03-31-2016, 07:32 AM
In less depressing Forum news, I also posted on the Minecraft Forum:
I think something happening to make modders stick to one MC version is, unfortunately, the only way the modding community will ever come out of the increasingly large slump its in right now... Which sucks, because Minecraft mods have a lot of potential.
Quote:...if Microsoft did jump the shark by all but discontinuing the Java version, it could be a blessing in disguise - hold the pitchforks and wands, hear me out.
For a long time, many people have been wanting MC to stop throwing out (to be perfectly honest, often underwhelming on the surface and overwhelming at the roots) updates for a while now. So what then if they keep adding greater and greater roadblocks for modders... And the modding community at large has enough of it?
Imagine if the majority of high-profile modders stuck with whichever version was the last one with the most modding capabilities. Imagine the possibilities, when modders don't spend half or more of their time modding updating to the newest version with tons of unnessessary code changes. Instead, Forge could just keep adding new features for modders to make use of. Modders could just keep updating and changing their mods instead of reworking them constantly and trying to salvage as much as they can. It would be the golden age of Minecraft mods.
Perhaps even new tools could be made like what exists in the Bethesda game communities - ones to generate compatability patches between mods, change the load-order, and stuff like that. The amount of mods that could work well together could increase drastically. The amount of high-quality mods would keep growing, and even if an author stopped updating their mod, people could keep using them with their other updated favorites because it would all still be on he same version of the base game.
Of course, it would be a lot simpler if Minecraft just stopped updating. I mean, the base game has only added a fraction of the content of any mod in the last 5 major updates, and much of it has already been done better, while constantly reworking the inner workings of the game for little apparent reason.
Of course, this is coming from someone who hasn't been interested in the base game since 1.1 when they first played it, so take it as you will.
I think something happening to make modders stick to one MC version is, unfortunately, the only way the modding community will ever come out of the increasingly large slump its in right now... Which sucks, because Minecraft mods have a lot of potential.