3/ Microsoft's stance is also mirrored by the largest PC gaming marketplace, @Steam, which announced its own ban on #NFTs and #blockchain tech last October
4/ It's no secret to traditional gamers and #crypto natives alike that gamers strongly dislike anything to do with the #metaverse or #NFTs
So if such large and popular gaming platforms are anti-NFT, what does this say about the future of this nascent industry?
5/ Well, all hope is not lost as the Epic Game's CEO offered his own rebuttal and indicated that his company would not go down the same road:
According to him - "The metaverse is a term like the internet, No company can own it.”
6/ This stance is likely inspired by Fortnite being removed from both iOS and Android stores due to "gatekeeping" arising from Epic's legal challenges to both Apple and Google policy
-Epic is exhibiting a distaste for centralized control
10/ To put things further into perspective, the Epic Games Store had over 194 million users as of the end of 2021, and multiple NFT-powered games are coming to it later this year
11/ Epic Games also has significant metaverse aspirations, recently raising $2 billion at a $31.5 billion valuation with intentions to “build the metaverse”
12/ While the future of the nascent GameFi Industry is still being written before our eyes, it's clear that there are vying factions:
Those who wish to see NFTs and crypto gaming succeed and those who don't understand it yet
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