What did you like the most about old minecraft?
I never played the original alpha minecraft. Tell me what you liked best.
Microsoft immediately started focusing hard on the āBedrockā edition and downplaying the Java edition. Bedrock didnāt and as far as I know never has actually reached feature parity with the Java edition, but most of all also does not support mods. Mods were and are very, very popular and extremely important to the Minecraft community. Thereās a strong feeling among OGās that the Java edition is the ārealā Minecraft and whatever Microsoft is doing with Bedrock is just faffing around. Bedrock supports data packs which have become somewhat powerful, but do not match the ability for Java mods to completely interact with every aspect of the game.
(The Java ed. is also cross-platform, whereas Bedrock isnāt. This canāt be a coincidence, coming from the company who makes a certain closed-source desktop operating system you can probably name offhand.)
Microsoft also fairly recently started demanding that you get a Microsoft account just to play, even for the Java edition, which obviously rubs every Linux player the wrong way plus all of us who donāt need or want a Microsoft account because we donāt need to be tracked, profiled, or advertised at. The cutoff for getting a Microsoft account is 2023-09-19, by the way, and Iām already committed to not doing it. For perspective, I was an alpha backer of Minecraft. Iāve already moved on to Minetest and other games.
Dungeons and Story Mode were their own separate things. I donāt particularly care about them, but I donāt hate them either. They can do whatever they want with the IP, and these donāt affect the core game any. They werenāt even made by Mojang, so itās not even like they diverted development resources away from the core game or anything.
I mostly use Java for myself because I really only touch Minecraft for the mods now, however my kids (5+ years) play across a variety of devices and Bedrock is the only version that will work across the board for everything they all might be on, it just takes all of the complication out of it and I usually donāt have to do any tech support. Although I wish there was actual modding support for Minecraft (outside of all the junk you can buy from the store), I appreciate that theyāve simplified the experience in Bedrock.
Imagine if they just implemented those features in javaā¦ or even just made them cross compatible, bedrock is halfway to a fortnite lobby with all the skins and emotes they shoved in it.
But technically java was made to be cross platform at heart, and is a major part of android - why is our only option an open source community made launcher (minecoinzz)
