Gaming giant Square Enix plans to invest heavily in blockchain games in 2022
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Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda delved into the topic of NFTs and blockchain games in his New Year's message.
The plan is an important announcement from a major game maker, though it may cause panic in some quarters of the gaming market.
One of the world's most famous gaming companies intends to expand into blockchain-based games this year.Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda on January 1stNew year greetings
The blogger spent a lot of time discussing so-called “decentralized gaming,” noting that “hopefully this will become a major trend in gaming in the future.”
He writes, "If we call the one-way relationship between gamers and game providers through finished games, 'centralized games', and contrast it with decentralized games; then in addition to centralized games , incorporating decentralized games into our portfolio will be a major strategic theme for us from 2022 on.”
He added, “The foundation and fundamental technology to enable blockchain gaming already exists, and society’s awareness and acceptance of crypto-assets has increased over the past few years. We will closely monitor social changes in this area, At the same time, we will listen to the voices of many user groups, and increase the corresponding business development efforts, focusing on the possibility of issuing our own tokens in the future."
Yosuke Matsuda's open letter is not entirely an endorsement of NFTs, as he once wrote, "We have indeed seen some examples that the trading of digital goods based on NFTs has been overheated, with a certain speculative color, regardless of the content provided. observations."
He continued, "This is obviously not an ideal situation, but I expect that as digital goods transactions become more common among the general public, as the value of every available content is corrected to its true estimated value, digital Commodity transactions will eventually have a reasonable scale, and I hope they become as common as physical commodity transactions.”Still, it's an important announcement from a major gaming company, Square Enix, best known for its long-running Final Fantasy role-playing game series. Reports from major game media on Saturday morning indicated that,Some Square Enix fans aren't too happy with the announcements, considering that traditional players have recently tested NFT for mainstream game manufacturers., which may not be surprising.
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Square Enix first announced its foray into NFTs last spring when it teamed up with blockchain startup Double Jump Tokyo to sell NFTs. The announcement also seemed to raise concerns about Square Enix's direction at the time.
In the open letter, Yosuke Matsuda acknowledged that for some players in his customer base, NFT will continue to be controversial.
He writes, "I realize some of the 'play to have fun' folks and current gaming majority have expressed their understandable reservations about these new trends. However, I believe there will be a certain number of people whose motivation is to 'play to contribute,' which is to help make the game more exciting."As The Block previously reported, the blockchain gaming sector has attracted well-known VC investment in the past year, includingForte to close on $725 million in November 2021
