Minecraft bans NFTs, saying it’s against the game

Mojang, which takes care of Minecraft, made the decision to ban NFTs for its game. The studio believes that NFTs are contrary to the spirit of the platform and that it should not be started.

Some players are using NFT technology, which has been in vogue for 18 months, to sell items created on Minecraft. These include skins. These creations can be purchased on the platform, via Minecoins, Minecraft’s virtual currency. Minecoin is acquired in exchange for traditional currencies.

For Mojang, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2014, NFTs “can create a pattern of scarcity and exclusion that conflicts with the rules and the spirit” Game.

NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens, associate a digital object — image, video, text, or piece of music — with a certificate of authenticity that guarantees official ownership to its sole holder. The use of the NFT, to which only a single owner can be associated, thus contravenes, according to the publisher, ” the mind “ of Minecraft, namely that of“a community where everyone has access to the same content”.

Officials are also concerned that the emergence of an NFT market on Minecraft will not“encourages profit” and not “diverts attention from the game” users. They also point to the risk of manipulation and fraud, already seen with some NFTs, the price of which is artificially inflated.

They also indicate that they do not plan, in the short term, to allow the use of blockchain, the technology on which NFTs are based in particular, even if they reserve the possibility of changing their minds later.