Paramount is coming into the NFT game. Despite the recent thefts where many NFT holders were left penniless and despite their generally terrible behaviour, Paramount felt they were a good business move to buy some 20 000 Star Trek-themed NFTs.
Paramount Global has partnered with the NFT platform Recur to set up a website to serve as a minter for Paramount’s first batch of NFTs. Through an account on the Paramount website, owners can buy and collect NFTs, and then use them as games. Star Trek’s first property gets a NFT treatment, and the company’s IP is on fire soon. Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, CBS, Showtime, and many more.
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Season 0 of Star Trek NFT will sell from noon till noon. Each nft is a class algorithmically generated starship, depending on the type of packet you purchase. There are 5,000 “Admiral Packs” which include a Consitution Class or Constitution Refit Class ship, while the 15,000 “Captain Packs” are a wide range of classes, such as Soyuz, Oberth, Miranda or Constitution Class.
It is possible to see the details of each ship in the FAQs. Every pack has one ship that has random generated traits, and each package costs $250. The fans of Star Trek can watch the movie based on the movie Star Trek: The Star Series or the movie Recurs livestream on the April 8 at 9 p.m.
The Plan for Paramount and Recurs begins with the publication of a season 0 of Star Trek NFTs and will follow that sequence with the season 1 and 2 where people work on their newly created starships. Then season 3 comes with a play-to-play game where you use ships for missions to unexplored countries.
It’s not a bad idea, but the success of the NFTs has been very rare, and there have been more than one hundred scandals. Ill give Paramount a credit for using the algorithmic generator for something more interesting than a bunch of Ape JPEGs, and Ill give Recur for using proof-of-stake blockchain technology and purchasing carbon offsets, but this NFT release still contains several expensive pictures with the promise that a bad browser game will come later. Even if it does, there’s no guarantee that the game will stick around for long.
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