Sq. Enix president Yosuke Matsuda has revealed his expectations on how the online game developer and publishing firm will capitalise on blockchain know-how.
The president intently acknowledged that conventional recreation improvement, most particularly within the home Japanese market, is just “not sufficient” for Sq. Enix. Matsuda added that he needs to “utilise the facility of autonomous recreation content material to create video games that may proceed to evolve” by utilizing blockchain tech to incentivise any of such person generated content material.
Talking to Yahoo Japan, Matsuda acknowledged, “Sooner or later, we want to attempt our hand at offering ‘autonomous recreation content material’. Till now, in most video games, we supplied the content material as a completed product and the gamers performed that content material. Nevertheless, there are a sure variety of gamers on this planet who need to contribute to creating video games extra attention-grabbing, by creating new settings and methods of taking part in.
“Sooner or later, we need to utilise the facility of those individuals to create video games that may proceed to evolve,” he added. “If, as an alternative of counting on goodwill, we will additionally present incentives to those that contribute to improvement by utilising applied sciences similar to blockchain, there’s a chance that progressive and attention-grabbing content material will be created from the concepts of customers.”
Matsuda’s feedback observe a controversial New Yr’s letter the place he expressed hope that NFTs and blockchain know-how will go on to develop into a “main development” in gaming. He went on to state that he believes they are going to be main progress areas for the business this yr from cloud gaming, AI and blockchain titles.
