My favorite quote from that article is the following one:

Do I want to make money by playing videogames? The thought makes me want to turn off my monitor forever, ...

It's funny because as a writer for PC Gamer he already gets paid to play games and write about them.

Anyway, probably it's not the worst thing that big gaming companies are putting their NFT plans on hold for now. As most of the novel things in gaming usually develop outside of AAA games.