We've previewed Minecraft Earth a lot over the past year, and the potential was obvious. Minecraft Earth combined with Pokemon Go should be an easy win, right?. In familiar Microsoft fashion, they managed to screw it up.
Oh Minecraft Earth, we hardly knew ye. Microsoft's promising Minecraft x Pokemon Go augmented reality mash-up seemed like an obvious win for the company. Combining one of the largest video game franchises of all time with elements of one of the most successful mobile phone games of all time should have been an easy victory, but in familiar Microsoft fashion, a greedy monetization scheme not only betrays the game's core fans, it completely misses the point of what Minecraft is. It makes me wonder if the people who made this game are actually familiar with Minecraft's audience and gameplay.
This is the unfiltered truth about Minecraft Earth, Microsoft's biggest missed opportunity in years.
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