Video games distribution platform Steam will take away all blockchain video games, and due to this fact Age of Rust will disappear as nicely. Recreation studio SpacePirate Video games announced on Twitter that Steam will take away all blockchain video games, as they now not permits using crypto tokens or NFTs.
Steam doesn’t need recreation objects to have worth within the real-world, and can due to this fact miss out on a brand new and thrilling new gaming ecosystem. It’s additionally price noting that Steam’s place on this can be a little bit of a double-edged sword, as the corporate makes cash from the gross sales of growth packs. Permitting content material as NFTs would undermine that income stream.
Nonetheless, their assertion about ‘actual world worth’ is in fact nonsense, as a result of they already permitting promoting of accomplishment rewards and recreation objects inside their ecosystem. It’s simply that the earned worth can’t transfer outdoors of Steam, whereas NFTs would break the partitions of their ecosystem.
Inside the blockchain area SpacePirates Video games can discover options in Chain Video games or video games distribution platform Extremely. As well as smaller video games platforms like Itch.io or GOG.com might be stable options. There’s clearly no future for play-to-earn or blockchain-powered video games on Steam, as a result of we’ve already seen Steam blocking Lightnite.
What’s Age of Rust?
Age of Rust is a single-player sci-fi journey/puzzle recreation. Gamers will discover deserted area stations, mysterious caverns, and ruins on far-off worlds. Age of Rust provides a mixture of puzzle video games and lightweight motion. The sport’s NFTs exist on Enjin’s Jumpnet.
Age of Rust is at the moment in beta and out there as a free playtest model on Steam. You’ll need an Enjin pockets and an Age of Rust token as a way to play the beta. A few of the higher-level missions and puzzles will solely be out there to these with the right tokens, which will be generally discovered in-game, or bought from the Enjin Markeplace or OpenSea.
