Selling of IP's

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

With the recent selling of some IP's and SE looking into Blockchaining more and more. Do you think FFXIV is going to start to suffer soon and if so you think this games is going to start dying out?

[Digit4lC4m]

'Over my dead body.' - Yoshi-P, probably.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

'Over my dead body.' - Yoshi-P, probably.

I could see him doing that XD. Sadly though at the end of the day SE pays him so it would either be get in line or move aside

[Limecat]

SE is such an odd study in Hail Marys. Time after time, starting from the original Final Fantasy, the company was nearly run into the ground by the fever dreams of upper management but pulled back from the brink of failure into a sudden wild success. The pattern repeats, as newer management hoping to make their mark takes that foundation and squanders it on an obvious boondoggle that leaves SE assed-out. Now, more to the point, I don't think the game will really suffer from any of this directly; it's the biggest money-maker they've got right now besides the gatcha stuff on mobile.

[Absurdity]

With the recent selling of some IP's and SE looking into Blockchaining more and more. Do you think FFXIV is going to start to suffer soon and if so you think this games is going to start dying out?

I doubt we'll see any blockchain nonsense in XIV.
Not because SE doesn't want that junk in there, 2021 and 2022 showed us that the company makes some of the most out of touch decisions I have ever seen.

We won't see it because XIV's engine is such jank that they'll never be able to implement something like NFTs.

[Digit4lC4m]

I doubt we'll see any blockchain nonsense in XIV.
Not because SE doesn't want that junk in there, 2021 and 2022 showed us that the company makes some of the most out of touch decisions I have ever seen.

We won't see it because XIV's engine is such jank that they'll never be able to implement something like NFTs.

For once, I am glad this game's coding is a pile of spaghetti.

[Atreides]

Yoshida gave his statement in the last liveletter that NFTs will not be a thing in FFXIV.

[Knot_D]

PS3 engine, can't put NFT inside

[Shibi]

Yoshida gave his statement in the last liveletter that NFTs will not be a thing in FFXIV.

It was actually in live Letter 68, not the last. He said:

“Based on how Final Fantasy XIV is designed, we don’t intend on incorporating any sort of NFT element in the game at this point.”

And he reiterated;

“If anybody is worried or concerned about it, I can clearly state at this time that we do not have any intentions to incorporate that into the game.”

He ended up saying;

“If there’s ever an opportunity to go into it in deeper detail, I would like to talk about it. I think there’s a potential of utilising it without going in a wrong or bad direction.”

[Theodric]

'Over my dead body.' - Yoshi-P, probably.

On what basis? I like the guy well enough, though there's many supposed 'lines in the sand' that he has allowed to be crossed already and despite his vocal opposition to the presence of a cash shop his hands are, by his own admission, tied. Let's not pretend as though he doesn't try and sell very expensive merchandise during Live Letters either.