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I'm certain this is an unpopular opinion I see Minecraft as an incredibly buggy mess. Not for it being unfun, because it is, a lot of fun but for years this gam
by Kequc 12y ago
I'm certain this is an unpopular opinion I see Minecraft as an incredibly buggy mess. Not for it being unfun, because it is, a lot of fun but for years this game has been plagued with a litany of problems.
[Edit: Maybe it isn't an incredibly unpopular opinion I'm just used to people who play games try to cut you when you critique.]
Shortly before horses were added I thought something was going to be done to help the finer OCD-minded fans in the community like me. After horses were added I realised that was not going to happen.
For example a bug cropped up that would lose a 'tick' of redstone power once per transfer down a circuit. Only if the pulse was shorter than three 'ticks' long. Making anything requiring use of a precision circuit impossible. That as far as I know was never actually fixed.
Microsoft own the property I'd like to see them have a go at remaking it. I'm absolutely positive there will always be holdouts over the original. But Minecraft by itself doesn't seem like it would be all that complicated a game to remake.
I'd play it.
- ivraatiems 12y agoFrom what I have seen, that is not at all an unpopular opinion. Minecraft is widely considered, even by its own player base, to be a resource-hogging, poorly-built mess. It is really fun, though.
- joezydeco 12y ago"Son, have you been playing Minecraft on my iMac again?" "No way, Dad" <feels white-hot top of unit> "Go to your room." (This is an actual transcript from last week)
- lostlogin 12y agoI can use the same technique with MS Word on the Macs in our house. They feel broken if someone has used Word recently. Restart required. 2013 MacBook Airs.
- ivraatiems 12y agoApple laptops have, and have had for some time, absolutely terrible heat dispersion. I had a 2007 silver Macbook Pro that overheated constantly under any kind of load. It was a huge pain.
- blkhp19 12y agoI can only speak about the 2012 MBP and the 2013 rMBP, neither of which demonstrate any issues at all with dissipating heat. You example is from 7 years ago. The entire MacBook line has been completely changed, inside and out, since then.
- ivraatiems 12y agoWhat sort of work do you do on them? The issues I had, and that I've seen others have on MBPs of varying years, occurred mostly in games, video editing, etc. Things that might not be the primary purpose of the product, but nevertheless shoudln't cause it to overheat and shut down.
- debaserab2 12y agoI run several VM's, Photoshop, and games. Never had overheating result in a mandatory shutdown/reboot.
- makomk 12y agoYou'd be very unlikely to with modern CPUs. They generally just throttle back to a tiny fraction of normal performance, unless the heatsink literally falls off (and maybe even then).
- cesarb 12y ago> unless the heatsink literally falls off Or if the laptop was shipped without the screws which hold the heatsink in place (happened to me). The thermal throttling can hold for some time, but it'll reach 100 degrees and turn off, even if you aren't doing anything CPU-intensive.
- DanBC 12y agoThere are things to help. Unfortunately the settings panel is pretty much opaque about what effect all thedifferent things actually do. But reducing render distance helps.
- joezydeco 12y agoThanks, I'll check that out.
- 0942v8653 12y agoLike it or not, these bugs become integral parts of the game. The whole Block Update Debacle was a bug that came from events not being sent to diagonal blocks (or something like that) and now there are thousands of youtube videos about how to exploit it.
- Kequc 12y agoThe phrase "like it or not" can be applied before anything and sounds unnecessarily dickish. Like it or not some of us think deliberate design goes a lot further than accidental design. Like it or not airplanes use a lot of fuel when they travel over the Pacific. Like it or not just isn't needed at the start of a sentence.
- sly010 12y agoPart of Minecraft's popularity is it's history of bugs and hacks. It's what makes it all interesting isn't it? If everything worked perfectly from day 1 and every feature were part of the core there would be no sense of ownership, as people would understand the limits very quickly and would move on to Dwarf Fortress. Of course there are some actual bugs, but sometimes those bugs are a lot of fun! (of course i am just guessing, i am not a player) Edit: It's fascinating how difficult it is to intentionally engineer something with the purpose of it being hacked on by people.
- TillE 12y agoDwarf Fortress and Minecraft are both incredible, complex games made by one mediocre programmer (not commenting on the Mojang team, just Notch himself). It's frustrating, but it should also serve as an inspiration to any small, talented team that wants to go even further.
- blencdr 12y agoI'd like to be a mediocre programmer as Notch...
- tedunangst 12y agoMediocre may be the wrong word, but perhaps "unmeticulous".
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoShips things that work.
- krapp 12y agoAdequate practice beats out sublime theory every time.
- Mikeb85 12y agoJust goes to show that shipping matters more than perfect code...
- hyp0 12y agothis thread feels eerily familiar... oblig contribution: perfect code != worthwhile code
- Karunamon 12y agoThe massive bugginess is #1 what eventually killed my motivation for the game. (Plugin scene drama and Mojang EULA dickery being items 2 and 3). It's very hard to enjoy the game when making builds over a certain size leads to all manner of graphical glitches and memory leaks and other weirdness that you need to be intimately familiar with the operation of the Java virtual machine in order to fix. A number of these bugs lead to world corruption - I remember back when 1.7 had its initial release, there was a certain configuration of redstone blocks and mine carts that would "corrupt the world state" and leave you with an unplayable world.
- diltonm 12y agoThe only people who were negatively interacting with the EULA were the server operators abusing it, like charging the kids of rich parents $10,000.00 US for special privileges in game. Mojang put a stop to that abuse, good on them.
- Karunamon 12y agoYou will forgive me for thinking the game author coming in and telling me how I have to run my private server is just a little bit of a reach.