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\nFinal Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki Yoshida doesn’t think the Metaverse is “entertainment”.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn an interview with Japanese site Weekly Bunshun<\/a> (via Siliconera<\/a>), Yoshida distanced his work on the MMORPG from the Metaverse.\n<\/p>\n

“To me, I see the Metaverse as ‘a system that replaces reality with a virtual world.’ So I don’t think the Metaverse has anything in common with entertainment,” he said.\n<\/p>\n

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Final Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki Yoshida doesn’t think the Metaverse is “entertainment”. In an interview with Japanese site Weekly Bunshun (via Siliconera), Yoshida distanced his work on the MMORPG from the Metaverse. “To me, I see the Metaverse as ‘a system that replaces reality with a virtual world.’ So I don’t think the Metaverse has anything in common with entertainment,” he said. 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