Square Enix and Crypto

[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?

[Razkine_Blazehawk]

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?

Yoshi-P has full control over FFXIV, so it's very unlikely NFTs will come

[Puksi]

Yoshi-P has full control over FFXIV, so it's very unlikely NFTs will come

Yoshi-P does not own the Final Fantasy franchise, and to be honest just the sheer size of the Mogstation alone tells me the bottom line is a pretty major influence on XIV.

[Risvertasashi]

Yoshi-P does not own the Final Fantasy franchise, and to be honest just the sheer size of the Mogstation alone tells me the bottom line is a pretty major influence on XIV.

On the flipside, including NFTs in FFXIV would get the game kicked off Steam. SE has bottom-line motivation to not include them.

But careful reading of the SE president's letter suggests they're looking into using them for new games. Though that doesn't give me any more respect for the decision, it does at least suggest it's not coming to FF14 or other existing games. I wouldn't be surprised if they're targeting mobile, even, considering Samsung already keeps trying to get me to turn on crypto mining through their official software.

[Razkine_Blazehawk]

Yoshi-P does not own the Final Fantasy franchise, and to be honest just the sheer size of the Mogstation alone tells me the bottom line is a pretty major influence on XIV.

That is correct. But SE has still given Yoshi-P full control over the game (except for the ffxiv store) He has said this himself multiple times, he has in fact also said he never would do something that could make the players mad