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[Lunatic_Gamer]

In a new interview with Yahoo Japan, the exec said he believed that focusing only on traditional games would be “not enough” for the company going forwards, and described his vision for titles in which users would create content and be rewarded for their work (Matsuda previously said Square Enix could create its own cryptocurrency).

“In the future, we would like to try our hand at providing ‘autonomous game content’,” the president told Yahoo.

“Until now, in most games, we provided the content as a finished product and the players played that content. However, there are a certain number of players in the world who want to contribute to making games more interesting, by creating new settings and ways of playing.”

He added: “In the future, we want to utilise the power of these people to create games that will continue to evolve.

“If, instead of relying on goodwill, we can also provide incentives to those who contribute to development by utilising technologies such as blockchain, there is a possibility that innovative and interesting content can be created from the ideas of users.”

Square Enix’s president reiterates desire to make ‘play to earn’ blockchain games | VGC

Matsuda was previously criticised for publicly committing to polarising tech trends…

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[Tomi]

 

[nominedomine]

Why can't you just be normal SE?

 

[Mr Moose]

They should focus on not making shit games no one wants to play instead, maybe then they'll make some money.

 

[GHound]

I personally found the bit of the interview throwing shade on Japanese devs imitating western devs and focusing too much on the global gaming market being a bad thing funnier than this considering their big title for this year is supposed to be Forspoken.

 

[elliot5]

This would have saved Babylons Fall!

 

[lh032]

hmm so SE acquisition is out then..

 

[K2D]

The least offensive take I've heard of NFT's yet, but it's a slippery slope..

 

[Fuz]

 

[DGrayson]

Lets make games even less finished and "pay" players with our own crypto to finish the games for us.

 

[reinking]

 

[intbal]

If traditional games aren't enough for your company to survive, then your company is incompetent as a games company.
Square Enix should auction off all of their IPs and get the hell out of the industry.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

'Member when SquareSoft meant quality?....I can't anymore.

 

[cireza]

games

work

At least the guy admits that modern games are more akin to work than having fun. No wonder a lot of gamers don't find easily in modern games what they once enjoyed in quantity.

 

[Graciaus]

Enix should try and split from Square.

 

[jimmypython]

Well Fromsoft seems to have no problem making traditional games that sell 10+m copies lol

 

[Shifty]

The terms 'Square Enix' and 'Goodwill' being used in the same sentence.

I can't even

 

[Aion002]

 

[Lunarorbit]

It still sounds like ceos don't know what block chain is but have to shove it in games. This is so dumb.

By the time a game comes out with this the industry has already moved on. No one wants this in games. It's not going to be successful

 

[Ma-Yuan]

What a moron.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

“Until now, in most games, we provided the content as a finished product and the players played that content.”

Yes, clearly this is a problem that needs to be rectified.

 

[ahtlas7]

From which dark corner of the psyche do these ideas manifest.

 

[Labadal]

You start to like them again, and then he has to go on with this...

 

[Allandor]

Ah.. another person who has to say something wants to use buzzwords because the are "hipp" right now.
There are far better, less complicated and less resource intensive solutions for such things.
Blockchain in games makes no sense at all other than using the misunderstood hype.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

“Until now, in most games, we provided the content as a finished product and the players played that content."

Nothing makes me angrier than playing finished content.

 

[BennyBlanco]

SE is the worst modern large AAA publisher

 

[GHG]

They are literally admitting they won't bother to finish making the games they put out in the future. Incredible.

It's going to be so glorious when this bubble pops and it takes out all the stupid companies that decided to get involved along with it.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

So is there like a gas leak in Japan? Seems like every game developer on the eastern end is just racing to become Konami 2.0.

Leave this block chain shit for the birds, Square. You have a very specialized skillset, and you need to keep to it. You need to continue:

-Announcing projects seventeen years early.

-Smoking crack before naming the next Kingdom Hearts game.

-Begging me to be excited.

-Failing to make anything worth a fuck besides Final Fantasy. Most of the time.

 

[wvnative]

I don't get Square-Enix, they constantly swing from bad, yet experimental games, awesome games, middle of the road games, awesome remasters, bad remasters, they treat customers like gold with FF14, then they start releasing shit like babylon's fall, avengers, then they start talking blockchain bs...

Square-Enix is the wildest AAA publisher for sure...

Spoiler

And still my favorite AAA publisher because at least they continue to do different things.

 

[Kuranghi]

Fuck up, Square Enix.

 

[wvnative]

Fuck up, Square Enix.

The good news is that so far, all of their scummy games have bombed. If gamers keep up the trend square will see where the money really is (quality AAA games)

 

[dispensergoinup]

"However, there are a certain number of players in the world.."

Who are these people? I'm having a hard time believing this.

 

[T-Cake]

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

Cute waifu

 

[GHound]

"However, there are a certain number of players in the world.."

Who are these people? I'm having a hard time believing this.

Modders. If you liked paid mods you're gonna LOVE the sequel.

 

[Frank Horrigan]

Pay to win
Pay to play
Play to earn
Free to play

How about just Play to Play? Make a game I can play, without the rest of the nonsense.

 

[Warablo]

Can you please get to working on Deus Ex?

 

[N0S]

 

[SJRB]

It's just a never-ending stream of bad ideas and decisions with these fucking clowns.

 

[rapid32.5]

Was good to know you Square, might as well name your next title Final Fantasy Final.

 

[SLB1904]

i love how everyone just ignore the backlash lol

 

[Pejo]

I look forward to your future bombs S-E. Hope you sell their exclusivity to Epic on your way out.

 

[Rat Rage]

I fucking hate business people. Their entire existence revolves around chasing money in every possible way no matter what. Truly despicable.

 

[Daytonabot]

I wish they'd just spin off Taito and Eidos. All I want out of Square or Enix are the rest of Matsuno's games on Steam.

 

[Midnight Bliss]

SE is like that cringe dude in the room who has to do a presentation about how much he doesn’t suck. But instead puts on some music and starts dancing around in shorts and has to be interrupted halfway through to confirm what the point of it is. And the cringe dude just keeps pointing to nomura without saying anything and keeps dancing

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Lets make games even less finished and "pay" players with our own crypto to finish the games for us.

SE hoping for this:

Gamers: "NFT cosmetics are shit" ---> "I got limited edition 1/1,000,000 DLC! Awesome!"

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I fucking hate business people. Their entire existence revolves around chasing money in every possible way no matter what. Truly despicable.

Digital trends are the worst.

At least if Coke or Pepsi want to make some more profits, they'll try to mess with prices or the size of the bottle. They'll have different variants too. But the main product is always there to buy. Your choice.

Gaming has morphed from digital stores --> DLC --> boring mtx like cosmetics and dashboard themes --> mtx pay to win --> gambling loot crates/EA ultimate cards --> NFT which is a combo of speculative investing and impulse purchases.

It's getting to a point it mimics a casino where if you pay a game maker $10, what you get back is either $0 or $20.

 

[Investor9872]

F*ck them. Stop buying Square Enix games. Every game they make coming out of Japan besides FF7R and FFXIV are shit. And no matter how good the Montreal Studio games are, Square Enix will always say it's not good enough. If SE is serious about making money, start putting more time and effort into your games, and stop it with all of these EFT shit.

 

[Dream-Knife]

Another reason we need a AAA crash.