Wait, What Happened to Minecraft EARTH?

Minecraft Earth was once a promising AR game, called the next big thing. With millions of users playing upon launch, big youtubers promoting it and with a unique premise, how did minecraft earth fail so badly?

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0:00 – Intro
0:59 – What Was Minecraft Earth?
4:40 – What Went Wrong?
8:01 – The End of Minecraft Earth.

Official Minecraft Earth Footage

Music Used:
1. Scott Buckley - Discovery
2. Hollow Knight OST - Greenpath
3. Scott Buckley - Signal to Noise

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[TheMisterEpic]

I'm kind of upset I never got to play it at least once, but oh well. Make sure to subscribe!

[thewordsmith]

Minecraft earth was so cool when it first came out, it just got stale rather quickly. Had they put more time into it, it might’ve done well. But at the same time, they were busy adding bees to Minecraft, so it makes sense.

[thisisbeagle]

it's worth mentioning for Pokemon GO- when the pandemic hit, they offered free "Remote Raid Passes" and other items, allowing you to interact with raids from any position- greatly reducing the need to leave the house. They also sold similar items in their shop, meaning they made a LOT of money from people trying to quarantine

[rcoderdev]

Quite odd to see Grian & Mumbo's dual video about Minecraft Earth, knowing that months later the game shut down. It's better to have a good archive of it stored in one of the top Minecraft content creators

[berrycade]

Imagine how cool it would be if you could just create and see public builds that anyone could admire while walking down the street. It might’ve needed some moderation but that would’ve been a game changer.

[AesirGodzTheScalieHater]

To me it was incredibly promising and had interesting concept. I think it's the better Minecraft game to Dungeons because of how it translates the freedom and creativity that exists in the idea of Minecraft instead of a linear progression story roguelike system.

Edit: Not gonna lie, the fact that you couldn't actually descend into the adventure levels REALLY bugged me lmao, they really couldn't just make them ground level

[virtualturtle]

I hope one day when AR has advanced (and AR glasses become more consumer friendly) that we can see some sort of revival of Minecraft Earth. I really think that the AR aspect of it was cool and had great potential

[wasquash]

i miss minecraft earth. it very clearly had so many cool ideas and love and care put into it. they should give it another try and relaunch.

[memearella]

oh man i remember minecraft earth, i still have the app on my phone, a year and a half after it shut down, i still just remember playing it by myself while at home, doing the little adventures and just having fun, was a nice calm time. i hope they bring it back, even tho theres almost a 100% chance they wont, it was very fun while it lasted

[Daniel]

Minecraft earth was so cool at first when it first came out, then it just got boring quickly. There could have been more with it however didn't really happen, and I never got to play it but heard about it. Thanks for making this video.

[Yernemm]

I played it for a bit but it always felt incredibly grindy, like it just wanted you to buy the microtransactions to do anything. I wanted to build stuff but I was stuck with a tiny build plate unless I was gonna pay for a bigger one. It felt like it had the potential to be good, but was just never finished and got too greedy.

[AWS]

It was a cool idea, and I remember being really excited for it. It is unfortunate that it got shut down, even though I was excited I didn't actually play it too much..
I do hope they revisit it sometime, it would be cool to see it get revived. Though, I really don't see that happening.

[nandtandmnandtandm]

I actually really liked Minecraft Earth, and even signed up for the early access beta. I was really sad when they finally announced it would be shutting down. It felt like it had so much untapped potential.

[linomatheus]

you can still play this game thanks to the Project Earth team! It's a bit messy and buggy, but it works and is having progress in the development

[FordFx]

My daughter and I had this, but she passed away in June of 2019 prior to that we had several builds. But I took one of our builds out to her grave site, I placed it next to her and played Minecraft with her one last time

[rubberduck]

I absolutely loved this game, I played almost from its the release date in Australia. The whole concept was awesome, and the actual gameplay improved update to update. Great video.

[miskotakelis]

Bro, it's so disappointing that the game had shut down, me and my brother were building thing all the time and we've had amazing time. Now, seeing all the work of ours be deleted, is like a punch to the gut😓. Also, the pandemic didn't really change much. Like we were still going outside time to time, just not with other people, so the tappables could still be easily collected. The thing is that PEOPLE DIDN'T SEE OTHER BUILDS ANYWAY so the pandemic didn't really change anything when you thing about it for a moment. *Sorry for typos if I made any*

[houbsmars]

Genuinely played it at every opportunity. The game was awesome and introduced a fresh perspective to Minecraft while also pushing AR technology even further ahead. Hope to see it back someday.

[mazda]

I remember thinking that Minecraft Earth was one of the coolest things ever when they first announced it, only to never see or hear from it ever again. Here's hoping that they add all of those mob variants into the main game sometime though, as they actually look really cool and I'd hate for those neat designs to go to waste.

[garlic]

I remember having Minecraft Earth before actually having Minecraft Java, It was so fun exploring different custom-made places during the pandemic. I was pretty sad when they released the message revealing it was going to be shut down... but oh well.