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> I don't see how Microsoft could possibly make things worse, so I'm slightly optimistic I'd look at what they've done with the Minecraft IP since buying it -

> I don't see how Microsoft could possibly make things worse, so I'm slightly optimistic I'd look at what they've done with the Minecraft IP since buying it - main game gets no love, infrequent updates, etc., whilst they churn out side-projects like Dungeons and load up Bedrock with monetisation. For sure, it's not "worse" but it's a million miles away from what should have been under good ownership.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
Does the main game need love? I feel like MS could die tomorrow and fans would still maintain Minecraft servers until the heat death of the universe. >it's a million miles away from what should have been under good ownership. Notch didn't exactly age well in the last 12 years or so, so I'm not sure if that's a good example of "it couldn't be worse".
- zimpenfish 3y ago
  > Does the main game need love? Definitely. It is an unoptimised shambles of a mess - mods can improve the performance by sometimes multiple orders of magnitude. A simple(ish) block game should not chug at sub-60fps rates on a gaming PC when I can run something like Just Cause 2 at a solid 4K60 with all the graphics turned up. > Notch didn't exactly age well in the last 12 years or so True and fair.
refracture 3y ago
I'm not a Minecraft player so I probably can't speak to this but sometimes all I want in an existing product is infrequent updates.. little quality of life improvements, patches that keep the game running properly on modern OS/hardware, that kind of thing. It's all we wanted from Warcraft III. They shut down the existing game and replaced it with the remaster, which had a significant number of previously present features absent or broken. Even now years later it's a zombie product that has essentially been left to die. Again I'm not in the loop on Minecraft but I would be very surprised if Microsoft has mistreated it anywhere near as badly as Blizzard has Warcraft III.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

Does the main game need love? I feel like MS could die tomorrow and fans would still maintain Minecraft servers until the heat death of the universe. >it's a million miles away from what should have been under good ownership. Notch didn't exactly age well in the last 12 years or so, so I'm not sure if that's a good example of "it couldn't be worse".

zimpenfish 3y ago
> Does the main game need love? Definitely. It is an unoptimised shambles of a mess - mods can improve the performance by sometimes multiple orders of magnitude. A simple(ish) block game should not chug at sub-60fps rates on a gaming PC when I can run something like Just Cause 2 at a solid 4K60 with all the graphics turned up. > Notch didn't exactly age well in the last 12 years or so True and fair.

refracture 3y ago

I'm not a Minecraft player so I probably can't speak to this but sometimes all I want in an existing product is infrequent updates.. little quality of life improvements, patches that keep the game running properly on modern OS/hardware, that kind of thing. It's all we wanted from Warcraft III. They shut down the existing game and replaced it with the remaster, which had a significant number of previously present features absent or broken. Even now years later it's a zombie product that has essentially been left to die. Again I'm not in the loop on Minecraft but I would be very surprised if Microsoft has mistreated it anywhere near as badly as Blizzard has Warcraft III.