Holy shit, Square Enix has lost their minds

Kai Schulen

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I thought that you could preorder the Play Arts version without the NFT???

Wow, so this just turned me off from buying any SE play arts in the future ever again. Or any physical merch from them -- what's gonna stop them from adding NFTs to video game preorders/collector's edition and DLC?? If Rebirth comes with NFTs, I guess Part 1 is where the Remake ends for me...
 

Strangelove

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i don’t even get why you need a digital certificate of authenticity for a mass produced action figure. it’s not a limited run or anything, is it? i mean it’s expensive but so is everything they sell on the merch site

oh god they’re going to start putting these in the collectors sets, aren’t they. can you just choose not to redeem it or will they have minted all these nfts already

barret we need you now more than ever
 

Odysseus

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i don’t even get why you need a digital certificate of authenticity for a mass produced action figure. it’s not a limited run or anything, is it? i mean it’s expensive but so is everything they sell on the merch site
To get people used to it.

Like you said, they're probably gonna start doing this with special editions of games too. I just hope people give them shit every step of the way and they back off.
 

Ite

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It’s so brutal, that’s the best OG design figurine I’ve ever seen. I’m not a huge collector but I actually would adore something like that. Everything from the clothing to the sword to the hair to the coloring… it breaks my heart.
 

Makoeyes987

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It'll be as low as 30 bucks used, on the secondary market. Might turn out to be the cheapest used Cloud figure from S-E, finally deposing the Dissidia PAK. :monster:

All the crypto bros will try to sell it off once they get the NFT, thinking they got the valuable part lol
 

ultima786

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this is not really a big deal, right? You are buying the action figure, and it comes with an NFT?
 

roku

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To get people used to it.

Like you said, they're probably gonna start doing this with special editions of games too. I just hope people give them shit every step of the way and they back off.


I don't think crisis core will have nfts due to steam banning them last year.
 

Lulcielid

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Bloomberg: Embracer Group Shuts Down Studio Onoma (formerly Square Enix Montreal).
Video game publisher Embracer Group AB is shutting down Onoma, a Montreal, Canada-based video game studio that it acquired just months ago, according to people familiar with the situation.

The company informed employees Tuesday that some staff would be transferred to a sister studio, Eidos Montreal, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Onoma, formerly known as Square Enix Montreal, was best known for creating the Go series of mobile games such as Hitman Go. Embracer didn’t immediately have a comment.

The shutdown is unusual because of the timing. Onoma, previously known as Square Enix Montreal, was purchased in May and on Oct. 10 announced a new name and branding.

Sweden-based Embracer has been on a video game industry shopping spree, buying companies both big and small over the past few years. Onoma was part of a large acquisition earlier this year, alongside Eidos Montreal, San Francisco-based Crystal Dynamics and a handful of franchises including Tomb Raider and Deus Ex.

The move appears to be part of a larger cost-cutting initiative. Eidos Montreal has reduced the scope of one unannounced project and will cancel another one, the people said. The company also plans to work with Microsoft Corp. to help develop some games, including one in the Fable franchise.

Roughly 200 people have been laid off.
 
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Erotic Materia

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Holy fuck they're getting roasted HARD in the comments.

I don't know how people as a group could more clearly say "WE DON'T FUCKING WANT THIS".

Which of course they will still ignore.
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Strangelove

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the op in mako's post has privated their account so i had to go looking elsewhere lol. don't know if that was about this synbiogenesis thing or why parasite eve was getting brought up

i don't get it

the only comments on their announcement tweet (that video is shit, reveals nothing and the music was too loud) that seemed at all happy about this were people already into nfts (pretty easy to spot by their ugly pfps). what are you excited about, there's nothing here. they're not giving you anything to be excited about except a logo. i get feeling hyped you just see a logo for an established series because there's attachment there, but this is a new ip. what's so appealing at this juncture, the prospect of getting to spend money on the promise of a jpg and a discord link?

please don't collapse before finishing ff7r, square

also here's an actor from ff7r being disappointed lol

 

Stiggie

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Don't know about Deus Ex, but feels like Tomb Raider has been dead for a while.
Predictable, made Lara Croft a generic boring protagonist that no one wants to be or play as, as a result people lost interest in her.

As a result that iconic status she once held as gamings leading lady was up for grabs and now we have characters like 2B usher in a new generation of iconic looks, titles, and IPs.
 

Ryeleigh

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Don't know about Deus Ex, but feels like Tomb Raider has been dead for a while.
Predictable, made Lara Croft a generic boring protagonist that no one wants to be or play as, as a result people lost interest in her.

I totally agree.
 
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