The leadership at video game firm Sega Corporation\u2019s holding company has suggested that they may avoid nonfungible tokens in play-to-earn model games based on the response from users.<\/p>\n
In a Dec. 14 meeting of Sega Sammy Holdings\u2019 CEO Haruki Satomi, senior executive vice president Koichi Fukazawa, and Sega Corporation president Yukio Sugino, the trio said they needed to \u201ccarefully assess\u201d how to potentially introduce nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, into Sega titles to \u201cmitigate the negative elements\u201d and work within Japanese regulations. The executives cited \u201cnegative reactions\u201d from users overseas rewarded in NFTs for gameplay.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of NFT, we would like to try out various experiments and we have already started many different studies and considerations but nothing is decided at this point regarding [play-to-earn],\u201d said Sega. \u201cWe will consider this further if this leads to our mission “Constantly Creating, Forever Captivating,” but if it is perceived as simple money-making, I would like to make a decision not to proceed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The executives added that any rollout of NFTs in play-to-earn model games would \u201cbe better to work with partners on new technologies and domains […] rather than dealing with them in-house.\u201d It\u2019s unclear how the video game company intends to move forward with gauging user interest.<\/p>\n