Sega Pulls Back From Play-to-Earn Blockchain Games Calling It 'Boring' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 September 2023 / 5,698 Views
Sega had been advocating for blockchain gaming, however, the Japanese video game publisher and developer is pulling back from these types of games, according to Sega Co-Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumi speaking with Bloomberg.
"The action in play-to-earn games is boring," said Utsumi. "What’s the point if games are no fun?"
He added, We're looking into whether this technology is really going to take off in this industry, after all."
Sega will continue to offer its smaller franchises to several blockchain games that will be announced later this year and will invest hundreds of millions of yen in related projects.
"For the majority of people in the video game industry, what blockchain advocates say may sound a bit extreme, but that’s how the first penguin has always been," Utsumi said. "We should never underestimate them."
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"Do you have a job? And use gaming to escape from the world and relax? Well now you can play games to work instead." - Yeah, boring sounds about right.
Good to see some sanity coming from game companies for a change.
Hopefully Square Enix is next to make this decision.
That seems unlikely. Square Enix is pretty balls deep in blockchain gaming and are investing heavily in it. Whereas Sega, at least publicly, were looking into the tech and mulling about it.
With Square getting a new CEO though, I'm really hoping they do pull out of it.
I play games as a hobby not for income, so hopefully more Devs and publishers will join Sega. I don't want even more corporate greed in my games.
Sega's got the right idea pulling back.
Oh good! I was getting really worried that this "Super Game" of Sega's was going to be incorporating blockchain since everything was going to be connected somehow.
Of course its boring if its not working anymore...
Sadly its all about money, if it got to be as hugely popular and profitable as it was hyped to be, every company would be saying its fun.
Gladly this stupidity got nowhere, though.
Maybe their game ideas were no fun? I don't think that the concept in general is that bad or boring. I'm pretty sure there would be an target audience.
