Owners of a store with indie games itch.io opposed the NFT. According to the management of the portal, non—interchangeable tokens are fraud, and the companies supporting them think exclusively about their own profits.
The owners of the platform announced their position on Twitter yesterday.
Some were interested in our position regarding NFT. Here it is. NFT is a scam. If you think that these tokens can be useful for something other than exploiting creators, financial scams and destroying the planet, we ask you to please reconsider your views. All the world.
As for the companies that support NFT, what about them the management itch.io expressed no less bluntly.
To hell with companies that claim to support creators and at the same time approve of NFT. They care more than anyone else about their own benefits and the opportunity to earn. Moreover, it is very easy to collect information about problems with NFT now. How can you be so stupid?
Criticism from the outside itch.io did not go unnoticed. At the time of writing the news, the company’s first tweet had 210 thousand likes and 41.9 thousand retweets. The second tweet has slightly more modest indicators, but still rather big — 45.4 thousand likes and 5.7 thousand retweets.
Interestingly, what itch.io distributed including through the Epic Games Store. In October last year, Tim Sweeney, the head of Epic Games, said that he was not against blockchain titles in the store, as long as they did not violate laws and meet the requirements of the site. However, a month earlier, he also pointed out that there are a lot of scammers in the field of NFT.
In recent months, a number of gaming companies have managed to declare ambitions related to NFT. However, after the harsh criticism of the community, some of them abandoned their plans. For example, GSC Game World changed its mind about adding NFT to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, and Team17 did not create tokens based on the Worms series.