Not entirely surprising. Minecraft gets to maintain full control and custody, including extracting rent from any marketplace and assets selling on its platform, and at the same time look like the hero to the game community that so fervently hates NFTs.
The irony is that Minecraft and its players have no problem with virtual tokens known as Minecoins that are used to buy game assets and mods.
Instead of allowing this sort of pattern to be decentralized and permissionless, they are forcing it to remain on a centralized and permissioned stack that allows them to consistently extract rent, exert control over what kind of sales happen, and limit how users can dispose of these assets.
You can’t even sell back your Minecoins, you are only given license to use them for the Minecraft Marketplace. Had this been a standard ERC20 token the company would have no way to block you from reselling unwanted coins on a secondary market.
I am not big on the jpeg NFT marketplace, but I'm also not a collector of baseball cards or magic cards or cool skins for my video game character. There are stark similarities between NFT jpegs and any other virtual asset, right? A good use of NFTs can be representing the virtual ownership of a unique artwork, like a receipt that comes with the physical purchase. Being the "true" owner of something has a value. Music CDs often come with a code for the digital version. Isn't that an NFT? But yeah I'm still not buying anybody's jpeg.
Uh, the Java edition of Minecraft isn't controlled by Minecraft or Microsoft. I used to run my own private server with its own economy, and tons of custom plugins.
People bypass account authentication, that's been a thing for over a decade, so a ban would be fairly meaningless on a huge chunk of servers that authenticate through their own systems, which most NFT-focused servers likely already do. Admittedly, looks like a lot has changed since I used to dabble in the 2011 era, though this was only introduced in June 2022 lol.
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Not entirely surprising. Minecraft gets to maintain full control and custody, including extracting rent from any marketplace and assets selling on its platform, and at the same time look like the hero to the game community that so fervently hates NFTs.
NFTs are a cancer, it's entirely reasonable to not want to be associated with it.
The irony is that Minecraft and its players have no problem with virtual tokens known as Minecoins that are used to buy game assets and mods.
Instead of allowing this sort of pattern to be decentralized and permissionless, they are forcing it to remain on a centralized and permissioned stack that allows them to consistently extract rent, exert control over what kind of sales happen, and limit how users can dispose of these assets.
You can’t even sell back your Minecoins, you are only given license to use them for the Minecraft Marketplace. Had this been a standard ERC20 token the company would have no way to block you from reselling unwanted coins on a secondary market.
Is anyone speculating in Minecoins and constantly shilling it to push to the prices before selling out?
Your comparison is very selective.
I am not big on the jpeg NFT marketplace, but I'm also not a collector of baseball cards or magic cards or cool skins for my video game character. There are stark similarities between NFT jpegs and any other virtual asset, right? A good use of NFTs can be representing the virtual ownership of a unique artwork, like a receipt that comes with the physical purchase. Being the "true" owner of something has a value. Music CDs often come with a code for the digital version. Isn't that an NFT? But yeah I'm still not buying anybody's jpeg.
Uh, the Java edition of Minecraft isn't controlled by Minecraft or Microsoft. I used to run my own private server with its own economy, and tons of custom plugins.
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People bypass account authentication, that's been a thing for over a decade, so a ban would be fairly meaningless on a huge chunk of servers that authenticate through their own systems, which most NFT-focused servers likely already do. Admittedly, looks like a lot has changed since I used to dabble in the 2011 era, though this was only introduced in June 2022 lol.