‘Minecraft’ Now Has Marketplace To Sell New Creations; Make A Living, Create More In Buildcon 2017 [Video]
ByMicrosoft just launched a new "Minecraft" Marketplace where creators can sell their content and actually make a living in "Minecraft." Meanwhile, budding creators can learn more skills in the community-run 4th annual Minecraft Buildcon2017 event, which opens this Friday.
Microsoft will be opening up the new feature, Marketplace, later this spring with 9 businesses who have signed up to peddle their creations in the game. The creations include storylines, landscapes, and in-game activities with price ranging from $1 to $10 for every creation. Gamers will be using digital "Minecraft" currency to buy new content, Investopedia reported.
Microsoft is opening up its hugely successful game to creators by allowing them to put their content in Marketplace alongside those that "Minecraft" makes. Creators can actually make a living in "Minecraft" as revealed by John Thornton, "Minecraft" executive producer at Microsoft.
Marketplace is actually a copied feature from the popular Augmented Reality game, "Pokémon Go." The AR game also added in-app purchases which proved to be a huge hit last summer with almost $1 billion in revenues.
Marketplace may also have huge potential in sales for Microsoft and the creators. The arrangement is at 50/50 meaning 50 percent of the sales will go to the creators. Microsoft has now sold 121 million copies of "Minecraft" with as many as 55 million monthly active users.
With just a few more weeks to go before Marketplace arrives, players and budding creators can take advantage of the "Minecraft" build panels and tutorials in the 4th annual Buildcon 2017 event. The community-run event, not officially connected to either Mojang or Microsoft, runs from April 14 to 18. It is a virtual convention located in a unique space built with "Minecraft" no less, OnMSFT reported.
Featured this year will be popular modder in "Minecraft" community, Arcaniax, who brought GoPaint and GoBrush for terraforming and painting the open world. There will also be tutorial classes, Minecraft.edu panels, team building competitions that are sponsored by Builder's refuge. For a full list of panels, see it here.
The community server opens at 3 p.m. on Friday using three different IPs, namely, mcbuildcon.net, play.mcbuildcon.net, and mc.mcbuildcon.net. The server runs the "Minecraft" version 1.11.2 so attendees need to create a profile with the same version before making the connection.
