I have never liked a Team Ninja game that wasn’t the one game that no one else liked, but the moment to moment is clicking a lot of buttons for me and why not another 80s pastiche that never recognizes the day time.
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the number of sprawling adventure games built with a golf game engine has increased to two
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Unbelievable moron alert
In his recent New Year’s letter, Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda stated 2023 will be a year of “major evolution and transformation” for the company, with “multiple blockchain games based on original IPs under development” at this time. Some of these, Matsuda noted, have already been announced, while others will be unveiled at a later date.
“Blockchain has been an object of exhilaration and a source of turmoil, but with that in the rearview mirror, we hope that blockchain games will transition to a new stage of growth in 2023,” Matsuda wrote, acknowledging the “sombre string of news stories with blockchain connections” that made headlines in 2022.
Matsuda believes these controversies have actually made blockchain a better option for Square Enix now.
“If this proves to have been a step in a process that leads to the creation of rules and a more transparent business environment, it will definitely have been for the good of the growth of blockchain entertainment,” he wrote.
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love a corporate erratic flailing
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utterly amazing to basically acknowledge that everyone finally realized that crypto is largely a scam and NFT’s are not viable and then commit to their success in th same breath. I cannot fathom the motivation here beyond openly trying to people off lol
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Everyone outside Japan maybe
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yeah sometimes when you have a culture whose relationship to the rest of the world is “take everything in earnest and work harder at it” it’s actually a bad thing
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I kinda just think he’s a rich and powerful idiot in too deep to back down which is a pretty universally capitalistic problem
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sort of genuinely concerned about Square-Enix’s future or lack thereof tbh lol
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This is pretty much the situation the entire Japanese tech industry is in right now, where everyone made big bets in the crypto space 5-7 years ago and they just keep doubling down instead of pulling out. If you don’t pay attention to what’s happening outside of Japan, you pretty much have to assume there’s something there, because the entire domestic tech industry can’t possibly bet the house on something so stupid right? (Narrator: Yes, they could.)
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I worked on a project that was like seed funded by konica minolta at one point and I spent 90% of it wishing they would realize they should kill the project
they definitely have a problem with good faith
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hey @notbov what’s your opinion on this?
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my opinion is that I’m thankful I haven’t redeemed any of my AA trials so far
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I heard Pocket Card jockey was good, though I’m surprised it turned up at Apple Arcade of all places. I wonder if the Switch’s audience has moved past very-handheld style games. Maybe if Style Savvy were to ever come back too I should expect it to be on Apple Arcade.
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get the best running 3D Game Freak game exclusively on iPhone
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isn’t yu suzuki also getting involved in some kind of blockchain scam?
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japanese game dev retirement plan fork in road meme where the two forks are blockchain grift and insider trading
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