property of one person when others can simply copy+paste them for nothing.
In terms of Doom itself, it just goes to show how much life this nearly 30-year-old franchise has in it. With scientists teaching rats to play Doom, and even John Romero himself still working on new content for the second game, it seems like what the world needs right now is a lot more satire. Maybe another game will also look at poking fun at NFTs for a bit.
The original Doom was released in 1993 for multiple platforms, and has been ported to newer consoles since.
Source: ModDB