Square Enix and Crypto

[kejakalope]

I'll be watching the situation closely and evaluating whether I continue to do business with Square-Enix based on how it unfolds. To be clear, going forward with NFTs and blockchain shit will mean Square and my custom part ways.

[Mortime]

Surprised that nobody has linked the Asmongold video on the topic yet. Anyways I hope this entire thing fizzles out before it has a chance to infect ALL the online games that I play. And if it does then oh well, I still have my neverwinter nights, civilizations, anno, homm, age of and many other old games that I can play until covid ends us all.

[gumas]

i mean... they lost nothing over this, the put some nft stuff and if people took it, they take it further. if not, they just going to cancel it and either see how it will go or maybe jut put whatever nft stuff they have before to "normal" shop.

this is literally bait and switch

[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.

[NautiaHadas]

i mean... they lost nothing over this, the put some nft stuff and if people took it, they take it further. if not, they just going to cancel it and either see how it will go or maybe jut put whatever nft stuff they have before to "normal" shop.

this is literally bait and switch

People have said that about so many things I don't even care to count anymore. It's never that, it's like a vacuum seller that puts his foot in the way of you closing the door, sure he's not sold you the vacuum yet and he's not entered your home yet, but you can be sure as all Heck that he's still on the same goal.

It just take one of these things making its way into the shop and before you know it, they'll add another, and then another. With every subsequent additions, people will grow tired about complaining about something they clearly have no input over, and eventually it'll sell.

[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.

[Manny_Maneater]

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

[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.