The head of the Epic Games Store, Tim Sweeney, said that the digital video game store does not plan to abandon projects withusing non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
</p>In response to a Twitter user's call to "get rid of every game in the store," Sweeney clarified the company's position.
“Developers should be able to decidehow to create your games, and you are free to decide whether to play them. I believe that the creators of shops and operating systems should not interfere, imposing their views. We definitely won't," he wrote.
The Epic Games Store CEO spoke out on the subject afterafter Mojang Studios, behind the development of Minecraft, said that they “do not support or allow” the integration of blockchain technology and NFT into the game.
As a reminder, in October 2021developer Valve Corporation has banned the placement of blockchain games with cryptocurrencies or NFTs in its Steam store. Then the Epic Games Store announced "openness" for such projects.
In January 2022, French gaming giant Ubisoft faced backlash from users over an attempt to launch an NFT platform called Quartz.
In April 2022, Epic Games closed a $2 billion investment round. The funds will be directed to projects from the metaverse sphere.
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