I think 1 year is a very generous estimate.
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Yep, exactly. He only said the game, but SE will certainly continue to grow this bottom line:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FROr5YEW...pg&name=medium
Dude, they had to compromise between an ingame cash shop button in the game or not by adding a popup in the inn. In fact, I would bet that 8.0 will have a special edition that has an NFT something or another bundled into it for a significantly higher price than the other versions of the expansion. Prove me wrong SE, I doubt you will, but prove me wrong~!
Luckily, with how much fan service is available in VII, they'll be milking that for another decade, so the other game are safe for now.
I hope people don't buy this crap to show them we don't want nfts
As soon as population starts dropping they'll use it as an excuse to implement it. I suspect that 7.0 will be "ok" and will see the sharpest community fall off since Stormblood and that they'll say "Look, we did it your way and now we've lost revenue. We're going to do this now."
It might happen sooner, depending on how 6.2 goes. Island Sanctuary launching with a plethora of issues would likely cause them to arrive sooner. Though other games within the company launching to the 'Babylon's Fall' effect would also advance the encroachment of NFT's elsewhere.
That's not how business decisions work. If at any point Yosuke Matsuda tells him "I want NFTs in FFXIV. It's one of our biggest IPs and it makes total sense to make extra through NFTs from that very large active customer base", if Yoshida or his team fail to provide strong enough evidence to convince him otherwise, it doesn't matter what he "wishes".
Moreover Yoshida tried to defend NFTs in a live letter so he's not against the concept, he just doesn't see how it would fit in XIV. He doesn't see NFT as something inherently bad.
But I don't know why I bother explaining this. Majority of the XIV fanbase thinks he's some kind of paragon of everything nice they want in a human being when he's just... a producer doing producer things without being a bad human being.