Although Sega promised to carefully consider the content of NFT (Non-fungible token), it still registered its own NFT trademark in Japan. The Japanese Patent Office on Friday published a new trademark application bearing the SEGA NFT logo, VGC reported. Sega applied for a trademark for its own brand NFT at the end of December 2021.
In April 2021, Sega shared on Twitter that the company was teaming up with double jump .tokyo to start selling NFTs over the summer, prompting strong criticism from fans for their involvement in an already fragile environment hurt.
Last week, Sega CEO Yuki Satomi addressed the issue at a recent management meeting, saying that Sega had been listening to fans’ concerns and would give up creating if they thought it was a “simple money-making scheme.” plans for NFTs, but ultimately nothing was decided.
As far as NFTs are concerned, we want to try all kinds of experiments, and we’ve started a lot of different studies and considerations, but we haven’t made a decision yet considering play-to-earn, he said. There are already There are a lot of claims about this type of content, including overseas, but there are also quite a few users who have reacted negatively to this.
And now Sega’s announcement of the NFT trademark registration indicates the company’s final decision. The documents released so far suggest that the company has given up on the hesitation of selling NFTs in the game and joined Ubisoft and Square in the decision.