An NFT company has hit back at Mojang after it decided that “blockchain technologies are not allowed to be integrated” into Minecraft by promising to create its own Minecraft-like game.
As we reported earlier this week, Minecraft (opens in a new tab) developer Mojang has explicitly banned all NFT technologies from anything to do with the game (opens in a new tab)which confirms that “integrations of NFTs with Minecraft are generally not a thing [it] will support or allow” including “NFTs related to in-game content, including worlds, skins, persona items or other mods”.
NFT Worlds, a company that sells Minecraft seeds – the codes used to generate the worlds you play within – as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), called the decision “a step back in innovation” and told Discord users that they were trying to “find an alternative outcome”.
NFT Worlds declares that “Microsoft, Mojang and Minecraft have signaled their disregard for creators, builders and players”, and now says they are “diving head first” into developing “a new game and platform based on many of the core mechanics of Minecraft, but with the modernization and active development, Minecraft has been missing for years”.
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“This is not a rewrite of some open source Minecraft clone, which would likely violate the EULA or still risk legal action, this is completely from the ground up,” the company explained in a statement (opens in a new tab) (Thanks, PC player (opens in a new tab)). “This transition will also come with a public-facing brand identity change that is more player-friendly.
“While the gameplay, look and feel of this will be very familiar to Minecraft players, the game mechanics, graphics, performance optimizations and general improvements will usher in a more accessible, suitable and enjoyable gaming experience. Best of all, we will be completely untethered from the guidelines Microsoft and Mojang have over Minecraft. We really become our own open game and platform.”
The statement goes on to add that game access will be “100 percent free for players and there will never be any credit card payment barriers for content”. While the work is ongoing and the team develops ways to “introduce new non-crypto player-attractive features”, the existing launch and gaming pages for the company will remain online.
“Make no mistake, this is a web2 vs web3 battle,” the company added. “We are fighting for a future with a player-owned and driven economy, where all participants benefit from their contribution to the ecosystem. We recognize that this is a monumental task”.
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