After Minecraft says no to NFTs, NFT Worlds vows to make its own game

pcgamer.com:

Mojang made waves yesterday when it said, in no uncertain terms, that NFTs are not welcome in Minecraft(opens in new tab). Good news for gamers, perhaps, but not so much for anyone who has already committed to incorporating blockchain technology in the game—like, for instance, NFT Worlds.

«NFT Worlds is a fully decentralized, fully customizable, community driven, play to earn gaming platform where world owners can create their own limitless metaverse games or experiences for players or exclusive communities within their worlds,» its website(opens in new tab) says. 

«Currently using Minecraft and it's sprawling open-source ecosystem, NFT Worlds builds on the backbone of a decades worth of open source development within the Minecraft community and radically expands on it to enable an entirely new types of 3D voxel-based, decentralized gaming metaverses backed by the Ethereum blockchain.»

What that means, basically, is that it supports custom Minecraft servers where players can purchase plots of virtual land and earn (and spend) cryptocurrency—the kind of hybrid system that Mojang's blockchain policy seems specifically aimed at shutting down. And it definitely had an impact: The price of $WRLD(opens in new tab) tanked badly immediately following the studio's announcement.

In response to Mojang's new policy, NFT Worlds has issued a statement(opens in new tab) decrying Mojang and Minecraft as having «no regard for creators, builders, and players,» and vowing to make its own game to replace it.

«We’re creating a new game and platform based on many of the core mechanics of Minecraft, but with the modernization and active development Minecraft has been missing for years,» NFT Worlds said. «This is not a rewrite of some open