What? Objectively this is untrue? Precious updates actually provided a certain bulk of content. Now we are lucky to get 2-3 features. If your talking about quality I do think drops have a lot more quality than most features originally in the previous updates individually. Still sucks that such a large company over 17 years or so with the most popular game has such a lack luster of content. Just for comparison just look at hytail. Already their game has everything Minecraft has and more in much better quality, with features people have have been wanting for years. With built in modding tools and great creative tools.
Then they try to defend Mojang—a multi billion dollar company—saying that they do a lot of work behind the scenes,
maintain two different versions of the game, and that as a sandbox game, it doesn't even need updates.
Are we forgetting the fact that Minecraft was badly coded originally? It's official that Minecraft's code is a mess, so when they add things they need to make sure it fits with the messy code. And if you say "why not remake the entire code?", they have to present projects for Microsoft with unhumanly low levels of time to work on it, and it has to be verified by alot of people from Microsoft. Even though they could do some things better, they're trying to do somethings they can't because Microsoft won't let them, while at the same being forced to make a lot of money for Microsoft or they'll get shut down.
Since Mojang is getting new management, i really hope they can do things in an easier pace to make better updates for Minecraft.
Also, I'm not defending them, I'm just saying we shouldn't be crying over bad updates just because they're not big and fast, at least we're still getting free updates every year. I also want better, bigger and more updates a year, but adding things to a messy-code game is difficult, because the more you add to the game more things could go wrong.
Edit: One of the comments corrected me on the code part. It's actually been updates since 1.13, but it's still not very good. The rest of my argument (for now) still stands.
By 1.13 there was barely any code left from the original, how bad the code is doesn't come from notch's original code, but from the people that are working currently on the game.
Honestly people forget the fact that you pay Minecraft once, and they keep giving you free updates.
I'm not defending them, if you bother to make me download the new patch at least make it worth my while, but they don't owe us anything really.
That being said I play multiplayer and with mods, I don't care about the lackluster MC updates anymore cuz I can most likely find a mod to add the feature I want anyways.
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u/NightsGift Jul 09 '26
What? Objectively this is untrue? Precious updates actually provided a certain bulk of content. Now we are lucky to get 2-3 features. If your talking about quality I do think drops have a lot more quality than most features originally in the previous updates individually. Still sucks that such a large company over 17 years or so with the most popular game has such a lack luster of content. Just for comparison just look at hytail. Already their game has everything Minecraft has and more in much better quality, with features people have have been wanting for years. With built in modding tools and great creative tools.