The First SE NFT.

[Cach]

If you can't resell them in a open market and inflate prices then what's the point?

(rhetorical question, we all know the point)

[DPZ2]

[url]Nevertheless, it would be lovely if this game had better funding and more attention devoted to it than NFT projects.

The actual Cloud figurine price is just under $130. For an additional $30 you can get something backed by blockchain technologies (Enjin, in this case), with no means of trading said NFT at this time. The figurine isn't out until later 2023, by which time Enjin may not even be in business.

This is also not the first NFT sold by Square Enix, but then you wouldn't know that because you neither read the quarterly financial statements for FY2022 or FY2023, nor are fluent enough in Japanes to where you could have purchased said NFTs in one of the non-English games published by SE.

[See financial statements for further details: https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/i...planatory.html -- may I suggest the May 2022 report for FY2023/Q1 and the end-of FY2022 report from 31 March 2022?]

[aveyond-dreams]

That doesn't change the fact that SE has a lot of more important projects that need funding and has strained relationships with enough of its players to even consider testing them further with NFTs and all they entail.

[Raoabolic]

What's frustrating is that they really don't need to embrace NFT's in order to make money - they've still got a lot of beloved older games that they could remaster and release to massive success.

It's called low hanging fruit. People speak with their wallet but some wallets are louder than others.

[Boblawblah]

The actual Cloud figurine price is just under $130. For an additional $30 you can get something backed by blockchain technologies (Enjin, in this case), with no means of trading said NFT at this time. The figurine isn't out until later 2023, by which time Enjin may not even be in business.

This is also not the first NFT sold by Square Enix, but then you wouldn't know that because you neither read the quarterly financial statements for FY2022 or FY2023, nor are fluent enough in Japanes to where you could have purchased said NFTs in one of the non-English games published by SE.

[See financial statements for further details: https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/i...planatory.html -- may I suggest the May 2022 report for FY2023/Q1 and the end-of FY2022 report from 31 March 2022?]

I'm sure you could have made that more condescending if you had wanted to, but not by much.

[Soge01]

Matsuda is the most incompetent SE CEO ever. This man just burns through all the good will Yoshi-P and his team work so hard to build up for SE just for this schmuck to come along and blow it all (and their money) on some nonsensical anti customer project that any person with two eyes and a partially functioning brain knows is a scam and will instantly fail.

People can say what they want about Sakaguchi back when he ran Square Soft, but Mastuda is a 1000× worse running SE. If it weren't for Yoshi-P turning FFXIV around, SE might have been forced to fold a long time ago.

[Bsrking5]

Beating an already repeatedly beaten dead horse in the most shameful way.

[aveyond-dreams]

Yoship already revealed that the mainline series was in danger due to the issues with the releases from the 2010s period, given the trajectory of the company it is no wonder that many are increasingly concerned for not just FFXIV but the franchise as a whole.

[Syln]

You know that's like one of those weird mix you see sometime and you didn't imagine it could be a thing before you saw it for the first time (like melted chocolate over cheese.)

Here i'm feeling both disgust and hilarity at the same time, that's kind of weird.

30 bucks for a 3D model that you'll be able to watch on you pc or phone ... 30 bucks like half of a full priced game on release for a fucking 3D model that you won't be able to do shit with. This is pure genius.

EDIT : misunderstood the price tag !

[Asari5]

enjoy it on my pc and smart phone thats so neat... it will be great as soon as we can upload our soul into the internet... until then i'll laugh about it