Minecraft Research

In May of 2009, the Swedish developer began to create the sandbox game where gamers are free to extract raw materials, craft tools, items, build infrastructure, explore or do whatever they want. The endless worlds contains a variety of biomes from jungles, deserts, snow and more. Players can create nearly any structure imaginable due to the huge variety of blocks. Initially there were 2 game modes, creative and survival, but recently other modes such as Adventure, Spectator, Multiplayer and Story Mode have been added. It was officially released on the 18th of November 2011 by Mojang Studios.

Mojang did not spend any money on advertising but instead relied on magazines like Penny Arcade and gamers to spread the game.

The beta version of the game had been released on January in 2011 and had over 1 million purchases in the first month and by April $33 million of revenue had been made. 

Before the game was officially released, 4 million copies had been bought and 16 million users had registered.

Minecraft Pocket Edition was released on Sony Xperia Smartphones and not long after was released on Android and iOS.

Minecraft was released on Xbox 360 in 2012. 

In 2013 Minecraft Pi was released for educational purposes to novice programmers.

In May of 2017 Minecraft was released for Nintendo switch and it could be bought for the Nintendo 3DS in September of 2017.

Minecraft was initially released on disk from game stores but it is now mainly bought online where it is easier. The amount of Minecraft players is still increasing.

Minecraft has been a huge success with over 238 million copies being sold, making over $415 million which makes it the 2nd best selling video game of all time.

Timeline

17th October 2019 - Minecraft earth, a spin off to Minecraft, is released and free to play on Android and iOS.

26th May 2020 - Minecraft Dungeons, a spin off to Minecraft, is released to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows and Nintendo Switch.

30th June 2021 - Minecraft Earth shuts down because COVID 19 has made it impossible to keep free.

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