Square Enix and Crypto

[Midlithe]

I've no interest in spending more money in this digital pyramid scheme so SE can benefit on a steady source of income for years to come for little effort/cost on the backs of customers. Please keep NFT's out of FFXIV. I feel it's nothing but corporate greed and introducing what many consumers are saying it is NOT beneficial nor exciting. Seriously, that CEO letter was for shareholders it seems (Certainly not worded for customers or potential customers of games).

[DPZ2]

Reading comprehension 101: nowhere in the CEO's letter is there mention of NFTs in any of their MMO properties.

Considering that the so-called "mobile" game sector of the company accounts for over 48% of revenues from the Digital Entertainment group, with regular video games accounting for another 30%, and MMO games accounting for about 22% of revenues as of 2022/Q3 [https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/i...2q2slides.pdf], I highly suspect that anything dealing with "Tokens" of any kind will be part of the mobile game sector.

The shareholder letter is old news, by the way. And their stated philosophy was more like: "In addition to the sort of content creation we have traditionally engaged in, we will focus on blockchain games premised on token economies as a form of decentralized content" (slide 25 of the quoted source).

I found this take on the announcement to be better than anything I've been reading in this forum thread: https://news.yahoo.com/square-enix-b...173640368.html

[technole]

Bitcoin, alone, utilizes more energy than Finland annually.

For context, only 5.5 million live in Finland. Population is similar to say Sydney, Australia.

It's not going away ever, many livelihoods even in Africa live on the currency because of it's low fees and fast turnaround compared to currency exchange costs. People can make up their own minds but the facts are facts. The number needs to be way higher than 39% running on renewable energy, it's just not sustainable at this rate long-term.

[SamsaraTrickstar]

Reading comprehension 101: nowhere in the CEO's letter is there mention of NFTs in any of their MMO properties.

Considering that the so-called "mobile" game sector of the company accounts for over 48% of revenues from the Digital Entertainment group, with regular video games accounting for another 30%, and MMO games accounting for about 22% of revenues as of 2022/Q3 [https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/i...2q2slides.pdf], I highly suspect that anything dealing with "Tokens" of any kind will be part of the mobile game sector.

The shareholder letter is old news, by the way. And their stated philosophy was more like: "In addition to the sort of content creation we have traditionally engaged in, we will focus on blockchain games premised on token economies as a form of decentralized content" (slide 25 of the quoted source).

I found this take on the announcement to be better than anything I've been reading in this forum thread: https://news.yahoo.com/square-enix-b...173640368.html

Then may be you read and understand?
When things like this start the fast get to all games.look at EA or Ubisoft. We need to say from the get go how much we don't want this in hopes it help. If not really stop sub for this game. Don't support scams such as this.

[SamsaraTrickstar]

For context, only 5.5 million live in Finland. Population is similar to say Sydney, Australia.

It's not going away ever, many livelihoods even in Africa live on the currency because of it's low fees and fast turnaround compared to currency exchange costs. People can make up their own minds but the facts are facts. The number needs to be way higher than 39% running on renewable energy, it's just not sustainable at this rate long-term.

LOL it will go out the moment eu and USA say they no longer exept it. And the fact that lots of no buddy bloggers and YouTubers doing their own cripto this going to blow up soon.

[GordonLiu]

Reading comprehension 101: nowhere in the CEO's letter is there mention of NFTs in any of their MMO properties.

Nobody failed to interpret anything, they're just able to see more than 6 inches in front of their own faces, and are concerned what the implications might be for future titles.

Also, I suspect that, like myself, they don't want to see them take root even outside of MMOs.

[ItMe]

Since the New Years letter dropped, we've made over 600 posts about this issue across 3 threads.
What does JP think? What have they been saying?
I've looked, but I've been having a hard time finding threads they've even made in 2022, let alone anything related to this issue.

[Alaray]

Since the New Years letter dropped, we've made over 600 posts about this issue across 3 threads.
What does JP think? What have they been saying?
I've looked, but I've been having a hard time finding threads they've even made in 2022, let alone anything related to this issue.

This article has a snippet of reactions from JP users.

[ItMe]

This article has a snippet of reactions from JP users.

That was illuminating.
Thank you for the link.
I am happy to see that they're as put off by it as we are.

[ItMe]

Apologies, but I'm gonna share this in the other two NFT threads too cuz I think this is a brilliant idea and wanna signal boost it.


Someone in my FC just had a brilliant idea.

Since it's unclear how much the devs (let alone their President) look to the forums for feedback, We should tweet at SQEX directly telling them what we think of NFTs.
I made a twitter account for some FF14 contest a few years back, I'll just use that one.

There have been a lot of people voicing their distain for that New Years letter, and while it's cathartic to voice our concerns and vent here on the forums, it's probably more productive to send those concerns to SQEX directly.

SQEX twitter
https://twitter.com/SquareEnix

And it looks like the President doesn't have their own Twitter account, but people are tagging them as both
#YosukeMatsuda
#Yosuke_Matsuda