Square Enix and Crypto

[ovIm]

I cannot fathom how someone working in an entertainment industry can be so detached from their own customers.

I realize that some people who “play to have fun” and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so. However, I believe that there will be a certain number of people whose motivation is to “play to contribute,” by which I mean to help make the game more exciting. Traditional gaming has offered no explicit incentive to this latter group of people, who were motivated strictly by such inconsistent personal feelings as goodwill and volunteer spirit.

Really now? We play games to relax, to have fun. Only a small group of people, people that try to use a trend to make money, is interested in anything NFT, pretty much everyone else considers them a scam. And that is because fundamentally, the current NFT boon is a scam.

Edit - its not "some people" who play to have fun, its "almost all of the people", as in, the very, clear, majority of your customers.

[Vherkin]

Nft make loot box look alright, please SE, Don't do it.

I've left Eve Online when they started to pull shady shit back in the day. I don't want to leave another MMO because of stuff like this.
NFT suck and doesn't give anything to customer. It's just steam market place with extra step and environmental cost.

[Manny_Maneater]

I wasn't aware the CEO of Square Enix was actually Lolorito.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I wasn't aware the CEO of Square Enix was actually Lolorito.

Lolorito is a dick, but he's savvy enough to recognize that a short-term burst of profit is no match for long-term sustained profit.

This is more Teledji Adeledji. Hopefully the whole NFT craze goes the same way.

[Enla]

Consumer good will is a one time currency. Once it's gone, it's near impossible to get back. It took Yoshi-P 8+ years to fix the image of FF14 after 1.0 and it was through hard work, determination, and putting the customer first that they managed to salvage the brand. Yet here comes the CEO, already a figure who isn't well liked in the community, willing to throw all of that down the toilet for a naked money laundering scheme that's liable to implode the second any regulation is put in place. And all in the name of the unsustainable monetary growth that epitomizes the capitalist business model. Hilariously it's almost as if SE is most well known for making a beloved game franchise that directly critiques corporate greed and the environmental effects it can have... Guess the CEO didn't get the memo.

If this goes through and touches FF14 in any way this "casual" gamer will not be continuing my sub or purchasing another SE backed product. The fact that Endwalker finished the story I cared so much about will allow me to leave with little to no regrets.

[Alaray]

Shit sucks, hope the project crashes and burns.

[Fyrebrand]

This doesn't sound good, but I don't see this type of thing coming to FFXIV. Square Enix is a huge company that produces and publishes a lot of things. I think they would more likely implement this into a new game that is centered around that concept, although there's a high likelihood it would be a Final Fantasy-branded product. But I mean, there a bunch of shabby-looking FF mobile games that I don't touch, it doesn't bother me any or impact FFXIV at all.

As a side note, what the heck is he talking about how 2021 is the "Metaverse" year, because Facebook officially changed to "Meta"? I'm on Facebook right now, there's nothing different about it and no mention of "Meta" anything.

[Enla]

This doesn't sound good, but I don't see this type of thing coming to FFXIV. Square Enix is a huge company that produces and publishes a lot of things. I think they would more likely implement this into a new game that is centered around that concept, although there's a high likelihood it would be a Final Fantasy-branded product. But I mean, there a bunch of shabby-looking FF mobile games that I don't touch, it doesn't bother me any or impact FFXIV at all.

As a side note, what the heck is he talking about how 2021 is the "Metaverse" year, because Facebook officially changed to "Meta"? I'm on Facebook right now, there's nothing different about it and no mention of "Meta" anything.

Facebook is planning on releasing something called the "Metaverse". Basically imagine VRchat and Second Life had a baby, the graphics look like something straight out of 2003, and a bunch of tech illiterate rich people seem to think it's this great innovation but almost everything about it has been iterated upon for years at this point. Like weddings, for example.

[-Mira-]

Facebook is planning on releasing something called the "Metaverse". Basically imagine VRchat and Second Life had a baby, the graphics look like something straight out of 2003, and a bunch of tech illiterate rich people seem to think it's this great innovation but almost everything about it has been iterated upon for years at this point. Like weddings, for example.

Am not really warm for metaverse, there are some online worlds that have done things better. Also not warm for Second Life much only visited that to view a friends creation but it doesn’t attract me otherwise. I do go on VRchat a slight bit more because while some creations are a bit meh, some are real artworks to explore + while some game devs maybe hate it I do like seeing some places from video games I love back on there too. Am a bit shy so my privacy settings are friends only 98% of the times.
I also liked Playstation home kind of, some stuff was a bit … weird (don’t make a girl avatar because the lonely fanboys will flood you) but I really liked some of the minigames they offered and some things were put together pretty nicely, too bad that it never lived up to the initial plans they had for it. For the minigames… while it has a bit of an other feel to it, I have visited Tower Unite for that too.
FFXIV is obviously a fine online world too I visit it the most of all I have ever visited probably. The mini games are great as well if I need some of that.

Now metaverse possibly may end up with some fun minigames, sure why not if they can build it in and so on. One thing on my mind is how facebook hates nicknames so idk how they do with privacy settings. In this day and age next to personal irl contacts we also have warm contacts with many people online, people you maybe like to share some life related things but not all too personal details. So idk what to really expect there and all…

[Puksi]

This doesn't sound good, but I don't see this type of thing coming to FFXIV.

Square-Enix still owns FF, doesn't that mean that XIV is tied entirely to lining S-E's pockets and supporting company decisions like this?