Square Enix and Crypto

[CarnageTheory]

2022 isn't even 15 hours old and this clown releases this statement. I guess as long as this NFT nonsense stays tf out of XIV, I don't really care. I mean, I was gonna try out XVI since Yoshi-P is involved, but maybe not after all. It's just really hard to stomach how tone-deaf this statement is, especially considering part of the semi-conductor shortage is because of garbage like NFTs.

[ReynTime]

Yeah. This was the last straw for me. I'm unsubbing.

I have a lot of friends who are artists and NFT basically encourages art theft too.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

As long as FF14 is not embracing NFTs, the game is fine.

To continue to support FFXIV while snubbing anything that does go with them is sending a message.

NO NFTS

[ReynTime]

As long as FF14 is not embracing NFTs, the game is fine.

To continue to support FFXIV while snubbing anything that does go with them is sending a message.

NO NFTS

That's just an excuse for you people's addiction. XIV subs go directly to SE, not even back to XIV itself most of the time. That's what the mogstation is for.
You're not sending any message to SE by continuing to give money to SE.

There are a lot of good games to play, old and new. If people who are anti NFT don't have the spine or decency to actually commit they are just gonna keep being part of the very problem they want to be gone.

[Maxilor]

As long as FF14 is not embracing NFTs, the game is fine.

To continue to support FFXIV while snubbing anything that does go with them is sending a message.

NO NFTS

Creepy $1,000 Doll: I sleep

NFT: Real Shit

Not saying NFTs are good either, but THIS is where we are drawing the line?

Square has been cash grabbing for years.

[Shibi]

Square has been cash grabbing for years.

It's not the cash grab that worries me. It's the sheer amount of wasted electricity, and the resultant CO2. The main reason I don't support BDO, a game that rewards you leaving your PC on 24 hours a day. Any crypto based game will do the same.

That adds up.

[Dyvid]

Creepy $1,000 Doll: I sleep

NFT: Real Shit

Not saying NFTs are good either, but THIS is where we are drawing the line?

Square has been cash grabbing for years.

[Katt_Felista]

Creepy $1,000 Doll: I sleep

NFT: Real Shit

Not saying NFTs are good either, but THIS is where we are drawing the line?

Square has been cash grabbing for years.

At least they were not forcing you to adhere to a doll economy, you would buy it if you were that huge of a nerd and liked it, nft's are a whole new layer of scam that will, just like crysta's or mtx in general, finally force you into the paradigm / currency / tokenomics. You still have the choice to not buy merch surrounding a game, nft's will not give you a choice if the concept is "really" taken and brought to it's conclusion.

[Ranaku]

Creepy $1,000 Doll: I sleep

NFT: Real Shit

Not saying NFTs are good either, but THIS is where we are drawing the line?

Square has been cash grabbing for years.

I mean it's still something physical people will have and can enjoy for the rest of their life, they buy it once and then own it. The intention behind dolls and figures and whatever is to collect it. It has personal subjective value.

NFT is sold with the promise of making big money out of it, you don't buy into it cause you like stupid ape pics or something. There is no personal objective value behind owning a NFT. You don't look at it and say, yes this ape i am proud of owning. Same as you don't look at stockmarket shares and think to yourself that this has great artistic value. No you want to have that shit to sell it later for more than you got it for. But fact is the only safe money someone makes out of NFTs is the creator, everyone after this just plays the game of "The last one who holds the ape loses all his money!".

So idk where you graduated but you might want to exercise you brain again cause if it lets you compare physical art to a gambling system then you might wanna check up with your neurons again. Cause next they might let you drink bleach or let you buy into MLMs. And that might be something we both don't really want.

[Maxilor]

I mean it's still something physical people will have and can enjoy for the rest of their life, they buy it once and then own it. The intention behind dolls and figures and whatever is to collect it. It has personal subjective value.

NFT is sold with the promise of making big money out of it, you don't buy into it cause you like stupid ape pics or something. There is no personal objective value behind owning a NFT. You don't look at it and say, yes this ape i am proud of owning. Same as you don't look at stockmarket shares and think to yourself that this has great artistic value. No you want to have that shit to sell it later for more than you got it for. But fact is the only safe money someone makes out of NFTs is the creator, everyone after this just plays the game of "The last one who holds the ape loses all his money!".

So idk where you graduated but you might want to exercise you brain again cause if it lets you compare physical art to a gambling system then you might wanna check up with your neurons again. Cause next they might let you drink bleach or let you buy into MLMs. And that might be something we both don't really want.

You missed the point of my post.

Square Enix for YEARS has been using various tactics to money grub it's fans and I was pointing out that people only NOW are getting up in arms because NFTs have been involved and how late to the party everyone is.

Also, your daily reminder that the gacha games Square Enix puts out make more money than FFXIV will ever imagine.

But thanks for trying to insult my intelligence at the end there, really earning that 'Best Community 2022 Award'.

Stay classy.