Dear Square Enix, NO ONE WANTS NFTs IN VIDEO GAMES...

[@SomeOrdinaryGamers]

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[@Orcastruck]

First

[@kosakukawajiri8331]

No

[@Konkov]

Pretend I said something funny

[@ヒスク]

papi

[@ba483021]

Hey

[@thatguyfrominvincible]

the undeniable success of marvel avengers made them take this complete sane and thoughtful decision

[@nateh1456]

Yeah, not only that but their addition of spiderman cemented this decision

[@crazybustah]

big hands RUN

[@NerfedOnGod]

i love that pfp

[@randomt800kiddo2]

@@nateh1456 Including their clever, functional, realistic recycling of Hawkeye's grappling function to substitute webslinging

[@waynetastic1746]

@Logan Roof Who is MarkiScammers?

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

When we said we don't want microtransactions, somebody tell them that we don't want their NFT's either

[@shib5267]

And look where microtransactions are now, literally everywhere

[@intense_pickle]

Yeah, cause saying we don't want microtansactions worked so well right? That's why there isn't any...Wait, games are full of em. Want some toilet paper to wipe your mouth? You still got some shit on your lips.

[@steamedyam]

Why do your comments sound like they were written by an AI?

[@echo_soldier]

@UCZSK6b7hU8o6q9149vj5zRA I've seen a weird amount of arguments of "well, microtransactions are common in games so NFTs will be too." Like... no one said microtransactions becoming common was a good thing

[@shadowaussien7743]

I'd rather they price up games and have consoles manfactured in Establish countries rather slave labor countries like China and make up some crap about chip shortages so Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft can console making crap in China not United States, Australia and Uk

[@12gauge_shawtyy]

it’s like every facet of our lives has been monetized. You can’t do anything without either trying to spend money or make money. Everything is getting catered to a small amount of people who have the most money and it’s all being built in the most wasteful and unsustainable way. It’s exhausting

[@iz2333]

What capital does to a mfer

[@darkgamersupreme2348]

Also, if the time does come where everyone has brain chips then we'll probs have spam advertisements directly in our heads.

[@bluephreakr]

It's almost like they never played Earthbound / Mother 2. Or if they had, they're trying their hand at being Porky.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

Infinate growth, finite planet... But the current system is _totally_ sustainable!

[@M1hawk21]

Everyone should just go and watch black mirror

[@gajspalt]

Ok imagine this: A game you pay full price for, that's subscription based, that has microtransactions, has P2P and P2W content AND has exclusive NFT based unique items that sell at auction for the highest bid. The worst possible outcome.

[@josephstalin7353]

"He is the messiah!"

[@BOOMBoom-tv4kv]

Commenting to be part of history

[@gingercheesecake7357]

Here if it becomes true

[@devilmostdie]

also here lol

[@BatzelChaos]

You forgot that the game is still unfinished and only with DLCs you can actually play it.

[@ireallydonthaveanythingbetter]

If NFTs actually become a norm like some people are saying. I really don't wanna live to see it.

[@AS-fu1kd]

I dont want to live on this planet anymore

[@fr0ck360]

Microtransactions, Pre-order games that are too overhyped, not fully developed release game has been too normalized. This could literally destroy the gaming culture tbh. We have enough of entertainment cultures being political except for Japan’s anime, and I don’t want games to go down too since it’s one of the only place I would go to escape reality for a while

[@fr0ck360]

@Bender Bending Rodriguez I think the parents does play that part too. Too boomer to realize how predatory it is for their own kids, especially when they kept buying fifa games every year just because they don’t have gore shit on that game. Except for gambling which is overlooked by them

[@ireallydonthaveanythingbetter]

@@fr0ck360 It's mind boggling how much money these downright stupid things make off of people's ignorance.

[@hydrophilicchristopher9874]

It’s gonna be the norm. This is what everyone said about micro transactions nearly a decade ago

[@nophone9311]

This is amazing. They are doing their best to destroy the AAA industry and push people to indie devs. I love it.

[@justinallen2408]

People are already mostly buying double a games and indie because they only sell dlc as an extra nothing else.

[@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother]

I wouldnt really call it amazing. Im watching one of the last vices i have outside of smoking drugs vanish away to corporate greed. If i lose gaming to fucking NFT's then fuck it, im picking meth back up. Fuck life.

[@jetaddict420]

@@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother how about you turn that anger into collectivised rage and for god damn once we could attempt to actually do something about this whole corporatism by ullshit

[@jiyanmehta7250]

@@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother how about you use that energy for something good mate.Wishing you best in life.

[@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother]

@@jetaddict420 I'm but one man, there is nothing i can do to stop millions of plebs from spending money on nothing. Even if we got a group of 50,000 together, it still wouldnt be a scratch on the surface.

[@HydraSpectre1138]

To quote an actually great Square Enix game: “I never asked for this.” Or to paraphrase its predecessor: “They were a good company. What a rotten way to die.”

[@BeyondTheZenith]

I can hear JCs lip-smacking, just reading this line

[@Stynkrat]

Poor Adam never deserved the treatment Square Enix gives him

[@mrksjke]

What a shame.

[@Vanished584]

You tell anyone from FF14 that Square is an evil company, they just laugh or call you a troll. Yes, these people buy microtransactions as well.

[@ChunLo21]

@@Vanished584 imo you need to be a little more incoherent to make your bait more effective

[@ezio934]

I like how "playing for fun" has become subset of ways to play games. Them using FOMO to sell NFTs is honestly disgusting.

[@tavirosu25]

They want slave gamers...for whom gaming is their job not their hobby.

[@neku2741]

I used to play game for money, boost player in mmos, sell in game currency for real money. It's great because I love playing the game and I can earn money. However these nfts games is different, most of it is boring as fuck. Axii infinity is so shit I'd rather play candy crush. I'm all for letting the player earn but make good game first.

[@rami8896]

Dont support those type of games! They don't care about what you guys think, they care about if they are making money or not. So dont give them money!

[@centigrams]

Mate I just want to play a game for less then 40 euros, have fun, and it not begging me to buy shit and rate it.

[@scorpiowarrior7841]

Hearing the term play for fun made me pissed. Hey devs, that was the ENTIRE BLOODY POINT of video games,NOT TO FILL YOUR BANK UP. But no, corporate greed is always a priority over payers (cough) I mean players enjoyment because fullfiment and good will that earn more money down the line because people actually like doing business with you is now secondary to short term monetary gains that shatter your reputation and good will over and over again and make you loose customers. Oh but it's okay because as long as there are new whales hooked, gaming will go on forever. Fuck man, whatever happened to being engrossed in a video games story and gameplay that you'd forget evreything around you? What happened to the magic that made us all love this industry to begin with?

[@ULTRA_U]

Damn it seems like every company will hop on the NFT train soon. Except Nintendo it will take them at least 10+ years to learn what an NFT is.

[@TheVillager69]

For once, Nintendo being slow with internet culture is actually good

[@decipher111]

The internet explorer of gaming

[@kameronjones7139]

I am surprised they are able to feed their messenger pigeons every day

[@videosfer100]

imagine how many lawsuits nintendo will file when their NFTs get saved as

[@elmaionesosexo]

@@videosfer100 you're right

[@NostalgiaMan]

I am baffled at how NFT's are actually a thing. Not because of the art or the sales but because it is not real or tangible at all. I mean I know crypto is similar but c'mon man.

[@BruhLL]

Sad life we went from the mona lisa masterpiece to a crappy ape that costs money.

[@BruhLL]

@@ronaldm9585 again you're not funny and your comment is childish.

[@brysontrotman5865]

They are a pump and dump scheme, just like crypto ( literally no one knows what it is , they just talk in buzz words to justify their investment) and Pokemon cards

[@Dylski.]

Atleast you own the crypto you buy and put on ur wallets. You don't even own the image on most nfts, just the link to the image. If you buy the domain you can change someone's nft image to whatever you want alot of the time 🤣

[@neopabo]

Fortnite skins aren't tangible either. Doesn't stop people

[@JustinC721]

My biggest fear is that this is gonna take off in Japan, and we're all gonna get fucked over with NFT edition consoles or some stupid shit.

[@Granalfsson]

For someone who dislikes most asian games, I hope you are right!

[@RockManHG]

That really sounds scary af

[@filthyshoggoth]

"Samsung is releasing NFT enabled Smart TVs" You ain't wrong.

[@MastrSonic]

tbh, it probably will since nfts are viewed more positively in japan due to misinformation being spread about it over there. even if we tell them that nfts are bad & the reasoning why it's bad, japanese people will mark it off as "westerners being paranoid or overdramatic" so unless there's a change of perspective relating to nfts within japan, square enix will most certainly keep pushing the concept of it once it kicks off

[@Flimsytuna]

It already is actually. Some japanese digital artists I've been following for the past few years, had already started to cave in and started selling their art as nft.

[@c.9345]

"Dear fan base, we don't give a sh*t what you want. We're going to push NFT's whether you like it or not." - sincerely, Square Enix.

[@jeremyt8223]

They make Final Fantasy 7 once and then all of a sudden think they can do anything they want to. 🙄

[@Fermus]

But... I want it. :)

[@joandarc441]

@@Fermus trash 🗑️

[@Piss_Off_Plz]

Basically every corporation in a nutshell

[@ShortHax]

Damn, they really wanted a quick way to lessen the FFXIV queue times

[@fr0ck360]

Filling their pockets after Avengers flopped*

[@royaldoggo497]

yes

[@HumanPerson_final]

My FF14 sub is up next month and this new stance SE is taking is really making me reconsider supporting them at all.

[@DALKurumiTokisaki]

@@HumanPerson_final always remember that FFXIV is good in spite of Square Enix. People like Yoshi-P and Yoko Taro are basically carrying the company on their backs.

[@Vampshroom420]

the fucking hilarious part is how final fantasy basically took over as "the good guy" and embraced the WoW refugees. now that they have all of those addicts they are ganna abuse the living shit out of them because they saw how hard it was for them to stop supporting WoW. they got them by the balls rn. time to see all the WoW "content creators" complain about FF instead now

[@spiritsolo977]

I remember the good old days when devs released a good complete game and they get good money. Now most game released incomplete broken games but with dlcs, season pass, pre pucharsed bundles , lootboxes, microtranscions, in game currency, battle pass, event cosmetics and now NFTs. Lowkey i want the videogaming Industry to die and be unpopular again, so this mainstream bs pass away.

[@justanotherpxrson]

i want that side of games to die. but there have been recent games that i love. persona 5 royal and tales of arise come to mind for me. i would say smt v as well but i havent played it yet so i dont know how good it is.

[@honoda5176]

Time to jump to indie games from now

[@StormXF3]

You know what? Let them add NFTs in their games so that we can watch them fail miserably hehe

[@jimbix8517]

@Logan Roof English?

[@KKarkatVantas]

They wont fail, EA keep doing shit and they havent failed yet, there will be people buying that shit

[@franciscobrisolladeoliveir9596]

@@jimbix8517 Something about someone's niece dying in a car crash. Ignore, it's a bot that goes around mocking people's deaths and misfortunes and are unfortunately common in Muta's and Charlie's comment sections

[@REBELDOMINATORS]

Hehe boi

[@nathansstuff1547]

@@jimbix8517 I'm assuming it's making fun of the fact Markipliers niece passed away a few years ago.

[@Viktorrrrr1]

I really hope Valve keeps their promise of not letting these game in on their platform. As of now it is agains Steam/Valve ToS to upload a game that uses NFT/Blockchain to earn money, but we all know how fast a company will change their mind when they see the big money.

[@Viktorrrrr1]

@@thatwasinteresting.8150 Let me guess, you have a notepad on your desktop with all these poor "NFT defence" comments that you just copy and paste everywhere? "NFTs aren't the "evil" When big corporations wants a piece of the pie, it is automaticly evil. "Missunderstanding the technology" No, everyone knows what it is. Steam already have the marketplace and inventory built in to the store which is pretty much the same as NFTs proof of ownership only that it isn't decentralized. So this tech isn't new. "Cross-game NFTs" HAHAHA no, companies wont add that. They will add their own closed systems within their own games. Even if they did add it, that tech can be made and has been made from a long time ago without NFTs/blockchain. Fifa wont want you to transfer Fifa card to other games, they want you to repurchase them. But i guess you will have to stick to Epicgames because Valve wont sell your play to earn games that very few will earn something on.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

@@thatwasinteresting.8150 Sure thing bot, kindly screw off with your ridiculous ponzi schemes. Qe already had a system for this

[@12GaugeEngage]

@@thatwasinteresting.8150 you completely misunderstand the reason behind the entire crypto tech , crypto tech is made to be decentralized . Its purpose is a back up currency for those who fear their governments and the tracking they do. it is NOT for video games , in any form and it would simply be pointless

[@Ze_eT]

@@thatwasinteresting.8150 Saying "this is the future, that is the future" is not an argument. That is simply trying to take advantage of FOMO in the hopes that the person reading your comment ignores any logic and just reads the big, bad words. You haven't provided solid arguments that prove NFTs will actually be a future, and if they would be the future, that they would bring a _good_ future. Others in this comment section have already debunked your claims. And let's not forget that you are acting like "the companies care for the people". No, NFTs will simply be an unregulated alternative to DLC that will allow them to make even more money. By the way, weird how people talk about NFTs being so great because "the original artist will get a cut off every sale!" (BS, discussed in other comment sections), but then ignore that entirely when comapnies would get the same thing, just because it fits your narrative better. And with how you keep mentioning that _one_ company producing that _one_ game, you are almost certainly just a salesperson/bot. So your arguments are, most likely, done in bad faith and without caring about the facts.

[@luichinplaystation610]

They sold hats and skins

[@JustTsuyoshi]

Ubisoft: *Gets fucked for adding NFTs* Gaming Community: "Surely no one would do that again, right?" Square Enix: "Hold my shitty New Year's Message"

[@raysyndrome7209]

Wait they made a new years message?

[@water5082]

Wait...Ubisoft did what? When did this happen? I totally missed that

[@dx-ek4vr]

I can't believe that companies are still tripping over each other to include NFTs into their games even after all the bad press other games companies have gotten. It's like watching lemmings

[@PhazeyBlur]

@@raysyndrome7209 Pause at 3:37 , read the title. It's what Muta was reading off of in the video.

[@thechugg4372]

@@raysyndrome7209 Yes the NFT message was their new year's message, that's some dystopian shit.

[@heroicgangster9981]

If every company is trying to shill NFTs then that is a bad thing, no company seeks to earn money from a trend for a good reason.

[@Stormlywing]

you know what would be BETTER a Setting that enables it or disable it than seeing a NFTs it would be censored

[@thechugg4372]

@@Stormlywing I think you have no idea what you're even talking about, we're not talking skins here, we're talking money exchange, destruction of the environment, and chip shortages.

[@filthyfrankblack4067]

Its a money luandering scheme. The tax man is coming.

[@TheMsr47gaming]

@@thechugg4372 bro USA about to get a 168T bill, the world can't afford. And I can't wait for these companies like ea to fucking plummet and I can buy them out and make them stronger.

[@simplybloxxed]

@General Di Ravello me too man, theres too many dead classics.

[@pRick7734]

Lets charge 60$, 70$, 100$ per release and add NFTS's and MICROTRANSACTIONS to our perpetually broken and shitty games! I wonder what will be next... This industry never ceases to amaze me.

[@justanotherpxrson]

at this rate, gaming might actually die eventually. for the second time in history.

[@bradleymaguire7179]

Don't forget the battle pass. 😅🤣

[@pluto9427]

The worst part is that all of it will 100 percent be normalized given some time

[@musicfriendly12]

@@justanotherpxrson When was the first time? As I understand it has been having a solid growth all the way since the 80s, but maybe I'm missing something

[@justanotherpxrson]

@@musicfriendly12 I don't know off the top of my head but that sounds right

[@soap5547]

This was a legit argument someone directed against me about NFT implementation... "but... don't you want to make money by playing video games?" No. It's called a GAME for a reason. If I want to make cash, I got the stock market not to video games...

[@zamza989]

That and just getting a job lol

[@randomdud8364]

@@zamza989 Shhhh,NFT artists don't know what a job is

[@zamza989]

@@randomdud8364 oh shit you right

[@BlazerT48]

Wow, you play games for fun??? Poor people mindset right here

[@Sussy__baka]

Oh boy... you're gonna hate what the future brings then... like it or not NFT gaming is future.. imagine playing runescape back in the days but you can sell your items through a market for real money... why wouldn't you want that? .. All this hate on NFT's lets me know we're early.. this is pretty much like 2014 bitcoin days. The ones who adapt will win... the ones that sit inside their circle jerk of ignorant will be bitching about the same things in 10 years or be too late

[@thelonleyUchiha1]

The fact there are enough crypto bros on this green earth to convince big companies to stick NFTs into things and just enough people buying them to convince them it was a good decision ...makes me wanna blow my brains out tbh

[@zeening]

look at ubisoft they literally lost money minting their NFTs so clearly there ISN'T a financial incentive.... gamers DO NOT want this shit.

[@schigeraXD]

Yeah....same.....I guess I should finally find a new hobby/vice.

[@GermanGameAdviser]

@@zeening what comes around goes around. until we vote with ze portemonnaie, they will further push whatever it is, nft microtrans, doesnt rly matter does it? consumer is fucked in the end....

[@JuanLopez-ss3mz]

NFTs have net lower processing costs. Ion think NFTs are going to be micro transactions, but rather used similarly to the steam marketplace

[@ceasarcruz8312]

@@zeening laughs in counterstrike gun skins...

[@sankari8763]

Muta literally shaking in anger trying to explain trickle-down economics in NFTs. God bless this man

[@tavirosu25]

He should just get Coffeezilla on a call and have him explain MLM. It's the same as NFTs 🤣

[@mariusvanc]

It's more like "trickle up", due to the royalties flowing up the pyramid.

[@St4rTr3v1Ut10n]

"Trickle-down economics" is just economics. If you make good decisions in your life, like not spending frivolously, finishing your education, not having a kid before you're ready, investing your money properly, and bettering yourself so you're not working food service your whole life and complaining why you're not being paid more for just existing in one place, you will be financially successful. Life isn't a zero-sum game, and it isn't a charity event where you show up and get something. You need to learn to survive. Part of learning to survive is financial savvy. Part of financial savvy is investing. They don't tell you this in school, but you are SUPPOSED TO INVEST your money. That's how you make more money. You don't make money from your 9-5 office job, and especially not your 11-7, or 3-11 second shift at Target or wherever. That's supposed to maybe cover your nut, but more importantly that's the starter cash for your portfolio. After you get that going, you better yourself, you learn a skill, or negotiate a higher position or salary at work. You are not supposed to work at Taco Bell from age 16 through 70 and expect to have your financial needs met as they scale up over the course of one's lifetime, that is not how economics or reality works. If you are working at the same job in your late 20s that you had as a teenager, regardless of your circumstance, you are doing it wrong.

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

@@St4rTr3v1Ut10n It's a shame that today's economy doesn't allow you to do that in any real capacity, innit? That's the problem here, retail and fast food aren't "dead end jobs" for no reason. Also, trickle down economics is the specific name of reagan's disastrous system where he gave more money to people on the top on the hopes that they'd spend more, "trickling the money down", hence the comparison to NFTs.

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

@Enthusiastic Aizawa this is muta's controlled anger

[@ShadowSora8491]

It makes me VERY happy to see someone like you make a great argument against NFTs, this time from the perspective of a gamer. I've only ever been able to argue against NFTs (somewhat) from the perspective of an artist (yes, I need to get more of my art out there), and how many small time artists have their art stolen by crypto bros who tokenize someone's art, and then sell it as an NFT. The tokenizer can make a lot of money selling what is essentially a receipt for your art that claims they "own it" to lots of gullible people, while you, the artist doesn't see a single bit of that money. TL;DR: Your art gets stolen by some crypto bro, and used to scam people, while damaging the planet.

[@tubeguy4066]

That's why artists need make it an NFT first tbh. It's not that hard and they get paid well

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

@@tubeguy4066 but why should they? Why shouldn't we fight back against what is obviously a scam

[@DeadpanVT]

@@tubeguy4066 they do not need to do that shit period. Commission work for others has been stolen by these people and it's quite literally against the law to steal a commission from someone that's theft of property. Artist don't need to do shit we are underpayed to begin with we don't need customer services stolen from some dipshits who wanna scam others for a quick buck.

[@Dsinatra3]

@@thekommunistkrusader3921 define the scam here?

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

nfts are just game items but even more useless

[@WheresPoochie]

Remember when we used to play games for fun? Remember when we weren’t concerned about the supposed value of our achievements and how the hobby was wholly separable from our regular life?

[@filthyfrankblack4067]

yeah but that didn't make the south asian poor children fake fiat..

[@justanotherpxrson]

honestly, i still play games for fun. you just cant do that for multiplayer games anymore it seems.

[@finkamain1621]

@@justanotherpxrson I still play to win but I still have fun, especially playing with my brother and friends. I hate the whole Esports aspect of multiplayer, as companies solely listen to those players and change the game based on their feedback. That's why in games like Rainbow Six Siege why they keep redoing the maps and they took away the dead bodies because the pros complained about people hiding in them

[@cinnamon4ada7]

@@filthyfrankblack4067 huh,is this a trap?

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

@M J Modding was big in the old Battlefield games too.

[@zwan6740]

"The planet's dyin', Cloud!" - A character from Square Enix's arguably most famous game

[@noahlunnen9161]

I don’t remember that from balen wonder world

[@truindividual]

Barret's word is ringing true on the 25th anniversary of FF7

[@senorlechuga8832]

You know I joked about pirating games from AAA companies that implement NFTs but this kinda shit is actually making me think seriously about it... whenever it's worth it

[@leonidas14775]

A lot of these AAA games aren't even worth pirating since they designed them to be imbalanced to compel players to buy microtransactions. Whether its dollars or NFTs, it's trash they make you pay for twice.

[@natsudragneelthefiredragon]

Always have

[@BigJoeMufferaw784]

I pirate most the games I play a game only get my money when it deserves it for the most part

[@keonkla]

Just do it, pirate anything you can and never spend a dime. Get a vpn if you are worryed about that possibility and just pirate.

[@hiyasuamv9776]

I sail the seven seas, if I like the game I'll wait for a sale and buy it

[@12ealDealOfficial]

AAA and Indie gaming are becoming a perfect mirror image of Blockbuster versus Redbox. Blockbuster, in pursuit of steady growth to the detriment of customer loyalty, chased away all their clientele. Going to Blockbuster didn't just mean renting a game anymore. Now you were getting hounded at the counter to open a line of credit, get a rewards card, rent five more videos so you could get the seventh free, buy overpriced popcorn and soda, etc. Redbox, ultimately inferior to what Blockbuster USED to be, offered the one thing that mattered to people who liked renting media- the media.

[@jacobs1834]

I’m tired of game developers "trying” to vie for a piece of that NFT money instead of just sticking to what they know. Same thing goes for movie studios and other businesses. Edit: AAA game publishers should stop doing this BS. I buy AAA games (the good ones that interest me), but I won’t be buying any shitty gaming NFTs.

[@edit.5308]

thank kiyru, youre so write

[@kindatrash7344]

@@edit.5308 write

[@rikustorm13]

Nice pfp

[@floppa_9530]

next yakuza game will have ichiban learning about NFTs and destroying their bussines 😎

[@caldw615]

What they know is microtransactions unfortunately

[@ninjafrog6966]

Just when you think AAA gaming can’t get any worse….

[@tavirosu25]

Can't wait for Muta's video in 2025: How the AAA gaming companies and NFTs and blockchain created a class of slave gamers!

[@LLgguod]

It’s not that bad bruh 💀

[@DatCheeseCake]

Washing cash just got a lot easier

[@NameOMatic9000]

Over the years I have learned that you can ALWAYS get worse.

[@MarcusMaddox91]

AAA used to represent the best in what game studios could put together. Cutting edge graphics, gameplay etc. Now it represents the worst things the gaming industry has to offer.

[@SlainWarri0r222]

Gotta love the modern mentality of "Who cares if we lose a majority of our real fans as long as we get a few fans that give us money."

[@Wall207Slow]

Facts bubbles

[@TheNexDude]

They'd sacrifice the attention of many for a couple of consistent whales willing to throw them thousands.

[@prosack2585]

NFTs in games is basically CSGO skin except earning the skin could vary and a bigger issue is that NFTs in games aren’t limited to skins. Phantom Galaxies was an NFT where you can pilot these giant mechs that could transform. You were about to fully customize them and the mechs themselves were the NFT but they also mentioned that each mech had unique weapons meaning you could sell a really strong mech to other players. Luckily the game hasn’t released yet and it seems like the game is imploding because their discord server got hacked and they posted a fake registration. It seems like some of those whales waiting on the game just lost whatever hope they had for the game.

[@decipher111]

The year is 2100, the world has been ravaged by NFT’s, my family are the last ones left who don’t own an NFT. The NFT bros are hunting me and i do not know how much longer i can hold out. Send help

[@cantchange901]

just right click save lmao

[@decipher111]

@@cantchange901 I’ll die before i surrender

[@koishikomeiji5046]

The Europeans will come to save you, barely anybody here even knows what an NFT is.

[@decipher111]

@@koishikomeiji5046 my saviors, i will be forever in your debt

[@Giovfunny]

@@decipher111 now you need to choose: Become closer to the british or die

[@JeyVGaming]

What's scary is if Square Enix is getting into NFTs then how long will the other Japanese companies get into it as well?..

[@MastrSonic]

some japanese artists were already jumping into the nft train by selling their artwork/commissions as nfts before all of this, so it was only a matter of time before japanese companies followed suit

[@solarstrike33]

Sega showed indications they were coming on board a little while back, too.

[@carlweeper7436]

I’ve heard that the Japanese are on board due to misinformation being rampant about them over there

[@areallyrealisticguyd4333]

Probably not many. MFs are still using fax machines in 2022

[@JeyVGaming]

@@areallyrealisticguyd4333 Good. Sometimes staying old school is the best.. in some cases. lol

[@JokerPoker5RP]

Owning an NFT is like having a girlfriend that tells you to spend money on her but never gives anything in return; you cannot physically touch her, talk to her or even spend time with her in real life. The moment you walk away from the computer, you become single.

[@koishikomeiji5046]

There is a fetish for that I think. I faintly remember seeing a Video about people donating thousands of dollars to women on Twitter. Not even streamers, just random girls they find attractive, the girls say they need money for shopping and the dudes donate. A weird form of Findom or whatever it is called. The comparison actually isn't that far off. You just want to destroy your life at that point.

[@pepinowhite5014]

The fact that this concept already exists in the form of onlyfans and twitch streamers is both terrifying and hilarious

[@Shigatsu-]

Sounds like Gacha games to me , I gotta have Yae xd

[@Vanished584]

@@koishikomeiji5046 You described the coomer lifestyle.

[@mrsearaphim4077]

I love how a japanese CEO talks about not seeing enough community generated content when they're the ones actively preventing it. Imagine offering a cure to a problem of your own making. Oops

[@Jm-ki4su]

its ok. when triple a game industries screw up, the indie scene is there to make us feel safe

[@fr0ck360]

I’m starting to move onto more Indie games since it’s more accessible and fully developed compared to modern triple A game. Where you have to get expensive Graphics card that have been scalped by retards abusing bots and waiting for a full priced game to get an update for their unfinished game

[@darksuns7384]

Fil Phish is gonna be right there with a blanket and some chocky milk for you.

[@randgrithr7387]

I'm friends with an NPC. They think it's _their own responsibility_ to buy, buy, buy new hardware to ensure the latest horribly-optimized gambling simulator runs on their system. Indie games are an alien concept.

[@frostycane5134]

I kinda wanna try more indie games . Is steam the best place to begin?

[@ruchampsajaksra2954]

@@frostycane5134 Have you ever heard of that underrated indie game called witcher 3

[@sleepy_femboy0]

Investors love talking and hearing about the things they invest in. A lot of gaming companies rely on investors for their business, and so they maybe highly incentivized to talk about or do something related to NFTs and Metaverse to make the company seem more valuable to investors. As of recently, a lot of investors have been getting into NFTs and Metaverse without really understanding their value, but because it's trendy. The Ubisoft digits is pretty dumb because it doesn't really have the advantages that NFTs usually have, but Ubisoft hoped investors will throw money at it. However, looking at the stock price of Ubisoft, it only went down and then back up to where they were before. We'll see how this will affect Square Enix's stock price, but let's hope they learn something from Ubisoft digits.

[@aliceyagami8260]

NFT still a shot in the foot. Maybe square thinks that help have more money or kill piratacy. But NFT don't work like that what you buy don't have valule Just the code this why NFT is pointless

[@sleepy_femboy0]

​@@aliceyagami8260 ​ I'm not sure if you are replying to the right comment. However, I can say that NFTs do have value, not the asset that the NFT links, the NFT can be resold for a higher price, like how a painting can be resold for a higher price. Many aren't buying NFTs for the art, but the NFT that can be resold. I wouldn't say it's pointless, but a pretty dumb reenactment of the Dutch Tulip Bulb Market Bubble. I believe those NFTs are going to fall down in value once the trend stops.

[@sleepy_femboy0]

@@aliceyagami8260 In case you don't know about the Dutch Tulip Bulb Market Bubble. Tulips were selling at a high price at one point, and people started trading contracts to tulips. People with tulip contracts got their tulips but when they tried reselling them, no one would buy and so the price dropped so that tulips sellers could convince people to buy them again.

[@zeening]

@@aliceyagami8260 exactly, coffeezilla has a GREAT video on NFTS called "Right clicking all the NFTs" he has the dude that made nftbay where he uploaded EVERY single nft in existence and its an 18 terabyte file lol, basically the dude explains NFTs as treasure maps, pointing to the treasure(the picture) but when you buy an NFT you are NOT paying the picture, they are literally buying DIRECTIONS to the picture, and people HAVE ALREADY been scamming by changing the picture at the destination that the NFT points to, into a picture of a rug as a LITERAL "rug pull" rofl

[@NitroMike]

Puts on square enix

[@Jordan-im9jr]

The ONLY people that want NFTs on videogames are people without jobs or people that just want money. Not the players. You can tell this when the Star Atlas pre alpha gameplay dropped and a lot of people went nuts even though it lasted 1 minute and there was no gameplay.

[@TomoEriGoto]

I can already picture EA restricting NFTs in their sports games, it’s going to be bad, hilarious, and oh so juicy when Muta goes rant mode on their asses

[@Crypdography]

As a player of games it would be nice if when I bought a micro transaction I had the option to trade or sell it.

[@mryellow6918]

i want to know why the games cant just do it without the NFT part

[@Jordan-im9jr]

@@Crypdography Namechecksout Mr "player of games"

[@DDracee]

if they can profit from the already existing black markets (people already sell items for IRL money despite it being against ToS), thats basically just them profiting off us selling items we get for free cuz they get a cut, they wouldnt even need the cash shops anymore but thats being too optimistic

[@domninin]

The only usecase for NFTs that I think would be a win for consumers is if game keys were stored in NFTs so whoever has the NFT can download the game. That would allow you to sell your used games to other people similar to physical games. But then again, why would Steam or some other shop implement that if they can force players to buy the same game new and make more money that way.

[@fryvox3147]

I had the same idea about it

[@sethboyle90]

The funny thing is, is that Ubisoft did the same thing trying to add NFTS on ghost recon but there was so much dislikes and hate comments that they blacklist the video. So it's probably going to happened the same thing to this company

[@fr0ck360]

Me not using extension: What dislikes? Worst changes that no one asked

[@SirAlexanderr]

@@ronaldm9585 *enemy spotted*

[@randgrithr7387]

I seem to recall NTFS being introduced in 1993, this is nothing new.

[@shadowaussien7743]

The negative thumbs down icons been removed so how is that not going to impact them because KZbin removed them censoring bad comments and bad reviews

[@InfernoPhoenixFX]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 suppose to have NFT but people rioted over it, thankfully GSC revoke the idea of having NFTs in the game.

[@jornavyr2459]

"Despite this, he is unreservedly enthusiastic about the idea that "token economies" will provide those who 'play to contribute' with an explicit incentive beyond "such inconsistent personal feelings as goodwill and volunteer spirit." In short, Matsuda sees the creative contributions and user-generated content of gaming communities as something that's insufficiently systematized and, presumably, monetized" I have literally never played to contribute. And I have no goodwill or volunteer spirit for these animals.

[@rompevuevitos222]

When i think about player contribution i think open source projects, modding, etc NFTs are another case of corporate trying and failing to understand their customer with the ONLY purpose of profiting off them

[@jornavyr2459]

@@rompevuevitos222 yeah that's a fair assessment of player contribution. Those are definitely not positive contributions that I would attribute to Square, or any of their products though.

[@HateIsJustice]

As someone who was once trying to get into the gaming industry, and used to love joining gaming communities and helping with various things financially and supportively; This part of the letter felt incredibly insulting. If the creation is worthwhile to people, there will be those that dedicate their livelihoods to it. Makes it sound like everyone's just a financial resource to their company and they're looking for a few additional investors to line their pockets up. Especially with titles like FF14 and it's cash shop player spenditures. AAA games aren't even played by 'Gamers' anymore, majority playerbases are just people with nothing better to do or just casually play things.

[@jornavyr2459]

@@HateIsJustice well said. Personally, I love it when these out of touch CEOs speak out. It's usually a very telling moment. This was very telling, because it says that we're nothing but a resource for these people. This guy thinks that we're all willing resources for him as well, which is a bit worrying to say the least.

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@HateIsJustice Welcome to corporate

[@theotherjared9824]

The one silver lining about this is that previously burned out players have been flocking to indie games, and their market share has been steadily growing every year. Obviously an indie game is not automatically better than a AAA game because of a label, but more options and healthy competition is always good for the consumer.

[@bricaaron3978]

The problem is that it's not an issue of whether one is "better" than the other -- it's the fact that "Indie"** games can never and will never be a _replacement_ for AAA games. AAA games have always existed, since before the term was even used. There has always been and always will be a difference between a game that costs _x_ to make, and a game that costs _10x_ - _1000x_ to make. _On the whole,_ I would rather play a AAA game from 30 years ago than a modern "Indie" game. ** I don't put 'Indie' in quotes derisively, but simply because the designation doesn't accurately apply these days, since 99.99% of "Indie" games are not self-distributed, but have "publishers" (Steam, GOG, etc.). A more accurate term (Not a _good_ term -- just a more accurate one) would be something like 'A game' or 'B game', since the only meaningful differentiating factor today is the quality and quantity of the final product, and not whether a dev uses a publisher or self-distributes. [3-27-22 Edited for typo]

[@boombabylololollmao1565]

I think it just depends on the person,I played AAA for a majority of my life but as I discovered indie games I ever so slowly stopped playing most AAA games save for games like Spider-Man We never know

[@AJ213Probably]

@@bricaaron3978 I've never liked most AAA games even the older ones. They simply don't make the type of games I like. I don't like shooters and I don't like competitive games. I prefer something along the lines of Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program or modded Minecraft. Factorio specifically I have 1000+ hours and its quality is unmatched vs any other game like it. Closest to it is Dyson Sphere Program but that game is still very flawed and early access. You are not going to beat a game that has been polished for 8+ years with one of the best modding communities

[@bricaaron3978]

@@AJ213Probably *"I don't like shooters and I don't like competitive games"* It doesn't sound like you actually like games in the proper sense -- it sounds like you are more into simulations/puzzles/sandboxes. A case in point is that Minecraft is not a game, it's a sandbox. There is no gameplay. You don't win or lose. You just have fun with the tools you are given. That kind of thing can be a lot of fun of course, but that's not the same thing as a game, which has concrete goals which the player either succeeds to meet or fails. An early example of this kind of experience is SimAnt (From Maxis Software, the company that created SimCity, SimTower, etc.). Maxis even called its products "Software Toys" in order to acknowledge that they couldn't be properly classified as games. At any rate, what about Text Adventures? Graphical Adventures? Arcade games? 2D Platformers? 3D Platformers? Real-Time Strategy? Turn-Based Strategy? Real-Time Tactical? Role-Playing Games? God games? Shoot-Em Ups? Brawlers? Immersive Sims? Racing games? Etc., etc.? By all means play what you like, but it sounds like an "old" video game to you is one that came out ten years ago. Even if we limit it just to the greatest game ever made, there are still hundreds and hundreds of them from the past 40+ years.

[@miketaggard309]

@@bricaaron3978 I’m pretty sure he means competitive shooters like CSGO or Rainbow Six Siege. I don’t like these games anymore but I still like shooters.

[@NighttimeNubbs]

Problem about freemium model games including paid ones like EA sports, is typically the harder the whale bait, the more player base you lose. I also can't imagine triple aaa NFT games working, you have EVE online which similarly is an economy based around real currency but it's such a niche community compared to all the big games. Real money economies can work but an NFT model of this honestly feels kinda dumb because a good game server should easily and securely keep track of everything, there is no good reason to decentralize it when it's only useful in the centralized system. To end on, NFT are a stock market scam replica and EVS online style games I don't mess with at all

[@memeboi4725]

Square Enix is pretty much acting like EA at this point where a video game company goes from being well respected back in the day to going down the greedy drain

[@fr0ck360]

Just like CD Projekt Red, a respectable company turned into a false marketing piece of shit company

[@KKarkatVantas]

At this point? They have been for a while. No one saw the interview where the CEO say they wanted to be more like EA? No one? No one seem they destroying IPs in the name of greed? And you know whats worse? Even this wont change anything, they will still make millions and continue to get worse

[@koishikomeiji5046]

@@KKarkatVantas I actually had no idea about the things you mentioned. I knew they existed, but never heard much about them or played their games. Last thing I was considering buying from them was a Hololive Figure, almost thought I was mistaken by thinking they made games at that point. Why do they make figures? Is there anything they don't do?

[@carlwinslow8165]

All game companies are like that. FFXIV is palatable because Yoshi-P is a good director but honestly the rest of the company is no better than EA

[@jsc315]

At least with EAs bullshit you know what you're getting yourself into.

[@KleptomaniacJames]

AAA gaming has been shifting the goalposts very subtly, remember when lootboxes were unacceptable? What's after crypto I wonder...

[@jennyneon]

Square Enix: *Trying to put NFT's in video games.* Everyone: _"Even I'm not into that shit!"_

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

*SQUARE ENIX WENT FULL R£†∆RD*

[@ezoni8438]

They werent the first

[@ezoni8438]

And they wont be the last

[@MrRelinquishnow]

I love how real Mutahar is even after all these years and how big his channel has become.

[@Dirt-E-Dan]

Part of the reason I play video games is to forget about the problems of the real world if just for a moment and enjoy something on equal footing with everyone else. If this pyramid 1% thing becomes common in video games through NFTs, I’m just gonna stop because the way Muta makes it sound, it feels like I’m gonna be working a job for some rich guy holding all the good stuff. It’s already kinda showing itself with me having to choose between grinding a AAA game for 10 hours for 1/5 a weapon skin, or buying said weapon skin for up to $20.

[@Cloud-og1qo]

What about if you earnt that weapon skin as normal and could sell it someone else for $20? Because that's what it'll be like if these companies implemented a play to earn aspect in their games?

[@Dirt-E-Dan]

@@Cloud-og1qo Well first, I don’t think skins should even be worth $20 (a skin does not add an extra 25% of value to a $60 game but at this point in modern gaming who knows?) That said, at most they should be about $5 development time and costs considered, especially with potentially thousands of players buying it. Being able to resell a skin, especially if it’s a duplicate or one you don’t like would be cool, but I would much rather have it be purchasable by other players through in-game currency than real money, much like how in Forza games you can go to the in-game auction house and buy/flip cars with credits. This system should also not effect the in-game grind. It should be a reasonable amount of time you spend trying to get something, and anything in game should be realistically obtainable with your own in-game effort (based on the average person of course). The ability to purchase things should be for people with more money than time on their hands, and that is one of the few places where I would be ok with a company having a stream of revenue as long as the items obtainable through real money are also obtainable through some sort of gameplay. That’s just my own two cents though, I’m sure some people would prefer if they could sell their skins for real money, but I’m sure the company will also take a decent cut of that money, and there might be some legality issues as well. Sorry for the huge paragraph of a response

[@veggsbacon1891]

"NFTs are a mistake." - some ghibli man I want to play games and earn rewards by hard work, NOT spending turds to win. This is why older games before the mid 2010s are still very enjoyable.

[@redlethe8679]

That's actually what NFTs in games are for. You get to own what you earn if its an NFT.

[@guilhermegigeck5946]

Man, I just wish that eventually the legality of all of these practices with NFT starts to be contested world-wide. There is nothing really wrong with the NFT technology itself, but all its uses up until now had more downsides than upsides. It is always like this in new unregulated markets, everyone trying their best to scam the most amount of money while it still technically not illegal (and not necessarily legal). And I really hope when it happens that these big companies get legally and finacially hurt for negligently incentivizing this malpractice.

[@rabidbeaver3250]

Lol thats way too much work for the boomers, they gotta wait till its fucking broken an damaging other shit before theyll try to add some grease.

[@Whats_Goody]

what NFT "technology" thisshit is a scam, end of discussion. scam code lol

[@Uradamus]

That ending sums up pretty well how I've been feeling about "AAA" gaming for the past decade or so. I think my newest "AAA" game in my Steam library is like 8+ years old already, lol. When all the resources are going into maximizing the monetization and pushing eye candy a little bit further than last year, while just recycling the old tropes and cookie cutter gaming experiences, I lose all interest. Most of the engaging gaming experiences tend to come out of indies and mid-tier studios these days. If I buy "AAA" games, it is usually years after they stopped pushing out new content and got some "GoTY edition" with everything included for a fraction of the original price.

[@TheNexDude]

Sounds about right for me lol I've sunk so much time into playing Terraria because it's fun and reliable. I've barely invested into AAA games nowadays because it's a pathetic joke of miserable lies and blatantly anti consumer.

[@panzerdragoon273]

Back in the day games like Unreal Tournament had TONS of user generated content. But of course, since most of these companies no longer allow for private / dedicated servers they made it rather difficult to contribute. It's their doing, not the community's.

[@OGPimpin]

Gottdamn i miss playing UT GOTY online. They had the potential to have another awesome UT game (ut4), but decided to completely abandon it for Fortnite. They could have taken the Fortnite money and put it into the UT community, but instead, completely abandoned the project. Still makes my blood boil

[@vvvvv6574]

this just fucking confirms it man, it's literally no longer about the games but the money (yes i know this was already obvious)

[@justanotherpxrson]

yea, its been like that for years now

[@IDK-tb7pp]

Ever since fornite

[@intrepidferret6704]

@@IDK-tb7ppsince before fortnite it was like this.

[@fiverr.hilmeen443]

Dude i just play indie games for a couple months till now. I enjoyed it a lot because the dev is actually care about the game, not just draining money from the players as much as they can

[@rabidbeaver3250]

Not to mention their games often have less bugs and more support.

[@vincenzo3574]

I miss the times when you just bought the game and then played it and had fun with no in game transactions, glorified gambling, battle passes, NFTs bullshit, etc.

[@SloRush]

It's hilarious seeing crypto content creators talk about how "amazing NFT gaming will be" but it's one of the worst things I've seen. They don't realize we the gamers are the ones who will be dealing with this first hand and we won't let it fly

[@gustarddonut1452]

Nothings going to change as long as the companies who own the games are in charge, and I doubt anybody wouldn’t buy a game if there’s an optional NFT in game purchase. Just like how people will still buy a game with micro-transactions. Gamers aren’t going to do shit unless the game is unsuccessful, but that’s more of a marketing problem. I hate nfts just as much as the next person, but nothing will change

[@4n1m4s]

I'm just tired. The companies that made the games I love are willingly coming down in flames and this shit goes down every single day. NFTs here and there and I've yet to find a single time someone even PROMISES something with NFTs that will make them valuable, useful and different from what already exists, outside wasting energy, chips and stupid rich people money. I'm tired of NFTs and I just want them to dissapear, maybe then we will have more time until gaming turns into an actual empty husk of what it used to be, dried by the greed of this people at the top of the pyramid, because as far as I see, it seems like the unavoidable fate of this

[@justinallen2408]

That's what these other poor fuckers aren't understanding about crypto its just a currency that only rich people can. Really utilize properly, whilst the rest of us are using real currency that is being negatively impacted by these other currencies flooding the market making the federal currency worth less than it should. Along with the amount of wealth that is being hoarded by the rich which is also fucking up our currency.

[@2xstreams]

@@justinallen2408 yeah because the fact that 30-40% of the usd in circulation was printed in 2021 isnt the reason why the dollar is becoming worthless 😂☠️☠️ ”blame the crypto” 🤡

[@angel_of_rust]

you wouldn't be so tired if you had better taste in games in the first place

[@MazdaTiger]

go indie or go yarr thats what i'm going to do... time to bring back pirate bay

[@NN-cc8uo]

Yeah. Gaming is on kinda steady decline these past few years. Once something is trending, you just need to give it a few years before it died down again. Same with gaming. It's just the price that has to be paid for gaining exposure, I guess

[@Lathander81]

I like that Steam has banned these games. Hopefully for the right reason.

[@SweatyFeetGirl]

based valve

[@kenobigaming5755]

“Play to contribute” That really gives off the same vibe when the rose AI from MGS2 said “create context”

[@TeeBar420]

Valve literally figured this kind of market out over a decade ago without the need for NFT's and without fucking their player base. That these massive studios not only can't figure it out but have made it into a massive unstable pyramid scheme is pathetic.

[@Xport9]

Tmmy Tencent: *"REEEEEEEEEEEEEE! NFT IS DA FUTURE!"*

[@MarshPlays]

Valve markets are actually a very interesting topic to bring up. They essentially have a monopoly on game items, for instance in Counter-Strike:GO. They have their steam marketplace which is essentially a token, not money because you can't withdraw it. If Valve implemented NFT's to which you could essentially own the in-game skins, trade outside of Valve's domain and be guaranteed real value then what is the harm? Growing up I was within this CS:GO/Steam market economy and it baffles me on how we can't seem to find these specific use cases that can build on what has come before.

[@torchmusic27]

That isn't even the case. Valve's focus on money over gameplay is what killed TF2, one of the best games they've ever made. Didn't even need NFTs to do it.

[@theeyeballthatcameoutofthe5268]

@@MarshPlays you can withdraw CSGO skin by other means

[@Freakphone]

25 years I've been alive and not once have I felt as powerless as I do now seeing the rise of crypto and NFTs and knowing there's nothing I can do to stop it because this is perpetuated by a tiny minority. SP: Post Covid's bleakest depiction of the future was to show crypto and NFTs have become the norm. I'm just tired

[@HDReMaster]

pwerless to stop people from making money

[@voreincorporated3056]

Let the clowns have their circus and focus on things you can have effect on

[@HDReMaster]

@@voreincorporated3056 i was able to buy a house and built a circus in the basement

[@gustarddonut1452]

@@HDReMaster *gambling

[@gustarddonut1452]

@@HDReMaster you’re totally not a serf

[@avoidthevo1d]

If NFT's will make it into games, then games would become financial pyramids. And there were already some examples, like the Mir4, it's basically like a crypto scam.

[@spiderfrog5764]

God dammit god Just smite us already

[@localterrorist3155]

The more society decides to create unnecessary shit for things I love, the further I stray from it and my hope in its choices dissipate

[@TheDarkestPhoenix]

So, this is micro transactions on crack. This trend should have been stopped back when Bethesda tried to charge people money for horse armor, but for some reason as a general market people have outright encouraged this stuff to the point we're at now. We were right to make fun of horse armor, but I don't know if this is going to stop, they smell the blood in the water and will go to any lengths to get to the cash, much like how micro transactions whittled away at the market.

[@ThatEnglishGent]

Yup. I'm already moving more towards indie games or midsized developers who make AAA games but have not yet fallen to mega-money corporation like Rockstar has.

[@notedbubbly667]

Bethesda picked it back up with DEATHLOOP though. Maybe there is actual hope for these huge corporations.

[@TailsIsDisappointed]

Last time Square Enix made a mistake this bad was when Hitman: Absolution was released.

[@caligulamaximus6186]

Even hitman absolution wasn't as bad as this nonsense lmfao

[@ascaro1885]

Avengers*

[@Dust3290]

I don't even know about that game. Nor do I think I want to.

[@fr0ck360]

@@ascaro1885 God that spiderman DLC looks fucking dogshit. Fortnite’s swinging mechanic is so much better than this

[@yodawg]

Absolution was good af, watchu mean dawg

[@sonicexereaper6814]

Gotta love how Square talks like a misleading tutorial expert and rather than explaining the actual solution, they go around it and kill everyones’ time by being misleading. Man, 90% of triple AAA studios sure like competing to be the worst company of all.

[@generalbanana1885]

Man, just as Square Enix won all this goodwill from gamers this past year by being amazing with Final Fantasy 14, they seem to want to piss it all away to earn literally a few more pennies.

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

At this point its more like Dear Square Enix: Literally just go outside and talk to people, for real these execs are even more out of touch than Nintendos at this point.

[@LVD3NS]

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[@Kairidabairi]

This is quite literally how I noticed square enix was when the new dissidia was being shown off. They think their fans dont even know how to play games. Its wild how out of touch a company can be with the players, when you have the entire team of FF14 being in touch with players 24/7

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

@@LVD3NSI know mate, these rampant bots and sub botted channels are KZbins incompetency at its finest.

[@fr0ck360]

@@EnigmaticGentleman I mean most of KZbin’s customer service are filled with bots too. God they’re such a fucking hypocrites tbh

[@MattTheCommenter]

@@louielolbruh1580 can you spend some more of your time helping society

[@lady_acid]

It'll be interesting to watch how this plays out. Microtransactions didn't kill AAA companies, I wonder if NFT's will be the push that throws these companies down. Doubtful, but maybe. Either way, it could be good for indie devs who don't fall down these paths.

[@kurdaitcha5806]

theres always rich kids willing to buy the entire games store

[@WordUser]

I think people have it very wrong, microtransactions never would have killed AAA companies, no matter how unpopular as long as whales existed, and people knew that they did because of mobile games, instead microtransactions saved AAA companies and ensured they would make easy profit in the dying AAA industry that gamers already started disliking long before microtransactions

[@rompevuevitos222]

Well no, corporate killed the games by putting in the microtransactions And yes it may still have players, but it's barely a game at that point

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

Or it’ll just make them astronomically rich considering these things for some reason go for millions, and there are people dumb enough to buy them.

[@alaok489]

Ubi tries NFTs:Backlash Stalker tries NFTs:Backlash Square:I'm just gonna ignore the other two reactions

[@Vanished584]

Square: Hold my free FF14 subscription.

[@wolfknight8671]

2021 was the year of silent hill for me. I played thru the first 4 silent hill games and was blown away by how much more i enjoyed them over most modern stuff. Time to go back to metroid prime series this year

[@nealzonwheelz1k244]

Those games have tons of replay value. Great stories, great characters, locations, wonder weapons, 10 star running, extra hard modes, etc. I just got into the series too but damn feels like I’ve been playing forever 😅

[@evillecaston]

Damn, Squenix is really reverting to their 2010 days, back when they thought trend-chasing was more important than actually satisfying their players. I'm so glad I can't get into FF14, because I'd feel dirty giving the company my money now. Thanks so much, NFT bros!

[@queenbean7071]

Ff14 currently gives executive control to Yoshi-P who's the guy that fixed it I the first place. Things shouldn't go downhill atleast while he's still there

[@Vanished584]

@@queenbean7071 Yoshi is planning to leave soon, I believe Square is trying to remove his seat

[@queenbean7071]

@@Vanished584 He is? His statement didn't sound like he was to me but I'll reread it

[@Vanished584]

@@queenbean7071 This was on Twitter from one of the people working on Yoshi's Team. I really wish I could remember it becuase i just grazed over it. (Not a fan of FF so I was just 'Eh' at it)

[@DaveExclamationMarkYognaught]

@@Vanished584 i really doubt this is true

[@htl2001]

The dumbest thing IMO (which you sort of covered at the end) is that all these use cases can be done with something like the steam marketplace. There's no need for a blockchain-based system to do this. Even the case of using an NFT to unlock stuff in multiple games... you could just have the other games query if you bought the microctransaction elsewhere. This part was what made me think companies might back off this actually - since they stand to make more money selling you things that you can't transfer to other games or other people, and has to be a major reason why they don't allow trades like this under current setups.

[@JuanLopez-ss3mz]

Steam marketplace processing fees are a lot higher. Also remember that if steam ever shuts down, all your items will be gone. The chances of major blockchains hosting NFTs shitting down is very slow, specially due to its decentralized nature

[@-spudman2.054]

@@JuanLopez-ss3mz some shitty game will lose all it's interest before steam ever shuts down lol

[@htl2001]

@@JuanLopez-ss3mz High fees going directly to the operator would, I think, be something they'd want anyway. But even so, I can't imagine Steam isn't capable of lowering those, they just like the income. As for shutting down, while this is true, the main point I was trying to make is that so many people seem to be touting NFTs as enabling this sort of trading when it wasn't possible before. The main reason it hasn't been possible is because the companies selling you MTX stuff don't want you to be able to buy from anyone other than them, same reason Nintendo has always hated the 2nd hand market.

[@thatwasinteresting.8150]

No man. Blockchain is required to provide immutable evidence of ownership of your NFTs. Steam is a centralized middleman whose servers could crash or be hacked and "bye bye all your shit." Who owns what and where's my weapons and armor NFTs?? They don't know because all their data is gone. IPFS and blockchain can store the NFT files and metadata forever and the data cannot be changed by nefarious actors or by the crashing or loss of hundreds or perhaps even thousands of nodes.

[@filanfyretracker]

@@thatwasinteresting.8150 However your NFT is still bound to game developers caring enough to keep moving the item along. Combine with your NFT armor could be obsolete by the next expansion. That is the nature of games, what is hot shit today is replaced by quest greens in the next expansion.

[@viper6220]

Squares CEO is like "Have you ever heard of NFTS?"

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

*SQUARE ENIX WENT FULL R£†∆RD*

[@xhellystarx]

But you can get a cute little panda bear on a skateboard!

[@sergeantbillcipher6631]

@@xhellystarx I got a farting rainbow signed by Tom Brady!

[@randgrithr7387]

I've heard of NTFS before.

[@xhellystarx]

@@sergeantbillcipher6631 I loved it when someone gets the reference. :)

[@misterhorse8327]

I'm thinking from a VR enthusiast's POV who's excited for a centralized home for VR. I think the forthcoming appeal of NFTs is transferring those assets into your virtual home and social hub. The skins won't have any function, but you can show them off to your friends in the virtual reality, for example VRChat. Digital apparel could be integrated to VR avatars, which could also add value to NFTs. So those pants (which are ugly by the way) can be worn by your avatar, if the skeleton permits it. Basically, it's displaying your virtual trophies in VR social hubs.

[@DOOMStudios]

It’s just so strange to see The President of Square Enix Openly Admits his plans to Make their Consumers Lose Interested even more.

[@LilPeener]

Imagine if Wizard 101 had been marketed as a “metaverse”

[@hlkev462]

We dont want NFTs in video games. We want Video Games as NFTs. Give us Digital ownership of the thing we pay full price for.

[@SRGIProductions]

There is an easy way to combat this: Don't buy any Square Enix games. Not ONE. Hit them where it hurts, and that's in their bank account.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

These companies don't care about that You need to target their wallet, the whales. Now with scam artis- I mean NFT bros invading. I'd say just ruin the market if you already own the game or encourage governments to take legal action

[@dr_birb]

Easy way, in your dreams. This has never worked out. JuSt DoN't doesn't work. Unless you have a hivemind-mind-control.

[@SRGIProductions]

@@commisaryarreck3974 I think the latter would be a preferable option. Make some sort of consumer protection act and prohibit the use of NFT's.

[@dragonandavatarfan8865]

Easier said than done, good luck convincing the FF fanboy simps.

[@TheBloodys]

@@SRGIProductions what Also for good games?

[@kadragon3764]

"Modern games don't include those that want to play to contribute" Excuse me? What about the games with more modded content available than the game itself? What about MMOs and similar with people that devote unhealthy amounts of time to teach people, make tools, analyze and study the game to share with others.

[@scorpiowarrior7841]

Pay to contribute is a different definition due to NFTs now. As an MMO player whoose spent thousands of hours raiding, role-playing, and playing with friends I. Hate. It

[@2big4cheese35]

ff7 is easily my favorite game of all time, and even when remake first launched, just that communal celebration of this game was enough for me (although i did really like remake), but man, since that pc port, and now the way they're talkin about this shit, it just hurts any excitement I have for the rest of the remake saga, let alone any square project. They actually had my attention with just how good remake looked and turned out to be, not to mention all the speculation regarding the ending and future parts (regardless of what you think of the ending) has people talking about ff7 in a way they haven't since it first came out. They won back my attention by doing what they used to be so good at doing, not chasing trends It may get you in the spotlight right then and there, but its only gonna last so long and a lot of that press is gonna be bad, especially if your reputation already depends more on your games from 20+ years ago more so than any of your games from the last decade. I'm boutta go full Barret mode on these dumb platies

[@BaneHydra]

You kinda touched on this point but didn't go all the way: NFTs in video games are completely and utterly pointless because the entire pitch of NFTs, guaranteeing "true ownership" in a decentralized network, is completely null and void in video games. The blockchain might be decentralized, but Ghost Recon Break Point certainly isn't. At the end of the day, if Ubisoft decides to tell me to go fuck myself, they might not be able to remove the NFT from my wallet but they will be able to remove the skin tied to it from my account, making my NFT worthless. As long as the game is owned and controlled by a centralized company, the "true ownership" that NFTs promise is basically impossible. Decentralization + Centralization = Centralization.

[@justanugget4844]

Square £nix is just a soulless shadow of what it once was. All the actual talent left yrs ago and rightly so.

[@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569]

Last good game was Mario Sports mix smh.

[@NostalgiaMan]

Dear Squaresoft (Enix) Please stop running Final Fantasy. Thank you

[@calmgoodfire4662]

They probably won’t

[@sentientcardboarddumpster7900]

Activision should sell COD too

[@JohnDee633]

They’ve all gone down hill since ps2. EAs games have dropped massive depth since os2, SE while they still sell like crazy, arent making games like they didn’t back in the day. It’s all changed and we just have to learn to accept less for more.

[@LezSpringfield]

Yeah get back here final fantasy, stop running

[@adamflaherty9909]

Final Fantasy started to die since 7 was released. FF 7 is to the FF franchise what the album Black was to Metallica. It was inferior to what came before and was the beginning of the end.

[@KingKrouch]

Y'know, between the NFTs, being creatively bankrupt for years, and the bad PC ports, Square Enix really is Japanese Ubisoft. Now I'm just waiting for the sexpest stuff to crop up considering they have a fucking ethics department too that apparently got pissy over Tifa in FF7R lmao.

[@Rain1]

It's a sad day.

[@gamerkingdom1442]

As a Final Fantasy fan, I want to go to Japan, go to Square Enix main building, walk all the way to the CEO room, and SLAP THE CEO IN THE FACE, telling right in his face “I RATHER GAMES HAVE LOOTBOXES THAN THESE DUMB NFTS!” The TRIPLE AAAAAEEEEEYYYYY GAMING INDUSTRY.......🤦‍♂️

[@booyahgenius]

Thank you, Mutahar. You have brought me great joy recently, as I discovered your channel just about a week ago, and have been enjoying your content relentlessly.

[@sjsiemka]

I remember the days when games were just made to play & have fun...

[@ghostburgers4284]

Like the old ass spider man game on PlayStation 1

[@theredbaron9119]

Gaming companies are so shameless anymore . It’s sad . Remember the days where you just pick up and play ? This NFT shit just ruins gaming in my opinion

[@Ecliptor.]

2022 is looking spicy already

[@Soulz-Studios]

Another company makes a terrible decision, they never seem to understand what is right or wrong.

[@randgrithr7387]

I'm so glad Steam is not allowing NFTs on their platform.

[@Crypdography]

NFTs are a direct competitor to the steam marketplace, this is why.

[@paulcic1771]

Last time I checked, Steam didn't allow to take the money out of the platform in the bank account. Anything changed?

[@ganangfakhriansyah4552]

because they already have one since ages ago and works wonder to gives them money looks at csgo and tf2 skin market, that's literally NFT this is why valve don't join other companies, because they already in the lead in this game

[@Stormlywing]

just hope no one Pays them money for them to show up

[@CCCW]

There's only two sorts of people into nft: scammers, and their marks

[@petrusk842]

Mostly marks aspiring to be scammers

[@Bakuraisahottie]

I've only ever been informed about NFTs from a vague perspective because my friends and I never had too big of an idea what they were actually for. I can understand how it could probably be something nice to invest in, but this is the completely wrong way to do it. They're gonna fuck over their entire company and not even realize how big of a blow it's gonna cost them.

[@nebula0024]

It's so painfully obvious NFT's are for their own profit, it's embarrassing. Literally everything these companies are saying is total bs.

[@weaponizedautism3269]

You could immediately tell it's just another way to wring out more money from players thanks to the fact that ubisoft jumped on that shit right away

[@yanfei7782]

Fun fact: The reason that zebra's haven't been domesticated is because they have a closer relation to donkeys than horses and they're a lot more dangerous than a donkey.

[@dustydustin6353]

Thanks

[@vulpesinculta3478]

Nice, thank you

[@trafficcone7344]

That’s actually pretty cool

[@mildlydazed9608]

Thanks, that was a fun fact.

[@yanfei7782]

@@mildlydazed9608 Another fun fact: Zebra'sare actually black with white stripes, look at thier nose, the only part of them without fur, and you'll see that it's black.

[@chaimeu]

Jesus christ, seems like theres another pandemic going on of a different disease. NFTs

[@static05]

i still have no clue wtf it is

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

Lol you said it!

[@finkamain1621]

@channelofstuff And people think that they'll be able to use the DLC skins in other games lmfao. Good luck getting devs to port the skins for every game they make and for any other dev that supports NFTs to cooperate with them

[@justinallen2408]

@channelofstuff you don't own anything on your computer because it's all fucking fake cx lol like wtf are you even talking about ownership for when it comes to the digital space? It's all fake and it's purely entraiment and a place to store information.

[@justinallen2408]

@channelofstuff the only thing you own when it comes to a computer is the computer the hardware because it's a physical object you can feel touch and 8f someone takes from you it is considered theft.

[@anonanon1604]

I wish people came down on dlc, microtransactions in paid games, pay to win, early access, season passes, and the general fact that most games aren't finished on release anymore as hard as they're coming down on nft's right now. tbh it seems like just a different new trendy way to do the exact same things. pointless? maybe, but I don't see how it's inherently any worse than before.