{"id":60280,"date":"2022-04-18T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60280"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:29:54","slug":"square-enix-president-signals-interest-in-blockchain-and-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/square-enix-president-signals-interest-in-blockchain-and-nfts\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix president signals interest in blockchain and NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japanese video game developer and publisher Square Enix is studying blockchain technology as the basis for a platform to create ‘autonomous game content’. The company president Yosuke Matsuda disclosed this in an interview with Yahoo! Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“In the future, I would like to take on the task of providing autonomous game content. Today, many of our games are delivered as finished products, gamers consume this content. \u2026 However, there is a certain number of players in the world who would like to contribute to make the game more interesting. And they will do so,” Matsuda said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to him, blockchain capabilities can be used to reward and incentivize such people. The company president noted that this would help foster innovative content.<\/p>\n

In January 2022 Matsuda published<\/a> a New Year\u2019s address in which he expressed enthusiasm for new trends and spoke about Square Enix’s desire to develop projects using blockchain and NFT.<\/p>\n

The company president’s position was criticised by users and industry participants, including game designer Brandon Sheffield.<\/p>\n

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Among all the grossness of this whole letter, and even this quote, what gets me is the idea that people who play games to have fun are only “currently” the majority, and the implication that changing this is a good idea<\/p>\n

\u2014 brandon sheffield (@necrosofty) January 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n