So as of making this video minecraft is having a major resurgence of popularity being everywhere across the internet many youtubers and streamers propelling the game to a new height so it never went to before but whilst there’d been a ton of positives for minecraft fans to be happy about in 2021 There has been one massive negative being the shutdown of minecraft earth a spin-off ar mobile game released back in late 2019 that revolved around the growl side formula she went to games like pokemon go utilized but instead would involve collecting resources and items from minecraft to build structures player friends and Complete different adventure missions although the concept of minecraft earth seems unique and intriguing the game was unfortunately flawed from the beginning for many reasons specifically being affected by the global pandemic as he couldn’t go outside which is one of the biggest parts of the game eventually leading to mojang pulling the Plug on the game with it set to be shut down on june 30th so what factors caused minecraft earth to fail and what reasons led to the game shutdown despite the pandemic having a massive effect on the game there’s also a lot of other reasons which led to the game’s Demise which of course i’ll cover in this video anyway with that being said let’s look at the reasons why minecraft earth failed now the failure of minecraft earth i think was because of four main reasons with one i already mentioned briefly at the beginning of the video Kicking things off the first reason why minecraft earth is shutting down is obviously because of the current global pandemic which has stopped us from being able to go outside as much and because of minecraft is pretty much based around going outside this was a major problem for the game as You couldn’t really play it and as we all know minecraft itself majorly revolves around multiplayer with minecraft earth having multiplayer experiences too specifically the adventures he could do with friends and of course the global pandemic stopped that and many other aspects of the game from being able to work And with the whole pandemic beginning shortly after the launch of minecraft earth it was really a massive blow to the game and i think it was the most significant reason for the game’s demise the second reason would be how it isn’t really compatible or optimized for most devices as minecraft earth revolves around Augmented reality which requires newer more powerful phones to work it means that microsoft couldn’t really run on most unsupported ar devices so if you had a less powerful or weaker phone minecraft earth wouldn’t really run well on them especially with the building plate and most other ar elements if slowdowns lag And even crashes which i’ve experienced myself when i first played the game one of my older phones but if you had a powerful device which supports minecraft earth’s ar elements the game would pretty much run flawlessly which shows that if mojang did a bit more optimization to make the game work Well on more devices the game would have been more accessible for most people and of course would have made it a lot more popular back when it first came out the third reason i think would be that it just wasn’t really popular amongst people never really being covered by many Twitch streamers and youtubers many people did call minecraft earth at launch the next big pokemon go as it was based around one of the most popular video games of all time which of course was the same in pokemon go’s case as that revolved around pokemon but the game i think was released well Past the peak of go outside game’s popularity in general which i think led many people not to be interested in it when it first came out as the game was so similar to pokemon go and people who played the game wouldn’t have really been interested too much in minecraft earth As well as the game being a lot more i guess you could say complex resource heavy and less widely available and other ar go outside games it was competing with like i mentioned before and thus minecraft earth acquired true ar unlike most other go outside games Which made it a lot more challenging for most people’s phones to run which is why i think it didn’t really reach the heights pokemon go did even if the game released a year or two before the pandemic i still think this would have been a really big issue Moving on to reason number four i think it would have been how minecraft earth differs from maine minecraft minecraft itself has two main modes creative and survival with creative allowing you to pretty much build or do anything you want with the aim of survival being that you well Survive and beat the game minecraft earth on the other hand didn’t really have a true game mode like core minecraft it had remixed elements of both game modes like with the health system and adventure missions from survival most of the time though the building experience on the build plate didn’t Really feel like survival building it felt like a remixed blend of both building systems from each game mode and because the game was mainly based around survival coupled with lag and ar issues on some devices it made the building experience quite confusing and frustrating for most new players Which is why i think it was one of the game’s major flaws this though definitely isn’t as significant as the other issues now of all that being said why did minecraft earth fail but from what i’ve mentioned in this video this can all be linked back to an unfortunate time of release As the game came out just before the current pandemic began completely ruining the game’s chances of succeeding as it required you to go outside when the pandemic couldn’t allow us to do that pretty much turning many people away from the game despite mojang’s efforts to make it playable Indoors the fact that the minecraft resurgence was also happening during 2019 2020 and even 2021 mojang of course decided to mainly focus that team’s resources on developing minecraft itself as we could see with the upcoming caves and cliffs update instead of focusing on minecraft earth which wasn’t really becoming popular as mojang anticipated Which of course is why moshak didn’t really focus too much on earth and decided to move away from it as it doesn’t make sense to focus on something which isn’t succeeding when you could focus on something which is succeeding just definitely what i think happened in this case From my perspective it is really unfortunate how minecraft earth met its demise as it really did have a lot of potential and was a really great and fun game to play with a capable device of course although the game wasn’t really executed as well as mojang wanted it to be during the pandemic I guess this is just a very unfortunate thing to happen for mojang originally starting off subversion for minecraft for microsoft solo lens to unique mobile ar game minecraft thoroughly deserves its place in minecraft history with the 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Minecraft Earth was released back in late 2019 and was a Minecraft spin-off based around AR and going outside to compete with games like Pokémon Go, featuring many items, resources and more from the Minecraft Universe. But the game unfortunately only lasted just over a year before being discontinued by Mojang, even during Minecraft’s resurgence.
In this video, I’ll try my best to find out what reasons contributed to the game’s discontinuation and most importantly, why I think Minecraft Earth is shutting down.
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