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We're literally living in Midgar right now and Square is trying to become Shinra company LMAO
So sad :c
Did Zepla cuss???
The one silver lining to this so far is that Ubisoft has already started doing this, by giving away NFTs to people who put 600+ hours into their live service Ghost Recon game, and besides the backlash they initially had similarly to Squeenix, their NFTs are going for under $20, and apparently made a total of $400 is 2 weeks. So, not lookin good for NFT gaming so far!
Gotta say, my year and a half of subscription fees, and the hundreds of bucks I shell out for glams, dyes, and mounts for my characters sure feels like a "contribution" to FFXIV's profit line.
Highly doubt NFT's will be in any currently released games. Especially FFXIV, the amount of work for the art would be insane to have NFT's in an MMO. (unless they making it like the housing market)
I could see them putting it in that shitty FF battle royale though.
This is the dumbest thing I've heard a CEO say in a long while. You are riding a high on FF14– the most profitable FF ever, and come out a month after Endwalker saying this? Do you realize how fast people will drop your products if you put this kind of BS in? The backlash on this should be furious and unrelenting. I respect and adore Yoshi Ps team, but this is the kind of greed that turns me away from your products.
Screw nfts. I couldn't give a shit about that crap. Can't wait to see this flop.
Zepla is very pretty
The way NFTs have been executed is what has poisoned the well, as well as scams abusing them. Examples I've seen are like a profile picture of some random monkey and it's not my thing, but whatever, but then the artist takes the basic picture and makes like 500 variants of the same picture and in my eyes this just absolutely tanks the value of the original picture.
Also, I did not know about the cost of making a blockchain and that is just fucking horrible and now I am soured on the whole idea of NFTs.
There is already a few Final Fantasy moblie games, most of them are Gacha. I can deffo see NTFs in Dissidia FF Opera Omnia buy a special NFT units like Sage Alphinuad for example. I can also see this going in FF7: First Soldier.
If they just do it for cosmetics i dont really have an issue and think it could be quite cool because you will talk about ultimate customization and in some cases be wearing something that only 10 or 20 people may have. Now if it moves on to powerful weapons super fast mounts and p2w shit then theyll ruin the game.
Here’s the deal squeenix: you make a good game and I give you money for that good game. Take it or leave it.
NFTs are what are going to lead us to become one of those dead worlds that a certain bird ran into. Rampant greed and energy usage destroying the planet.
It ain't gonna happen in FFXIV. This would be for mobile games or FTP games. I don't think NFT's could even work in a game like FFXIV.
Nfts are such a rabbit hole of how the deeper you look somehow they get worse and worse. Functionally all they are are micro transactions that change where the data that you bought the thing is kept, yet in the process cost a ridiculous amount of energy so have to be insanely expensive to justify the costs from that energy. Which leads to the culture of scams and basically everything being a pyramid scheme. And then you have the techbros who don’t understand how games actually work and just want to ride whatever trend elon musk likes and call it the future, like how they assume an nft works in every game, “if I own a hat as an nft I own it in the metaverse (whatever that means) so as a digital good it works in every game” not expecting it needing to be like, coded into the game, and have the game accept making something because you paid an unrelated company for it. “What if you could use it across games from the same company” have you ever heard of cross buy? Of account wide purchases? We can do this all without nfts, its just a huge scam and waste of so much time and resources and I hope the bubble bursts soon so these people lose all their money and finally realise it’s pointless.
One thing that struck me in the wording of the letter is that it also sounds like they want to make games where people play and can make NFTs for the producer to sell. So not only do you have to buy a game, and possibly pay a monthly subscription fee, but you also have to create NFTs for the game producer to sell (of course they own the IP rights and any content created by users as well, so you don't even own the things you make). It's just another way to "harpoon the whales".
The one thing I don't understand about this NTF nonsense (and please explain it to me if you can) is this energy usage per transaction. Because like, every possible transaction in the world outside of actual money has an electronic cost. So like, what is the difference? This is a plea for an explanation!
How's that copium, Zepla?
NFTs are fine if creators are getting paid for their content.
more of a reason square fell off the pedestal for me. I love final fantasy, it's my favorite franchise. Sega has a troubled past and they only release functioning games half the time but at least they're too incompetent now to do any of this shit. They at least have spirit
"Some people play for fun." Since NFT is a recent concept, pretty sure 100% of people were playing for fun since the moment video games were created.
The same rich jackasses who buy these NFTs are the same ones lecturing us about damaging the environment.
I will quit FF14 the day they put this crap in game.
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Endwalker was amazing. But if they go the NFT route I am done. Only ever had 3 months to of the year I could dedicate any real time to it and was loving every second I could. Yet always knowing Square was…. At its core….very corporate. Profiting off of what you make and love to do is great, but this will lead to designing for profit and exclusion. The absolute opposite of what Yoshi, and crew have been aiming game design/ and story wise . I still have lots of love for the crew, but Square can take 10 000 needles up the bum hole
These companies need to chill out and maybe not turn their player bases into virtual laborers. I know, it's easy to react to new trends with the belief that they will "revolutionize the industry" or more than likely "be a good way for the executives to cash out". But, this will not be sustainable or profitable long term for their companies if the majority of the player base just quits supporting projects.
Wow I really didn’t know crypto was so expensive in terms of electricity. I’m into tech and I’m dumbfounded that I was blind sighted to the environmental impact. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
Thing is with them is that they need a constant flow of new buyers for them to work. It could easily blow up in their face, and bankrupt the company really quickly.