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Mojang has bad communication????!!!! Holy moly! What a surprise

concept for the game was fucking GREAT like legit could have ressurected the rts'ish genre, but how they made it truly was a shot in the wardens layer

I think the bggest issue with Mojang is that they think their only customer base are kids. Everything has to be as simplistic and familiy friendly as possible. But thats simply wrong. The most invested players are those that where kids when Minecraft came out, you know, 10 years ago. They are all in their 20s or even older.

Fun fact: The highest time played that anyone has played Minecraft legends is 116 hours and there is only one person that has over 100 hours in that game (other than a person that has 3k botted hours) The next highest playtimes are: 75h, 56h, 53h, 42h, and lower and lower. Some people literally have more hours in one game than ALL of the people who played minecraft legends combined.

I remember, much like dungeons, I saw it in the launcher, forgot about it, and until this video showed up I had no idea the game existed, released, was played, and died all with me not even hearing about its existence. At least with dungeons I saw gameplay and as a physical arcade game, but legends was nothing more than the little blue thing that flew about the screen at some point.

just wanted to add The 3 million figures you talked about in the video are not sales, it's just total number of players. Since it's on Gamepass a good chunk of those players came from there. Afaik almost no Xbox studio publishes sales data anymore

There's many reasons why Minecraft was so successful, like it being an endless sandbox, servers, creativity, mods, nostalgia. You can basically do anything in Minecraft and yes it will eventually become repetitive but we still play Minecraft. Same downfall happened to Mc Dungeons, even tho I still play it.

I remember buying Legends day one to play with some friends. As soon as we realized that the co-op was so barebones that we couldn't even be on the same team, we just refunded and never looked back

I haven't played Legends, but based on what I've heard and seen, it makes me miss Minecraft: Story Mode. While it wasn't an open-world game and had limited combat abilities, the player had a bit of freedom to alter the plot's direction and even change the ending, especially with Season 2.

First it was Minecraft Earth now it's Minecraft Legends 😢. Mojang should really take some drastic measures in development of there games.

I think that recently we have begun to see mojang’s complete disregard for any project that doesnt make them enough money (most likely forced by microsoft) - minecraft now, minecraft earth, minecraft monthly, and of course, minecraft legends. Also apparently they’re already working on another game with the codename ‘spicewood’ but take that with a grain of salt

The game would have fared better as an actual RTS like Supreme Commander mixed with Total War. You start in a village with a village square, build woodcutters and miners who gather a slow trickle of resources, use those to build some basic troops like the plank golems and slowly build your forces while the piglins do the same and send waves of attacks. You're soft-locked from some area's due to high tier enemies, and you expand around slowly growing finding new resources and upgrades, upgrading buildings and technology, finding new golems and building a force of hundreds of units to march over the overworld to face off against the piglin swarm and set up a defensive zone around a portal to let your sappers mine the obsidian blocks instead of having basically any golem just hit it enough to destroy the portal structure giving the game an attack and defence vibe with it because the piglins can bring in another horde of soldiers to try and stop you so you better make sure you're reinforcing your front. But that's my thoughts on it. I played through the whole game and haven't touched it since, kinda forgot about it honestly that's how forgettable it was.

Can't thank you enough for making this video, incredible work! Glad to have helped out. Minecraft Legends has so much potential that Mojang could tap into.

I remember buying Legends the day it came out and after like a month I was only playing it for the monthly rewards then they became to hard so I just quit the game. I feel like Mojang should’ve stuck with Dungeons as their spinoff game cuz at least the levels in that game were somewhat unique

As of January 10, 2024, the Minecraft Legends Twitter account announced that Minecraft:Legends has been discontinued meaning our worst fears have been realized. Back in June of 2023, a dev mentioned that the game had only 6 months of support left (despite the game having come out 3 months prior) and, 6 months later, that time has finally run out. The fact that the game died after only 9 months compared to other spinoffs is kinda sad tbh...

Mojang and communicating are two things not facing each other. Remember that for past years all the problems with minecraft were originating from huge lack of communication...

I have noticed a theme that Mojangs failures all come down to communications. I think this may be a result of a developer focused communication strategy and they may need too work with creators or something to develop a better method to be focused on communication

Mojang will make whole spinoff games with never seen before content before adding something other than a new wood type and a mob from mob vote to the actual Minecraft

It makes me sad... I can only imagine how discouraging this would be for the creative minds behind the game itself. To see their own creation fail and dwindle into obscurity like this... It sucks. The game has so much potential with just a few tweaks to the core gameplay loop, but it will apparently never see that happen. :(

The multiplayer was actually really fun, different from the campaign and as a nice spin on the RTS genre. Though because there was no proper long-term progression, or really a point to play other than well, the gameplay, the fun didn't last that long. There was also a big learning curve between those who didn't understand + make use of the RTS-like mechanics and those who actually did.

We know that Mojang just sucks at communication No matter the game, they somehow manage to always alienate their playerbase and not communicate properly...

bro casually flexed a triple reset and didnt think we'd notice 💀

That's me at 8:24 (Phineapoo1313) playing in that initial release-week tournament. This game had me HOOKED at the get go, for about a week. There was a ton of promise with this game if it was updated regularly. The concerns mentioned in the video were definitely prevalent from day one, and a few of us found some strategies that broke the meta in multiplayer pretty quickly. Multiplayer was pretty much gonna have be the saving grace for this game. If they were to turn this game around at all, it had to come from reaching out to the community and adding/changing the things that the community was wanting or needing. That meta break I mentioned was brought up, but I didn't end up seeing much of a change to it at all, basically making it another mode with a very repetitive feel. I feel that they probably had about 3 chances to course correct, with at least one of those before release even happened. There was at least some small communication during that first week, but the radio silence afterwards was hard to take on. I hope that a miracle happens and they can get some of that interest back, even if I don't end up coming back. I worry that this lack of communication or disconnect with the community will infect and kill the other games they make over time, including Minecraft itself.

"The modding community is doing Mojang's job" That applies to regular Minecraft too. What a company...

ain’t no way he hits a casual triple flip reset in rocket league

Insane how horribly this game failed. Mojang's greed seems to have done it again - this game should have never been created. We could have gotten better updates and more additions to Minecraft, but they don't want to make players happy; they just want money. Absolutely horrifying.

Just seeing the gameplay, this looks like it could have been a sick competitive tactics game in the line of Starcraft if they went that route with the pvp and had multiple potential objectives at the start of the game. Seeing people develop strategies on the fly and work to build a base and army, protect the objective, and destroy their enemy would have been so cool, but unfortunately, I have a different vision of what the game could be than Mojang did

It's pretty obvious now that "new" Mojang is a sh!t company. Everything they make sucks. Minecraft only survives because it was made by the "old" Mojang and because of the modding community.

Nah bro my singleplayer world has more players than legends 😂

There was lot potential indeed in the game. Only if they could have spoke to the community more, maybe it would had kept its players. Heck they could have give us more ways attack, rather just using boring sword. They could have give us Bow or more weapons to use and give more customization options but nah, they just left the game as soon it got published.

those mods make me want to play the game again. like most other players, i played for about 3 days when it first came out and haven't opened it since and hearing that its getting taken down kinda makes me pity the game and try it out one more time. great video by the way, i learned so much from it. :)

Wow, just wow. Thanks for telling about the state of this game, I didn't knew it was THIS bad, beyond surface level, that's why I appreciate this video

shouldve just kept updating dungeons instead of letting it die, dungeons was much better and more fun but just lacked updates

I remember being quite interested when I'd first saw the game, I bought it when it came out and then I think I played for about 30 minutes, (I beat the tutorial and ran around a little bit) and it just felt like I'd played the entire game at that point. Haven't booted it since.

I enjoyed Minecraft Legends, but my issue was I was soft locked due to building limitations. Couldn't build anymore until i deleted other buildings or spend hours deleting walls one pillar at a time. They didn't even mention a build limit, and there's no bypasses for it. Completely ruined the game for me. Haven't played the game since

i bought legends and its honestly pretty good, i jumped back in recently. i think the multiplayer thing could be really fun if i had friends that also had the game. its sad to see legends die, theyll never add these good features because nobody plays and the seed of doubt has already been planted in peoples minds.

For those who really enjoyed commanding an army while actively fighting in the front. Mount and blade is the best choice currently (for peoples like me) both warband and bannerlord are brilliant masterpiece and barely any repetitive.

I loved the game but I had 2 major problems, the first was that my creeper army got bugged and was stuck in the piglin attacking stage so now I can't use them. Second was the amount of villager attacks.

This was my experience too, the combat is weird and way too repetitive. It was pretty fun to play online with friends for a little, but it took so long to queue since so many players were quitting.

Wait, you are telling me this game was In Development for 5 years, and this was all they had to show for it?

wait, only 8 monts?! i thought it was 8 weeks at best

Man, this game had so much potential, it literally could have been the next Age of Empires if they went with the cultures thing and added more combat mechanics. All they had to do was add more variability in the gameplay and the replayablity would have skyrocketed. But no, it just flatlined right then and there.

last night as i comment this, for a brief period of time, Minecraft Legends had the same amount of online players as *Bad Rats: The Rat's Revenge.* that's... just pathetic.

They should go back to updating Minecraft dungeons instead

Maybe a rigged mod vote could fix this?

I forgot mclee had his cape removed. Removal of it was a poor choice on mojang’s part imo

Legends is fun, I just ended up with a bugged save that reset my progress when I was on the offensive against the Piglins, which really destroyed my enthusiasm to keep playing.

Mojang is taking the Bathesda route, pop out a meh game that people care about and let the players fix it up then swoop in and claim credit

They say the only thing worse than being hated, is to be forgotten. Well, I did forget this game existed until this video popped up in my feed. Sad times...

i still actively play dungeons. it was really cheap of them to not inform us that 1.17 was the final update until a full year later. they could still make dlc for it if they wanted. i know they said there wouldn't be any more dlc after echoing void, but hey, wouldn't be the first time mojang went back on their word.

I think the problem is that mojang tries to play things as safe as possible. mentioning the lack of urgency within this game as well as the lack of interesting ideas and content exemplifies that. they've also been doing this with their updates, forcing a mob vote that adds in a creature with a niche use that nobody will remember, and especially in the new update, the dungeons I already forgot the name of. the last time they've added a new weapon was the crossbow, I believe. minecraft would be more interesting if something like a dodge was added, or daggers with a shorter attack cooldown but less range. something that adds to the game in a significant way. they can likely do well if they stop being big corpos and actually listen to player feedback instead of shareholder feedback, but until then, I suppose mods will have to tickle our fancies.

When I first saw it, I hoped it was a 4X RTS game, command and conquer style, where you could build things in regular minecraft, then use those buildings as part of your base in this game and train then command big and diverse armies (Archers, swords, spears, catapults, cavalry), that would have been an enjoyable game.

At stores there was so much legends merchandise left on shelves that much of it went on clearance. I didn't even see ads for said merch until way after the game released and I only seen those adverts a few times.

The portal destroying base to base reminds me of liberating outpost in far cry series which was repeative in each game but it was a option not a main mission.Also you could do it stealth or not hard or easy difficulty which was much more than in mc legends

I really hope this game makes a comeback. I really liked the game and the new update did make the game more strategic(you cant just rush into the larger bases anymore due to air choppers existing). The game just need more content and an actual post game.

Im progressively losing respect for mojang

what really made me upset is that you never really go to the nether to fight one big final boss, you just get occasional cut scenes of the nether. Also, you instantly start off with a diamond sword and you can't even upgrade it or get better gear apart from the golems and towers.

i remember grian promoting this... and thats it. i genuinely haven't thought about minecraft legends once since grian promoted it months ago

This was developed over 5 years? 😭😭😭 this is what they could come up with?

i am just sad dungeons got discontinued, i put a lot of time into that game and i really enjoyed playing minecraft dungeons and its just sad seeing it being replaced my minecraft legends

Same thing happened with Minecraft Dungeons, I was one of the first 1,000 downloaders of it and I still play it every once in a while, but despite coming back to the game every few months, I'm getting more and more bored of it. It's super slow on Xbox where I first got it, and there's no way to mod the game, so I downloaded it on PC to see if I could find any mods and there's almost nothing on Curseforge. I still have to play on the lowest graphics settings to stay at over 60 FPS and the gameplay is super buggy and repetitive. I feel like they gave up on Dungeons after the last few DLCs so they could work on Legends, but that was even more of a disappointment. I only played it for about 4 hours but then couldn't play it any more no matter how hard I tried. This video pretty much summed up my and the rest of the community's feelings about the game.

for me it was the pressure- i wanted to explore the world, but then i see that i have to defend a village that single moment made me not want to play

I never played this one but I was actually pretty bummed when Minecraft earth shutdown. It was pretty fun to play. I think it just had really bad timing when the whole game was based on being out and about and then covid hit.

Well said video. I borrowed the game (deluxe edition in fact) of my local library. I played it, but it was really confusing. In short, it didn't feel Minecraft like, and the mechanics, and gameplay was just too hard for me. I quit within the first 30 minutes. L game in all, I just went to play skyblock.

Honestly true.. i didnt get bored and finished a whole outpost even at the hardest star... The proble for me was that creepers were insanely op.. u can get like 20-30 creepers and insta kill the portal

Im sad that this game is getting shut down, im a console player and cant even mod the game, i am currently working on a minecraft legends animation but if there is no game to back up the community that could be created from the animations, i will be forced to make a fan game much more early than planned

I dont even remember all the minecraft spin offs at this point anymore. Except for that minecraft story mode game, that was fun. Dont know why they cancelled it.

I miss Minecraft Dungeons. It was amazing looking, had cool ideas, and was FUN!

As someone with thousands of hours on the main game. I was excited about this game when it was announced. But I quickly forgot and just couldn't be bothered to get it. I'm sad and happy about that

Haven't played the game , but looking at it, what would be great if say you could play the nether mobs side and go and raid villages with the piglins, and after the campaign players could battle with each other from either side, sounds cliche but better than what is currently available

To be honest, we all very well knew Minecraft legends would die eventually, I mean it was just bound to happen. However I am very surprised as according to the steam chart, only around 43 people play it. Crazy to think that such a new game died so fast. This is very much why I believe mojang should not make spinoffs, rather just update the vanilla game, and do what is right for the community.

It's crazy that Blackbird Interactive, a dedicated development studio that made the entire Homeworld series, helped develop Minecraft Legends. Given how successful they were with their previous games and the cut content that one of the devs brought up, I really think Legends could have been an amazing game. I hope it'll be a No Man's Sky type game and come back later being so much better than launch.

The first thing I thought when you showed gameplay, is "It sure looks like Dragon quest builders for some reason." Like put the two side by side and you will see what I mean, I think they might have just ripped of DQ:Bs art style for Legends.

Defending villages in Minecraft Legends is just Preston notifying you about another settlement that needs your help level of annoyance

The only game that succeeded by Mojang besides Minecraft was Minecraft Dungeons. Sadly they abandoned the game in late 2022

Minecraft spinoffs aren't going anywhere, it was obvious that it was going to die out like minecraft dungeons

0:38 Correction: Minecraft Legends was on Gamepass at launch so there being 3 million players at launch doesn’t mean it sold 3 million copies, and the numbers if probably much lower.

From how you described it, Minecraft Legends seems like as if Mojang spent 5 years making a really boring RTS Minecraft map and made people pay momey to play it, except in this case it’s an entirely different game and there’s no reason for it to feel so limited.

I never cared for Minecraft legends, in fact the 2022 Minecraft live discouraged me from playing it, after it took up a majority of the livestream.

These comment bots ate ridiculous man. Hope it doesnt affect your channel in a bad way misterepic

Here's my story. I saw the game come out, was super excited because I grew up with lego battles and loved it.saw the game was quite limited in content, didn't wanna pay full price for it, forgot it existed eventually and never bought it.

Considering the existence of top down 3D games like FATE and Path Of Exile. If this just showed some similar semblance to those games with the Minecraft IP combined with the graphical style it would be a success. In fact I think this is why that initial trailer worked really well but failed apart once everyone saw what the gameplay consisted of.

They should've kept updating dungeons which was at least decent unlike MCL

Imagine Minecraft if Notch had kept working on it and never sold Mojang to Microsoft. 😭

What are your thoughts on how Dosney+ did this? They increased the price of their only tier. Made it thr ad free one. And then made a lower cost ad tier. Is that better, worse, or the same thing.

My experience with legends was beating it in 10 hours over 3-4 days and never touching it again

The sad part is: Whatever they add into a new failed game -> It won't make it to the actual game because they want "unique ideas" or they fear that the new stuff in the game is the cause of the low popularity (which is also wrong. Many people would love to see some of the things implemented into the vanilla minecraft game).

honestly, forgot it even exists

With the lackluster updates Minecraft had been getting recently, I genuinely believed that Mojang was incompetent, but after some thinking, I then leaned on the company struggling to meet fan expectations. But after seeing this video and how Mojang badly treated Minecraft Legends, I'm leaning back towards the former.

the whole 3m players thing. im pretty sure its 2.9m gamepass downloads since this game went onto the pass not even 24 hours after release. pretty sure most these downloads never will play again no matter what they do

i got legends after a week of it being out after about a few months it got repetitive and hard so i forgot about it...

Legends gave me so much hope as an RTS player. I enjoyed the campaign for a day then hopped into multiplayer, excited to see what the pvp was like. It had a lot of potential, but for a game that forces 4v4 pvp, there were NO ways to communicate with your teammates, making for an insufferable online experience. Combine this with the fact that at any point, one of your teammates could just teleport your entire army away from you (I heard they eventually patched this), it made me quit pretty much instantly after playing a 40 min long really close game just to have that happen to me. There was so much potential, which makes it so sad to see what its ended up like.

I only stopped playing it because I suddenly got a message saying I placed too many structures and i couldn't place anymore without manually deleting hundreds of structures, so I stopped playing.

this feels like this game was more _Blackbird's_ project, and Mojang could genuinely give less of a shit about it and it really only got the Minecraft branding and shit because that would make more money. Idk, the fact that the Blackbird devs still engage with the community really seems that way to me

Not surprised to be honest, as soon as I saw what the game looked like, I was immediately uninterested in playing, and then the reviews came out. This game just seems like a cash grab of a game, it’s trying to leach off of the Minecraft title, and thats it.

this video increased the average player count by 7%

I really get the impression that the Mojang team just didn't want to make this game. They really did nothing to help support it as it released and just left it to die. I dont find it to hard to believe that they where pressured by microsoft to make a new minecraft game but where genuinely not interested in doing so but had to do so anyway.

I played it on release day, it immediately had micro transactions and the game seem really weird to play with controller and I just couldn’t get into it, I didn’t know what the objective was idk

Main active McL content creator here. I can second most of the video. Except for the first 6 minutes. Issues you were talking about only apply to default and story difficulty modes. On highest difficulty mobs can't really do everything on their own. You need to be inside the battle and support them by knocking back smaller piglins. At the same time, it's much easier to die. On the video you received like 0.5-1 hp per hit while on highest difficulty it's often 3 or more. It's a game of strategy, managing resources, time and even your own health. Unfortunately, on release you didn't get a choice of difficulty when launching the game for the first time. You had to leave the game and launch it again. And that was a huge mistake because the first launch was often the last one too. Tutorial (ending with destroying the purple portal. Yeah, it was stil just the tutorial) used to be much longer and less dynamic. These 2 things confused people (including you I guess) into thinking that's the actual game and there's nothing more to it. And that's where many negative reviews complaining about stuff that's only in tutorial come from. As for the myths - Man, they're like an unfunny joke XD Not only are they expesive but also very simple, bugged, short and sometimes even annoying. Confusing RPG, 45-minute platformer, bugged Temple Runner ripoff, confusing and bugged Vampire Survivors ripoff with no items description, chess with bot thinking for 2 minutes. I bought them all and don't recommend anyone to do the same. You could actually buy a good cheap indie game instead of 1 of these. PvP seems pretty simple because it wasn't even meant to have matchmaking. It was supposed to be friend vs friend only. It doesn't justify the simplicity though. Imo they should've released the game later but make it better at launch. Comparing the game on release and now, devs made some progess. Tutorial is half as short, much more dynamic and the game overall is not a buggy mess anymore. There's also more content and much more QoL features. But it's not enough. After 2nd major update (a month ago) I started a new campaign and at first I was amazed how much has changed but it didn't last long. Except for lack of severe bugs, the second half of the game is pretty much the same.