author: Miriam Moszczynska
SEGA Not Jumping on NFT Bandwagon; Haruki Satomi Remains Wary
SEGA has no plans to introduce NFTs into its games. The company's CEO believes that many elements in this matter need careful consideration.
- During SEGA's December board meeting, president Haruki Satomi addressed the topic of NFTs in games;
- He has no plans to incorporate the technology into any of his company's productions without prior analysis;
- Satomi points out the negative response of the community, legal issues and technology's compatibility with SEGA's principles.
The NFT trend seems to be taking off, but not everyone is convinced, and one skeptic of the play-to-earn idea has turned out to be Japanese game developer SEGA. As we can read in the document summarizing the December board meeting, the Japanese company considers the negative opinions of the community and does not want to act hastily.
"In terms of NFT, we would like to try out various experiments and we have already started manydifferent studies and considerations but nothing is decided at this point regarding P2E. There have beenmany announcement about this already including at overseas but there are users who shows negativereactions at this point," Satomi said.
Further, the CEO of SEGA says that the company must consider many possible scenarios related to the implementation of non-fungible tokens and how they relate to Japanese law. Satomi also pays great attention to community's reception - he does not want to introduce NFTs by force..
He is also not indifferent to SEGA's guiding thought of "Constantly Creating, Forever Captivating". In fact, the company's CEO claims that if the implementation of this technology continues to be considered a "money-making machine" then he will completely abandon consideration of this topic.
SEGA, of course, is not the only game developer that has considerable doubts about the issue. Such opinion on NFT is shared by the creator of It Takes Two, Josef Fares, who quite recently criticized the introduction of this technology to video games. In turn, the creators of STALKER 2 have learned the hard way that the presence of non-fungible tokens in games is not a dream come true for all players.
Of course, user opposition to NFTs does not stop all developers, as exemplified by Ubisoft's stance, or the opinion of the president of Square Enix. Nevertheless, NFT remains a hot topic in the video game industry and is sure to remain a bone of contention between developers and the community for a long time to come.