Epic Games CEO and co-founder Tim Sweeney said the company “definitely won’t” follow Minecraft’s lead and ban NFTs. In response to a tweet from @DicklessRichard, Sweeney wrote, “Developers should be free to decide how to build their games, and you are free to decide whether to play them. I believe stores and operating system makers shouldn’t interfere by forcing their views onto others. We definitely won’t.”
Minecraft and Steam have banned blockchain and NFT games. Epic will allow them. As I said yesterday, this is going to be an ongoing strategy war. Companies who don’t want to innovate or who can’t imagine a future where centralized and decentralized tools coexist to create value will try to maintain their power by banning technology. Companies who have the ability to imagine a future where creators and users both share in the value they create will encourage innovation. Which strategy will win?
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