Keep NFT out of FF14

[Sylve]

Dear FF14 developers. If you don't want your game to end up like WoW (mass player exodus) Keep NFTs out of FF14.

Yoshi-P please don't let SE force you to put NFT in FF. My faith is in you.

SQenix aren't stupid enough to shoehorn NFTs into their cashcow and risk damaging all the goodwill Yoshida has built up.

Fun fact: Shareholders do not get to dictate game design.

Shareholders only have a voice when they own 51% or more, otherwise known as a controlling share.
Regular shareholders are basically told how well the company is doing and how much money they expect to make. Thats it.

Shareholders say: We want you to make more money.
And thats it.
Yoshida is on the board of directors. He has actual power in SQenix. FFXIV is his magnum opus and he will fight hard against anything SQenix tries to do if it is actively detrimental to his game and us players.
The executives know that Yoshida made XIV one of their most successful games. Suffering from success now i guess lol.
They wont risk damaging the FF brand again and they certainly will not risk losing Yoshida, he is simply too valuable to the company to drive him out by trying to ruin his game.

[Liam_Harper]

NFT's are complete garbage, but I don't have enough faith in people to actually believe that there'd be an exodus.

Considering the huge number of former WoW players we have, who basically are here because of a mass exodus from their last game when they'd all finally had enough, it could easily have a big impact. Player patience has worn somewhat thin with greedy game developers over the years.

Fortunately there's a good chance Yoshida has enough influence to keep this out of ff14. He's the main reason we don't have WoW tokens, 6 month subscription mounts, heavy FOMO and treadmill game systems and all the rest. SE are a very monetization focused company as a whole.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

The moment NFT appear in FFXIV is the moment I'll unsub.

[Lunalepsy]

NFTs are yummy!

[Feronar]

Valve does not allow blockchain technology (Including cryptocurrency and NFTs) on any games on the Steam platform, which is good news for us since FF14 is on Steam.

[Theodric]

Valve does not allow blockchain technology (Including cryptocurrency and NFTs) on any games on the Steam platform, which is good news for us since FF14 is on Steam.

Such stances can change over time, particularly for the right incentive...

I'd also assume that if NFT's were supposedly such a horrible, inexcusable red line for many individuals than the company making use of them elsewhere would be enough for such people to take their leave even if they were not tied to FFXIV directly.

[Raven2014]

that is where you are wrong, rest of the team may not but yoshi is not just one more worker in SE. he got a say. can he sace it or ever see NFT as a problem is a different topic

I think people kinda forget that Yoshi is actually a member of the board at SE, he's not simply in charge of just the FF14 division but part of the overall leadership. They gave him this position a few years back so that he can have almost full control over the game.

[Ambly]

Wow... Square Enix is making money hand over fist with ff14 subscribtions, but they want to throw it all away by being greedy. SE is failing to learn the lessons of history, doomed to repeat them. SE one of the few wise game companies who stuck to the subscription model instead of injecting all the stupid monetization schemes that RUIN a game... well greed made them forget.

NFT's Start and my subscription will stop.

If SE introduces NFT's why should I pay a subscription to play anyway?

[Conundrum]

Two things...

1) I think most people here overestimate the mount of absolute power YoshiP has. He still has superiors. And yes, even being on the board he is but one voice.

2) Japanese culture. Most American's don't really understand this (even when they claim to). In Japanese culture it is severely frowned upon to contradict your superior. (Source: Lived there for 5 years).


I'm not saying I expect NFTs in FFXIV, but I am saying them NOT making their way in is a sure thing either.

[DoH]

Such stances can change over time, particularly for the right incentive...

I'd also assume that if NFT's were supposedly such a horrible, inexcusable red line for many individuals than the company making use of them elsewhere would be enough for such people to take their leave even if they were not tied to FFXIV directly.

This exactly. Let's pretend that instead of NFTs, SE announced that it was going to begin using child slave labor. If you were really opposed to child slave labor, you wouldn't be like: "Well, it's okay if they're using child slaves to make the FFVII remake so as long as they don't use them in connection with FFXIV." No. If you were really opposed to it, you would stop supporting the company whatsoever. Given that so many people are like "NFTs are horrible!... but I'll continue to support SE by playing FFXIV so long as they don't taint just this one product" is very telling.