Minecraft bans NFTs saying they go against ‘the spirit’ of the game
NFTs have been banned for life from Minecraft, just as Square Enix embraces them for the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy 7.
Video games have had to endure many obviously terrible ideas over the years, from online passes to loot boxes and, by and large, most of them have eventually fallen by the wayside, or at least only remained for specific types of games. And it looks like, hopefully, NFTs will be next.
The nonsense of cryptocurrency is already collapsing, with multiple crypto companies filing for bankruptcy, and while some game publishers have embraced blockchain games and NFTs the majority have not.
Minecraft maker Mojang has gone further than most by making a public statement against them, saying that they want to ensure everyone has access to the same content and that NFTs go against not only their specific guidelines but ‘the spirit of Minecraft’.
The statement was made because some third parties have already started adding NFTs to their own world files and skin packs, in an attempt to create artificial scarcity. Others have created collectible NFTs to give out as rewards for activities on their server.
Mojang is concerned that some third party NFTs may not be reliable from a technical perspective or that they rely on asset managers that could suddenly disappear – something which has been happening frequently since the market crashed.
‘Each of these uses of NFTs and other blockchain technologies creates digital ownership based on scarcity and exclusion, which does not align with Minecraft values of creative inclusion and playing together’, says Mojang’s statement.
‘NFTs are not inclusive of all our community and create a scenario of the haves and the have-nots. The speculative pricing and investment mentality around
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