Epic Games welcomes blockchain games after Valve bans them from Steam

Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Video games, acknowledged that video games using blockchain tech are welcome on The Epic Video games retailer, The Verge  reported Friday. 

This information from Fortnite’s  developer comes mere hours after Valve  banned and delisted any video games utilizing  NFTs, cryptocurrency, and blockchain applied sciences from Steam. Doubtless as a result of The Epic Video games Retailer is Steam’s largest direct competitor for promoting PC video games and software program. 

Epic advised The Verge  that the corporate is prepared to work with builders that assist cryptocurrency and blockchain-based property on The Epic Video games Retailer. Proper after the story went reside, Sweeny commented on the state of affairs. 

“Epic Video games Retailer will welcome video games that make use of blockchain tech supplied they observe the related legal guidelines, disclose their phrases, and are age-rated by an applicable group,” Sweeny mentioned on Twitter. “Although Epic’s not utilizing crypto in our video games, we welcome innovation within the areas of know-how and finance.”

Epic Video games Retailer will welcome video games that make use of blockchain tech supplied they observe the related legal guidelines, disclose their phrases, and are age-rated by an applicable group. Although Epic’s not utilizing crypto in our video games, we welcome innovation within the areas of know-how and finance. https://t.co/6W7hb8zJBw

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) October 15, 2021

Sweeny continued: “As a know-how, the blockchain is only a distributed transactional database with a decentralized enterprise mannequin that incentivizes funding in {hardware} to develop the database’s capability. This has utility whether or not or not a specific use of it succeeds or fails.”

Valve is just not the one firm Epic Video games has gone toe-to-toe with lately. Final month, Apple blacklisted Fornite  from its units  in response to the continuing authorized battle between each corporations. 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.