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• Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I feel like Minecraft has kind of lagged in popularity with the current crop of 5 to 12-year-olds compared to some of the newer games, like Roblox.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Roblox is four years older than minecraft.

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    • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, but in average popular with a younger demographic.

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That may be so, but that’s irrelevant to them. Their IP is Minecraft, not Roblox. They only need to appeal to the largest demographic of people who enjoy Minecraft (aka kids, not adults). The other interests of their target audience are hardly relevant. All that matters is that they’re interested in the topic though to see a movie.

    Or more accurately, bug their parents to pay to see the movie. Because those are additional tickets, too.

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    • Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Players aged 15 to 21 make up the largest group of Minecraft’s player base at 43%. 

      The remaining 21% consists of players between 22 to 30 years old, and 20.59% are users aged 61 to 80. 

      You might be thinking of demographics from like 10 years ago, but those kids grew up dude. Kids are not the primary demographic.

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      • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m not disputing anything you’re saying, just trying to explain the logic of a movie production studio. If they’re trying to make a Minecraft movie, they’re going to gear it to maximize the revenue from their audience.

        If they made it a kids movie, it’s because they thought that would make them the most money. Whatever kind of movie they made, it’s for monetary reasons.

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      • skulbuny@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        People need to wake up to the fact that these movies are ads to sell shit. This is an ad to sell Minecraft to a new generation in of kids. Why in the world do you think they keep rebooting movies that’s made for kids like Star Wars and Transformers? Because they sell toys to kids.

        So, why Minecraft movie? You admit the stats yourself: they need kids to like Minecraft to sell Minecraft branded shit. They don’t even have to play the fuckin game as long as they’re paying for cheap branded plastic for kids to show off to their friends what brand represents their personality the best.

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      • person420@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        There are two main reasons why those numbers are skewed and incorrect.

        1. Mojang/Microsoft can’t legally keep tallies of players under the age of 13 due to COPA regulations, so that demo is underrepresented
        2. Those numbers include Java metrics which contrary to popular belief, are absolutely dwarfed by Bedrock players.

        Bedrock players are Mojang/Microsoft’s target demo. They spend more money (with both realms and the marketplace) and purchase more merchandise.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I gotta find one of those godly servers populated by retired architects and engineers.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Dress To Impress movie adaptation when???

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• angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Minecraft is mostly popular with people who were 5 - 12 years old 10 years ago.

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• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes cause 5 to 12-year-olds are the only people who play Minecraft. Nobody over the age of 12 plays Minecraft at all and there aren’t millions of Minecraft players out there that are anywhere from 12 to 70 years old.

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• Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If were going average or median I would be genuinely surprised if it was under 20 ngl.

  They advertise to kids cause kids and adults buy it then, advertise to adults and youre just cutting off part of your market - companies aren’t so super sterilised these days cause today’s youth are just super loaded

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