Scummy Square Enix president knows people who 'play to have fun' dislike NFTs, but he wants them anyway

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

President Yosuke Matsuda acknowledges skeptics, but hopes that blockchain tokens can "decentralize" gaming….
They are doing this because they know that there are enough low standard people which just *consume product and get excited for next product*Indie devs are our only hope lads
https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/square-enix-president-knows-people-who-play-to-have-fun-dislike-nfts-but-he-wants-them-anyway/

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

引用自 Rupika：

引用自 Dr.Shadowds 🐉：

they don't have to put much effort in their game's, but rather push for more NFT to making a quick buck for little to no effort, which is one of the large points of pushing for NFT's in the first place.

Explain how this works. If they just want a store to sell NFTs, why bother putting it in a video game at all?

I did explain for most part but ok.

There open NFT market places they can list NFT on, they can either give it out, or sell it themselves, they don't have to make a store at all if they don't want to.

Why? Money it's not hard to figure that out, if it works in their favor getting people to support the market for NFT, then means they don't have to work as hard to push content as long as they're able to get people to keep throwing money at NFT, they get passive income on it. The creator of the said NFT can set the rates 10% ~ 50% for royalties for resells of the NFT token. Basically replace Microtransactions with NFTs and use buzz words, there you go, you have a reason to get people to spend more money on things no one asked for, now here the kicker, if don't know artificial scarcity, then means they can limit amount of NFTs this can be a factor on how people can value the NFT on the market.

Also it's not doom speech, just explaining it in clear picture so can understand.

[Fostin4]

The problem with these companies is they are so out of touch with their fans, as a result of their fear of being outdated like Nokia. So they blindly adopt such fads.

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

引用自 Protagonist：

No not a need for explanation.The downsides of such a system speaks for itself.Google the downsides of microtransactions than you will find your answer

If you have to Google it, & it's not just a link to a store page or pretty picture, then you need an explanation.

What do you think that you are telling people to search for on Google by saying that? A picture of a dog named or titled "microtransactions"?
No - you're telling them to Google an explanation by someone else who actually bothered to string words together carefully enough to actually describe an issue, rather than just saying, "someone else said it and you can Google it".

People say lots of things, & you should at least make an effort to cite which explanation you want me pulling off of Google unless you're fine with me just using the Urban Dictionary explanations.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

引用自 Pinky：

Of course he does. These men in suits don't know the first thing about what makes a game good. They only see dollar signs.

tride and true first comment


there's a running gag the birds on an electric pole lines pyramid saying.

where the top crap on the bottom ones and the bottom ones get all the poop.


if the higher ups look down all they see is ♥♥♥♥.
and if the birds at the bottom look up all they see are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.




sadly games once they become tooo tooo big become not games but money making machines whose run by businessmen whose only goal is money. Forget art and fun it's all about the mula now. The dinero. The big bucks. The dough. The coins. The funny money.


imo just drop em. If these higher ups keep trying to chase the current hip trends eventually they learn the hard way trends come and go. Once the people move onto something better or the bigger seller of the year they lose both the new blood and they ran out the old blood long ago. So they're basically left with almost nothing to show and go into the red a bit if they don't change their ways.

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

引用自 Dr.Shadowds 🐉：

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The 2nd large point, is not having to take any responsibility for whatever happens on the crypto market as it's out of their control, meaning they're not obligated to take responsibility whatever happens like exchange getting hacked, wallet such as metamask getting hacked, scammers tricking you, phishing attacks, or had child use mommy or daddy credit card to do something that they shouldn't be doing, hence the whole decentralized idea, where one can not chargeback, nor can they fight back to get anything back once their crypto/ntf is taken from them. Yay decentralized market.
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This is explained quite well - what the CEO of Square Enix ACTUALLY wants is a decentralized market, not decentralized gaming.

By calling it decentralized gaming, he is lying to everyone, quite boldly, too.

What you refer to also applies to fraudulent activity conducted with stolen credit cards, & such.
So it's worse than just lying to the customer-base; by supporting NFTs, he is consequently, as a byproduct, supporting criminal activity.
This is a way bigger downside then the upside of a company just not being able to delete your digital items.

It could be argued that it is each citizen's responsibility to ensure that their own registered credit cards, debit cards, & other funds are secured properly, which I'm partially inclined to agree with but that isn't nearly as simple as those advocating to put it all on the individual citizen would suggest that it is. The upside is that when this becomes a prominent issue, most credit card companies will just lock the account of any cards being used for crypto-markets, however, the telephone verification process is disgustingly simple & insecure.

引用自 Dr.Shadowds 🐉：

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3rd reason is that only the creator of the NFT get the passive income, from all transactions resold of their NFTs, basically as long someone willing to throw large amount of money, that means more money 🤑 to them, without having to keep supporting it either. They can shut server down, and lose access to said NFT, but the NFT token will still remain for the end user that still holding it to sell to someone else, but would be useless if can't make use of it. Funny thing is token doesn't give entitlement to game files either go fig.
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You can decentralize SOME of the digital assets without causing your entire game to be part of free download peer to peer file-sharing networks (which are currently illegal but wouldn't be if their use was endorsed by the company whose files were being shared), however, that's not what is really going on here, now is it?

For what little it is worth, I'd be interested in hearing about the company that is first to start decentralizing DLC assets & multiplayer functionality via large peer to peer networks, rather than just decentralizing transaction receipts. That would actually hold some value to gamers if that is how they were using this system ...& I suspect that this system is CAPABLE of being used in that manner.

So, anyone who actually cares about "decentralization of gaming" rather than just "decentralization of markets", really should try that instead.

Of course, it would be a lot better if they just made games be licensed as CC BY-NC-ND[creativecommons.org] & distributed them on peer to peer filesharing networks in the first place, but... baby steps to the longevity & LEGAL preservation of games, I suppose...

...or big companies can just get in bed with (what is more likely than not) money-laundering schemes too, I guess.

https://www.google.com/search?q=this+is+fine&tbm=isch

...let's see how the FBI feels about that when the misuses get really bad & the people involved think that it "in no way could possibly come back to bite them".

I suppose it could potentially be used to allow people to re-sell licenses to digital games (GOODBYE DISCOUNTS! ) but that isn't independent of the, likely to occur, financial liabilities that this causes by ATTEMPTING to alleviate accountability for fraudulent transactions, which "Dr.Shadowds" mentioned.
(I don't think they'll actually be able to pull it off without some lawsuits ensuing anyways, though.)

[Natural Love]

Square enix is a shinking ship like ubicrap

[Ganger]

引用自 Protagonist：

Square enix is a shinking ship like ubicrap

Any proof of this or is this just the latest thing to hate on ? So many times have we heard this saying be it against EA, activison, epic and even steam has come under this sinking ship statement.

[Castyles]

引用自 Rupika：

Yeah. The kind that sinks upwards.

That's an opinion. Square Enix is not the same as it used to be.

[Devsman]

More like rational Square Enix president knows people don't have to buy what they don't want, lol.

[Natural Love]

引用自 Ganger：

引用自 Protagonist：

Square enix is a shinking ship like ubicrap

Any proof of this or is this just the latest thing to hate on ? So many times have we heard this saying be it against EA, activison, epic and even steam has come under this sinking ship statement.

Well the last remaining fanboys.A lot of people boycotting these companies already and this will increase with that business model.With steam i never heard that.Well the worries that steam won’t be here forever are legit tho but as long they have enough customers they won’t go anywhere

[Castyles]

引用自 Rupika：

引用自 Castyles：

That's an opinion. Square Enix is not the same as it used to be.

Stocks aren't opinions?

They're getting backlash since the days of FF XIII.

[Vault Hunter 101]

引用自 Rupika：

引用自 Castyles：

That's an opinion. Square Enix is not the same as it used to be.

Stocks aren't opinions?

The stock price nearly doubled since what it was 5 years ago.
Stock holders don't really game, they care about how company is doing profit-wise and all these scummy tactics (microtransactions, lootboxes, NFTs) will bring them more money

[Castyles]

引用自 Vault Hunter 101：

引用自 Rupika：

Stocks aren't opinions?

The stock price nearly doubled since what it was 5 years ago.
Stock holders don't really game, they care about how company is doing profit-wise and all these scummy tactics (microtransactions, lootboxes, NFTs) will bring them more money

Indeed. And if one Elon bails the whole house of cards fall apart.

[Castyles]

引用自 Rupika：

And here I thought greater profits were a sign of a healthy business.

Do you know how many good studios were nuked by Square Enix? How many franchises they butchered? How many garbage are milked and kept and how many of the good stuff are buried and forgotten? (granted, there are lots of garbage buried, too, thank God).

It might be "good for business" but it's certainly not good to the ones who sustain said business.

More power to the development team and less power to the suits and ties. That's how a successful video-game company should behave.

And this is coming from someone who likes most of Square Enix's modern ♥♥♥♥, mind you. Get real.

[Castyles]

引用自 Rupika：

Are you mad at me because SE is successful, and not a 'sinking ship' as was claimed?

Now you don't even try to hide that you're a blind fanboy. I'm done with this crap.