Will There Ever Be A Minecraft 2?
Mojang's wildly successful building simulator, Minecraft, is approaching its 10th anniversary on consoles in 2022, and it seems unlikely that Minecraft 2 will ever happen given how successful the original is. There are a few key reasons why that is, but they all come back to the biggest reason, which is that Minecraft is built in a way where it doesn't really need a sequel. The game is immortal all on its own, able to be updated endlessly. There isn't really a reason to make a sequel when the original game is so timeless.
Minecraft first launched in May 2009, and almost immediately took the world by storm with its limitless creativity and completely hands-off relationship with the player. That popularity has only grown as the game gives more and more ways to create literally anything the player can imagine, with the franchise branching out into various spinoffs and even LEGO. Minecraft players have made real working roller coasters and even fully functioning computers with the updates made to the original game, and it continues to pique interest to this day.
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It has been over a decade since the original Minecraft launched, and yet there has been no talk of a sequel. Considering how much of a moneymaker this one game is on its own, making a sequel seems like easy money. However, there is one binding reason why there will not be a sequel to Minecraft: the game is simply built to not need a sequel.
Some games, especially if those games are online, can simply go on forever. Minecraft has only become more of an online game since its launch, with an entire MMO — Hypixel's Skyblock — being built out of it. On top of that, the game is updating all the time, with the most recent
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