The Minecraft team also plans to roll out a set of standards for people creating modifications for the game. Only the player running the Minecraft Realm will have to pay the monthly fee, he added. Initially what players will get for that service, which will likely run $10 to $15 a month, is a permanent and persistent home for the world they create in Minecraft and the ability to restrict who has access to it and limit what mods, if any, will run on the game. Our service will be sort of catering for the vanilla experience of Minecraft, at least at the beginning, but we will build it out with more services around Minecraft Realms.' But we definitely don't want to restrict the current business around Minecraft with server providers. 'I remember early on we had parents coming knocking on our office door and asking us to provide such service because they were tired of being server administrator at home,' he said. This particular idea was spurred by requests from a very specific group of gamers. Much of what Mojang does in Minecraft is driven by what their more than 24 million players ask for. You can instantly get the server up and running and invite your friends.' 'This will be a one click solution for Minecraft players. 'Today you can set up your own server from your own computer or rent a server but that requires some technical knowledge. 'Minecraft Realms will be the easiest way to play with your friends online,' he said.

Minecraft already supports the ability for players to create their own permanent worlds in the game on public servers, but this service will streamline that process, Manneh said.

'We were discussing pretty early on adding it to Minecraft.'

'We've been working on it for quite some time,' Carl Manneh, CEO and co-founder of Mojang, told Polygon. This summer, the developer hopes to release a new child-and-parent-friendly subscription service for the game that could cut down on those problems.įor a monthly fee, Minecraft Realms will allow anyone to create a permanent world in the game on a server, controlling who can play in the private world and that the game won't run into compatibility issues spurred by fan-created mods. Swedish developer Mojang has been inundated with calls for help from parents who find they're unable to maintain and fix the increasingly complex versions of the PC game their children are playing. With more than 24 million players, Minecraft has an unusual problem: The children who play the game are becoming too technologically savvy for their parents.

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