Minecraft boss claims that a sequel to the original game doesn’t “make sense” right now, as Mojang is striving to “keep our community together” using free and bigger and bigger updates to the title.
According to Helen Chiang, Microsoft isn’t exploring the possibility of a Minecraft 2 at this moment, and that, instead, makes a lot of sense if you consider it still has 91 million players each month (Fortnite ‘only’ has 78.3 million monthly users).
“I really don’t think that makes sense for Minecraft, given the community. It’s something that always fractures the community,” Chiang told Business Insider in a recent interview.
“We’re trying to keep our community together. That’s why our updates are free. We don’t want to ask [players] to move from Minecraft 1 to Minecraft 2. We want them to just enjoy Minecraft,” she explained.
“And there are other ways that we can expand that are more meaningful and authentic to what we want to be, rather than just releasing another iteration in the way that most other franchises do.”
Mojang has recently announced Minecraft: Dungeons, a brand new spin-off to the game which is releasing in 2019 for PC and is introducing dungeon crawling experiences, with new story and enemies, to the franchise.
