Epic Games Store ‘Definitely Won’t’ Stop Devs From Selling NFTs

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In a recent statement, Minecraft’s developer Mojang Studios has claimed that it will not be supporting NFTs or any other blockchain technologies in its games. This is major news for NFTs and their relationship with gaming as Minecraft is the most successful video game in the world, and it is prime real-estate for NFT properties to be introduced. The announcement has also prompted many gamers who are adamantly against NFTs to call on other gaming giants to make similar announcements.

NFTs are the highly controversial blockchain-based tokens signifying ownership over a digital asset. The technology has received its fair share of criticism, but it has also made the companies that produce NFTs a lot of money. Unsurprisingly then, a lot of video game companies like Ubisoft have been dabbling in the technology, much to the dismay of some fans.

NFT Sales Have Plummeted

This puts video game developers and publishers in a difficult position, as there is clearly a lot of money to be made in perusing NFTs, but at the cost of angering many fans. In response to Mojang’s anti-NFT statement, a Twitter user has called on Epic Games, and specifically its CEO, Tim Sweeney, to make a similar announcement and remove all games from the Epic Games Store which utilize blockchain technology. Tim Sweeney replied to this comment, but stated that it wasn’t the place for stores to interfere or force their views onto game developers.

Sweeney ended his statement by saying that Epic Games “definitely won’t” be restricting the game’s sold on the Epic Game’s Store to those without blockchain technologies. It is important to note, however, that although Minecraft is a series with multiple games and separate properties, it is a single franchise developed