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• Square Enix Holdings Square Enix Holdings on x

  A New Year's Letter from the President

• @wario64 @wario64 on x

  a New Year's letter from the Square Enix president talks about new tech/concepts including NFTs, the metaverse, and particularly how blockchain games “hold the potential to enable self-sustaining game growth” https://www.hd.square-enix.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @ballmatthew Matthew Ball on x

  Square Enix CEO (Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Dragon Quest): • “2021 not only as ‘Metaverse: Year 1’ but also as ‘NFTs: Year 1’ • “Blockchain games have emerged infancy ... hold potential for self-sustaining game growth” • “I see P2E as a prime example” https://www.hd.square-enix.…

• @forbescrypto Forbes Crypto on x

  Square Enix Scares Fans With NFT-Based 2022 New Year's Resolutions: by @PaulTassi “All of this reads as alarming to fans and particularly tone deaf given the reception #NFTs have gotten in the wider video game landscape so far.” https://on.forbes.com/...

• @iiotenki Tom James on x

  When I read this letter, what I see more than anything else is a company that evidently didn't learn the lessons of one of the last big monetization gold rushes in Japanese games, namely completion gachas and their subsequent banning a decade ago for being disguised gambling. htt…

• @loctavian00 Loctavian on x

  This is not a good thing. NFTs in their current state are an unregulated mine field and this can only hurt gaming even worse then lots of systems all ready set to pray on gamers. https://twitter.com/...

• @basedkarbon @basedkarbon on x

  Bullish for the space in general Mega bullish for whatever chain they decide to use Very bearish for boring 8-bit crypto native games that look like they were made over a weekend https://twitter.com/...

• @jentranslations Jenn O'Donnell on x

  That was hard to read. I don't know what to say besides so disappointed by Square Enix right now. https://twitter.com/...

• @tropofarmer @tropofarmer on x

  .@SquareEnix, one of the larger game companies in the world, is focusing on blockchain/P2E in 2022. we're experiencing the most massive fundamental shift in gaming since peer-2-peer multiplayer. don't fuck up this opportunity. https://www.hd.square-enix.com/ ...

• @danjitsu @danjitsu on x

  lmao it's like Square Enix saw Ubi taking the shitstorm for all this dumb NFT shit and really just went “hold my beer” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @stardustsummons Claire on x

  Do not pay money for Square Enix games. Cancel your FF14 subscription. Look into piracy. Do not let them get your money until they release a statement condemning NFTs. https://twitter.com/...

• @grimecraft @grimecraft on x

  2022 is going to be the year huh I left Square Enix 8 years ago, and began building metaverse tech startups 6 years ago. I remember talking VR/XR/metaverse concepts to my peers and people laughing at me. Pretty wild to see every one of these concepts become mainstream. https://tw…

• @ordinarygamers Mutahar on x

  man these gaming companies better be making a fortune with NFTs, Crypto and the Blockchain to be worth all this bad press. https://twitter.com/...

• @martinsfp Martin Sfp Bryant on x

  “[Games industry] executives wrapped in a bubble where they keep hearing the blockchain and NFTs are the next things that will make them even richer, and the reality on the ground of gamers who want exactly none of that in their game” https://www.forbes.com/...

• @gamespite Jeremy Parish on x

  I can't believe how many beloved institutions were so cruelly taken from us in the final days of 2021... John Madden... Betty White... Square Enix https://twitter.com/...

• @mckkirk Kirk McKeand on x

  Square Enix is like: “happy new year, (btw we're excited about potentially ruining video games in the near future, hope you had a good one x).” https://twitter.com/...

• @skillupyt Skill Up on x

  Your man couldn't say ‘Happy New Year’ without also saying 'here's how I plan to ruin videogames in 2022' https://www.hd.square-enix.com/ ...

• @tha_rami Rami Ismail on x

  First developer challenge of 2022 (impossible): read this entire letter without a single audible groan or visible eye-roll. https://www.hd.square-enix.com/ ...

• @mikedrucker Mike Drucker on x

  Square Enix kicking in the door of 2022 like, “Good news: The future of video games is worse than ever before!” https://twitter.com/...