With more than 300 million sales, Notch can simply boast of having designed the best-selling video game in history: Minecraft is not just a bestseller, it is a title that has broken the codes and has been self-perpetuating since its creation. And yet, despite the very basis of his ultra-permissive and community concept, Markus Persson has been thinking about the future for a while: on X, he asked the players what they wanted between a “Minecraft 2” and a “traditional roguelike / dungeon crawler in subjective view”, which he is currently working on. And the public has decided: up to 81% for more than 278,000 votes at the time of writing these lines, it ‘East Minecraft 2 who wins.
To tell the truth, it’s not just a matter of taking the temperature: Notch intends to follow the players’ opinions to know what to work on. Faced with the craze for a Minecraft 2the developer wants to clarify things: first of all, the license Minecraft belongs to Microsoft (bought for $2.5 billion all the same), and not to him. So, if Minecraft 2 one day ago, it will necessarily be under the control of the American giant, otherwise it would be “super illegal”. “If Microsoft, for whatever reason, wanted me to do it, and we could somehow agree on the terms of a contract, I would absolutely be willing to do that.”he blurted out on the social network.
But through his survey, Notch speaks above all of a spiritual sequel to Minecraft rather than a real Minecraft 2. “I don’t really care which game I make first (or even if I make more than one), but I am indeed working on a new game. So I figured I’d be totally up for it. give it the form of a spiritual successor to Minecraft while launching a poll about it.” So if sort again Minecraft ago, this one should be careful not to “sneakily encroaching on the incredible work of the Mojang team” : it would be a “new IP of the same type as Minecraft and named otherwise.”
And if you thought that Minecraft has no need for a sequel since the game is already infinite, which is very rightly answered by an Internet user on X, Notch approves 100%. “Totally agree. But I would love to do it. It would be a new license, but one where I would try to live up to the ‘fanstalgia’.”
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