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Quote from Rhymane Flameheart

On a slightly different note, I must confess I'm surprised and somewhat saddened by the apparent short attention span of many commenters in this thread. So many are saying 'if Minecraft stops updating then I'll lose interest and leave'. Surely the game is good enough to hold our attention and keep us playing for a good long while even after updates have ceased?

That's the mark of a truly great game - the ability to hold and captivate the audience even if there is nothing 'spangley' and 'new' in it's makeup for quite some time. I still have a large collection of games from old consoles like the SEGA Megadrive (Genisis) and the original Sony Playstation, and I like going back to them and playing them even though they have not had updates for approaching 20 years now. They still hold me because they were (and still are) fantastic titles. And for me, Minecraft is similar - even if Mojang were to announce no more updates from tomorrow, I would still be playing this game many months down the line, and would return to it over and over again for years to come.

Surely Minecraft is a game that warrants such a 'great' status? Or perhaps I'm mistaken...maybe it isn't that people nowadays have short attention spans, but in truth that Minecraft is not such a great game after all? I dunno... *shrug*

Quote from neongrenade

If you had to add mods to "update" minecraft, what would be vanilla minecraft???

Quote from TXF

Like I said, it's an opinion. Maybe it's just because I don't care about the magic aspect of it that much. I almost never use potions. I only enchant every now and then. I'll probably never use the beacon blocks. I'd rather more basic things. Tools, updated redstone, more redstone based things, more things to mine, more types of blocks to build with, etc. I'm more the kind of person that mines and collects blocks and materials, rather than using all the magic stuff and hunting for "the end" and things.

And I'm not complaining that it's too much like terraria, I wish it was MORE like terraria honestly. They way their electronic stuff(redstone type stuff) works is a lot easier to use. It has a ton of tools/weapons/armor types. Power up items that change how your character can do things. Etc. (essentially adding more stuff to find and collect)

Heck, something as simple as an upgraded furnace would be nice, it doesn't need to be complicated upgrades to things.


Of course there's always gonna be people that complain. It comes with people having an opinion. If they focus too much on one aspect, people that don't use that aspect aren't gonna like the updates as much. If they focus too much on something else, other people aren't gonna care about it. The same way I don't really have much interest in all the magic and potion based stuff they keep adding.

Quote from yoshiisawaffle

mojang will you guys release a fix for this snapshots bug

it's a bug that causes blocks to brake without you interacting with them

please release 12w40b!

Quote from Random_Guy_32

12w40b is released.

Quote from badstar4

Less caves Higher Reward ratio.

Easy fix...xD

Minecraft for XBox will likely diverge with Minecraft for PC in terms of the features in updates