Over 10 years after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for a cool 2.5 billion {{dollars}}, its creator, Markus “Notch” Persson, seems to be itching to create a successor to the sandbox sensation. He’s even eager to work with Microsoft when developing this mysterious sequel, though it seems like enchancment stays to be however to kick off.

All this began with a social media poll that Persson put forth on January 1, gauging curiosity in two gaming initiatives that he had an curiosity in rising. Definitely one in all them was dubbed a “typical roguelike (i.e., ADOM, Nethack, and so forth.) blended with a tile-based first-person dungeon crawler.” The next was merely a “religious successor issue to Minecraft.”

This put up, which at current sits with over 1.2 million views on X, has already acquired over 260,000 votes with three days remaining on the poll. Just about 80% of the votes have gone for the Minecraft enterprise to date.

Following the outcomes, Persson went on to talk about how he would take the route of developing this Minecraft successor. He known as making an official sequel “great illegal” attributable to Microsoft’s IP possession. Nonetheless, he acknowledged the following a few potential official partnership:

“If Microsoft, for some trigger, would wish me to do it, and we, in some way, agreed on the phrases, I would utterly be eager do to that. I would even give them a so much bigger share than I would actually really feel obliged to solely to make it clear I’m not doing it with unwell intent. Nevertheless I shall be a bitch to work with.”

A day later, Persson reaffirmed his plans to proceed with the poll’s chosen consequence, saying that he “principally launched Minecraft 2.”

“My intentions are to be clear and honest about it, saying that religious successors are usually kind of… you already know… washed up. Tragic,” says the latest put up regarding the enterprise. “The problems I’m fearing my subsequent sport goes to be anyway and try to push myself to steer clear of. So why not do the issue that people DO want and are eager to supply me, in some way, even MORE cash for.”

He as quickly as as soon as extra stated that this enterprise won’t “sneakily infringe” on Mojang and Microsoft’s work with Minecraft.

“I moreover intend to try this in a signifies that not at all tried to sneakily infringe on the unimaginable work the Mojang workforce is doing and that Microsoft is effectively doing the Microsoft shittification about,” Persson gives. “And I respect them for doing that. It’s their job. And they also, from what I understand, let the studio do points their means, which seems very affordable to me.”

What do you suppose will happen with this mysterious Minecraft religious successor enterprise from Notch? Will it see the sunshine of day, and if it does, will or not it’s succesful to copy Minecraft’s open nature and recognition?