Square Enix and Crypto

[DinahDemiurge]

Considering you can still make a profit using dirty energy, you just make 'less' than using cheaper renewables, this is utter nonsense.

you clearly have never thought about margins before. No one worries about "a profit." What people worry about is maximizing profit. https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-ene...tually-consume

[JawaJoose]

Unfortunately, while the FF14 team is really great and I think they are doing a fantastic job, Square Enix is an awful company. Look at the products they have put out over the past 10 years... FF13 had two sequels that no one wanted. FF15 was an unfinished disaster with loads of DLC that was required to understand wth was going on in the main story. FF7 remake is 15 hours of gameplay... and then there is the FF7 battle royal...

SE has been putting their focus on cash grabs for years now. I'm sure the FF14 team has no say in the addition of NFT and other micro transactions in the game. It all comes from above.

[StriderShinryu]

I guess it's a good thing they've made such a clear statement. Now they can F right Off with that line of thinking. Hopefully the next time anyone gets to put a question to YoshiP they ask him directly about this subject.

[Seraphor]

you clearly have never thought about margins before. No one worries about "a profit." What people worry about is maximizing profit. https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-ene...tually-consume

Then how do you explain the fact that not all cryptocurrencies are carbon neutral?

[Lily_Skye]

y'sthola booba nft soon

[Kakure]

As someone actually in Cyber Security, and one who understands crypto more than the masses that demonize it. I'm all for NFTs.

"As someone actually in Wall Street banking, and one who understands financial instruments like mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations more than the masses that demonize them. I'm all for saturation-level subprime borrowing."

[Kakure]

I do not have words to express the depths of my contempt and disgust for NFT gaming and its corporate evangelists. Keep this garbage out of our games.

[Jettinson]

It is sadly nothing surprising.
To this day i am livid how they treated Sleeping Dogs.

But for NFT stuff, again i am not surprised they are in and any moment the whole thing will fall apart. It has done nothing but damaging everything, not just environment or chips shortage.

[CarnageTheory]

2022 isn't even 15 hours old and this clown releases this statement. I guess as long as this NFT nonsense stays tf out of XIV, I don't really care. I mean, I was gonna try out XVI since Yoshi-P is involved, but maybe not after all. It's just really hard to stomach how tone-deaf this statement is, especially considering part of the semi-conductor shortage is because of garbage like NFTs.

[ReynTime]

Yeah. This was the last straw for me. I'm unsubbing.

I have a lot of friends who are artists and NFT basically encourages art theft too.