Final Fantasy NFTs Cement Square Enix As The Worst Publisher In Gaming

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Square Enix has become Shinra Corporation. Final Fantasy 7’s evil organisation is known for its disregard for the planet, bringing about its destruction so long as it means maintaining profits and syphoning energy from its very lifeforce. Except instead of murdering millions by dropping plates on the slums beneath it, the company is instead taking its most iconic characters and selling them off as NFTs. It’s crass, exploitative, and fucking bullshit.

This comes mere weeks after the publisher sold off the likes of Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and other Western properties for a pittance as it declared it will double down on blockchain technology instead of giving its creative teams the resources to work on exciting new projects or to delve into an overflowing well of legacy content that to this day is being ignored. Sod all that stuff, here’s some JPEGs with digital certificates that will cease to exist the second Square Enix stops caring. That’s not even in the terms and conditions, it straight up warns customers this is the case ahead of purchase because it really is that obvious.

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If you aren’t familiar with non-fungible tokens and haven’t had your social media timeline flooded with crypto bros losing their apes these past months, they’re a form of digital currency that is both damaging to the environment and ultimately worthless because the market is so volatile and builds upon all manner of scams fueled by a mixture of glorified rhetoric and celebrity endorsement. However, like most failing tech fads, corporations have smelt blood in the water and must get involved in order to earn a quick buck.

Konami turned its beloved franchises into ugly pieces of art,