Minecraft Creator Confirms Minecraft 2 (Type Of)
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Minecraft Creator Confirms Minecraft 2 (Type Of)

Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson says he is hoping to start out work on a brand new recreation that may function a “non secular successor” to the block-based sandbox recreation he first created in 2009.

“I principally introduced Minecraft 2,” Persson tweeted shortly after posting a poll asking for gamers’ opinions on the path of his present mission, which he says is “a conventional roguelike combined with a tile-based first-person dungeon-crawler.”

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“However then I gots to considering that perhaps there are individuals who like my work however won’t share my style in retro nostalgia, and would like for me to make a non secular successor factor to Minecraft, and I imply positive, I would take that money,” Persson wrote in a publish sharing the ballot.

Naturally, Minecraft followers went wild, and when requested to elaborate, Persson confirmed he was “100% serious” about a sequel.

“I assumed that perhaps folks truly do need me to make one other recreation that is tremendous just like the primary one, and I am loving engaged on video games once more,” Persson wrote. “I do not tremendous duper care precisely which recreation I make first (or even when I make extra), however I do know I am making one, so I figured I would completely be prepared to present it an trustworthy shot within the type of a non secular successor to Minecraft and put up a ballot about it.”

Regardless of clearly being passionate in regards to the thought, Persson was simply as wanting to share his fears concerning the methods a Minecraft sequel might probably go improper.

“My intentions are to be clear and trustworthy about it,” he stated. “Saying that, non secular successors are often form of… … washed up. Tragic. [These are] the issues I am fearing my subsequent recreation goes to be anyway, and attempt to push myself to keep away from. So why not do the factor that individuals DO need and are prepared to present me, in some way, even extra money for?”

Persson added that he’d need any revenue constituted of a possible Minecraft sequel to be “spent for good [things],” including that regardless of Minecraft’s reputation and success, the sport has additionally taught him lots about failure. “Profitable is failing till you make your self succeed,” he wrote.

Earlier than signing off, Perrson acknowledged that he had no intention to “sneakily infringe on the unimaginable work the Mojang crew is doing [with Minecraft] and that Microsoft is efficiently doing the Microsoft sh*ttification about.”

“I respect them for doing that,” Persson stated of Microsoft, which bought Minecraft in 2014. “It is their job. They usually, from what I perceive, let the studio do issues their manner, which appears particularly reasonable to me.”

Within the years because the acquisition, Microsoft has expanded the franchise with spin-offs like Minecraft Legends and Minecraft Dungeons. As for the potential of a sequel, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer stated within the wake of the 2014 buyout that he was targeted at the start on enhancing the unique recreation, fairly than wanting towards a sequel. In 2015, Mojang CEO Jonas Martensson stated there have been “no discussions [happening] about Minecraft 2 in the intervening time,” however neither Microsoft nor Mojang have ever stated {that a} sequel was solely off the desk.

Persson hasn’t but shared any glimpses of his present work with gamers, so there isn’t any telling what a Minecraft 2 may appear to be, although one imagines it could share its predecessor’s cube-covered artwork model. Along with a possible playable sequel, Minecraft followers even have a block-based blockbuster to look ahead to, with A Minecraft Film set to hit theaters in April.

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