{"id":64745,"date":"2022-07-22T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=64745"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:06:24","slug":"epic-games-store-chief-backs-nft-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/epic-games-store-chief-backs-nft-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Store chief backs NFT games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Epic Games Store, Tim Sweeney, said that the digital video game store does not plan to abandon projects using non-fungible tokens (NFTs).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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\u2019t interfere by forcing their views onto others. We definitely won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1549945146413907970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In response to a Twitter user\u2019s call to \u201cget rid of every such game in the store,\u201d Sweeney clarified the company\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cDevelopers 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\u2019t interfere by forcing their views onto others. We definitely won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CEO of Epic Games Store weighed in on this after Mojang Studios, the studio behind Minecraft, said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/minecraft-developers-rule-out-nft-integration\">do not support and do not allow<\/a> the integration of blockchain and NFT technology into the game.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October 2021 Valve Corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/valve-bans-blockchain-games-nfts-and-cryptocurrencies-on-steam\">banned blockchain games<\/a> with cryptocurrencies or NFTs on its Steam store. At that time, Epic Games Store said it was open to such projects.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, the French game giant Ubisoft <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ubisoft-executive-comments-on-negative-player-reaction-to-nft-integration\">faced a negative user reaction<\/a> to its attempt <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ubisoft-unveils-platform-for-trading-in-game-items-as-nfts\">to launch NFT platform Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2022, Epic Games <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/epic-games-closes-2-billion-investment-round-to-develop-metaverses\">closed a $2 billion investment round<\/a>. The funds will be used for metaverse-related projects.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Sweeney, head of the Epic Games Store, said the digital video game store does not plan to abandon NFT projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Epic Games Store chief Tim Sweeney says NFT projects will continue.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1357,1155,1213],"class_list":["post-64745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-epic-games","tag-games-and-gamefi","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Epic Games Store chief Tim Sweeney says NFT projects will continue.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64745","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=64745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64747,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64745\/revisions\/64747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}