Valve has removed all NFT games from Steam and Epic Games won't be including them any time soon due to the possibility of scams. While some game companies clearly remain enthusiastic about NFTs, others do not. Over 200 brands and IPs have contributed to it, including artists like DeadMau5 and Snoop Dogg, shows like The Walking Dead and The Smurfs, and game publishers like Square Enix and Atari. Apparently, the digital yacht features four floors with lounge areas, two helipads, a DJ booth, a dance floor, and a jacuzzi.Īlthough the game only reached a playable state just recently, The Sandbox has already raised $93 million in investment capital.
The buyer is known only as "35D0CA" and used Ethereum, which inspired the creation of NFTs, to make the purchase. The "Metaflower Super Mega Yacht" exists exclusively in The Sandbox, which is an NFT-based metaverse project currently in playable alpha. GAMINGbible reports that an NFT yacht has sold for $650,000 in a metaverse game, becoming one of the most expensive video games NFTs ever bought. Related: Fortnite NFTs Aren't Happening: Epic Is Wary Of Scams For example, EA has hinted at NFTs in FIFA 22, insisting that fans " want more modalities at play inside the game." Whether or not that actually happens remains to be seen, but despite all the questions and controversy surrounding NFTs, crypto enthusiasts certainly haven't stopped buying them. Major publishers have been flirting with the idea of NFTs in their games, or even creating games that are wholly based on NFTs. The creation and implementation of NFTs in video games have been in the works for a while, especially given the rising prevalence of NFTs in the tech world.
NFTs often represent real-world artwork or objects, but they can also represent objects that do not exist yet in the world. NFTs (or non-fungible tokens) are unique units of data that exist on a blockchain, meaning they represent original digital items that cannot be replicated. An NFT yacht, which only exists in a video game, has been sold for $650,000.