SE's pivot towards crypto and NFTs has me scared

[Elodie_Einsbern]

thank you for reassuring me, it seems this won't have any effect on the dungeons or story or trials, or any content that actually matters. I can continue playing worry free.

Yes in the ideal scenario it wouldn't effect the story and endgame. The community on the other hand, I could see quickly turning into a garbage fire.

[Vahlnir]

Unfortunately it's the newest tech fad. Fortunately, I don't think it's going to last long in the gaming industry. lol I could be wrong though. It has been a pretty tough sell so far.

[Puremallace]

Good way to kill an MMO is to abuse RMT and especially do it with NFT's. Go ask the Korean developers how that turned out for any MMO they tried it in the US or EU. I assume Square Enix is smart enough to see they were trending world wide on Twitter for basically talking about how exploit their playerbase with something a large amount of people consider to be a scam business model.

It would be a complete nightmare in PR for Square Enix to actually do this. That press statement read more like a letter to the shareholders with every buzz word from 2021 all in one statement even admitting NFT's were stupidly over valued and most would goto zero.

[Thoosa]

This doesn’t mean they don’t try and do something for the next 10 years of 14 - maybe they decide to get rid of the sub because nfts could make them more money if everything is monetised, who knows. I don’t think we should accept this in our games, because we “play for fun” after all.

[Shibi]

I don’t think we should accept this in our games, because we “play for fun” after all.

Yes, but SE are chasing those people who "play to be paid"; Mod writers.
(and separate to these the goldsellers and housing-botters)

[Illmaeran]

sniparoonie

If I'm understanding this correctly, the fear/concern is that some non-essential things like glamour items, mounts, minions, and housing items would be made limited-release that people would be able to trade for real currency. This might incentivize SE to make non-essential items NFT with increased frequency, to a point of no return where everything that's not the most basic of base-game would be RMT, but limited edition, causing people to go apeshit spending stupid amounts of money to get that SUPERDUPERLIMITEDEDITIONYSHTOLAPANTSUSHOT image in hopes that they could resell it at a profit?

I have no issue with people blowing more money than they should on things that give no real world benefit (I play Warhammer 40K...), but as soon as it starts impacting game design and content availability it gets into dangerous territory.

[Elodie_Einsbern]

If I'm understanding this correctly, the fear/concern is that some non-essential things like glamour items, mounts, minions, and housing items would be made limited-release that people would be able to trade for real currency. This might incentivize SE to make non-essential items NFT with increased frequency, to a point of no return where everything that's not the most basic of base-game would be RMT, but limited edition, causing people to go apeshit spending stupid amounts of money to get that SUPERDUPERLIMITEDEDITIONYSHTOLAPANTSUSHOT image in hopes that they could resell it at a profit?

I have no issue with people blowing more money than they should on things that give no real world benefit (I play Warhammer 40K...), but as soon as it starts impacting game design and content availability it gets into dangerous territory.

It will 100% start out with non essential things. This will be the on-boarding avenue they will take

Where it goes from there? That's the real question, and personally I don't think it will be a good road for us that just want to play games for "fun". It very much could go down the way you just described

[Havenchild]

This doesn’t mean they don’t try and do something for the next 10 years of 14 - maybe they decide to get rid of the sub because nfts could make them more money if everything is monetised, who knows. I don’t think we should accept this in our games, because we “play for fun” after all.

There is alot of fearmongering going on atm but odds are this won't have an impact on FFXIV at the least in any current capacity. If it did arrive, it would come in the form of glam options probably with an alternative currency. However there are also some claiming they would leave FFXIV if SE rolled out NFTs to their other games and anyone saying that should already pack up shop as they have already test drived a new IP that gave them massive profits from NFTs. Items from FF are probably the most collectible around. If their intention is to expand on NFTs, I would imagine that they understand that people will invest into NFT items associated with the FF franchise. This includes people on these very forums who are naysayers. So it inevitably can arrive on the franchise with time but I doubt anytime soon or even some current FF in production. They still want to test the waters / market before jumping on their main series.

[Maxilor]

Unfortunately it's the newest tech fad. Fortunately, I don't think it's going to last long in the gaming industry. lol I could be wrong though. It has been a pretty tough sell so far.

What, you weren't around when SE announced FFXIV Fidget Spinners?

/s

[Daralii]

FFXIV is on Steam and Steam has banned all NFTs from their platform. We should be safe because of that. Plus, I believe Yoshi-P would fight against it in the 1st place.

Square's started to court Epic and their store. I could easily see them pulling XIV from Steam and moving it to EGS.