Overview
- Ubisoft announced this week that Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles will be playable until servers close on October 30 and that in-app purchases will be disabled ahead of the shutdown.
- The company removed the game's Web3 functions in May, disabling minting and marketplace sales and converting previously minted NFT characters into regular, fungible in-game items because of changes to the Oasys blockchain infrastructure.
- Ubisoft previously offered a non-blockchain Steam release titled Champions Tactics Reforged, but that edition drew mixed reviews and failed to build a large player base.
- The publisher is offering rewards to select high-ranked Champions Tactics players to encourage migration to Might & Magic Fates, a February 2026 trading-card title that uses an Immutable-powered external marketplace for card sales.
- The sunsetting underscores risks of tying games to third-party blockchains and shows a gap between speculative NFT pricing and real player demand while Ubisoft continues to pursue marketplace mechanics in other products.