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295K Minecraft fans criticise lack of new content in Stop the Mob Vote petition
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It’s sort of amazing how basic yet barren the core game feels after all these years since Microsoft acquired it. I know it’s changed quite a bit and they have made changes, but at the same time it feels like they’ve sat on their asses and did nothing. I’m assuming they’ve just shifted from adding to the base game more to adding paid content via the Marketplace stuff (or whatever the in-game store is called).
But then you start playing with mods like Create and you’re like, “Holy shit, this is awesome!” And you realize how intellectually bankrupt Microsoft/Mojang has been, they’ve done almost nothing interesting with the game since they acquired it (apart from the cross-compatibility aspect, but even that is lacking). They keep doing these incremental changes and the mob vote has all these idea proposals that are just cast aside bc there can be only one idea picked… for reasons. You’d think Microsoft was this small indie company with no resources to spare or something.
Microsoft has made no inputs into Minecraft. It's been the direction of Mojang the entire time.
Paid content on the Minecraft Bedrock store is almost entirely 3ed party.
Minecraft has been content complete for 8 years now and the team has continued to improve the game, for free since then. No other game in history has that level of continuous, free expansion.
The create mod is not the direction that Mojang wants to take the game it. What a daft example.
Mojang and even Notch didn't want the Mincraft world to be filled with mobs. The mob votes allow the fan base to choose a new creature to add to the game without the developers adding too many mobs to the game. IMHO, there are too many mobs in the game as it is right now. We should only get new mobs as part of a biome update(armadillos with a desert update or snakes in a savanna update) but the utility has to be thought about as well. Players were frothing for penguins but they lack utility to the base game, we don't want another creature that drops feathers and eggs or another useless bat mob.
Terraria comes to mind. And those updates have been just as substantial, maybe more.
WAY more substantial, let’s be real here. I stopped playing for a couple years and when I came back it was practically a whole new game.
And then that same thing happened no fewer than two more times.
Every “final” update has felt fair, they’ve already added so much, and then there’s still more.