Mojang's wildly successful building simulator, Minecraft, is approaching its 10th anniversary on consoles in 2022, and it seems unlikely that Minecraft 2 will ever happen given how successful the original is. There are a few key reasons why that is, but they all come back to the biggest reason, which is that Minecraft is built in a way where it doesn't really need a sequel. The game is immortal all on its own, able to be updated endlessly. There isn't really a reason to make a sequel when the original game is so timeless.

Minecraft first launched in May 2009, and almost immediately took the world by storm with its limitless creativity and completely hands-off relationship with the player. That popularity has only grown as the game gives more and more ways to create literally anything the player can imagine, with the franchise branching out into various spinoffs and even LEGO. Minecraft players have made real working roller coasters and even fully functioning computers with the updates made to the original game, and it continues to pique interest to this day.

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It has been over a decade since the original Minecraft launched, and yet there has been no talk of a sequel. Considering how much of a moneymaker this one game is on its own, making a sequel seems like easy money. However, there is one binding reason why there will not be a sequel to Minecraft: the game is simply built to not need a sequel.

Why Minecraft 2 Will Never Happen

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Some games, especially if those games are online, can simply go on forever. Minecraft has only become more of an online game since its launch, with an entire MMO - Hypixel's Skyblock - being built out of it. On top of that, the game is updating all the time, with the most recent update introducing a whole new biome, the Mangrove Swamp, where players can obtain Mangrove Swamp SeedsMinecraft's aesthetic and presentation is also fairly timeless; it continues to impress visually thanks to multiple graphics updates, and its core gameplay loop continues to appeal. In short, with all of these updates being released, and the potential for more graphical upgrades in the future, there's little merit in pursuing a sequel.

In this scenario, a sequel to Minecraft doesn't really serve a purpose. A sequel is meant to build on what came before, or reinvent it entirely if need be. However, there is nothing that a sequel to Minecraft can do that a couple of patches to the original game cannot, and it would be a misallocation of Mojang's resources if a sequel was put into development. It would maybe make sense if the original game waned in popularity, but Minecraft - one of 2022's most popular online games - is a gaming staple. At the time of writing, there's little that could threaten its appeal.

Not every game needs a sequel. Some games can work just fine on their own, the core concept being so flexible that it can just be added onto indefinitely. So there will probably never be a full sequel to the original Minecraft, not without a lot of things going incredibly wrong with the current version of the game. This is far from a problem, seeing as how Minecraft has been updated and changed so many times since 2009 that it's unrecognizable from that original version. From Redstone, to Skyblock, to new enemies like the terrifying Warden mob, Minecraft is doing just fine as it is, so there is no need to throw it out for the same game but with the number two at the end of the title.

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