Minecraft essay

Minecraft was made in may 17th 2009 by an innovative indie developer called 'Marcus Persson' otherwise known as 'Notch', on the release date, Minecraft was sold at £10 exclusively on PC which later on in the development in 2011 the price would be raised to £18 which was due to microsoft promoting the game on the xbox 360 which made the first step into cross platform play and providing minecraft new fans because xbox 360 was one of the biggest consoles of 2011.

Minecraft, in essence, was a tool to be used to let your imagination to come to life. With it's blocky nature that is similar to lego, it inticed the younger age groups to come up with new ideas and become more imaginative, it also helped bring people together with how inclusive it is. Minecraft is considered a sandbox, free roaming game in which building is the main intention and surviving is secondary with mechanics such as hunger and monsters otherwise known as mobs that come out within the night time and in caves. However this is only secondary, because the primary selling point of the game was to build, and there was no limits to what you could build, literally the imagination was the only limit. This is a part of what made minecraft a huge hit among the youth, with over 100 million copies sold by 2017 and the exact figure in 2019 being 122 million copies sold.

Orginally, minecraft was just a simple game of building and normal survivng no hunger system or anything complex just plain old simple build and survive. this was partly due to the low work force that Marcus Persson had with only 3 people actually working on the game in 2009, this made it hard to do more complex things, however this turned out good for Marcus for it made fans more intrigued by the game because updates came weekly and sometimes monthly which had players looking forward to something new which caused word of mouth to go around about minecrafts updates, one of the big updates included redstone, which was a massive hit because it allowed people to create mechanical thigns like railways, during the time of this update player numbers went up by 10,000 active accounts, in 2013 when the update was due to release.

In 2010, Marcus created the company Mojang which was a development company that made games, but mainly focused on the minecraft aspect of their works. Also by adding a company to their game they could now start hiring people in a company that was named therefore more people would apply to work with Mojang so that updates could be provided faster and that the growing player base of minecraft was sated within weeks of completing an updates new content. By making this company it also introduced rivals in the same buisness trying to buy them out, however Marcus was resilient to these offers as he believed in the games development and wanted the game to flourish under his tutorial. Marcus also had a very good relationship with the players as he often responded to what they were asking or helpful ideas that might have come into updates into the future, this played a big role into the success of minecraft as well because Marcus' charisma and helpfulness was felt in the player-base which made people feel as if they were a part of the game, therefore they stayed for him and the updates that were released, this also caused people to talk about him way more which would entice people to buy minecraft.

Marcus Persson worked alongside his fellow developers at Mojang for 4 years as they carried on to pump out updates and keep players happy with what they were doing with the game, however on 2014, Marcus didn't have the same drive as he once did in 2009 and he also gained a some mental health issues which killed his drive to provide the content he once did with the same amount of effort and enthusiasm. Therefore, Marcus wanted the game to live so he accepted an offer that microsoft had offered which was a total of 2.5 billion USD to keep the game alive and keep updating it to keep fans happy and playing. This also gave Microsoft the tools to obtain the game for themselves and claim ownership of the game in it's entirety, however Microsoft let Mojang developers to carry on working on the game without Marcus, who had resigned and stepped down from Mojang to live his life. Mojang are still the main developers of the game for they know what the core of minecraft revolves around, but there are now other developers provided by Microsoft that also work on a different side of minecraft such as texture packs and skins that player can buy for £4.99 each, they also help out with new UI interfaces regarding Xbox one intergrating with ps4 because minecraft had just became cross platform which meant that xbox player could play with ps4 players.