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NEWS: Square Enix President Says Company Has 'Multiple' Blockchain Games in Development

Does that include Japan? Japan never joined the bandwagon hate on crypto or NFTs. Some big sites like Skeb use crypto and stuff to commission artists and a lot of big mangaka and anime studios sell NFTs.

Beatdigga wrote:

Is this actually a profitable sector? The NFT market has collapsed on itself and even cryptocurrency is in a massive recession.

Probably not, but Square wants to try everything possible to make more money.

Can't Yosuke Matsuda just resign in disgrace, I thought that's what people do in Japan when they F up.

CrimeVsCrime wrote:

Does that include Japan? Japan never joined the bandwagon hate on crypto or NFTs. Some big sites like Skeb use crypto and stuff to commission artists and a lot of big mangaka and anime studios sell NFTs.

This was like two weeks ago animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-12-22/pokemon-company-sues-company-advertising-pokeworld-nft-game/.193258

?? You listed an international company suing an Australian company for copyright infringement. That has nothing to do with Japan, or NFTs themselves. Replace that game with bootleg disks or t-shirts and it'd be no different. You don't see people crusade against t-shirts because you can find a bootleg Bart Simpson t-shirt in a Mexican store.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Anti-NFT people have long since become far more annoying and insufferable than the original people trying to shill them. I'm hoping these succeed just to make the anti-NFT people upset at this point.

Can't Yosuke Matsuda just resign in disgrace, I thought that's what people do in Japan when they F up.

smurky turkey wrote:

Beatdigga wrote: Is this actually a profitable sector? The NFT market has collapsed on itself and even cryptocurrency is in a massive recession. Probably not, but Square wants to try everything possible to make more money.

I wonder if they would ever entertain the idea of entering the very profitable business model of making video games, or is that outside of their wheelhouse?

You mean the thing that they currently doing? Like did you miss their insane output just last year and what they have coming 2023? This isn't zinger you think it is. At least with Konami that would make some sense because SE is last company you should telling to make games unless you have been living under a rock for the last several years.

I have zero love for NFTs too but that does not mean that 1) SE not being productive gaming wise and 2) aren't making bank.

This is a dumb side-project but that all it is. SE isn't switching from making games to selling NFTs as they main business or something.

The article itself cites Pokemon Company and Nintendo saying they have no interest in doing Pokemon NFTs and Nintendo has also stated before they don't know how to make NFTs bring joy to people when talking about if they plan to do them. But it's stereotyping all Japanese people as being a hive mind and making it out that no Japanese people have any individual thoughts on NFTs to proclaim all of Japan is pro-NFT because one or two major corporations are on board. Saying all Japan is pro-NFT is like the new "all anime is apolitical." Also there are people on Twitter who regularly complain about Tshirt websites stealing their fanart when you type "I want that on a shirt" on Twitter so I don't think that's a great analogy to help your case.

I don't know if you're referring to my post specifically but I never said all of Japan was pro-NFT. I said Japan never jumped on the hate bandwagon for them. Like the kind of bullying and harassing you see when western artists or actors talk about selling one and they get a flood of hate comments and people threatening them to not do it including from their fellow actors and artists taking part in that deplorable behavior. I never see that kind of harassment campaign from Japanese fans when artists and creators make these announcements. You claim people here think Japanese people have no individual thoughts, but literally every time a Japanese company or artist announces a project or partnership like this you get a ton of infantizing comments about Japan is behind on the times or that they must not know what crypto or NFTs are and they require the enlightened comment section of English posters to educate them and set them on the right path.

I don't know if you're referring to my post specifically but I never said all of Japan was pro-NFT. I said Japan never jumped on the hate bandwagon for them. Like the kind of bullying and harassing you see when western artists or actors talk about selling one and they get a flood of hate comments and people threatening them to not do it including from their fellow actors and artists taking part in that deplorable behavior. I never see that kind of harassment campaign from Japanese fans when artists and creators make these announcements. You claim people here think Japanese people have no individual thoughts, but literally every time a Japanese company or artist announces a project or partnership like this you get a ton of infantizing comments about Japan is behind on the times or that they must not know what crypto or NFTs are and they require the enlightened comment section of English posters to educate them and set them on the right path.

And it's actually kinda hilarious just how bad Square screwed up by selling some very profitable IPs for such cheap cost in an effort to fund their pursuit in a market that has already collapsed in on itself and isn't really improving.

Also, I don't understand making NFTs of something out of FF7 at all. Like, wow, way to miss the ENTIRE point of that game's story and message, Square.

I would think the creators would know more about that than fans on the internet. But if you're trying to go for the environmentalist angle here then I'll just point out that by the end of the game Barrett literally turns towards the camera and says Avalanche were the bad guys and what they did was wrong because people need Mako energy to live.

If you mean their western IPs then no, they weren't profitable at all. Hence why they sold them off and cut their losses from the numerous failures that were titles like the Deus Ex and Tomb Raider games. Mankind Divided and Shadow pretty much killed their respective franchises. The studio has always been pretty upfront and transparent about the disappointing sales and losses they got hit with those titles.



I would think the creators would know more about that than fans on the internet. But if you're trying to go for the environmentalist angle here then I'll just point out that by the end of the game Barrett literally turns towards the camera and says Avalanche were the bad guys and what they did was wrong because people need Mako energy to live. The later stories further go into this on how Barrett made it his new goal to find a new fuel source for people to use since Shinra were the only ones who knew how to harvest mako and mankind were suffering and dying. Thankfully he and Cid discover oil and they go around propping up tons of factories and oil rigs and usher in the lovely age of fossil fuels.

But most of the internet has only played or seen the first 10 minutes of FF7 so they think it's all about blowing up a power plant and being eco-terrorists despite the game pretty much showing you the horrors of your actions not long after you complete that mission and how it was a very bad thing to do. The characters actually grow and develop over the course of the game. Everything Barrett says in the first mission of the game is dissected by the storytelling and shown to be wrong by the end of their journey and he admits as such before they go off towards their final battle.