Valve Bans Blockchain Games on Steam

Mini Degens
2 min readOct 24, 2021

Valve plans to remove all games from Steam that use blockchain to exchange cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFT) in a move that does raise a few questions about the future of NFTs in the video games industry.

While that’s a fairly harsh stance on behalf of Valve since Steam is by far the largest digital distribution platform for PC gaming, rival Epic has made it known that it was “open” to the idea of games that use NFTs, although clearer rules haven’t been made public.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was swift to react to Valve’s announcement where he placed Epic as a platform that “welcomes the new innovation”, despite steering clear of NFTs and crypto within the platform.

“Epic Games Store will welcome games that make use of blockchain tech provided they follow the relevant laws, disclose their terms, and are age-rated by an appropriate group,” Sweeney tweeted.

What does this mean for Mini Degens?
This does not affect us not even steam can stop this moving rocket!!!

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