Castle Magus

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Heh, I should have waited a bit.


"Square Enix has sold off Tomb Raider and other Western game IPs/studios in order to fund NFT games."

Yeah, pretty much what Ian and Pat said there.

Fuck, I haven't even bought and won't be buying Final Fantasy XV due to Denuvo horseshit, and Dragon Quest XI was also on that list for a while (mind you, I still haven't bought that yet, either, even after they removed that malware), so I'm absolutely sure as shit not ever going to buy a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest game that has NFT dumbfuckery shoehorned into it, either.

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Headline above paraphrased due to Dreamwidth's ineluctable text-length restrictions. Proper headline: "Video game company Square Enix agrees to sell much of their Western IP so they can go into the blockchain market"

Ah. So that is the reason why they did it? Huh. Okay. It's even stupider than I had guessed. I saw the news of Squeenix selling a bunch of shit in several articles via the news reader on my phone a day or two ago, but it honestly didn't interest me all that much, so I didn't bother to actually tap to read any of them at the time.

Relevant Kotaku article linked to via the web3isgoinggreat blurb above: "NFT Market Collapses Just As Square Enix Sells Tomb Raider To Bet Big On Blockchain"[1]

Welp. All I can say in response to that: Requiescat in defricatus urina, Square Enix. You totally deserve it.

[1] - Also, as an aside, John Walker writes for Kotaku now? Meh, all the more reason for me to avoid Kotaku, I guess. (Outside of this one singular case, in which I mostly agree with him on the subject of how asinine NFTs are, in general, and how blockheaded Squeenix was to go whole hog on the blockchain bullshit, in particular.)

Full headline: "COVID-19 conspiracy theorist Robert Malone announces to trucker convoy his plans to dox more than 4,000 people using blockchain-based tech 'so they can't take it down'"

This man should be in prison, like so many others who also should be, but aren't.

Basically, the worst of Trumpanzee COVID-denying horseshit meets the worst of crypto/blockchain/nft bullshit.

(Appropriately enough, I just renamed the "nfts" tag to "crypto/blockchain/nft bullshit" which is more descriptive as well as more generalized, i.e. not specific to just NFT crap.)

Lord grant me the confidence of a tech bro who thinks buying a copy of a book means you've purchased the intellectual property within, but also then give me the intelligence to know that's not actually how it works, and the common sense not to bid millions on that copy of a book.

— John Scalzi (@scalzi) January 17, 2022

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For reference.

Honestly kind of surprised it was an actual book, in this case, and not merely a NFT of a book or some dumbshit like that, you know, given how these things have been going lately.