Square Enix is doubling down on Blockchain games

Crypto, NFTs and Blockchain have invaded all facets of the video video games business, with developers and publishers either announcing their support for or opposition in direction of the inclusion of such applied sciences in gaming. Sq. Enix has beforehand introduced their assist of blockchain and at the moment are doubling down on this.

In a recent interview conducted by Yahoo Japan (and transcribed by VGC), Sq. Enix’s President Yosuke Matsuda claimed that specializing in conventional recreation improvement as they’ve been wouldn’t be sufficient, saying:

“Sooner or later, we wish to strive our hand at offering ‘autonomous recreation content material’. Till now, in most video games, we offered the content material as a completed product and the gamers performed that content material. Nonetheless, there are a sure variety of gamers on the earth who need to contribute to creating video games extra attention-grabbing, by creating new settings and methods of enjoying.”

Whereas this assertion in and of itself poses no points, Matsuda then continued: “Sooner or later, we need to utilise the ability of those individuals to create video games that may proceed to evolve. If, as a substitute of counting on goodwill, we will additionally present incentives to those that contribute to improvement by utilising applied sciences resembling blockchain, there’s a risk that modern and attention-grabbing content material might be created from the concepts of customers.”

A lot of Matsuda’s assertion seemingly has little to do with blockchain and crypto, and so it’s odd to see the know-how being shoehorned into future video games. Hopefully by the point these wishes evolve into concrete plans the blockchain fad can have ended. We must wait and see.

KitGuru says: What do you consider Matsuda’s assertion? Do you agree with what he’s saying? What’s your opinion on NFTs and Blockchain in gaming? Tell us down under.

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