11-20-2015, 09:21 AM
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.