Minecraft Adding Real-Money Marketplace

Minecraft Adding Real-Money Marketplace
[Apr 10, 2017, 10:03 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

A new Minecraft Partner Program is being launched by Microsoft, as they are set to open a premium marketplace for content for the sandbox construction game. This will involve cash money, though this will be enveloped in a new form of virtual currency because everything is better with spacebux. They offer the chance to be a content provider, though this requires being registered as a business. Here's word on what to expect:

Millions of Players, Dozens of Devices, One Minecraft Marketplace

Partner content will appear in the Minecraft in-game Store, which is available to Minecraft Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Edition, including Windows 10, Android, iOS, Apple TV, Gear VR, Oculus and Amazon Kindle Minecraft players.

The in-game store makes it easy for players to download and install new maps, textures and skins without ever leaving the game.

Every new submission from partners is reviewed for quality and safety before it is added to the store and available to players.

Players use Minecraft Coins, a virtual currency, to make purchases. This allows creators to set a single price globally.

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Re: Minecraft Adding Real-Money Marketplace
Apr 10, 2017, 19:41

Sepharo

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Re: Minecraft Adding Real-Money Marketplace Apr 10, 2017, 19:41

Apr 10, 2017, 19:41

Sepharo

MacLeod wrote on Apr 10, 2017, 14:55:
Creston wrote on Apr 10, 2017, 13:14:
99.99% of all minecraft players are young children, so I foresee no issues here whatsoever.

Except if you look at this quote from a year-old NY Times article, that quotes from Microsoft, that's not actually the case:

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(It’s still popular across all age groups; according to Microsoft, the average player is between 28 and 29, and women make up nearly 40 percent of all players.)
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which, considering the complexity of some of the redstone creations you see, makes sense that 99.99% of their playerbase aren't young children.

I'm not agreeing with the 99.99% stuff, there are lots of adults out there playing it (and making YouTube bucks doing it), but that Microsoft stat probably reflects the person who registered the account. The 6 year old isn't registering the account, their mom is.