Minecraft is one of the most popular RPG (Role Playing Game) genre games with more than 480 million active users as of November 2019. As developed in 2009, this game can be called one of the oldest games having the craze even till now and certainly in the coming time too. Old players get nostalgia after playing Minecraft today. Guess how beautiful the game is...
But there is a piece of information claiming (making us believe) that Mojang and Microsoft are going to shut down Minecraft due to it's too old for now. Let's know about it...
Is Minecraft Shutting Down?
From which parallel world did the Mojang said that they are gonna shut down the game?
Or
From where did you got the stupid hoax that says Microsoft will remove the servers from Minecraft till the December of 2020?
A site called Channel 45 NEWS cannot decide if the game is shutting down or not because that's a prank site to scare off your friend on social media.
So relax, I know you had put your money to buy Minecraft and were scared whether you would get the refund from Mojang if they were to shut down the game. No, they won't shut down Minecraft from any platform. Moreover, Microsoft and Mojang are making tons of money from Minecraft and they will never want to remove a game that generated them $5 Billion.
About January 2020:
Another instance that proves that Minecraft isn't shutting down:
We all know that the story mode in Minecraft was removed by Mojang and it was due to the extreme financial pressure they had faced, but after removing the story mode, everything becomes light and even the developers of Minecraft are working on the update to make this game better.
Even in May of 2019, Minecraft celebrated its 10th birthday and Microsoft took the opportunity to announce that the game had sold 176 million copies till then which make it the best-selling game of all time, beating out even the Grand Theft Auto by around 60 million copies. 2020 is a little terrible of course, but that doesn't make any rumor true.
Games such as Minecraft is a vast game with tons of marketing, technology, employees are involved in making this game as well as constantly keeping it on track by regular update and fixing bugs, studying on users reviews, etc and thus, making it not less than impossible for this game to shut down any soon.
Then Google picked up the fake story and started to present it as a reliable source, and the subsequent worry among fans got so intense that everyone from fact-checking site Snopes to the folks at developer Mojang had to respond. “I can confirm that Minecraft servers are NOT shutting down in 2020,” as Mojang’s Helen Z tweeted earlier this month. “It’s just a stupid hoax.”
One more instance which too proves that Minecraft is nowhere on its way to shut down.
A community manager Microsoft claimed that Minecraft is not going to shut down and said that it was a rumor. He also said in a tweet that Microsoft as well as Mojang (creator of Minecraft) isn't going to shut down.
You might be the one who once believed that even Fortnite and Roblox are going to shut down! If not, then that's good, you're mature enough to not get carried away by rumors. Wait for PS5 and this game will be out there too! Because why not?
Conclusion
So overall conclusion is that your favorite game Minecraft isn't going to shut down, and according to me, this game will even last for more than a decade. So till then enjoy this game to the fullest and let the developers of Minecraft work peacefully because even they can get panic at these types of rumors, lol.
After all, people were unnecessarily getting panic at the time of the removal of story mode in Minecraft as well as when the fake news site announced its shut. Minecraft isn't gonna shut down in December of 2020 and you know the fact about the next update by Mojang.