So its not allowed to have real criticisms? Like those people can have fun while criticising mojang…
Yeah, this is dumb. Minecraft is fun and they should definitely add all 3 mobs
The work is probably already done for all three, I don’t see the point of tossing said work for two of them out the window. Just wasted man hours. Or… whatever unit their scrum board uses, idfk. It’s a fucking waste.
Given how half-assed the new mobs always feel, I really think they don’t do much more than modeling work until the vote is done, then just rush the rest of the work in
Seriously, it’s okay to feel slighted when you’re given a choice between three mobs and the worst one wins. Imagine if Mojang had just added glow squids and allays, instead of having people root for two other options just to let a slight majority (53% and 54% respectively) decide. People might actually like those mobs.
You can’t criticize a game and enjoy it?
If Starfield (re)taught me anything it’s that some people will take the slightest reservation about their Best Game Ever as a mortal insult. So… they certainly can’t.
I think the other side of that coin is that, for a lot of intellectual property, there are definitely people who want everyone to stop enjoying it. So you’ve got a bunch of loud mouth idiots who don’t understand constructive criticism or criticism from a place of love. Then you have a bunch of other loud mouth idiots who believe that if something isn’t exactly what they think it should be then it should be burnt to the ground so that it can get remade by someone else.
So reasonable people who are having a good time but still have some reservations are drowned out in the larger conversation.
I have the same issues with the updates that the QUIT HAVING FUN stick figure does. I also have fun when I play the silly block game.
I’m inclined to believe most people on a forum for a game enjoy it, and spend time criticizing it because they honestly want it to be better. There’s things in life I don’t enjoy and I could tell you why I didn’t like them, but I certainly didn’t talk about these experiences on forums dedicated to the things I didn’t enjoy.
Seeing negativity all the time can be pretty exhausting. I also think it’s easier to talk about the negatives of something. I don’t really have any guesses for why I enjoy Minecraft or why I like the programmer art, I just know I like these things. But I can tell you about things I don’t like and guess at why, and I can also recommend fixes for problems. I can’t recommend fixes for things that aren’t problems, for things that I already like just as they are. (Although I think everyone else covered why they take issue with the same things the QUIT HAVING FUN stick figure complained about well enough that I’m not going to reiterate their points.) And this is a discussion forum, people are going to talk about what’s easier to talk about and what they have more to say about. So that’s probably why you see a lot of complaining on an enthusiast forum.
You say that as if we don’t want other people to enjoy the game that’s there. It’s not a difficult thing to sympathize that these mob votes are a needlessly frustrating thing.
I do sympathize with the fact that the mob vote is very divisive. I think its the wrong way to boost engagement for the live event. But I wouldn’t go as far as to say Mojang is lazy.
But I wouldn’t go as far as to say Mojang is lazy.
If not lazy, I’d call them maliciously incompetent. Any modder can put out all three mobs in an afternoon. There’s a bit of a greater expectation for a multibillion dollar company making hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
It’s literally drumming up as much engagement as possible for the least amount of work you can get. How could you not call that “lazy?” What else would you call it?
Saying they “can” makes it sound theoretical. They DO implement all the mobs every time. They HAVE done it this time too, as of a few days after the first announcement.
True. This is Mojang. A studio that has been a subsidary of a megacorporation worth trillions of dollars for a good 9 years. The creators of a game that is over 14 years old and still going strong, an IP worth BILLIONS of dollars… and they keep carrying on like they’re still an indie studio, going in mere months from several exciting mega-updates that completely upend the gameplay to 2 flops that we had to wait an absurdly long time for each, for how little they added compared to the updates that immediately preceded them. And used the second-decimal revisions of those to sneak in a few rule changes that enshittify the multiplayer experience with fuck-all input from the community.
God forbid people care about the game’s development. Nobody is trying to stop you from playing or enjoying the game.
I hate this template because it’s always the person making it who wants to control what other people are allowed to do and talk about.
Not trying to control anyone, just offering an opinion that some people are just fine playing the game. Do I have my criticisms? Sure. But I don’t harass or insult the developers about it. The fact that people won’t pay attention unless someone is loud and harsh doesn’t mean I support that practice.