ibxtoycat – Mojang Is Working On A NEW Minecraft Game

Hello I’m ABX toat and Mojang have accidentally just confirmed that they are working on a new Minecraft spin-off game how did this happen well Minecraft dungeons was officially discontinued yesterday which means they will no longer be working on updates for it although they’re very proud of what they

Achieved they also had to clarify that all of the people who worked on Dungeons and its updates are not being fired but instead will be working on quote new experiences in the Minecraft Universe and will be following the types of games they’re passionate about just as they did with dungeons this is incredibly

Exciting and raises the question of what game are Minecraft working on next we actually have word from the producer about that but let’s dip into it in today’s video by the way consider subscribing if you want to see the latest Minecraft news and indeed My Endless UHC episode 2 will be streamed

Live today by the way but with that said let’s go into this brand new little trailer Minecraft dungeons put out to celebrate a big milestone did they really just confirm that Minecraft dungeons had 25 million players yes they did that is more than one in 10 Minecraft players who at some

Point picked up Minecraft dungeons insane given the length that Minecraft’s been going on and the difference between it and dungeons but yeah in this exact same kind of you know like appreciative cinematic they do say to all of you who made our adventure possible thank you

See you in the dungeons because this fun trailer which looks like a celebration is actually their announcement that there will be no more updates and that 1.17 was the last in other words just like the 3DS console edition and Minecraft Earth Minecraft dungeons has officially been discontinued this is

Their biggest and most successful spin-off to date and the fact that it’s discontinued anyway or at least has an end date is a reminder that Minecraft the base game will be updated for a very long time but they’re much more willing to drop the axe on spin-offs and so to

See what they’re doing for their next spin-off I think it’s important to look at what they’ve done in the past and how they’ve been treated so we can see what’s going on with the future future so let’s start with the first Minecraft story mode was actually developed exclusively by Telltale Games and was

Very successful so successful it’s on Netflix in a lot of places however this was made by a studio which then stopped being so successful and when they shut down they took Minecraft story mode with them which was a big problem for Mojang because this was very successful I think

From the outside in no one would have been able to tell you that a cinematic narrative driven game like Minecraft story mode would have ever been successful because Minecraft is famous for being the opposite of those things but it told them that Minecraft as a

Brand sold and so they wanted to work on a second spin-off and in May of 2019 they announced Minecraft Earth which was being developed in house for Android iOS and iPad OS this is something they were going to release to allow people to have an augmented reality experience on the

Level of Pokémon go however despite a much closer integration to Minecraft Bedrock Edition to be precise and the pandemic which led to Pokémon go having huge Heights Minecraft Earth never really caught on and so they made the tricky decision to shut it down on on the 30th of junee

2021 this was something they could afford to do because earlier that year Minecraft dungeons released you won’t be surprised to learn that Minecraft dungeons is a dungeon crer game in the style of Diablo and you also won’t be surprised to learn that it was very popular upon launch being a

Very successful Minecraft spin-off and indeed being loved by many with the only main criticism being length this is something that Minecraft was happy to sell you this solution to and every you know game developer would love for people to want their DLC and so they committed to making not just one pack

But two the first was Jungle awakens where after the main game completes there are some old fragments that make their way into the jungle and there’s a big Abomination then creeping winter was set on an island that was eternally winter and these two packs were so successful they decided to launch more

With howling Peaks taking you to a mountain the Flames of the never taking you to you can guess it the never the hidden depths took you into the deepest of the ocean and the echoing void took you to the end for the most insane DLC

Because the half part of the Ender was a thing inside of this what the heck is this mob I really do not know or understand but the point was utilizing Minecraft and the main game for the spin-offs is something that proved to be very successful here something which

They Ed to sell a lot of DLCs not just in the case of Minecraft dungs with its famous seven but Minecraft story mode was episodic and had a lot of individual episodes all of which could be purchased individually and the same is likely in the plan for Minecraft Legends the final

Spin-off game which has released so far this launched earli at the year actually and was very popular pre-release but then kind of fizzled out the official numbers of how many people are playing it are not out there however every single indicator that we can see as the internet is that it’s not doing

Amazingly great but it could have millions of sales and it could have millions of regular players I would just very highly doubt that and so uh this raises the question of if they’ve had a kind of onoff onoff success pattern will the next Minecraft game be a successful

Spin-off and what exactly will it be themed with well before we speculate too much it’s important to dive into the exact wording of what Mojang said because they said every Journey has an end as 1.17 was Minecraft dungeons final update our team has moved onto new projects that continue to explore

Experiences in the Minecraft Universe this is some weird wording but it’s something they are committing to because they say this means there are no new features or content updates planned for the game Minecraft dungeons we do intend to continue bringing new experiences to the Minecraft Universe and give our team

The freedom to keep exploring the types of games they pass about just as they did with dungeons a few Minecraft staff have clarified before that Minecraft dungeons was just a passion project lots of people liked Dungeon Crawlers and figured why not bring this to Minecraft and so maybe they’ll do the same with

Another set of games that they’re passionate about this is something that is kind of backed up because uh Mark IR is a person you might know as formerly being the head of support actually ended up being the producer for Minecraft dungeons and he specifically retweets this quoting the exact thing that they

Say in the article two times in the same way but he says our team has now moved on to new projects that continue to explore experiences in the Minecraft Universe and then indeed his own biote says that he’s not a producer on Minecraft dungeons anymore instead he’s

A producer working on fun things at Mojang meaning we do know for sure they’re working on a new experience in the Minecraft Universe in other words a Minecraft game because they double down on that it’s going to be something that is fun but what exactly is that I like

To be honest when we’re talking about speculation in these videos because those are all of the facts so far but from here you have to start reading between the lines and what Mojang says and so what exactly is that let’s quickly jump into the speculation Zone working out what Minecraft is going

To release next is always a little bit of a struggle but there is one thing we can say almost for certain and that is they’re probably not going to be retreading ground from any of their four previous spin-offs this is because if they really wanted to they could just

Release a Minecraft dungeons 2 or a Minecraft dungeons piece of DLC but as they specifically clarify they will be not releasing any more DLC meaning the mathematics of it just doesn’t make sense and if they were making Minecraft dungeons 2 they wouldn’t just be vague and say new experiences in the Minecraft

Universe but instead hint at something much bigger you’d want to keep the Minecraft dungeons hype going rather than kind of sunsetting that chapter of the game and so it’s not Minecraft dungeons or Legends or story mode 2 and very likely isn’t Minecraft Earth 2 which only means that we can rule out

Four genres and probably also rule out Minecraft itself because Minecraft 2 isn’t happening and so what exactly is the spin-off going to be I think the easy options that used to be true in in the late ’90s early 2000s when I was playing a lot of PlayStation 1 is every

Single game would get a spin-off in the form of a racing game or a fighting game I’ve played so many of these whether it’s the Muppets race Mania or Digimon the racing game or or Digimon battle or even Sonic Fighters and Sonic are uh basically every single game realized

They could have a fairly cheap uh spin-off in this shamra and so what is the current day equivalent of that well spin-offs don’t do massively successful when you just try to lazily cash in an IP I think that is something everyone knows but the modern day version of that

Seemed to be a firstperson shooter game in the maybe like 5 years ago people realizing that Call of Duty could release a new game every year and thinking they needed to be part of fit which is why there are so many uh firstperson shooter games that litter uh

The scene even the original Last of Us which is a story driven game had to come with a weird multiplayer shooter just so they could get green lit by the studio and so that is what you would say maybe 5 to 10 years ago but nowadays the

Modern version of that is a battle royale every everyone looks at fortnite or they look at Apex Legends or even pubg and they say wow people are so engaged by these so that is the easy just if they were going to make something for purely money reasons that

Is what they would make and so would there be a Minecraft Battle Royale I would love this very unironically right I think this would be a great idea and I think there are only two main reasons against it one is that if it flops it would probably damage Minecraft more

Broadly if Minecraft looks like they’re trying to compete with fortnite and they do a bad job that’s worse than just not trying to to compete at all and the other reason is that Minecraft kind of already allows for these sorts of game modes although Minecraft dungeons is something you could theoretically do in

Minecraft they very much had a very different style of gameplay just using the same Minecraft area and Minecraft battle Roy exist in fact the original Battle Royale takes you to this place right here yeah you’ll remember this right this is literally the OG version of it and so they’ve not only released

This in the form that everyone has played it on servers and it’s one of the most popular game modes on YouTube but also there is literally battle mini game developed by 4J Studios they have a great base that they could have turned into making this a thing that’s out

There and if they wanted to make the spin-off it would work better inside of Minecraft than out in my opinion and so no matter how great it would be I think it’s worth saying no probably not a Minecraft Battle Royale but it would be pretty cool right and I also think

Therefore that you can assume that they’re not just going to jump into something that looks like a money gra but instead they want to be like we are working on something we’re passionate about just in the Minecraft Universe they’re looking for another successful title and so this raises the question of

What exactly could it be well interestingly enough one of the you know working out what every Minecraft dungeons team member is passionate about is very very hard what are they pitching internally is something you can’t have an idea of unless you are one of them however interestingly the producer

Working on Minecraft dungeons and now fun things specifically says that they like magic the Gathering in fact so much they have a dedicated Twitter account for it magic the Gathering is a collectible card game it exists in real life which is how most people think about it but there are many Magic the

Gathering card games out there and in fact it’s not the only place that you can find collectible card games because half stone is another great example of it developed by blizzard blizzard are most famous for making the World of Warcraft game but they also make halfth stone which has the colon Heroes of

Warcraft a spin-off of World of Warcraft a spin-off of World of Warcraft by the way which is so successful it basically functions as its own game I have never really played World of Warcraft but I have so many hundreds of hours in half Stone and so I imagine there are a lot

Of people on the the Minecraft team especially if you know so many of them and the producer are so fanatical that have played collectible card games like that and would think it is a great idea this is 100% speculation but I think the most likely individual choice just based

On the small information we have is that it’s not going to be a game like Minecraft has already done it can’t be a game that exists in a whole bunch of genres because of the no gun rules in Minecraft and so they are very limited in what they realistically can do in a

New genre and I think that a collectible card game is a good idea not just because of this one thing here not just because there’s already very successful card game spin-offs of major franchises it’s not just by the way this there’s also Digimon the card game I’m sorry I

Can’t resist bringing up Digimon references but there’s also the gwent card game and many other franchises which have expand it into this but most crucially of all we already know that Mojang are so passionate about making collectible card games that they’re 100% willing to do so that sounds like a bold

Claim from the outside and you might be asking where’s your proof toy cat there’s no way you can prove such a ridiculous thing but actually I can because Scrolls nowadays known as cool as Bane is a strategy digital collectible card game developed by Mojang and this was developed way back

In the Prem Microsoft days but there are lots of people at Mojang who wanted to make a card game and despite the uh kind of messy development of the game and despite the fact that they had a big Feud with be beesa because obviously the Elder Scrolls is a series that exists it

Is a card game that is generally accepted to actually be very good but just didn’t get the marketing that it needed to really succeed I love the fact that it has this kind of grid and takes advantage of being a video game versus a real life card game and so if there

Already is a collectible card game that Mojang people are sad about because it stopped being updated in 2019 and if there’s a whole team of people that are going to work on something they’re passionate about to bring new experiences into the Minecraft Universe and if they’ve already made a game that

Failed maybe in part because of the lack of Minecraft branding maybe a Minecraft card game is the most likely option obviously a lot of YouTubers will get really convinced by their own convictions and will say yeah this was 100% what’s happening I do think that we might be surprised and I’m looking

Forward to seeing if we learn anything about this at Minecraft live this is happening in just a short couple of weeks there’s a lot of things that will be announced maybe they can have a small teaser at what is going on with Minecraft dungeons because although Minecraft dungeons only officially

Discontinued uh you know like this week with this uh brand new article right here uh you’ll note that the last DLC for Minecraft dungeons with this weird heart of the end and I don’t even know what’s going on with it actually launched a while back now the echoing

Void was a piece of DLC that launched all the way back in July of 2021 and although there have been other updates to the game it hasn’t required a full team since then and so now might be the right sort of time to announce it or maybe they prefer to keep working on

Minecraft Legends and trying to build that up as a game it’s hard to be sure all I can say is that I’m excited for whatever is it is announced because honestly even if a Minecraft game flops of we’ve seen before it still can be very fun and as long as they actually do

Put quality first which they can generally do in these cases uh it’s something which is very exciting to see anyway I hope you all enjoy this video I hope you found it interesting and I hope you check out my endless UHC I think it’s such a clever pun because there’s

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