Minecraft is one of the most played video games history and its evolution has been simply spectacular throughout these years in which we knew it as a small beta until what it is today so that it was finally acquired with Microsoft. Minecraft has even been transformed as a tool for learning as is happening in certain schools where it is used to accentuate the creativity of students through its great ability to build environments and all kinds of architectures.
It is now when it is about to become one of the video games that most bets on a completely cross-platform video game in which it can be played from a PC, an Android device or an iOS device on the same server located in those so-called Minecraft Realms . A great bet that of Microsoft that wants to get millions of players to join in the same virtual space no matter where they have installed the videogame. This announcement comes from Mojang who has announced that the "friendly update" is the one that will activate this huge and peculiar feature.
Play across different platforms with your friends
Mojang, the company created by Notch at the time and which was acquired by Microsoft for 2.500 billion dollars in 2014, it appeared at E3 to announce its first move to unite gamers of all ages and locations across different operating systems.
The "Friendly Update" update, we talked about a few days ago, allows players who are on mobile (Android, iOS and Gear VR) and Windows 10 to play together through the Minecraft Realms, which are about private servers which can be accessed by invitation.
Support for this cross-platform option requires an Xbox Live account, although it must be said that for the Xbox One console it will not exist until the end of the year. Previously, you could only play together when all your friends were on mobile, Windows 10 or Xbox, but not a variation of those platforms.
Another detail to keep in mind for 100 million players who have Minecraft, is that Realms is available even when the owner, who pays € 7,99 (in the monthly plan), is not online. This will provide a great differentiating aspect so that any of our friends can play the server without us having to be available. Before, if you played from a PC, you had to have the server open from one of your PCs so that some of your friends could connect from the external IP or through the network when it was from the same computer.
The customization of the «Add ons»
Say now the future of minecraft It happens because you can play a game on your PC, so that a friend connects from his work during his rest time on his iPhone and another does it from his Surface tablet when he is on vacation at the beach.
But it is that not only do the news stay here, but Minecraft will include the "add-ons". One of the reasons why Minecraft is what it is today is because of the great community that it has encompassed since its inception. A loyal community of modders who have been introducing different characters, tools, and custom worlds. With some mods you can have a world with the theme of Star Wars or include security agents to make your server more secure. This is what Mojang does not want to forget.
So it will implement add-ons to be able customize those games to change the blocks for a plastic one, transform enemies into aliens or even be able to create an alien base. At the moment it has not offered much information about it, but it does address customization so that any player, wherever the game starts, can access other experiences from this great game known by Minecraft.
