On Wednesday, Mojang Studios made an important decision that could affect other games as well. It has been announced that it will not be possible to use NFTs or non-fungible tokens in Minecraft. You can read the full statement here.
NFTs are essentially authenticated digital works that have grown in popularity in recent years, not only among cryptocurrency investors. Gradually, this trend began to show up in video games as well, such as when Ubisoft switched to NFT in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (and then slowed down again quite quickly).
In the case of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, these were mostly cosmetic items. In Minecraft, for example, some groups of people came up with such an NFT implementation that was linked to skin packs, Mojang said in a statement. By the way, it was bought by Microsoft in 2014.
Here’s an early look at our future Minecraft and NFT recommendations.
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— Minecraft (@Minecraft) July 20, 2022
In the text, the team also deals with general criticism of non-fungible tokens and mentions, for example, security issues or scammers. In this regard, it is good to recall the very recent scandal associated with the unofficial server for Minecraft Blockverse, when its owners sold tokens as “tickets” to the server for more than a million dollars, after which they fell silent.
But the main reason for the creators at Mojang Studios is that, in their opinion, the use of NFT and blockchain “creates digital property based on scarcity and exclusion, which is not in line with Minecraft values” such as inclusion, creativity and collaboration. play.
Therefore, the studio has clearly stated that it will “not be allowed to integrate blockchain technology” into its client and server applications, and “will not be able to use Minecraft to create NFTs associated with any content in the game, including worlds, skins.” , items, or other mods.” Server owners can continue to charge entry fees, but payment cannot be made with tokens.
But the creators don’t completely reject blockchain, but say that “right now” they have no plans to bring the technology into the sandbox game, which is one of the best-selling games in the world, according to Statista.
Source :Indian TV
