{"id":21991,"date":"2022-07-22T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/epic-wont-ban-nft-games-in-response-to-minecrafts-stance-tim-sweeney-says\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T06:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:14:42","slug":"epic-wont-ban-nft-games-in-response-to-minecrafts-stance-tim-sweeney-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/epic-wont-ban-nft-games-in-response-to-minecrafts-stance-tim-sweeney-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic won’t ban NFT games in response to Minecraft’s stance, Tim Sweeney says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Epic boss Tim Sweeney has said that the company won’t ban the sale of games featuring NFTs on its Epic Games Store platform, claiming it’s wrong to \u201cinterfere\u201d in how developers make their games.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Mojang \u2013 the Microsoft-owned studio behind Minecraft \u2013 stated that it has no plans to support NFTs in the game, in an article which has been celebrated by players.<\/p>\n

Sweeney was asked by a Twitter user if Epic would be taking a similar stance.<\/p>\n

\u201cDevelopers should be free to decide how to build their games,\u201d Sweeney replied. \u201cAnd you are free to decide whether to play them\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe stores and operating system makers shouldn’t interfere by forcing their views onto others. We definitely won’t.\u201d<\/p>\n

NFTs are unique non-interchangeable units of data stored on a decentralized ledger called a blockchain, which allow users to buy and sell digital assets such as in-game items or artwork.<\/p>\n

When asked later in the thread how this standard would be held against a company wishing to publish hateful content on Epic’s platform, Sweeney clarified that the company does hold editorial guidelines, but that NFTs don’t currently fall foul of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cA store could choose to make no such judgments and host anything that’s legal, or choose to draw the line at mainstream acceptable norms as we do, or accept only games that conform to the owner’s personal beliefs,\u201d Sweeney said, explaining why the controversial technology won’t be banned outright.<\/p>\n

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Mojang’s statement on Wednesday explained that NFT technology would constitute a violation of the Minecraft Usage Guidelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo ensure that Minecraft players have a safe and inclusive experience, blockchain technologies are not permitted to be integrated inside our client and server applications, nor may Minecraft in-game content such as worlds, skins, persona items, or other mods, be utilized by blockchain technology to create a scarce digital asset,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Creating collectible NFTs that players could buy or earn would run counter to Minecraft’s \u201cvalues \u200b\u200bof creative inclusion and playing together\u201d and \u201ccreate a scenario of the haves and the have-nots\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n

According to the Game Developers Conference’s annual State of the Game Industry Report, which asked over 2,700 developers about their work, 70% of those surveyed said they had no interest in adding NFTs to their games.<\/p>\n

Sales of NFTs dropped to a 12-month low in June amid a broader slowdown in the cryptocurrency market, which had fallen in worth from about $3 trillion in November 2021 to under $1 trillion.<\/p>\n

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Epic boss Tim Sweeney has said that the company won’t ban the sale of games featuring NFTs on its Epic Games Store platform, claiming it’s wrong to \u201cinterfere\u201d in how developers make their games. On Wednesday, Mojang \u2013 the Microsoft-owned studio behind Minecraft \u2013 stated that it has no plans to support NFTs in the …<\/p>\n

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