Minecraft creator "Notch" announces successor to the million-seller
In several posts on X, Markus "Notch" Persson has announced the development of a game. He himself doubts whether it will ever be finished.
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In the first few days of the still young year 2025, Markus Persson once again caused a stir on the X platform. One of the longer posts begins with the sentence "Basically, I announced Minecraft 2". From other posts, it is clear that the Swede is back in the mood for game development after a long creative break. He writes of a "spiritual successor to Minecraft".
However, as he knows that he has often failed, Persson says, it is by no means certain that the new game will ever be released. However, he is working on it "passionately". The Minecraft creator also emphasizes in another post that he is "100% serious" about all of this. This comment is necessary because in recent years, the man has attracted attention on X and previously on Twitter mainly through rather harmless trolling about misogyny and the spreading of tangible conspiracy ideologies such as QAnon.
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And it is not yet clear that his new game could have anything to do with the best-selling game of all time, Minecraft. According to Persson, his previous project was a roguelike title. However, completing this, and not a fictional "Minecraft 2", was rejected in a survey on X. According to Persson, he has around 3.6 million followers on the platform.
300 million games sold in 14 years
The Swede, better known in the large Minecraft community under his handle "Notch", developed the game almost single-handedly in 2009 and raised enough money to continue developing it with an early access model that was unusual at the time. When almost 10 million people were playing Minecraft in 2011, Notch withdrew from the day-to-day business and finally sold his studio "Mojang" to Microsoft – for 2.5 billion US dollars in 2014. After that, Notch made a name for himself mainly through his inglorious Twitter activities, so Microsoft explicitly did not invite him to the 10-year anniversary party for Minecraft. None of this affected the game: in 2023, Minecraft became the first title ever to reach the 300-unit sales mark.
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