The main thing I am critical of are the chat reports, but that was essentially Microsoft’s doing.

Back when the likes of 1.9 and 1.11 came out, they added things people they wanted (elytra, firework boosting) but ended up screwing over how the whole game worked. So I can see why they’re being careful with harmless small changes. It’s also a 16 year old game, the fact that they’re pushing free updates for a one off £20 purchase is excellent. The game is also already pretty good as it is. The mob vote was a nice idea for community engagement(although they could have been more clearer on how the losers would be added later on). I think people are FAR too toxic that they aren’t receiving free updates for a £20 game that is already absolutely stellar, and that many have poured thousands of hours in already, if not tens of thousands. I’ve been playing it for over a decade now, and I am quite happy with the direction it is going. People are ungrateful that they aren’t getting huge game changing updates every year. Things like that need to be well balanced and ironed out to prevent a disaster like 1.11 happening again.

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    6 days ago

    the fact that they’re pushing free updates for a one off £20 purchase is excellent.

    Even better for people like myself who got the game way back when it was only $5.

    • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      6 days ago

      It’s by far the best value for money I’ve ever spent, I’ve been playing it since early alpha and I still put hours into it now, I’m not the greatest builder and I do spend all my time in creative, but I have just as much fun now as I did when I first started playing it, can’t say that about many games.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I think the modern internet with its everything-is-free mentality has created a lot of weird entitlement on behalf of the consumers of all that freely available stuff.

        And, for some reason, the vitriol that’s created by the system is rarely aimed at someone who’s figured out how to sell their “free” users out to some eldritch corporate behemoth. It is almost always directed at somebody who’s trying to make a living by putting up a paywall, or at someone who’s providing something for free who isn’t doing as much as the users feel like they deserve.

        • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Same happened when I ran a server. Had people who weren’t donating complaining I wasn’t managing it well when at times I was treating it as a full time job and not getting paid. Any time I stepped away from that thing, somebody tried to break something on there to be “funny”

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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            6 days ago

            Yeah. The whole thing of soliciting donations is backwards. I mean it’s fine, if someone wants to contribute then it’s fine, but it’s not accomplishing the goal.

            • The people who receive the donations receive a tiny fraction of what they should
            • The people who choose to contribute already have the right mentality (that they picked up from somewhere else)
            • The people who don’t contribute are the ones who should be required to contribute, as a way to adjust their mentality
    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Arguably the value proposition didn’t even change much between inflation, free updates, and things like having to integrate with a Mojang and now a Microsoft account.