The Pokemon Company has drawn the ire and attention of many, with a new job posting that is actively seeking employees with experience in uncharted territory for the Pokemon franchise. The hiring page shows that The Pokemon Company International wants to hire staff that has "deep knowledge and understanding of Web 3, [...] blockchain technologies, NFT, and/or metaverse. They also appear to be looking for someone who can "connect the relevance of potential partners or technologies with Pokemon's existing assets", which has fans dramatically split between unease and excitement for what this might mean for the future.

The Pokemon Company isn't the first, and definitely won't be the last, in terms of businesses trying to incorporate elements of the blockchain into the video game industry. Despite harsh criticism in the past, Square Enix is still committed to pushing the idea of NFT games. Regardless, outside of the hiring page, nothing involving NFTs has been announced from The Pokemon Company, for now.

Pokémon company posted a job opening that encompasses Blockchain, NFT’s and Web3 technologies.

Oh no, please no 😨 pic.twitter.com/p0XrH0Eat3

— Pory (@pory_leeks) March 12, 2023

 

[KingVamp]

Ready for Pokeverse?

 

[SkittleDash]

 

[1B51004]

motherhubbard
I should have seen pokemon nfts coming.
If they are really going through with this, I REALLY hope this is just it's own separate thing and not integrated into the main games.

 

[dh3lix-pooch]

How about "NO" ?

 

[Augusto101]

Please STOP THE TRASH TRAIN NFT Jesus (not going to happen sadly) rest in peace...

 

[Deleted member 194275]

The trading card game already is NFT like in price and in the sense of generating artificial scarcity.

For the pokemon video games I do no worry, as they still did not figured out how to make something that look as good as a N64 game, so it will take generations of implemented gaming NFTs to they finally learn it

 

[Foxi4]

Makes perfect sense for something like Pokémon. Integrating the blockchain would allow for unique ID’s that are impossible to counterfeit and would facilitate trading in and outside of the game. I’d say that’s a good use of the technology.

 

[Sundree]

Interesting. Figured the entire NFT/Metaverse trend died off a year and a half ago. Guess not?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Jean Karlo]

Makes perfect sense for something like Pokémon. Integrating the blockchain would allow for unique ID’s that are impossible to counterfeit and would facilitate trading in and outside of the game. I’d say that’s a good use of the technology.

This is exactly the kind of thing that web3 was initially developed for. Unique digital tokens that represent a unique digital good s (Pokemon). I get that the kneejerk reaction is to hate anything related to blockchain but this actually makes sense for a pokemon game

 

[PopcornSweetie]

Playing with fire aren't we? I can't wait to see the Pokémon series collapse /s (but this is a bad move. Hopefully they don't do something bad. This could backfire at them u know?)

 

[DS1]

all my Pikachus are gone.. please help

 

[deinonychus71]

Makes perfect sense for something like Pokémon. Integrating the blockchain would allow for unique ID’s that are impossible to counterfeit and would facilitate trading in and outside of the game. I’d say that’s a good use of the technology.

Why do I feel like that's not all they're gonna use it for...

 

[jt_1258]

I'm suprised this didn't come sooner given the nature of pokemon company/game freak

 

[Bladexdsl]

RIP pokemon

 

[YuseiFD]

RIP pokemon

It has been riping since heartgold and soul silver lol

 

[Desconocido90]

Makes perfect sense for something like Pokémon. Integrating the blockchain would allow for unique ID’s that are impossible to counterfeit and would facilitate trading in and outside of the game. I’d say that’s a good use of the technology.

For that to work, the game should be always connected to a server that generates unique IDs for each pokemon encounter... that, or just making the game fully cloud.

You can't have offline blockchain, and if Nintendo lets players play offline that will allow them to manipulate local data to get counterfeit pokemon...

 

[Asia81]

pls spend your money to fix your shit game instead

 

[Kioku]

Neat. This timeline just gets worse with each passing day.

 

[James_]

The page linked in the tweet just says "Can't find this page. The job that you are looking for may have expired."
Could be possible that either it got deleted or it's because I'm in the UK.
Still, seems odd.

If this is real then... well, I can't say I'm surprised. Hell, I'm surprised about the fact it took them this long. Although they probably just wanted to wait until the storm of people hating NFTs died down (that storm has moved to AI art now).

It's stupid, obviously, but it also makes some sense like some have said above me.