Despite Minecraft creator Mojang Studios being against the integration of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a Metaverse-focused company managed to introduce NFTs into several games, including its own Minecraft server.
In an interview with Cointelegraph, Oscar Franklin Tan, the CFO of blockchain gaming firm Enjin, and MyMetaverse CEO Simon Kertonegoro shared how they were able to connect the dots and implement NFT in Minecraft without violating its terms and conditions.
According to Kertonegoro, Minecraft’s rules on NFTs have been to protect players from negative experiences, and many servers have violated these rules. Nevertheless, the exec highlighted that within their own servers, they are able to introduce NFTs without violating the game’s guidelines. To do this, they do not have paid NFTs and make their best NFTs free. He explained it this way:
“We wanted to show Mojang that it could be done in a way that would benefit them and their player base and benefit the gaming industry as a whole. It’s obviously not, you know, the quickest way to get people to enter your server. […] But we knew it was the right way to do it.”
Tan also weighed in on the issue, noting that Enjin supports MyMetaverse’s attempt to strike up a conversation with Mojang studios, as the firm’s NFT-embedded Minecraft server has been around for four years, even before Minecraft put its ban on NFTs.
The executive also noted that even China, a country that is against cryptocurrencies, has expressed an interest in supporting NFTs. “If it works for the Chinese government, then why not for Minecraft?”he mentioned.
Aside from Minecraft, the NFTs created by MyMetaverse also have an interoperability aspect and can be used in other games such as the firm’s Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTAV) server and its own massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, Infinity Realm. Kertonegoro explained that:
“These different games, they read the user’s wallet, see that they own the NFT and provide them with different benefits in the games. […] In Minecraft, this NFT is a sword. In GTA the NFT is a car and in Infinity Realms the NFT is a house.”
Furthermore, Tan also expressed his strong belief that having NFTs that work across multiple games is an important cornerstone for the development of the metaverse. He said that:
“Interoperability forms a larger community. It forms the basis of what we now call the Metaverse, something we’ve been trying to build since 2018.”
As NFTs run on Efinity, a Polkadot parachain developed by Enjin, Kertonegoro also highlighted that his NFTs will have a good effect on the broader Polkadot ecosystem: “The ecosystem can only grow if adopters innovate. And that’s what we’re doing, really.”
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