Minecraft First Essay

Minecraft is an open sandbox video game where players can build and do whatever they want to do, this is one of the things that make the game such a success. The way the players can do what they want in the game makes the game not like any other game, the huge unlimited world and possibility's make the game unique and unlike any other game. Mojang has done this to make the game popular and stand our from any other game on the market, this is why it sells the amount it sells (154 million). This is a massively popular game and the main reason is that the map has unlimited potential which means it never ends.

Minecraft also makes money through selling things like texture packs and skins that players can buy and download which changes their game or makes different  things in the game look different. Skins in the game make the player look different for example there are skins for around 5 pounds and they change the in game character to an olden victorian man. This doesn't change the game at all but it makes other people in the online mode see you diffrent, this is only to show off to your friends and not to change the game play at all.

A test video of Minecraft was released on the 13th of May 2009 to see how people would react to a game that is as ambitious as this and obviously the response of this video was very positive because as mentioned before no other game had tried something like this before, when the game was released instead of releasing the game with everything that it has to offer and rushing it, Notch made it so that he would regularly update the game with new game modes so that the players of the game would not get bored of the game, this was also a massive success because it meant people would constantly come back to the game to investigate the new features that have been placed in the game. Another way that Notch and later on Microsoft would make more money for Minecraft they would have the optional cosmetic skins and texture packs that would make the players character look different and also the background of the game so the objects in the game would look very different, as mentioned they are cosmetic meaning that they give the player no advantage in the game apart from that the world looks different so that it is fair for the players who don't want to spend anymore money on the game. Especially when the game was released on consoles like Xbox One and PS4 in 2011 the game was marketed and advertised very frequently so that it could convince new players to buy it or people who bought it on the PC to buy again because they might have friends who play on Xbox instead of PC and obviously the graphics upgrade so that people could experience it with better graphics.