11-20-2015, 01:57 PM
(11-20-2015, 01:55 PM)OdinYggd Wrote:There is actually the pretty major complete combat overhaul...(11-20-2015, 09:21 AM)Shaadaris Wrote: Is it just me or is Minecraft dying? Official updates are taking longer than ever, still not adding any long-term content or progression, instead changing big game and engine mechanics while adding very little, giving modders far more work, and the 1.8 update partially or completely screwed a lot of modders over, and many either refuse to update or are waiting to 1.9 (let's face it, a lot probably will just give up by then.) Besides, modders are the whole reason the game is kept alive. I doubt many people play vanilla Minecraft anymore except to build things, and even then Mojang adds very few new blocks most of the time, so modders/resource pack authors are important there, and with Metadata being gone in 1.8, it means Texture Packs can add in less uniquely textured and named block variants, limiting builders too.
Didn't you know?
Mojang sold Minecraft to Microsoft.
It was long since dead though before that. Minecraft really stopped improving all the way back at Beta 1.8, everything after that was just feature bloat and bugfixes.
The only reason you even still hear about it is because Minecraft caught on with the younger population much like Legos used to be, kids who don't know any better that think it is the greatest thing humanity has invented since the computer.
Then again, Mojang studios has a whole arcade so they could be doing that.