Grit is the first NFT game on Epic Games Store
Epic Games is making good on its promise to allow blockchain game developers to release their games on the Epic Games Store. The first of these titles will be Grit, a Western-themed Battle Royale from blockchain game developer Gala Games.
Gala Games announced the news at Galaverse, a three-day company-hosted event in Malta, Spain with an $8,000 price tag (for event entry and hotel, just to be clear). Future Grit players attending Galaverse also received a rare loot chest tied to a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) that will be usable in the game upon launch.
"This is the moment that it's all going to start to change," a Gala Games representative said while sharing the news at Galaverse. "Now everybody's going to figure out...'why would you play any game where you don't own what you buy in the game?'"
Interestingly, Grit (which is created by Team Grit, a separate company from Gala Games) was set to debut on Steam Early Access earlier in 2022, until its launch was suddenly delayed. A few weeks later, Gala Games announced that it was "entering a partnership" with Grit's developers.
That timeline would imply that Grit wasn't built from the ground-up with blockchain monetization in mind. In October 2021, Valve informed developers that blockchain games would no longer be welcome on Steam (developers were free to keep their games on Steam if they removed blockchain components. Developers like SpacePirate Games chose to leave Steam rather than abandon NFTs).
Later that same day, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced that the Epic Games Store would fill the blockchain vacuum left by Valve, "provided they follow the relevant laws, disclose their terms, and are age-rated by an appropriate group." Sweeney also clarified that Epic has no plans to
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