Epic Games Store "definitely won't" "interfere" with devs who want to sell NFTs

gamesradar.com:

Epic founder Tim Sweeney has confirmed that Epic Games store will not ban non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the games it sells on its PC storefront.

Responding to developer Mojang's recent decision to ban NFT and blockchain from its Minecraft, Sweeney said that Epic did not want to follow suit and "forc[e] their views onto others" by banning the new tech.

"Developers should be free to decide how to build their games, and you are free to decide whether to play them," he tweeted. "I believe stores and operating system makers shouldn’t interfere by forcing their views onto others. We definitely won’t."

Developers should be free to decide how to build their games, and you are free to decide whether to play them. I believe stores and operating system makers shouldn’t interfere by forcing their views onto others. We definitely won’t.July 21, 2022

"This is antithetical to individual freedom and decision making, so we don’t take it," he added in a subsequent reply (opens in new tab) when challenged by Blizzard senior software engineer, Joseph Bleau, about whether appearing "neutral" about NFTs and permitting developers to sell them on EGS could be seen as "tacit endorsement" (opens in new tab). 

"Crypto is complicated," he said (thanks, NME (opens in new tab)). "There’s some promising stuff, there’s some bad stuff, and everyone should make their own decisions about it."

Last September, however, Sweeney stated on social media (opens in new tab) that Epic Games "aren’t touching NFTs as the whole field is currently tangled up with an intractable mix of scams, interesting decentralized tech foundations, and scams".

As we reported earlier this week, Minecraft (opens in new tab) developer Mojang has explicitly banned all NFT