Posted on 09/15/2014 7:59:44 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
Microsoft Corp. plans to spend $2.5 billion to buy what it called the most popular online game on Xbox, the building adventure title "Minecraft."
“Minecraft is more than a great game franchise – it is an open world platform, driven by a vibrant community we care deeply about, and rich with new opportunities for that community and for Microsoft," Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, said in a statement Monday.
The purchase of the game maker Stockholm, Sweden-based Mojang is expected to close late this year. Compared with Microsoft's blockbuster "Halo" franchise, "Minecraft" should give the company a younger audience to which it could introduce other Microsoft products and services, analysts said. It also establishes another Microsoft-branded product on competing operating systems, which is among the chief goals for Nadella.
Addressing one of the main concerns of Minecraft players responding to rumors of a deal, Microsoft said it plans to continue making Minecraft available across devices, including Windows computers, Xbox, Apple's iOS, Google's Android and Sony PlayStation.
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If you want to have a weird experience in minecraft, download the "web display" mod and once you get it all set up (and good luck with that!), watch a Netflix zombie movie on the side of your house, in minecraft.
U make that? nice!
>>> If I were better at remembering how to use the crafting table and what collected items make what object it might be more interesting.
This is very true.
Most games have a set path you are supposed to follow in order to “win” the game. Minecraft on the otherhand leaves this to the player. You can pretty much play it any way you like. There is an objective (killing the dragon), as well as other game bosses now, but for the most part you establish your own challenges.
My oldest son is in college working on an engineering degree. First thing one of his instructors did was refer minecraft as an excellent sandbox for electrical circuitry.
Mastering redstone wiring in the game is a real hoot.
Electrical flow can be interrupted at various points in the modern domestic residence.
It does get interupted. When the battery on their tablet runs out they grap my tablet and run the battery out on that too.
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