The South Korean government has taken action to prevent the release of new earn-on-game (P2E) games and requires the removal of existing games from Google Play and Apple’s App Store.

P2E games have become popular In the cryptocurrency industry. Game players usually must first purchase game pieces as non-fungible tokens before they can play the game and receive in-game rewards. However, game bonuses over a few dollars are banned in South Korea.

Yesterday, the Game Management Committee (GMC) of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Require The main mobile app market will block any games that require in-app purchases before playing the game.

In order to combat the proliferation of what it considers to be speculative money-making plans, GMC has made it almost impossible for P2E game developers to list their works on the most popular mobile app stores.

Although the government’s direct entry into the app market to slow the growth of P2E games is a new development, since April, South Korean game developers have been facing court battles to keep their P2E games sold in domestic app stores. The main problem is that some game apps cannot get the age rating required for listing on the app store.

A GMC official stated that the committee simply followed the Supreme Court’s precedent for preventing P2E games from obtaining age ratings and listing. The official stated in a statement on December 28:

“According to the current law, it is reasonable not to allow P2E games to receive an age rating, because the cash rewards in the game can be regarded as prizes.”

The prize for playing games in South Korea cannot exceed 10,000 won ($8.42) at a time.

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This Clayton’s five stars P2E games and non-fungible tokens (NFT) The market was initially Blocked In the domestic app store, due to insufficient ratings, the team behind the game was banned in June and the game went on the market.The final decision on the legal status of the game is expected to set a legal precedent for other P2E games, such as Infinite Breakthrough Three Kingdoms Reversal.

GMC’s position has a negative impact on all P2E game applications, including application suites related to the two most popular games to date. Application radar: Axie Infinity and Splinterlands.