{"id":122854,"date":"2021-01-05T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2021-01-05T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:07:09","slug":"minecraft-earth-will-shut-down-and-be-removed-from-stores-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/minecraft-earth-will-shut-down-and-be-removed-from-stores-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Earth will shut down and be removed from stores in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro_text\">Minecraft Earth will shut down and be removed from stores on June 30. The augmented reality title tasks you with getting creative while exploring your surroundings in an entirely new way. That said, with it being a location-based experience, it was always going to struggle in a time such as this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/minecraft-earth\" rel=\"noopener\">Minecraft Earth<\/a> was designed around free movement and collaborative play \u2013 two things that have become near impossible in the current global situation,\u201d says a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minecraft.net\/en-us\/article\/minecraft-earth-coming-end\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> released today. As a result, the team has decided to \u201cre-allocate\u201d its resources into other areas that \u201cprovide value to the Minecraft community\u201d by shutting down Minecraft Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as a surprise given the game\u2019s passionate following and the fact that it launched just over a year ago. Still, the Minecraft Earth team is working to ensure that these final few months will be enjoyable for those remaining players.<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/minecraft-earth\/update\" rel=\"noopener\">Minecraft Earth update<\/a>, the game&nbsp;has removed real-money transactions, reduced the price of in-game currency, reduced time requirements for crafting and smelting, and granted everyone who logs in prior to its closure a special set of character creator items.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-embed=\"dYKxBKj29dI\" data-embed-type=\"shortlink\"><img alt=\"YouTube Thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/minecraft-earth-will-shut-down-and-be-removed-from-stores-in-june.jpg\">\n<\/div>\n<p>All players with paid ruby balances will be granted Minecoins. These can be used on the Minecraft Marketplace to unlock texture packs, skins, maps, and more. Beyond that, anyone who\u2019s ever spent a penny on Minecraft Earth will receive a free copy of Minecraft\u2019s Bedrock version. More info on what the team is calling the game\u2019s \u2018sunset\u2019 process can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/help.minecraft.net\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360054525152\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft Earth will shut down and be removed from stores on June 30. The augmented reality title tasks you with getting creative while exploring your surroundings in an entirely new way. That said, with it being a location-based experience, it was always going to struggle in a time such as this. \u201cMinecraft Earth was designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[853,966,203,586,976],"class_list":["post-122854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases","tag-android","tag-free-to-play","tag-ios","tag-minecraft-earth","tag-simulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}