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Andy Chalk

The ESRB has started slapping blockchain games with Adults Only ratings, so Epic has changed its store policy to allow them

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Unlike Steam, the Epic Games Store has a hard-and-fast rule against adult content. Its content guidelines state very clearly that "products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on the Epic Games Store." But it recently updated those guidelines to allow AO-rated games on the store for one specific reason: If they were given that rating because they involve blockchain trading.

Also unlike Steam, which banned NFT games in 2021, Epic has no issue with them: CEO Tim Sweeney said in 2022 that "developers should be free to decide how to build their games," and it's up to Epic users to decide whether or not to play with them. That's fair enough, and the first blockchain-based game, Blankos Block Party, appeared on the Epic Store a few months later.

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