Mojang Studios wants to ban NFTs from Minecraft

Some NFTs have been available in the classic Minecraft game for quite some time now. It should end soon. From Official blog post From the legendary sandbox reveals plans to get rid of NFTs on the platform.

Official rationale: “NFTs do not include the entire community and create a haves and have-nots scenario.” The ‘speculative pricing’ and ‘investment mindset’ associated with NFTs distracts from the game and encourages ‘take profit’. This does not interfere with the joy and long-term success of the players. “We are also concerned that some of the third-party NFTs are unreliable and could end up costing players money to buy them.”

According to the stats Minecraft is the most successful video game of all time with total sales of 238 million. Developed by Swedish company Mojang Studios, the game has been owned by software giant Microsoft since 2014. With this move, the popular game could hit the collective nerve of the gaming scene.

Enix box with NFT push

There is almost no community as polarized as the gaming scene when it comes to NFT. While blockchain games such as Axie Infinity, Decentraland or Sandbox dominate the gaming sector in terms of NFTs, more and more developers of classic games, unlike Microsoft, are daring to take more steps in this direction.

Already in January of this year Under the title Square Enix CEO Yusuke Matsuda, the potential of NFTs in the gaming sector. A few months later, Square Enix made one of its own Financial report about his project in this field. They even wanted to check the implementation of their tokens. So it’s no surprise that the Japanese game manufacturer is now serious about its NFT plans.

Along with the Enjin blockchain project, Square Enix wants to launch the corresponding NFTs to mark the 25th anniversary of the legendary game “Final Fantasy 7.” from one press release It also states that non-fungible tokens must be linked to physical trading cards. Enjin is located above Polkadot and aims to build the Metaverse in a decentralized manner. The Final Fantasy collection is scheduled to be released in 2023.

Where souls are separated

It’s still a mixed picture that emerges in the gaming sector when it comes to NFTs. French gaming giant Ubisoft has also tried to implement NFT in its games in the past and has taken a violent storm. On the other hand, there are more and more projects in this field, such as Square Enix, immersing themselves in the crypto world.

NFTs seem to remain on the list of much discussed topics in the gaming scene at the moment – even if opinions differ on this topic.