Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game in which players build and explore worlds made of blocks. It was created by Markus Persson, developed by the Swedish studio Mojang, fully released in 2011 and bought by Microsoft in 2014, and it is one of the best-selling games of all time. The game has its own official marketplace where players buy skins and worlds with Minecoins, a virtual currency. Minecraft matters to crypto mainly because of a policy decision: in July 2022 Mojang announced that NFTs and other blockchain technologies would not be allowed in Minecraft, saying they could create scarcity and exclusion that clashed with the game's values. Several projects building blockchain features on Minecraft servers had to stop or change plans. The decision is often cited in debates about NFTs in gaming, GameFi and the metaverse.