"Minecraft players go full propaganda mode as petition demanding the end of the 'mob vote' draws 300

[kane_magus]

Full headline, because Dreamwidth still sucks: "Minecraft players go full propaganda mode as petition demanding the end of the 'mob vote' draws 300,000 signatures in just a few days"

Honestly, between that headline and the article itself, that seems like a hell of a lot of words just to say "Minecraft has apparently gotten objectively worse since Microsoft bought Mojang." Or, at least, it hasn't gotten demonstrably better in any way. (Remember the days, though, when a video game would just get released and that was it? When they didn't have to be perpetually updated ad infinitum after release or else risk the wrath of gamers labeling them as "abandoned" or "dead"? Yeah, I miss those days.)

That said, maybe Mojang/Microsoft could probably put more effort into Minecraft itself, if only they'd stop wasting time with all the "franchising" attempts, i.e. releasing all those not-Minecraft spinoff games that are Minecraft in name only, at best, and all the merchandising and ventures into other media like books and movies and shit like that.

None of this actually matters to me, except to mock it, as aside from maybe five minutes or so last year after "upgrading" from the Java version to the "Bedrock" version or whatever the fuck, I haven't touched Minecraft at all in probably at least ten years by this point.

Comments

[goldpseudo]

Seriously? "We demand you give us all the things instead of choosing just one"?

That "protest" is such a waste of an article; it's one thing to complain when developers straight cut developed features out of a game to sell them back to you later, but complaining that developers should be adding new features (i.e. mobs) three times as fast, for free i might add since there's no DLC or subscription costs involved, in a game that's they probably bought at a fraction of the cost of current games, is just people being assholes.

Minecraft is still a solid game, with or without the new features. While one can argue whether or not the newer releases are actually an improvement, the Minecraft launcher explicitly allows you to roll back and play whatever version best floated your boat all the way back to 1.0.

[kane_magus]

Yeah, it was a full, fully playable game a decade ago, back when I still played it. The complainers, instead of complaining, should just be glad that it's still getting updated at all, even if the pace is supposedly "slower." Anything added beyond "release" (for Minecraft or any other game) is just gravy, especially when it's free, as long as they're not adding/changing things to make it actively worse in some way (which for too many other games is what ends up happening). Notch could have stopped entirely at 1.0, before any of the stuff that came after that, like ocelots (the last "new" thing I remember being added before I stopped playing it) or whatever, and that would have been more than fine (aside from maybe fixing any remaining bugs that still needed to be squashed).

Well, maybe not so fine for the asinine "Game stopped updating? AbAnDoNeD/dEaD/sTaGnAnT!!!`!!11!!" crowd, but I kind of really don't give a shit what they think anymore, if I ever did in the first place. *shrug*

(What I find extra funny is that some of the complainers, like idiots down in the comments under the article, seem to think that Mojang has fully developed these mobs with them all being only a button tap away from being added to the game, but is then just scrapping all that work and tossing away the two that weren't picked, when it's much more likely that some guy at Mojang probably just whipped up a few models in an hour or so to be used for images in the vote, and only when one is picked will the real work to create that mob then actually start. Or, at least, the latter is what would make way more sense to me, anyway, but what do I know. These people probably put way more time and effort into making their war propaganda mock-up posters than Mojang did in creating these potential mobs.)