The company seems to be hoping people will just see the NFTs as a kind of DLC for the game. Some story content will be locked behind a paywall as well. The catch? The content will be locked behind NFTs that give players unique character content. Players will progress through the main story and characters’ unique backgrounds to “unravel the mysteries of the world.” GamesHub reported that the entire game’s story can still be played without using NFTs or buying them. According to VGC, Square Enix will be selling the NFT characters as each story chapter is released with six in total. The game’s description says it’s actually a “narrative-unlocked NFT entertainment” game. Each one will have a special picture that can be used as an avatar online. All 10,000 NFT characters will have a unique design made up of various races and jobs that exist in the game. The info is claiming the game will have 10,000 unique characters. The most interesting stuff is in the description of the teaser. It has a song playing in the background while showing off what is most likely the map of the game. The teaser isn’t really anything exciting. Square Enix was pretty hush-hush about it for a while, but now it’s finally released a teaser for the game. Last year Square Enix announced its big NFT game SymbioGensis. Turns out that Square Enix ousting Yosuke Matsuda still won’t deter the company from moving forward with NFTs. But cryptocurrency and NFTs have experienced some crashes lately, but this didn’t change Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda’s mind. The majority of them are startups looking to cash it in big.

Many studios are playing around with the idea of Web 3.0 gaming. NFTs just haven’t worked for any game companies so far. Well, Square Enix decided to make a big bet last year by selling off major western studios and IPs to invest in… NFTs. But these huge expectations were a constant setup for disappointment. The studio has had incredibly high expectations for all of its game releases in the past decade. Forspoken didn’t sell close to anywhere near its goal. Recent years have not been as kind to the studio though. The studio is known for fan-favorite IPs like Final Fantasy, Xenogears, Kingdom Hearts, and Parasite Eve. It used to be that any time Square Enix released a game, it would perform fairly well. Square Enix is one of the biggest and most tenured Japanese studios in the video game industry. For better or worse, Square Enix is still going through with its new NFT video game SymbioGensis.

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