Why Minecraft Legends Instantly Failed

Minecraft Legends lost almost all of its players within just a few months, and today we're going to figure out why.
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[@CalebIsSalty]

I'm sure a few of you guys will be coming from TheMisterEpic's video, just wanted to clarify that we're friends and have coincidentally both been working on Minecraft Legends videos for weeks now without each other knowing until recently. No one copied from each other haha. As always, sources and soundtrack are in the description. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! ♥

[@jonahplayscello]

Oh

[@JustPineapple]

ye

[@xxzoru]

yes

[@truecarman]

Good to know :)

[@arsen4093]

he didn t make the video in 6hours lol@Global_Geography

[@chrisjohngrima9761]

To be fair, minecraft story mode was discontinued not because is a terrible game but because the company that owned minecraft story mode (telltale games) had shut down and for obvious reasons, minecraft story mode was discontinued.

[@LaCazaLP]

Yeah but if it would have brought in any numbers Mojang probably would have done something with it. But instead they left it to die.

[@remor698]

Yep and Minecraft Earth was shut down because of the pandemic.

[@FlushDesert22]

@@LaCazaLP How could they not "leave it to die", the parent company of the game literally shut down. They couldn't do anything with the game if they wanted. How do you even get the rights of something from a company that doesn't exist anymore? Man, people just make shit up to hate on Mojang. Jesus Christ.

[@LemonbreadSC]

@@FlushDesert22 Just steal the IP back? What's the dead company gonna do? Haunt you? Same goes for wires in abandoned buildings.

[@daliam8715]

I was chilling in covid-free New Zealand when it shut down (before we had massive waves of covid again) so I was still playing it all the time. I was heartbroken when it left us.

[@orange_turtle3412]

Ive said it before and i’ll say it again. “Minecraft Spinoff” as a concept does not work. Minecraft, by its very nature, cannot work exist as a series of games. Its best left as a standalone product. Im genuinely shocked dungeons did as well as it did.

[@22XERO22]

Dungeons did so well because the Dungeon Crawler gameplay loop is really engaging and fun. Additionally, Dungeons offered a more laid-back, casual take on the Dungeon Crawler style when compared to other top selling Dungeon Crawlers, allowing it to be picked up and enjoyed by most people.

[@xadxtya]

Mojang is experimenting, some things stick (Dungeons) and some don't (Legends). Story Mode was a good spinoff at first and couldve lasted but the original creators went bankrupt

[@alphabros5226]

I think there is more merit to a spinoff working. It'd just need to actually commit fully to whatever genre it is. As pointed out in the video, Legends is a weird mix of a beat em up and a tactics game. And from personal experience, Dungeons is kind of what I'd infer a watered down diablo to be. I think, at the very least, I'd want to see a spinoff that tries to go for a more "mature" level of skill in the gameplay. Either way, would definetly say that Legends does not live up to being THE minecraft strategy game.

[@orange_turtle3412]

@@22XERO22 I think dungeons worked because its more so a completely unique game with the minecraft IP slapped on, rather than a minecraft game. They could have just created a dungeon crawler with an original IP and the game would be relatively unchanged. Legends, on the other hand, feels like it was created for the sake of making another minecraft game. Dungeons was dungeon crawler game first, minecraft game second. Legends is minecraft game first, whatever genre its supposed to be second. And minecraft story mode (rightfully) failed because “minecraft” and “story mode” are essentially polar opposites that cannot coexist.

[@crypix]

@@orange_turtle3412 Story mode didn't really fail that bad it's just that the creators went bankrupt

[@Georgetwentyten]

Let's be honest, no spinoff can ever be like the actual Minecraft.

[@Nomenooooo]

Ong. Like adding story to a sandbox game where you create your own story won't work.

[@huxtyreal7536]

still waiting for hytale

[@bloosix]

Well both MC dungeons and legends tried to add a story in a game where there really is no story. idk about legends becaues i haven't played it, but dungeons wasn't even that bad. If there was a modding community for it, and the base game had better progression it honestly would've survived.

[@Crocc101]

@@bloosixMinecraft dungeons is a good game it as a separate story from Minecraft there is still tons of people playing

[@bloosix]

Its a good game but not popular. The 30 day average of the game is 384 players, which is less popular than lots of roblox games.@@Crocc101

[@golden6209]

They did Minecraft: Story Mode and Dungeons so well, but Legends is so bad.

[@Rhbplayzbird]

Also minecraft earth that was so good

[@0kr4m]

Dungeons fell off cuz the updates sucked

[@remor698]

Eh, Minecraft Dungeons also has its substantial sum of issues, so Legends being a failure wasn't unexpected by the metric of big spin-offs that part of Mojang worked on. What's more surprising is the fact that the Dungeons team went into that project with basically zero experience in making a diablo style dungeon crawler, whereas the Legends team was in part a studio that specializes in RTS games, which one would have thought might balance things out. Then again, Blackbird Interactive were themselves also split between like 3+ projects at the time, so there's that.

[@haimay5767]

Minecraft dungeons still has a very good community/ playerbase@@0kr4m Dungeons is a super good solo game whereas it looked like they wanted to make legends a multiplayer game that just wouldnt make a good multiplayeer game

[@Awesomeflame16]

​@@remor698 I regret buying dungeons, easily could have gone without it in hindsight. It just got so... boring

[@Jkingnick]

I honestly think Story Mode was the best out of all of them, but there is no shadow of a doubt that the OG Minecraft just dominates all of them. I also think that they have honestly run out of ideas for new games as well, as the lifespan of each games starts to slowly shrink and shrink, and Legends was definitely a big drop. They should honestly listen to the community more about making Minecraft a better game instead of making spinoffs of other games, because I think everyone here agrees that we need all of the mobs in the mob votes to be added into Minecraft.

[@ritasonka330]

That doesn't directly make them money though. I guess they could have the mob vote be for which mob is added for free, and otherwise the mob has to make a donation milestone to make it in?

[@Jkingnick]

@@ritasonka330 But as well, the original Minecraft game is starting to feel a bit stale. They still get tons of new players so them getting money isn't an issue. Also it's owned by Microsoft, they have tons of money. Just my opinion.

[@gracbrac4817]

Whenever I hear Minecraft Story Mode, I can't help but hear Technoblade calling it "Door simulator 2000"😂

[@aidanlee3552]

in my opinion i like dungeons more than minecraft lol

[@LolEleiteye]

I'd argue that Dungeons is still somewhat alive. If you check the Steam Chart, Dungeons is still averaging around 400/500 concurrent players, and that's only countint Steam.

[@joshuavis2736]

That ending really hits different now. Its still hilarious but theres also some real wholesomeness to it. Matpat aside, youve pointed out a very interesting trend with mojangs minecraft spinoff games that i hope gets explored deeper by people. Great video!

[@Stoppy-67]

Long story short, Mojang tries to make other games but immediately discontinues it and fails, because nothing can beat their main game.

[@waterbucket4358]

Mojang aren't the one making it

[@froggycolouring]

Who would’ve guessed a spin-off wouldn’t do better than the game its spinning off?

[@cultofhampter]

Nothing can beat it, but minecraft dungeons was very fun. Minecraft may had been much more accessible and loved but dungeon crawler fans could have fun with it using mc dungeons, minecraft legends wasn't good... like at all

[@lightedtwice]

Dungeons was by far the best and still somehow the most underwhelming game out of all of the MC Spinoffs. If I had a choice, I would love Dungeons to come back, but with more creative elements from minecraft.

[@PancilFry]

Yes I agree

[@Friendly_G]

It gets very stale. Just do the dungeon tower 2 times and the rewards you get make the story mode insanely easy. To get the rest of the story you have to pay extra on top of the game

[@PancilFry]

Well It is very fun if you not play towers but I do agree. Try playing without tower and it will be much fun.@@Friendly_G

[@Glyphical-Abyss]

agreed

[@Sanicfan9192]

I never played dungeons, does this mean they shut down the servers or stopped updating it?

[@UncleMyers37]

I'm one of the only people who actually play it. I put it on maximum difficulty and messed with the settings a bit to make it an actual fun experience. I kept myself entertained by making challenges. EX: I'm not allowed to use the firsts. (Giant golems that make the game 10x easier and boring) I still wish that they put more effort into the game play. I can think of multiple mechanics that would make it fun like a playable piglin faction.

[@null6209]

I think Minecraft Legends was actually an original idea but then they added the minecraft lore over it. If it was it's own thing and they focused on the Strategy Game players instead of minecraft players, while it might not have sold as many copies, it might have had it's own following, because the idea itself is really interesting, but they had to add minecraft over it.

[@sediew]

Remember when Mojang used to make games that weren’t Minecraft

[@darth3911]

@@sediewAs far as I know they never did. The company was founded on Minecraft. The other games related to Minecraft was developed by Notch before he founded Mojang to continue developing Minecraft as he focused on making new games. He sold it as he became the living face of Minecraft and didn’t want to be the face of a game dominated by a player base that ranges from 6-26.

[@sediew]

@@darth3911 what about Scrolls (Caller’s bane)? Or the one they published called Cobalt?

[@BRGyt]

Love the incredible videos! Keep them up ❤

[@woodenspider]

I played the hell out of Dungeons and would love if they did more of it. Legends was fun but it really felt like a one and done ordeal. The only reason to play it after the campaign is just do a challenge but then after all the repetition, playing once feels like you’ve played it all.

[@kevinmai5125]

What always will make me disappointed about Minecraft dungeons is so much of its structures mobs would be perfect in vanilla Minecraft all the dungeons are already region based too it will also add a reason to actually visit every biome that isn’t just that biome achivement

[@Kartoffelchipslul]

7:43 The reason why Minecraft Story Mode was discountinued was not by it selling bad.In fact,many people loved it.Sadly Telltale games,which were making these games went bankrupt and so the rights of Minecarft Story Mode were lost.And because of that,Microsoft hat to shutdown every way of playing the game.

[@MixingMagic09]

That’s part of it. The discontinuation of telltale rendered the game nearly impossible to play, but the game was cancelled about a year before telltale went bankrupt. It’s a really good game though and I’m sad that a lot of people can’t play it

[@Enchanted_590]

I remember there was so much hype over the game! There was so many people streaming it on Twitch before! But now there’s barely anyone streaming it on Twitch! It’s crazy how quickly a game can decline!

[@uponeric36]

Nobody new the scope until release; once it became obvious that it was painfully linear most people lost interest. I kept waiting for the moment where I felt "this is Minecraft" and it didn't come, it just fails to carry any of that spirit outside the visuals.

[@CatgirlJesus]

I think Minecraft Spin offs are a great place to test and sample ideas for blocks, mobs, biomes, etc. The main issue I see is they never do anything with all the created objects. Imagine how fun the game could be if we got ALL this amazing stuff from the spinoffs.

[@Smol_PC]

Agreed, too much lore friendly content is being thrown away. How do we have enchanting and potions but not magic? I thought if the Iceologer won the vote, then maybe we would have at least one magic item. Knowing Mojang, though, they would make one item and never work on magic again...

[@Top1tippy]

@@Smol_PC imagine if the iceologer was in the game it could drop the ice wand from dungeons

[@darth3911]

@@Top1tippyPersonally I think it should be added as a mini boss with it’s own structure.

[@Top1tippy]

@@darth3911 that would be so cool to have an actually good structure in the ice biomes since the only one right now is igloo

[@mega0ver366]

Hahahaha im so sad that the game gone wrong........ hahahahaha ( But now they can add 3 mobs per year atleast i guess )

[@DiamondEmpyrean8273]

I feel bad for Mojang. I think it's about time to stop with the spin-offs and work with the mainline more. Edit: (I think I made a new joke turn up the heat)

[@GabrielleTollerson]

I don't. They shot themselves in the foot selling out to Microsoft

[@DiamondEmpyrean8273]

@@GabrielleTollerson "shot themselves" With what weapon? Please say a gun.

[@ArraxShadowfang]

@@DiamondEmpyrean8273 An arrow to the Knee

[@DiamondEmpyrean8273]

@@ArraxShadowfang Okay, at least it was not a lazer.

[@viniciusgoulart5077]

An arrow bazzoka to the knee

[@mysticartificial4022]

And finally, it got discontinued. I guess the writings were on the wall all this time

[@Scwulf]

“That’s just a theory” hits different now

[@uhhDotpy]

Said it once, and I'll say it again This man deserves way more subs, the videos are really well edited and fun/entertaining to watch

[@CalebIsSalty]

appreciate you bro!

[@JJWarriorBlade]

To be honest the people who loved Minecraft Dungeons going to play Minecraft Legends know that the game didn’t compare to MCD. If they just stuck to MCD I bet they would have more success. (I love MCD and play it a lot)

[@tigreonice2339]

Which one do you recommend buying on PC: legends deluxe, dungeons deluxe or minecraft bedrock + java? The guy who want the new game plays the basic one

[@mrun-gamer9008]

Tbh i feel like most minecraft players, including me, only play minecraft because of it's unique sandbox style and probably don't care about the spin off it makes. Mojang could make more and more spin offs but the minecraft player base just don't care and want to play minecraft.

[@isaacharvey451]

Things like Minecraft Legends make me miss Minecraft: Story Mode. Sure, the combat mechanics were questionable, but the storyline was leagues ahead of what Minecraft's spinoff games today have to offer, and both seasons offered multiple endings. I'd be interested in a MCSM S3 if it could include more sophisticated combat dynamics.

[@sboy2044]

The beginning tutorial section of Legends (everything between the actual tutorial teaching you the basic mechanics, up to destroying the night beacon), was updated to be way less repetitive.

[@atroxusviatorem2630]

Your production quality is overall exceptional for an under 100k channel, but you also mimic disrupt's style very well, so might as well just become their unofficial sort-of logical successor, with your own twists and bits - Id much rather watch you then them from now on. The only thing you need to do for this is try to cover more subjects (not only gaming, but also definitely dont abandon it, we need quality here too) :D Merry Christmas and keep up with the good work!

[@AmethystBad]

the real minecraft legends were the friends we made along the way

[@dougwark6150]

This hits hard

[@chaseashby8585]

I was not aware that minecraft dungeons was discontinued! I have enjoyed that game a lot since its initial release and that actually makes me really sad ): as I was really hoping that there would be another update and I could come back to the game with even a small amount of new content to explore. I understand not making more expansions, but new enchantments and such were really fun to play around with and have been added separate from expansion releases in the past.

[@FreakCynical]

not even a 10 seconds in i thought to myself 'he's gonna end it with "but that's just a theory", i'm so smart'

[@eltonsstuff]

Minecraft literally owes every bit of it's success to it's community, not it's devs. Mojang is just not a good dev team. Any game that mojang develops that doesn't have the community picking up their slack it doomed to fail.

[@makyeah]

The only thing Legends did for me was made me realize: allays are really underutilized in regular Minecraft. They could be so awesome.

[@zackbauer4562]

Certainly doesn't help that the spinoffs are pretty much standalone from the main game. Like there's zero tie in with the main game that could help generate hype, they could add a mob or something from the spinoff game into the main game to help advertise the spinoff, rather then how they do do it, in that you can tell the spinoff is related to minecraft since it pulls alot from minecraft, but there's nothing in minecraft which shows that it's related to the spinoff. If they had added something like the red stone golem into minecraft at the same time that dungeons released, it would help generate traffic for dungeons by giving the main game players a taste of what dungeons had to offer in terms of combat. For legends they could've added in the yellow Allay, and have it gather resources like in legends.

[@Daralexen]

Glow Squid came from Earth, and it is in the main game.

[@zackbauer4562]

@@Daralexen Glow squid was added to the main game well after minecraft Earth was shut down, doesn't really work to generate hype or traffic to Minecraft Earth it no longer exists. Had it been added to the main game when Earth launched then you'd have a point, otherwise my point still stands.

[@Daralexen]

They did something similar for Story Mode during the era of Legacy Console with a skinpack that featured characters from the game with custom models. That is the only thing besides Glow Squid that is in the main game that originally came from a spin-off. The new Relic disc features the melody of the Minecraft Legends theme, but that is not the same as putting the Yellow Allay or Plank Golem into the main game.@@zackbauer4562

[@fortheburbsandmemes7419]

Tbh Minecraft legends just feels like a game that’s kinda meant to be played once get enjoyment from and never play it again till like maybe a few weeks or months later. All these challenges and somewhat of a lackluster major update “Ik it’s hard but I feel like more could’ve been done”. Don’t really work as much.

[@remor698]

It's weird how immensely flawed Minecraft Legends is as an RTS, considering BBI, who collaborated with Mojang on this project, specialize in that genre. The only playable faction is the Overworld; the units don't have upgrade paths, you just replace them situationally; the singleplayer being one large open world with no true failure condition means you can just grind up resources and overwhelm obstacles like that, which in some places feels like the intended strategy, mind-numbing and tedious; unit interactions come out to just a clash of numbers rather than strategy with few, if any, counterplay inherent to their design, leaving only evasion in the form of micro managed movement; and the terrain has a shockingly small impact on player strategy in most cases due to how easy traversal everywhere is and pve stealth just does not exist. And the action part of this action rts is similarly barebones, only providing a single, simple melee attack and fairly standard traversal means, the only element that can be functionally customized, which are all that set the player apart from just being a grounded, unit locked version of a standard rts camera. And Minecraft Legends did have potential to be way better in all those aspects, especially with the theme of uniting the overworld against the hordes of the nether. Those could have been like three whole factions on each side and the overworld ones could have easily given the player more varied quests than defend and/or attack, showing the personality of each faction more. For the player, different weapons wouldn't have been a crazy suggestion either, like a heavily trimmed down version of the Minecraft Dungeons selection with only one equippable at a time. And if we want to give the players creativity, the different structures are made of blocks so letting players rebuild them for their own cosmetic touch, with some restrictions to still keep the structures recognizable, would've been doable too. As with everything Minecraft as of late: A lot of potential left on the table for no discernable reason.

[@hadookin47]

Painful coincidence with the Game Theory joke at the end

[@ProtocolAbyss]

I will die on this hill that Minecraft Dungeons will forever cement itself as the greatest MC spinoff to date. it was fun, quality, has an amazing set of visuals and sound design, the music was amazing and the gameplay loop was addictive. Of course it had issues, the equipment based gameplay hindered it and that all the new content was locked behind a paywall, but it was still fun enough for me to get every DLC. *However* they refused to update it and let it die, I will never forgive Mojang for that. They legitimately had a second money printer in the palm of their hands, the game seriously was a fun dungeon crawler for fans of MC and could get people interested (specifically younger gens) in other dungeon crawlers. They just had to add these things: - Add a skill tree - Provide less FOMO content - Give us some Multiplayer aspect (like the crucible from destiny where to you dungeon crawl stuff and fight each other) - Give us a custom dungeon builder - Provide actual endgame content for us - Produce good modding tools for the game Just those 6 things, the entirety of 2 studios just had to give us those 6 things, and the game would've been self sustaining for years, and yet they didn't. They instead added a shitty tower with a battle pass, ended support and advertised the 'whole new MC experience' they gave up on us for. And all of this, the betrayal of thousands, maybe millions of players for what? A broken, mediocre, half-hearted experience. I honestly have never felt so back-stabbed from a company I loved so much. I still play normal MC but I won't be playing any more spinoffs until they either commit to a update cycle that at least lasts 4-5 years for a game or at minimum gives us ample content that isn't rushed or feels heartless. Just disappointing.

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

"will forever cement itself as the greatest to date"

[@ProtocolAbyss]

@@TheJacklikesvideos Storymode was average at best, MC earth died on release and we can see how much of a utter vapid, apathetic catastrophe Legends is. until you give me an example of one other spinoff that was a high quality as dungeons was, my point will still be valid.

[@galax3971]

Agreed idk why they just let it die. Seems like an allocation of work force to the newer game to me. Just like mentioned in the video

[@LolEleiteye]

I'd say Story Mode was the best. Dungeons is funner, but Story Mode is more iconic and was a big part of old Minecraft.

[@Agabua-ry6lb]

They did Minecraft Dungeons so well.

[@lasercraft32]

It makes me mad. Because I _love_ this game conceptually and visually. Its art style is amazing. The music is relaxing and chill. There was _so much potential,_ but it failed because they fumbled the gameplay (the most important part of the game!). They should have taken notes from other RTS games like Pikmin, and they should have seriously done something to fix the repetitiveness. The worst part is, the game would have lasted so much longer if they had actually _involved the community._ The Myths, Lost Legends, and the game's Marketplace would have been _perfect_ for community made content! Minecraft _thrives_ off of the community. The fact that every aspect of the game basically frowns upon letting the player create their own thing was a huge red flag. No chat in multiplayer is a huge issue (because you know... its a _strategy game),_ there aren't a lot of unique skins to choose from unless you buy stuff (which is not good, considering the price of the game itself is too high), and the multiplayer literally has 1 game mode. Its like they _wanted_ it to fail, or were just too afraid to actually _try._ It hasn't even been a year yet and they already gave up supporting it. Which really really sucks. I feel bad for the team that poured their hearts and souls into making this, only to have it flop so badly because of stupid executive decisions.

[@LookAt_MyCat]

Dungeons was actually fun though. Short, but enjoyable. Sadly I can’t say the same for Legends

[@ShadowFred386]

in the defense of Minecraft Story Mode's Discontinuation it was msotly due to the fact TellTale had shut down. Microsoft simply had no reason to keep a license up for a gaming company that didn't exist anymore, though I imagine if TellTale never closed and could've kept themselves going strong we could've had more

[@dr.anderson1847]

Minecraft Dungeons is a good dungeon crawler Minecraft Legends is a bad RTS, there is no consequences for losing units, there's no reward for preserving units. The gameplay is equivalent to throwing units into a meat grinder, waiting for it to clog up. This hurts the main gameplay loop as who cares about upgrading units when it doesn't matter if you lose 10 or 10,000 golems

[@sodiumzip]

Legendary video as always. I love your editing.

[@marcelburdon9795]

Love the DISRPUT editing, good video too

[@door_way]

Caleb, you're videos are getting so awesome!!! I remember when you had 10k subscribers. You've come so far and you're videos have only gotten better! I'm so happy for you and I feel like you're gonna be one of the biggest minecraft documentary youtubers out there. Good luck on 100k!

[@Epixel14]

They didn't really "discontinue" minecraft dungeons. they had a planned amount of updates and came to the end of the story just like any other story game. It' s still out to download and play through. thats not to be said about the previous 2 spin-offs.

[@ThatsPrettyCool_DontYouThink]

My nine year old little brother wanted Minecraft Deluxe for his birthday, since he was on playstation. It would give him a bunch of cool items and stuff, including emotes, avatars, texture packs, etc. So obviously he would pick Deluxe over starter edition. So he asks his mom for Minecraft Deluxe and she sends it to a friend, telling her that he wants minecraft deluxe. Here's the thing: when showing her a photo of the game, she showed Minecraft Legends Deluxe Edition, which is absolutely not worth your money, and only gives you 6 fucking skins. On his birthday, he is so incredibly excited, he cant contain his happiness. Now imagine the fucking disappointment on his face seeing "minecraft legends, the deluxe collection". For refrence, we do not even have an appreciation for any type of spinoff of Minecraft. We're both like, " maybe its not that bad. ". So we boot it up, and are instantly met with a disappointment of a game. Nothing fun. The entire building is automated, the game has nothing to do with minecraft, and the entire campaign is ass. It takes the entire idea of minecraft and throws it out of the window. The game doesnt even feel like minecraft. It's just minecraft labeled over a random ass open-world RPG game. It's not even worth your money.

[@redkangroos]

Nice video with some pretty neat editing :) I would however suggest lowering the music volume a bit. It's sometimes difficult to make out what you're saying

[@AnimuuStew]

8:01 "perhaps not today, but maybe in a year or 2" or y'know. 2 & a half weeks after this was uploaded lmao

[@LiquidRane11]

"There's a good chance it could happen in a year or two." It didn't even make it THAT long! 😂

[@discoboycraft2409]

I love Minecraft legends, I still play it to this day. But I agree legends didn’t do so well :(

[@vectinator7605]

I remember playing Minecraft Earth, I liked to concept, I had a little trouble with the Mining/Dungeon Crawl events because I could figure out how descend. However I still enjoyed the game. I took a break from it because I was finishing college and then while it was still on my phone I opened it up and found the game shut down. Honestly I liked Minecraft Earth way more than Pokémon Go.

[@regretales]

Awesome 3D Animatione Caleb!

[@FlushDesert22]

I feel like repetitiveness would work if it was in the context of a tutorial mode/level instead of the full gameplay, and I think if they did that, it might fix most issues besides the game being too easy. Also, I think MC Earth was discontinued because of covid to be honest. And, like someone else said, MC Story Mode was discontinued because it's parent company (Telltale games) shut down.

[@alienstar2088]

I think the biggest issue Minecraft Spinoff games face is the fact that there's really no need or reason to have them. Minecraft is a wildly successful game and it is that way not because of expansive lore, amazing graphics or complex gameplay - Minecraft is successful because it's a sandbox world where there are no objectives. Yes, Minecraft does have bosses in the forms of the Wither and Ender Dragon but, those bosses are entirely optional and offer nothing other than a few trophy items for the player's accomplishment. Trying to turn a sandbox game with the most bare bone lore, gameplay complexity, etc. into something like Dungeons or Legends just isn't going to work. You see people coming back to so many franchises like God of War, DOOM and more so, why can they have so many games and Minecraft can't? Again, it's because all those other games are fun but also have the benefit of having lots of lore and a character with an actual personality that people enjoy watching and playing as. Minecraft is a blank canvas, that's why it's been such a success but, it is also because of that that it is unable to branch out successfully into other genera, spinoffs or sequels.

[@commanderAnakin]

The real issue is that these Minecraft spinoffs aren't Minecraft. They're just other games with the "Minecraft" logo slapped onto it. People want to play Minecraft, not whatever Legends or Dungeons tries to be.

[@tigreonice2339]

Which one do you recommend buying on PC: legends deluxe, dungeons deluxe or minecraft bedrock + java?

[@wolfythyalphapiratewolf2015]

Minecraft Dungeons is simply the best Minecraft Spin Off. As for Minecraft Earth... I think that one was more unfortunate timing... With The Virus and being an AR game😊

[@moocow_1232]

Editing is 🔥🔥🔥 Great video btw

[@BotturasStudios]

i have never heard of minecraft legends in my whole lifetime but i play minecraft almost every day

[@ralsaby]

very well produced video good job especially with the editing, also digital baptism definitely needs more love

[@AltPlus30]

I remember being super excited about it until I realized it's a strategy Like, "Wow, an actual Minecraft RPG! Can't wait to- oh it's RTS.."

[@firetoacat]

Likely, a good number of those that left Minecraft Legends left it because they finished it and stopped playing. Because they finished the game, they moved onto other games. A few, including me, could not access the game because we are no longer paying for game pass (I honestly want to get back into the game, I found it quite fun and something I can turn on and play when I feel like playing that sort of game, or even to use as a way to build new and neat structures in my Java worlds)

[@flexi2394]

A huge problem Mojang has is that they think they sell their products only to kids that are bad at playing videogames that require some sort of skill. That is why Legends and Dungeons were so easy and boring to play because they had no real challenge. But in reality, kids can be more skilled than some adults if we just take a look at Fortnite or the boy that just beat Tetris after no one could finish it after 30 years!

[@Nephelangelo]

Mojang needs to stop screwing around with these side games no one asked for and just put all of that world building content and aesthetic polish into vanilla Minecraft.

[@Yurkkoo]

oh my god, i remember you from your bedwars videos, your quality has increased so much. love the work you're doing now ♥♥♥

[@erotech1]

Just want to say something about Minecraft Story Mode! The game was discontinued not because it failed but because the company that made the game (it wasn’t Mojang) got bankrupt! The game itself was very popular and successful and 8 years later there are still people playing it!

[@GAMER32231]

HOW TO GET MC STORY MODE!?!?!?!?

[@erotech1]

@@GAMER32231 You can buy a physical copy for consoles or a steam key. You can also pirate it but I don’t recommend it because it’s very hard or at least it’s very hard for me!

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

​@@GAMER32231Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum☠️🏴‍☠️

[@Pqw3r]

Amazing video caleb, didn't even know dungeons got continued, says something about the exposure of the spinoffs after a while

[@PotatoChipsLeysClassic]

6:57 im about to explain the reason why those games got discontinued. Minecraft storymode got disscotinued bc Telltale games got shut down and mojang didnt have any rights or papper to continue this project and couldn't get them bc again the Telltale games shut down, minecraft earrtth got discontinued bc of the pandemic and the game was kinda like pokemon go where you had to go outside to play, minecraft dungeons got discontinued bc the game receved like 6 different dlc's and that was enought and devs started to focus more on that crappy minecraft legends game

[@ghostlee0]

I called it when it was announced. I remember telling all my friends "It's gonna die really fast." Go figure.

[@qtOwl]

Wait, Dungeons is discontinued? I thought it would have some more updates because - it really is fun to play :,D

[@mlgpol9694]

You should have more subs tbh, love those edits and keep going

[@Aquaneos1193]

Dungeons is honestly a good game and they should build on it. However Legends was doomed from the start because RTS style games are dead and have been for a while. Commercially dead

[@mosye]

Microsoft's like a kid who gets a new toy and gets bored of it a week later so he asks for a new toy every other week.

[@Janevimteda_]

great video, haven't seen such a good youtuber in quite some time!

[@darkblue3643]

Minecraft story mode had the studio shut down and episodic games struggle unless there really special, Minecraft earth came out just before we had lockdown. Minecraft dungeons just struggled to hold players interest and I think similar is happening with legends

[@Ho_Lee_Fook]

Story mode didn't have the studio shut down lol

[@100mcuber4]

yet dungeons has a much bigger fanbase and player count

[@D4N1LO]

3:46 Not the "stock" watermark 😭

[@MrDsb]

They should make story mode campaign games within the Minecraft universe. No multiplayer or micro transactions. Just treat it as a story game with (not telltale) gameplay. If everything is online multiplayer, no one has the time to play everything, everyone will jump to the main Minecraft

[@Gl0ried]

the flow of the video and your editing skills are just top notch. You've earnt a sub

[@AndresGreenboi]

I don’t know about the other players, but I was very excited to play the game. But for like a month, there was a huge glitch that didn’t let me get pasted like the first hour, it would just soft lock. Time and time again. It really killed my excitement.

[@cozmcLive]

most underrated youtuber ever like why is no one talking about Calebs editing its fricking wild

[@lordforce5546]

The weirdest part is that mojang announced the discontinuation of minecraft dungeons in the same article where they celebrated 25 million player. "This game is awesome with 25 MILLION player, we will ignore it!"

[@guyexplores686]

To be fair with Earth, Quarantine was a MAJOR factor in the downfall, me and my friends loved Earth and since the game's main focus was interaction and socialization that's what caused it to be discontinued.

[@facelessperson]

it wasnt legendary enough

[@Megamus643AlphaofLife]

That game is beautiful man I play Minecraft legends good action good environments and good gameplay and also I love how you summon a lot of mobs to fight with you to fight evil

[@C1OUS3R]

Tbh i completely forgot this was a thing

[@NoxMiles]

How does a spin off already have a next gen update, when the base game still has no announcements.

[@PotMe]

h3llo CalebIsSalty broo :-D can u believe Christmas is just a week away

[@CalebIsSalty]

christmas!!! just a week away!!! i am so excited about this information

[@mikofanboy9711]

About your last point Storymode and Earth was canceled due to unexpected circumstances (TellTale drama and Covid) Plus how long it took to make a game, it's unlikely to be planned

[@JustPineapple]

I love my KaleIsSaltine Christmas uploads

[@Paintballperson-k2l]

It has so much potential and its very unique but every system is just shallow.

[@tmntleo]

Huh, I didn't even realise Dungeons had ended. Guess I won't be getting into that one.

[@Endless_Tenoid]

The documentaries are getting better and better keep up the visuals

[@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87]

They made a multiplayer mode, without any way to communicate with your team. What were they thinking ?

[@skyflash-wf9pc]

Well, 5 days ago minecraft legends was discontinued. Less than 1 year after its release.

[@twin9878]

3:35 Shoutout to you sir for throwin a lil Dj Screw in there 🤣🤘🏽RIP King of the South 🙏🏽

[@Trojan073]

1:26. Minecraft earth suffers in silence 7:06 Telltale went bankrupt: earth has Covid. Story mode is honestly the best out of all of these

[@Cat_png23]

Original Minecraft is just a masterpiece no spin off Minecraft game possibly beat the original one

[@darth3911]

Minecraft Storymode was good as it didn’t try to be a spin-off but make a story based in Minecraft. The issue with most spin-offs is the original does everything the spin-off can do but with more freedom. Storymode was successful as it’s strength was Minecraft’s sole weakness, story.

[@allozabd]

Yeah, i think Minecraft dungeons was good but only failed after they stopped adding content. I swear they said they werent done with it but that clearly isnt the case. Its kinda a shame that legends sucks but it is what it is.

[@BaileyCooperwilkinson]

I hate it because the hostile mobs like the dead are passive. The undead are supposed to be mindless flesh eating killers to friendly creatures. I mean I don’t understand why the illagers are good.

[@melongolemist]

because minecraft legends are past before dungeons and vanilla minecraft happens illagers help the hero but someday they start hating vilagers

[@werlux88]

man how do you only have 72k subs, your content is so good