Microsoft considers a sequel to Minecraft of little use

There doesn’t seem to be a sequel to Minecraft in the near future. Microsoft, which owns the rights to Minecraft, says it doesn’t see the point. The developer believes that offering free updates is enough.

Helen Chiang, head of Minecraft at Microsoft, tells Business Insider Australia that she is not keen on a sequel because it would cause division within the community. “That’s why the updates to Minecraft are free. We don’t want to require players to move from Minecraft 1 to Minecraft 2. We want players to just enjoy Minecraft. There are ways of expanding that better suit the game than releasing new iterations.” , as with other franchises.”

Minecraft is one of the best-selling games ever. 150 million copies have been sold and there are almost 100 million active players every month. In 2014, Microsoft bought the rights to Minecraft from Mojang for $2.5 billion. Since then, two spin-off games have been released, Minecraft: Story Mode and Minecraft: Education Edition. Both games were developed in collaboration with Mojang. In the course of 2019, Minecraft: Dungeons will be released, a top-down dungeon crawler for four players.