Minecraft bans blockchain from its block game

Maine Craft It will still be about blocks, not about blockchain. This is according to New official blog post From A subsidiary of Microsoft Mojang emphasized that “the integration of NFTs with Maine Craft It’s generally not something we support or allow.”

While players have long been able to charge for privacy access Maine Craft The servers they control, the company’s usage guidelines emphasize that “all players must have access to the same functionality” on those servers. This goes against the main point of NFTs, which Mojang describes as “digital ownership based on scarcity and exclusion, which is incompatible with Maine Craft The values ​​of creative inclusion and playing together.”

Aside from those kinds of philosophical problems, Mojang also expresses concerns about “cases where NFTs have been sold at artificially or fraudulently inflated prices” and cases where NFT assets might require “an asset manager who may disappear without notice”. These kinds of issues mean that “some third-party NFTs may not be reliable and may end up costing players who buy them,” warns Mojang.

As such, Mojang writes, “The integration of blockchain technologies within client and server applications is not permitted, nor shall it Maine Craft In-game content such as worlds, skins, character items, or other mods are used by blockchain technology to create a rare digital asset. This move comes just weeks after Mojang announce They started banning abusive players from playing online, including on private servers.

Mojang leaves a small piece of the door open for future NFT applications that may “allow for more secure experiences or other practical and inclusive applications in games.” However, the company “has no plans to implement blockchain technology in Minecraft at this time.”

Pull an outdoor rug?

Incredibly influential Mojang ad for projects like NFT worldswhich sells NFTs associated with world seeds that are used to create specific files Maine Craft maps. OpenSea data NFT Worlds total trading volume is showing over 50,000 ETH (worth $76 million at today’s exchange rates) since its launch last October, with individual global tokens selling at an average of 2.5 ETH (around $3,700 today).

Daily trading of NFT World tokens has been dropping for several months side by side Broader encryption crash in recent months. And the price of the cryptocurrency driving the NFT Worlds project Dig nearly 70 percent Immediately after Mojang’s announcement Wednesday.

in public statementthe leaders of the NFT Worlds project expressed confidence in its future despite what they called “a proclamation out of nowhere from Microsoft/Minecraft.” [that] It seems like a step backwards in innovation and may even have painful downstream effects for them in the long run. “

The NFT Worlds team says it is brainstorming next steps and is communicating with decision makers in Mojang to see if “we can find a useful alternative outcome for Maine Craft Gamer base as well as Microsoft’s long-standing interest in blockchain/NFT technology and GameFi. “If a ranking cannot be found and NFT Worlds is really blocked from interacting with Maine Craftthe team says it will “pivot” either to its side.Maine Craftsuch as the Game Engine and Game Platform” or become a “GameFi Platform as a Service” for other studios looking for their own off-the-shelf NFT/metaverse solutions.

“Bottom line, we’re not leaving,” the team writes. “We have the community and we have the most warlike and we know we can build.”