Best Posts in Thread: Is minecraft going to die?

Minecraft has experienced insanely high longevity because of its simplistic nature which makes it so accessible while at the same time having a high skill ceiling to generate years worth of content. There’s simply a little something for everyone.

Whether that’s the seven years of technical Minecraft where people have decompiled the game line by line trying to understand every mechanic such as the sub chunk rule, RNG manipulation, chunk loading, etc. or the simplistic nature of minigames and the fun they provide. It can be a sandbox for artistic expression through building structures and maps. It can be the platform for software developers to learn modding and then allowing players to enjoy those mods for years to come.

Other games simply have always struggled to capture the magic of Minecraft because either they copy it directly and fail because there’s no actual improvements over the main game, or they focus on a certain aspect of Minecraft and lose the widespread appeal the game offers.

Hytale’s client is closed source, so no client side modding allowed. The Java based servers are open source though.

 

ya it won’t flop but minecraft is minecraft and ideas that deviate too far from the original purpose of the game simply won’t do that well

 

Looks like a modded Minecraft to me. Knowing that people do not really like change, I don’t imagine it will kill Minecraft. There are some things Minecraft does that is difficult to replicate for what the game is fun, but to be able to have all of those factors would just be copying the game.

in short, I think it will be far, far easier to be a bust than to replace Minecraft in any way. But it could attract players who had quit Minecraft out of boredom in the past