Square Enix and Crypto

[Ezzeloharr]

I can't express how smooth-brained this take is.

[Lihtleita]

I can't express how smooth-brained this take is.

I cant believe youre using smooth brain unironically

[Thalesnm]

You know... I had never posted here before. But I had to come here to say something about this letter.

This letter is deeply unsettling. It sounds like Square Enix is 100% ready to get into a ship that barely anyone understands and those that do say it's a scam (and I agree). And there's also the fact that the letter treats people that "play to have fun" as a subset of the consumer base. Dude... We all play to have fun. If the people that make money out of games don't have fun, they are in the wrong business.
I already had a friend come over to me and say that he would not be trying out FFXIV after this letter. So, this letter alone is already hurting this game (and certainly other Square Enix games as well).

In the best case scenario, this letter was put out there just to please investors/shareholders, but that is still wrong. These are the words of someone that is totally out of touch with the consumer — I believe that is the most worrisome thing. And let me tell you... No investor/shareholder will be pleased if your company once again gets on the verge of bankruptcy because it's out of touch with the consumer.

[DPZ2]

Two things:

"However, we do observe examples here and there of overheated trading in NFT-based digital goods with somewhat speculative overtones, regardless of the observed value of the content provided This, obviously, is not an ideal situation, but I expect to see an eventual right-sizing in digital goods deals as they become more commonplace among the general public, with the value of each available content corrected to their true estimated worth, and I look for them to become as familiar as dealings in physical goods."

and

https://token.emusic.com/

There are NFTs (gods, what a stupid acronym - 'tokens' have been around for decades) that are not about cryptocurrency and do not require a million GPUs suddenly crying out in the void.

Then again, there's this to worry about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

That is definitely about NFTs in their worst in-game configuration, although the term "NFT" doesn't appear in the video.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Imagine thinking cryptos are good for the enviroment lmao.

I don't know how people are surprised about this, SE has always been like this: just another greedy corporation. For years we have seen the cash shop being milked with almost no reinvestment of said income to the game. Now we going just another step down the stairs. What amuses me the most is the people who was defending the cruise chaser mount being taken off the game and put behind a paywall now suddenly drawing a line on "not real" products being transactioned... lmao.

You get what you encourage people. As we say over my lands: "Cria cuervos y te sacaran los ojos" - "Rise crows and they will rip your eyes".

[Victae]

I can't do much about the NFT trend but I can choose to not financially support it however small that may be.

So after almost 9 years, I guess I'm finally done.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

As long as they keep this out of FFXIV, I don't care what other games they poison with it, but if this pops up here, I'm gone. By the time they get to implementing this, other games I've been waiting for might near completion, and while I had intended to play them alongside XIV, I'll just leave.

If this is irrelevant for XIV, it doesn't matter to me at all.

[Riardon]

If they want to implement this scum shite into crappy cash milking mobile games I'm fine.
The moment they decide to taint XIV and XVI or any other mainline FF we are going to have a problem.
The ethical environmental issue is a huge one as we enter a new environmental conscious company policy.
SE is against the environment with this decision but this is to be expected from money grabbing CEO's without any moral compass.
After all these people caused the environmental crisis and the future collapse of the climate.
I hope the scummy money laundering tech that surrounds blockchain and crypto currency dies the sooner.

[Driavna]

If turn out to be profitable will stick around. If that happens eventually will be normalise and some will defend it. Already happened with other anti-consumer practices.

[NautiaHadas]

What I really want is for someone to tell me the difference between cryptocurrency and a Ponzi scheme.