On June 20th, Mojang is owned by Microsoft announced that NFT and blockchain technology will no longer be allowed to “integrate” with Minecraft. That’s bad news for NFT Worldspent months building an entire crypto economy based on the set of random seeds needed to generate Minecraft map.
Now, the team behind NFT Worlds announced it will create a new game “based on many of the core mechanics of Minecraft” but will be “completely free from policy enforcement” Microsoft and Mojang is over Minecraft. “NFT Worlds promises its freshness Minecraftgame style will be built “from scratch” to get used to Minecraft but now with “modernization and active development Minecraft has been missing for many years. “
Don’t worry, everything will be fine
The team says NFT Worlds games will always be free to play and users will not need a credit card to purchase any additional content. That content will presumably be purchased instead with NFT Worlds tokens, yes value has plummeted more than 60% in a week after Mojang’s announcement.
Currently, the players who own an NFT world published by NFT Worlds can still use its random seed to play Minecraft or even host multiplayer sessions in that map, as a spokesperson for Microsoft confirm with Deputy. But that’s not saying much, as the NFT itself has never given exclusivity to that map other than writing “World 1-1” on a piece of paper that gives ownership to the symbol Super Mario Bros. level.
However, according to the new rules of Microsoft, the NFT Worlds blockchain will no longer be able to participate in Minecraft‘s API. That means players can no longer easily do it in-game cryptocurrency payment denominated in NFT Worlds $WRLD tokens, as well as take advantage of other features encrypted using the NFT Worlds API.
The NFT Worlds team says it will prioritize “backward compatibility with Minecraft plugins and server development practices” in its upcoming copy. That means creators should “continue building NFT Worlds content” on MinecraftThe team says it’s confident it will work with the new, rebranded NFT Worlds game whenever it launches.
However, thanks to Mojang’s new EULA, any developments related to NFT Worlds in Minecraft cannot involve any “blockchain-based functionality, NFT support, or game currency” at this time. And since those are the central features that determine the value of NFT Worlds as an add-on, it’s unclear exactly what the NFT Worlds developers will do until Minecraft replacement is available.
You can’t fire us, we quit
NFT Worlds describes this new split as “web2 vs web3 battle… between two different visions of the future of the web” and “the technological struggle over who will have ownership of digital assets”. The group sees itself as a guardian of the “spirit of innovation through independent creators” while viewing Microsoft as a profit-obsessed behemoth that “will always act in the interests of shareholders and the board.” their balance, is bad for innovation, player and creator experience. “
In contrast, Mojang debated last week that projects like NFT Worlds create a system of “digital property rights based on scarcity and exclusion, incompatible with Minecraft the value of creative inclusion and playing together. ” The rules it has put in place to prevent NFTs aim to “ensure that Minecraft remains a community where everyone has access to the same content,” the company wrote.
