{"id":51846,"date":"2021-10-27T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51846"},"modified":"2025-09-03T01:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:55:41","slug":"digital-rights-advocates-urge-valve-to-drop-ban-on-blockchain-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/digital-rights-advocates-urge-valve-to-drop-ban-on-blockchain-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital-rights advocates urge Valve to drop ban on blockchain games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit organization defending digital rights Fight for the Future urged Valve to lift the ban on hosting games built on distributed ledger technology and <span data-descr=\"non-fungible tokens\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NFT<\/span> on the Steam platform.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/enjin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@enjin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BGameAlliance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BGameAlliance<\/a>, and 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blockchain?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blockchain<\/a> game developers in launching our open letter calling on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valvesoftware?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@valvesoftware<\/a> to reverse their ban on web3 content on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Steam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Steam<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1OrbYojFxo\">https:\/\/t.co\/1OrbYojFxo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fightfortheftr\/status\/1453043533791862788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The open letter was signed by Blockchain Game Alliance, Enjin, and 26 other blockchain-game companies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Cutting off this growing sector at such a crucial stage of development would mean ignoring the significant progress we have made this year, while at the same time creating unfair market access for traditional players,&#8221; said Sebastien Borget, president of the Blockchain Game Alliance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Fight for the Future, a <span data-descr=\"decentralized autonomous organization\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DAO<\/span> and non-fungible tokens could make blockchain games &#8220;more decentralized, democratic, interactive systems oriented toward players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Please consider changing your position on this issue,&#8221; the letter says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In mid-October, the game developer <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/valve-bans-blockchain-games-nfts-and-cryptocurrencies-on-steam\">Valve Corporation<\/a> banned hosting blockchain games that allow issuing or exchanging cryptocurrencies or NFTs on the Steam platform.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit organization defending digital rights Fight for the Future urged Valve to lift the ban on hosting games built on distributed ledger technology and NFTs on the Steam platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,1155,1213,251],"class_list":["post-51846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-games-and-gamefi","tag-nft","tag-steam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51848,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51846\/revisions\/51848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}