At the beginning of 2022, the president of SE published a very long article on the company’s official website, in which he expressed his support for the application of blockchain games and NFT (non-homogeneous currency) in games, hoping that it will become a future trend, and It will become a new area of SE’s key investment, and even launch SE’s own virtual currency. He also said that the game should go from play for fun to play for contribution, which caused quite a bit of controversy.
As the 2021 Best Continuous Operation Game Award has just been awarded, SE is currently the most profitable and most populated online game Final Fantasy 14. Many of its players are worried that SE will bring NFT into FF14 after seeing this statement. They called on SE to cancel the NFT plan and don’t mess around.
Many people on FF14 on Reddit, the largest foreign forum, discussed the statement of the SE president and were full of criticism. One of the posts was a hot topic, and the title said: I really don’t want NFT to enter FF14. The poster pointed out in the article: I think NFT is a capital scam. I feel that SE just thinks it is cool but it is not thought through. Its point of view was agreed upon, and many players called on SE to cancel this plan and return to serious game production.
For SE, NFT seems to be another earning method, but in 2021, Ubisoft, EA and other manufacturers have already received criticism from most players. I don’t know why the president of SE chose to stand on the opposite side of the players. At present, the SE official has not yet responded to the fierce appeal of players in the community.