Square Enix and Crypto

[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