The father of Minecraft announces a successor. But how much should one trust that Notch will really deliver “Minecraft 2”?
Minecraft is still one of the most successful games of all time, still enjoying great popularity. But the father of Minecraft apparently has an idea for Minecraft 2 – or whatever name the spiritual successor will have. After all, he no longer owns the rights to the game.
What was announced? On the platform X, Notch, the original creator of Minecraft, conducted a survey at the turn of the year. He wanted to know what game the community wishes for next from him. The options were between “Minecraft 2” and a traditional roguelike game.
The choice was quite clear, as 79% of voters opted for “Make Minecraft 2, Boomer”.
It seems that the decision has been made that Notch wants to announce he is working on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 2. He does note that such spiritual successors often suffer a tragic fate – but if that’s what the fans want from him, it would be foolish not to take the money and fulfill this wish.
What would Minecraft 2 look like? So far, nobody can answer this – not even Notch. It is clear that Notch cannot call the game “Minecraft 2”. After all, the rights to Minecraft now belong to Mojang and thus to Microsoft. Notch sold the game many years ago, and it has been developed by another team since then.
He explains that he would design a spiritual successor in such a way as to avoid copyright infringement. After all, he has great respect for what the current team is doing with Minecraft.
Notch is seen as controversial: Even though Notch is the father of Minecraft, he is now considered quite controversial. Especially in recent years, he has often made critical remarks against the LGBTQIA+ community and has sharply criticized feminism.
He has referred to feminism as a “social disease,” insulted non-binary game developers, and called transgender people “confused”, accusing them of suffering from a “mental illness” – although he partially retracted the latter accusation.
These incidents have already led in the past to Notch being removed from the credits of original Minecraft.
Additionally, Notch’s X account currently resembles a rather strange fever dream. Because alongside the survey, there are also seemingly very unrelated tweets where it is not entirely clear what he means by them. Some excerpts from the last few days:
- “By the way, I mean all of this seriously.” (on X)
- “I have no idea how much money I have.” (on X)
- “I have a really small penis.” (on X)
How much trust one places in this kind of announcement is ultimately up to each individual. However, there are many fans who would like another game like Minecraft from the original “father” of the game. These hopes have now been clearly stirred. A Minecraft movie is also coming soon – one that even streamer Gronkh has worked on: The new trailer for the Minecraft movie is out, and everyone wants Gronkh as a voice actor – He has a surprise on Twitch
