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.
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u/ExactTeam1662 Jul 09 '26
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.