That's great! New mechanics and features are nice, but focusing on optimization and bug fixes are better!
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Waiting for a few more months until 1.8 comes out is better than it being rushed. Just think of everything that will be included in 1.8 for a minute: /spectator, blocks, endermite, changes of block IDs, improved chat, stackable doors, and other cool changes. And be grateful that all these updates are FREE and that Minecraft is still getting support.
I really tire of this. In our current world of internet and computer technology, providing ongoing support is part of the business, part of the product we have purchased. It's not like they're handing out free candy. We contribute to a community that keeps the franchise alive. If support for the game ended, the community wouldn't be as active or large and the franchise would be less profitable. Ongoing support with updates, bug fixes and whatnot is a vital part of keeping the franchise alive so they can continue to make money. That's why they try to keep people excited about updates through snapshots. So really it's a little bit their fault as well if people are griping about release dates being pushed back--they released the snapshot too soon and now everyone's hyped up.
I have no issue with waiting longer, but enough with this "be grateful to the benelovent Minecraft gods gracing you with free stuff" fan shaming as if they are sacrificing for us to keep us happy. They're a business, not our friends. They want to keep making money, and this is how they do it.
I think and hope you are right... I remember I was so excited for 1.7, now I can get excited about 1.8. I have a server and I want to start 1.8, but I don't want it to crash all the time. Who knows what they have coming on for us next?!
You know, i've seen people create mods for the game faster than it takes for mojang to release a update.. And some of these modders are aged 14 - 18 that i know yet they're making modifications for a game not their own faster than you can say fish sticks, and they ain't professionals or developers at all.. Hire them!
Kind of disappointed i must say.. This better be a good update. So at least they're not rushing, but then again from what i've seen, 1,8 doesn't seem to have a lot of actual updates to the game, let's just hope they add rabbits and the "underwater dungeons"
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they ain't professionals or developers at all.. Hire them!
That's exactly what Mojang has done, and that's exactly why Minecraft is in the state it is in. Seriously, Notch created it for fun as a proof-of-concept, and since then it's been maintained and expanded upon by basically a bunch of random people that are not professional game developers. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the Mojang employees suck at coding, far from it; in fact, if they were able to write the game from scratch without having to worry about backwards compatibility, I'm sure they would probably do a fine job. As it is, they spend all their time trying to rewrite the code without breaking everything for everyone, which I assure you is not easy, and throw out a few random pieces of new content to appease the masses (according to Grumm - there's a thread around with a conversation of his I'll link later if I can find it).
Adding new content is generally pretty straightforward, especially new blocks/items/mobs, which is why any kid (or old guy, like me) with basic Java knowledge can add a bunch of them in a few hours. It's just not their priority, and I agree with them that it shouldn't be, at least until they get the code fixed... but given the huge backlog of bugs and the history of the game, that may be never. We'll just have to wait and see.
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If you'd quit playing snapshots and watching snapshot videos and all this stuff, you wouldn't get impatient about updates.
The game is great as it is. Play it, enjoy it, be happy. If you suddenly get one one day and BAM there's new stuff then hip-hip-hoorays all around. But 1.8 isn't about adding new items or features. They did some huge changes. Multithreading? A game that took one step at a time now can do that 3 times at once. Disconnected from its adjacent parts, while still able to influence each other, without getting all tangled up. Feel free to have your 14 year old mod-gods try that, but I doubt that mod would gain any popularity... it'd be another dud.
We don't need content updates. We need stability and reliability updates and other fixes to glitches. This takes time. And when a release is out, and they sprinkle on a few content-colored sprinkles, then yay. Something the masses can physically notice and enjoy. But like admins running a server, Mojang is doing tons of heavy lifting behind the scenes that we will never know, and we will never see. And they're doing a great job.
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Message me yours if you want to trade in Animal Crossing: New Leaf or just need some friends to play with. I can also do Pokemon trades in Pokemon X(or Y), but I don't have any good stuff, and the only good stuff I have is not for trade so...send me requests anyway.
Quote of the Day:"It's Occam's Shuriken: when the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas."
I really tire of this. In our current world of internet and computer technology, providing ongoing support is part of the business, part of the product we have purchased. It's not like they're handing out free candy. We contribute to a community that keeps the franchise alive. If support for the game ended, the community wouldn't be as active or large and the franchise would be less profitable. Ongoing support with updates, bug fixes and whatnot is a vital part of keeping the franchise alive so they can continue to make money. That's why they try to keep people excited about updates through snapshots. So really it's a little bit their fault as well if people are griping about release dates being pushed back--they released the snapshot too soon and now everyone's hyped up.
I have no issue with waiting longer, but enough with this "be grateful to the benelovent Minecraft gods gracing you with free stuff" fan shaming as if they are sacrificing for us to keep us happy. They're a business, not our friends. They want to keep making money, and this is how they do it.
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Kind of disappointed i must say.. This better be a good update. So at least they're not rushing, but then again from what i've seen, 1,8 doesn't seem to have a lot of actual updates to the game, let's just hope they add rabbits and the "underwater dungeons"
That's exactly what Mojang has done, and that's exactly why Minecraft is in the state it is in. Seriously, Notch created it for fun as a proof-of-concept, and since then it's been maintained and expanded upon by basically a bunch of random people that are not professional game developers. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the Mojang employees suck at coding, far from it; in fact, if they were able to write the game from scratch without having to worry about backwards compatibility, I'm sure they would probably do a fine job. As it is, they spend all their time trying to rewrite the code without breaking everything for everyone, which I assure you is not easy, and throw out a few random pieces of new content to appease the masses (according to Grumm - there's a thread around with a conversation of his I'll link later if I can find it).
Adding new content is generally pretty straightforward, especially new blocks/items/mobs, which is why any kid (or old guy, like me) with basic Java knowledge can add a bunch of them in a few hours. It's just not their priority, and I agree with them that it shouldn't be, at least until they get the code fixed... but given the huge backlog of bugs and the history of the game, that may be never. We'll just have to wait and see.
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PixelQuest 2, my new 1.10 RPG/rougelike-inspired modpack, is coming soon!
The game is great as it is. Play it, enjoy it, be happy. If you suddenly get one one day and BAM there's new stuff then hip-hip-hoorays all around. But 1.8 isn't about adding new items or features. They did some huge changes. Multithreading? A game that took one step at a time now can do that 3 times at once. Disconnected from its adjacent parts, while still able to influence each other, without getting all tangled up. Feel free to have your 14 year old mod-gods try that, but I doubt that mod would gain any popularity... it'd be another dud.
We don't need content updates. We need stability and reliability updates and other fixes to glitches. This takes time. And when a release is out, and they sprinkle on a few content-colored sprinkles, then yay. Something the masses can physically notice and enjoy. But like admins running a server, Mojang is doing tons of heavy lifting behind the scenes that we will never know, and we will never see. And they're doing a great job.
Oh no