The First SE NFT.

[ReynTime]

I think they'll respect Yoshi P's wishes and keep it out of the game but on that nice upcomming (probably Emet Selch for maximum effect) statuette......

That's not how business decisions work. If at any point Yosuke Matsuda tells him "I want NFTs in FFXIV. It's one of our biggest IPs and it makes total sense to make extra through NFTs from that very large active customer base", if Yoshida or his team fail to provide strong enough evidence to convince him otherwise, it doesn't matter what he "wishes".
Moreover Yoshida tried to defend NFTs in a live letter so he's not against the concept, he just doesn't see how it would fit in XIV. He doesn't see NFT as something inherently bad.

But I don't know why I bother explaining this. Majority of the XIV fanbase thinks he's some kind of paragon of everything nice they want in a human being when he's just... a producer doing producer things without being a bad human being.

[technole]

That's not how business decisions work. If at any point Yosuke Matsuda tells him "I want NFTs in FFXIV. It's one of our biggest IPs and it makes total sense to make extra through NFTs from that very large active customer base", if Yoshida or his team fail to provide strong enough evidence to convince him otherwise, it doesn't matter what he "wishes".
Moreover Yoshida tried to defend NFTs in a live letter so he's not against the concept, he just doesn't see how it would fit in XIV. He doesn't see NFT as something inherently bad.

But I don't know why I bother explaining this. Majority of the XIV fanbase thinks he's some kind of paragon of everything nice they want in a human being when he's just... a producer doing producer things without being a bad human being.

Yes, tends to be forgotten that YoshiP has a seat on the board of directors with CEO Matsuda.

SE also created the "Blockchain Entertainment Business Division".

Could get strong-armed anytime by the gang of Shinra directors to go along with the program, also SE MMO segment does not produce the most revenue, the mobile games segment does.

[Raoabolic]

But I don't know why I bother explaining this. Majority of the XIV fanbase thinks he's some kind of paragon of everything nice they want in a human being when he's just... a producer doing producer things without being a bad human being.

Dude, the playerbase didn't care when the cash shop was introduced. They didn't care when patches were becoming leaner and leaner. They didn't care when the story become secondary over cheap tearjerkers. Do you really expect the playerbase to care when NFTs are introduced? Just chill and enjoy the descent and duck out when it gets too dark, lol.

[TaleraRistain]

That's not how business decisions work. If at any point Yosuke Matsuda tells him "I want NFTs in FFXIV. It's one of our biggest IPs and it makes total sense to make extra through NFTs from that very large active customer base", if Yoshida or his team fail to provide strong enough evidence to convince him otherwise, it doesn't matter what he "wishes".

If he didn't have some measure of input and the authority that people have to listen to that input, we'd be overrun with cash shop popups everywhere in the game. If you have no authority, it doesn't matter one bit if you give strong evidence or not. The higher ups are going to steam roll you. So we don't know the nature of things, but there does seem to be some measures in place where he can't just be steam rolled.

[Thaciscokidd]

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First of all. Thanks for the awesome name. Evert time I see it I hear Reyn say Now it's Reyn time and You will know our name starts to play.

On topic: Yoshi P might have some sway. Or the store would be worse than it currently is. Unlike what people think XIV isn't as big of a money maker as people think. MMO's maintenance tends to eat at profits and if you look at any of the earnings reports DQX and XIV combined brings in a fraction of what there mobile department does.

I do agree the some of the other post though. Any moderate dip in subscribers or if enough peoples fanaticism for certain brands leads them to buy the NFT's to a level that the bad press is an acceptable loss might be enough for them. Matsuda isn't a fool. He's at a position where profits determine how he is seen by the shareholders.