After being in development for over 10 years, Hytale, a sandbox game from the Hypixel Studios team with support from Riot, has officially been cancelled. Hypixel Studios’ CEO, Noxy, announced the cancellation on X on June 23, with the official Hytale forums following suit.
I love reading a basic text article on the modern internet…
Holy shit…
“Privacy”
Even my local supermarket has like ‘258 vendors and affiliates’ as their cookie listing.
Can you imagine shopping in person there, and the entire supermarket packed to the gills with dudes in trenchcoats and magnifying glasses, taking a peak at the exact product that I might consider buying? That’s what they’re doing. Fuck all that bullshit.
“We are legion.”
Doesn’t even have the usual “we value your privacy” lie.
Well it never was a Minecraft killer and was never really going to be either.
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is the Minecraft killer
It is such a superior experience compared to Minecraft.
It is such a superior experience compared to Minecraft.
How so? It certainly cant compete in the mods category, can it? As far as I recall Minetest had multiple “Minecraft clones” each differing in completion and differing in support for further mods. Has that improved?
The irony of these projects is that they only seem to appeal to people who don’t really like Minecraft, or used to like older versions but not recent ones. They have zero traction among active Minecraft players.
I’ve tried most of them and honestly they don’t hold a candle to the original - not that they are bad games, but rather they entirely miss the point of modern Minecraft and why it is so appealling to so many people. Although (some vocal fraction of) the community likes to nitpick every single detail of every single update, it is an incredibly well designed game.
Minecraft
Well designed
it’s about the pixel-art and the cubes, am i right ?
Minecraft has many issues unrelated to the game’s visuals, some of which have only received somewhat unsuccessful band-aid fixes (notably, enchanting+repairing mechanics)
What would you want to see different?
On the spot, I’d say a fix for anvil mechanics.
Remove the XP cost increment upon repairing items, so that Mending is not an end-game necessity anymore.
Personally I’d say we could use an extra row in the inventory, but I can see why someone would think that’s too radical.
Curious what the point of modern Minecraft is, and what part is appealing to modern people. I pop on sometimes purely because friends are playing, and it can be fun, and somehow I don’t think this is what you mean. Well, people do play for fun, but you are probably thinking of a more specific thing that makes it fun.
I think what makes the game great is that it contains a number of game mechanics, which are all interlocked and play nice together. That gives it enormous versatility. You can be a nomad explorer, or a builder who stays at base and never sees a hostile mob. You can be a redstone engineer, or a farmer accumulating insane amounts of resources. You can create map art and barter with other map artists on the server. You can hunt bases and either grief them or contact their owners and get to know their history. You can play mini games on commercial servers or code your own mods and play PvA (player vs admin) on anarchy servers.
You can find the exact combo and dosage that fits your playstyle, then switch gears a couple months later and turn the game on its head. I don’t know of many games with that kind of variety.
It can but it doesn’t need to. The out of the box experience is better and the mods can do more fundamental changes to the gameplay experience.
Hence superior
Never heard of either of these projects.
Time is the only thing that will be a minecraft killer.
40 years ago, Super mario bros was the most impressive most popular game ever. Now, today, it still exists, but would you even BEGIN to play Super Mario Wonder in the same catagory of pop culture influence as Super Mario Bros 3?
There will come a day when minecrafts users become too old to care. But it won’t be because another game does it better.
Improvements don’t kill a culture. Apathy kills culture. Minecraft is less of a game and more of an entry in pop culture.
I tried Minetest a while ago and was never really able to get into it. The new player experience was rough, a lot of decision paralysis. The texture style can vary between mods and servers. It didn’t feel very cohesive. I don’t know if that has changed since I last played, but to me it didn’t feel like a minecraft killer then.
From what I can tell, Hytale was supposed to be a bit like Terreria in 3D, as well as a platform for minigames. The gameplay and graphics from the trailers looked really good. I’m sure it would have been a Minecraft killer for some. (Ex. players who primarily play for the minigames like bedwars)
Much as I’m sure it’s a quality entertaining game, with games as popular as Minecraft… the only thing that can kill it is collapsing under its own weight.
How is it superior? Is it approachable for kids around 7yo?
Nope
That would be a long list but here is something that everyone can notice in the first minute.
It loads and you are actively playing in a world before Minecraft even finishes its loading screen (I have seen Minecraft get stuck on a sync with Microsoft screen for 30 minutes with no option to skip the sync or do anything else to actually start game play).
The Luanti community generally does not see it as a “Minecraft killer” and doesn’t want it to be that. But it’s a cool project for sure.
Clicked on this thread purely to see if someone would bring up Minetest/Luanti. Glad to hear it seems to be going well.
Honestly the cancellation was years overdue. I‘m almost surprised it took them this long but then again it‘s not surprising they couldn‘t even get around doing that.
It’s honestly really surprising. Did this game employ people for a decade??
I think so, yes. Although I dipped out of their blogposts around the time they rented some big office space. That was years ago at this point.
What a joke. Development for 10 years and you just cancel it like a fart in the wind. I’d be utterly ashamed at that kind of mismanagement.
There’s been a rumor floating around that it never existed as a game anyways and that the footage they do have is faked. It’s definitely a bit out there, but with the way they’ve acted about it, I kinda believe it.
I would also think that https://www.vintagestory.at/ is in a good shape to compete for a great minecraft like game ;)
yep vintage story is fun
Also clicked this post to see if someone would bring up Vintage Story. (Other reason was to see if someone brought up Luanti/Minetest.)
There is also Veloren that is free, open source, and looks pretty good
From videos it seemed like they had an engine that worked. I feel it’s more likely the clips where very cherry picked and massive issues existed just out of frame and time.
And where did you see these rumors?
The problem with making a Minecraft game is that people who like Minecraft will be upset that it’s not like Minecraft and people who don’t like Minecraft will be upset that it’s like Minecraft. Both groups will be excited about it until it’s released.
The same issue with all the Stardew Valley killers, even if they try not to.
It’s a super toxic category constantly being compared.
Time to hytale it up out of here ba dum tsss
I’m disappointed, but not surprised… I have followed since the first announcement and gave up hope around 2020. Every dev update was “we made 1 step forward and 5 back” with no real substance to show for it.
Assuming the trailers are real gameplay though, it looks like they could have and should have released an alpha years ago. Not sure how they thought it wouldn’t work as Minecraft released in pre-alpha and it worked out in the end. A shame we’ll probably never see the code or even a compiled build from all these people’s work.
For those who are still interested but not in the know how, look into Vintage Story and Luanti
Vintage Story is fantastic! It even has a native Linux client.
“Minecraft Killer”. For that, it should have been released first, shouldn’t it?
And even if it was a super mega game, it might just find a niche on its own.
Idk about any of these other ones (or even the full game) but Cubic Odyssey is like a mix of Minecraft, Starbound and No Man’s Sky
Everything RIOT touches turns to shit, huh? Not surprised.
