Square Enix and Crypto

[DPZ2]

OMG. NFTs in video games. Whatever should we do?

Should have thought about that when Blizzard started putting WoW Tokens up for sale, or Fortnite started selling V-Bucks, or < insert name of gaming company that has in-game currency that you can also purchase with Real Money>.

Also, may I point out slides 23-25 here: https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/i...22q2slides.pdf

(Note, this is the briefing session dated 5 November 2021)

SE's vision of NFTs is more like Wizard of the Coasts releasing yet another expansion full of playing cards.

Block-chain technologies do not have to involve every computer with a GPU in the world 'mining' for < insert favorite cryptojunk currency >.

Speculation in NFTs is the equivalent of investing in Beanie Babies. I have a bag of Beanie Babies in the closet from when my son was young. Did they go up in price? Sure did, for a couple of years, and then ... boom, er, bust. They are worth more as just toys as far as my son was concerned, so that 'investment' wasn't too bad.

[NautiaHadas]

Crypto is a blight on the environment, at a time the world can't afford that damage.

It needs to be shunned, not embraced.

AGREED!
This is the first time since I start playing where I'm really disappointed in Square Enix. Crypto needs to go.

[NautiaHadas]

I remember someone saying a quote once that went along the lines of this:

"If you truly wanted to live your life without using any product that was harmful to the environment in some way, you would be butt naked in a gutter drinking rain water."

There's a difference between buying a new cellphone and helping sustain a form of currency for which one form alone consumes nearly 100TW per hour.
Just because you're cornered here and there into having an environmental footprint, doesn't mean that anything is good to go.

[AkaeiNox]

So uhh I have a digital certificate that attests that I own a small band of about 3 arc-seconds around Alpha Centauri B's northern equatorial region.
Anybody interested in a resort of blazing hot gases?

[rance-sama]

[andrealfus]

Ubisoft opened the door, now everyone will walk through it.

ubisoft opened the door and was promptly kicked back inside by massive backlash (and no one buying their stupid tokens)

[Caligula_1]

If they implement something like this, i hope a lot of people will cancel the sub and will not comeback into the game. I will. We do not need another Blizzard on our hands.

[Ruru_Nayu]

I'm against NFT's, it's just plain stupid.
Vid related to topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeNTyuuOc6o

[Jin-]

Scam to take money off from people with smaller brains.

[Thaciscokidd]

ubisoft opened the door and was promptly kicked back inside by massive backlash (and no one buying their stupid tokens)

True, but DLC started with horse armor that no one like and look at what we got today. Just cause one failed doesn't mean that everyone is going to just give up, you just need a better coat of paint.

Besides Final Fantasy, Sqenix has a lot of well loved franchises with ultra fans. It might not be a monkey pic, for example if they put out in this game a Limited Edition Sephiroth Glamour that you could sell just on the market board, you know that there's going to be a big market for it.

They already do gacha which is iffy in its own right and like DPZ2 pointed out they have discussed it in there shareholders briefings. Its not of a if its gonna happen its more of a when they find a form that is more acceptable.