Take-Two Interactive updated the "legal enforcement policy" for its uber-popular online game, Grand Theft Auto Online, last week. Although it's more legal mumbo jumbo, the main takeaway is that GTA Online's publisher is now specifically banning NFTs and cryptocurrency in the game.
It's an open secret that players have used GTA Online's role-playing servers as a hub to sell everything from sponsorship deals to licensed music and, most recently, NFTs.
The ban comes after a press release announced that a rapper going by the name "Lil Durk" will release a "Trenches Pass" that gives fans access to a loot box-like NFT offering with exclusive access to a GTA Online roleplayer server.
Without going too much into the specifics of such situations, this is a common problem for games that let players establish servers. Minecraft, in particular, battled this for years before specifically banning blockchain and NFTs from the game.