Phil Spencer di Microsoft ha parlato con Gamespot dell’acquisizione di Mojang, e ha dichiarato che uno degli obiettivi è di unificare le varie versioni del gioco.
QuoteOne of the first things Microsoft could do with the Minecraft franchise to help improve the overall experience is to "unify" the various versions of the game, using Xbox Live.
"I think what we’ve learned through Xbox Live is something that we can help in unifying a little bit of what happens with Minecraft today," he said. "If I’m on PC I get access to the mod servers; if I’m on console or the mobile editions, I don’t. We’re looking at how do we bring that whole system together a little more. Because there are other games out there that let me move from screen to screen fairly seamlessly."
Ovviamente è altamente improbabile che un account Xbox Live si avvicini a meno di 100 km da qualsiasi dispositivo marchiato Sony, ma del resto Microsoft ha dichiarato che non avrebbe toccato le versioni di Minecraft per i sistemi concorrenti.
Personalmente credo che MS farà una mossa tipo implementare l’account unico su PC, Xbox e dispositivi mobile, tutto collegato a Xbox Live, lasciando fuori dalla feature le versioni per console Sony, o magari implementandoci una versione più limitata della feature. In questo modo l’utenza verrà spinta in maniera "soft" a spostarsi verso le versioni MS del gioco.
Magari in vista di un seguito? Da questo punto di vista le cose sarebbero ancora in alto mare:
QuoteAsked directly about the possibility of Minecraft 2, Spencer said discussions about future extensions of the series–which he admitted not everyone may agree with–will come later.
"I don’t know if Minecraft 2, if that’s the thing that makes the most sense. The community around Minecraft is as strong as any community out there. We need to meet the needs and the desires of what the community has before we get permission to go off and do something else," he said. "It doesn’t mean that everything we’re going to do is going to map to 100 percent of their acceptance, because I don’t know if there is any topic where 100 percent of people agree. But we look at Job 1 is to go out and meet the needs of the Minecraft community first, and then we can think about ways that we can actually help grow it. That’s our sole focus."
Spencer ha anche smentito che la decisione di acquisire Mojang sia stata imposta al team che si occupa Xbox, e anzi ha sottolineato come la mossa sia partita da discussioni interne al team stesso.
Fonte:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-talks-minecraft-buyout-possibility-of-mi/1100-6423159/
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