At the launch of Minecraft Live last year, Mojang announced that Minecraft had surpassed 300 million sales! To celebrate this groundbreaking milestone, Mojang Studios has decided to launch a series of 15th anniversary celebrations in 2024.
(A simple code, 300 million sales, based on the world's 7.5 billion people minus China's 1.3 billion, one out of every 20 people in the world is playing Minecraft.) ）
So the question is, how will this year's 15th anniversary celebration be held, and what new content will be announced at that time? Although it has not been officially announced, we can make a simple prediction.
01
Restart the 15th anniversary of the large-scale offline event!
In 2019, Mojang released a big talk about the "Minecraft Festival", a big offline meetup event that will be held in 2020. It was originally planned to be held in Orlando, Florida, but the in-person event was later postponed to 2022 due to "masks".
In 2022, Mojang once again announced that there will be no Minecraft Festival in 2022, and all Minecraft offline events have changed from being in the year to being purely online today.
Many people may forget that Minecon and Minecraft Live are actually just one part of the offline Minecraft activities of Minecraft.
So when LadyAgnes announced that it would celebrate Minecraft's 15th anniversary in 2024, the first thing that came to mind was that Minecraft might restart a large-scale in-person event this year.
Tickets are usually sold for Minecraft offline events, and the significance of tickets is that after you can participate in the event, the "cape" that is distributed after the ticket is verified is also a rather old ritual tradition.
Examples include the MINECON 2011 participant cape with a creeper with a red background, the MINECON 2012 participant cape with a gold pickaxe on a blue background, the MINECON 2013 participant cape with a piston pattern on a green background, the MINECON 2015 participant cape with an iron golem avatar, and the MINECON 2016 participant cape with an enderman pattern.
That is to say, since 2011, it is a tradition to participate in offline activities to give cloaks, such as today's favorable people and conditions, in today's Minecraft sales reached 300 million, hold a grand offline event, and then give the participants a cloak, full of praise, why not?
02
跨时代的Minecraft基岩版！
Minecraft Bedrock Edition has always been a big part of the Minecraft community, but no matter how much Bedrock Edition is tossed, JAVA Edition always seems to be the mainstream of the community.
However, Bedrock Edition is Microsoft's own son. Recently, the Bedrock Edition has been in a lot of action. First, there was a naming change, Minecraft defaults to Bedrock Edition, and Minecraft: Java Edition refers specifically to JAVA, then the PC Bedrock Edition and Java Edition were bundled for sales, and there was a fairly long-term update plan to keep the JAVA and Bedrock Edition features unified, and this unification trend even included the JAVA Edition features moving closer to Bedrock Edition.
In addition, Minecraft Bedrock Edition, MOJANG's studio in the United States, is forming a "quality team" with the goal of testing and fixing various bugs and features of Bedrock Edition as much as possible.
In addition, the community recently broke the news that Bedrock Edition will support the import of custom mods and shaders. Minecraft's Bedrock Edition seems to have ambitions, and is trying to create a community similar to JAVA Edition with an incomparably rich and huge amount of resources? In the future, as the development tools of Bedrock Edition become more and more mature, is it possible that JAVA Edition mods can be easily ported to Bedrock Edition and support Bedrock Edition for multi-platform use?
Of course, this is just some personal thoughts, and whether Bedrock Edition will cross the ages depends on the future development of the community.
Finally, we have to look forward to Minecraft 1.21 has sublimated the update theme to 15 years of survival, it's time to test the update of our combat ability, so what will be the update theme of this 1.22 update?