Quote Originally Posted by Puksi View Post
I'm asking them to not actively harm the planet with their greed as if the Shinra Electric Power Company broke the fourth wall. I'm asking them to make games for players who play to have fun, air quotes unnecessary, because by the president's own words they are the majority of the players of their games. I'm asking them to remember all their failed attempts to milk the consumer past the base price of their games and the reputation it's earned them.
Then, I'll say something that might cause an outrage but : NFTs are not linked to crypto (and thus, ecological harm) by anything other than the context. NFTs are linked to blockchains, which are to simplify, similar to the internet, so they're not more harmful than any other network. In fact, there exist many project centered around blockchains that aim to improve energy consumption, optimization, etc.

And NFTs are not linked to cryptos in their usage either, because a NFT is simply a token, and can be pretty much anything, and transactions around them can be made in normal currencies as well. In particular, as I said before, it is used in the building industry to sign BIMs, building models to simplify, and enable more horizontality in projects between several actors.

The president said his goal is to have players who contribute be able to profit off it, since players who play to have fun, the vast majority indeed, can choose to buy things from them. That's a choice, as the other cash shop gears we have for example.

I'm not pro NFT in FFXIV, I really don't care tbh. I'm just trying to show you it's not as bad as you think and maybe it could be profitable. I'm asking you to stop panicking, we don't know the modalities of Square using NFTs, or anything really.

I hear you, you don't want to sit idle in case what they plan is shitty. It's good to remind them that they're being watched by their clients and they should take their vision in account. But NFTs are not evil, they're just a new tech that's hard to apprehend and that is mostly used to scam people off right now. It doesn't mean it's their only usage.