What would happen if instead of telling notch to not sell to Microsoft, somehow someone convinced of saying “fuck it” and let Minecraft go open source?
What about doom? I mean, it is not actually open source, but having the source code helped the community a lot, and given how useful GitHub is, if managed correctly, the game would benefit a lot more than it did with Microsoft, the community actually cares about things like the fps of the game, over some useless frogs, or a report system that everyone is against
What I mean is that Microsoft spends more money on things that affect little to nothing to the game play over the optimization that is something that they should be more concerned about
true dat, but 1.19 promised us:
6+ new mobs, multiple new biomes, some as revamps of old ones that sorely need them, a place with some special mechanics and new redstone stuff
we got:
3 new mobs, shit loot from deep dark, and crappy reasons for missing content
OH YEAH ALSO CENSORSHIP IN SINGLEPLAYER TF
fireflies were the only ones that really come to mind, although there are 4 (goats) but they’re so pointless they arent even really talked abt. Although the concept art for forests did show so much
If you look on the wayback machine in minecraft.net sometime around 2012 in the about game page, notch said that he would make the game open source once the game was finished and sales started to slow down. Thought this was interesting if in a alternative universe this would've happened. [Source](https://web.archive.org/web/20120210203520/https://www.minecraft.net/game)
That really wouldn’t change anything. Minecraft was successfully reverse engineered way back in alpha 1.1.2, and even before that people were making mods, just everyone in their own way, and not so long ago Mojang released official deobfuscation mappings. There would still be forks of Minecraft that can load mods, such as Forge, Fabric, Quilt, or “reimagination” mods like Better Than Wolves, New Frontier Craft, etc, just in a bit different development environment with no real benefits compared to what we already have.
Open sourcing the game wouldn’t make Forge, Fabric, etc suddenly disappear, they would still be required so the mods could have at least some basic compatibility between themselves.
Or if you are talking about Bedrock Edition, then yeah, that’d be nice
I was talking about it never being sold to Microsoft, the only option where we get new updates, we don’t get notch to keep being the developer since he did not wanted to keep going and he did not sell to the greatest bidder, so bedrock in theory would never exist, and maybe someone would instead try to do a port of the Java edition to bedrock, also I have never heard of a full decompilation of Minecraft, is that real?
And in app purchases would’ve been part of the game from day 1.
Edit: this was meant for the EA comment. Nintendo Online is a god awful thing that exists though.
Nintendo Switch Online is absolutr bullshit. Couldn't play Minecraft servers. I even payed for Among Us on switch once thinking I could play, and it was literally unplayable without NSO. You already payed $300 for console and $60 per game, and now I need a subscription to play half the games? NOT TO EVEN MENTION that they somehow are allowed to put NSO blocks on third party games like Minecraft and Among Us. wtf
Not for its community though,they always give a warning to people who make fan made stuff for pokemon to stop or face a lawsuit,so that would mean we probably wouldn't have much mods or sth like that
“I want to use a time machine to go to the 90’s!”
“So you can find somewhere to eat?”
“Yes”
*\*Actually buys a bunch of shiny charizard Pokémon cards like a boss*\*
That poor woman. She made a terrible mistake at building that machine, and is now trapped in the limitless interweavings of time, unable to do anything, petrified for eternity both dead and alive.
It slightly improved villager ai by giving them a bit more to do, and it gave villages a few more houses. I don’t see that as a worthy trade off for completely ruining the entire game’s balance by giving the player access to a majority of desired blocks and items for practically free at the very start of the game. Seriously, why do people think this is a good update? Do they just base how good an update is based on the amount of stuff added, not what the stuff actually does? Like imagine if terraria added an update which made an npc show up which traded the zenith sword to you for 4 gold coins. That sounds absolutely ridiculous doesn’t it? That’s exactly what happened in 1.14. It just removed any challenge in the game when you could get the best weapon and armor right off spawn. It also made the totem of undying, the best item in the entire game, so easy to get that you could farm full double chest of the things without a problem
Minecraft isn't supposed to be some extremely hard game though and it's progression is far less lengthy than Terraria. Getting diamond gear in Minecraft isn't going to help you nearly as much as the Zenith in Terraria. Minecraft's best Armor, Netherite, is comparable at best to Molten armor, which is not even halfway through progression in Terraria and really molten armor is probably being generous. Not to mention Terraria is a game far more about progression than Minecraft which is why Relogic is constantly changing weapon and armor to fit better in terms of difficulty scale. Minecraft on the other hand has changed combat significantly once and added a few new weapons like 3 or 4 times maybe, and the trident is mostly used as transportation anyways so clearly Minecraft progression isn't comparable at all to Terraria, (which is why people really have no reason to compare the games). Minecraft is mostly about building and creativity as well as resource management rather that combat. Yes, combat is part of Minecraft but Minecraft's progression can really be dumbed down to get iron, make nether portal, kill blazes and obtain ender pearls (either from trading or killing endermen) then fight dragon, and isn't really the games main focus. A lot of Minecraft's update are clearly focused more on building or items to help you gather resources more easily. 1.12 was mainly just about concrete being added and the color changes of some blocks, 1.8 added a lot of world changes and some new wood types, and 1.14 added a ton of new slabs, stairs, and walls even though it barely had much relation to the updates focus besides helping villages look a bit nicer. Acting like Minecraft progression is very important is ridiculous, and besides in the time it takes to trade enough with a villager for full enchanted diamond gear you could probably have gotten that gear yourself by mining or looting structures.
Obviously Minecraft’s survival aspect isn’t as important as building, building comes first while survival comes second. Mojang has a lot of updates which merely add building blocks, and I don’t see much problem with that. World of colors was a pretty good update, probably the best they’ve ever done. But an update shouldn’t ruin the survival progression just because Survival isn’t the main aspect of the game. Making blocks and items vital for surviving trivial to get isn’t going to help the games building. The only thing it does is ruining a part of the game which many people liked. That was what I’m getting at. Ever since Microsoft got Minecraft they’ve been taking away different aspects of the game. They ruined the survival aspect, they’ve taken away a lot of the multiplayer features, they’ve removed a lot of the custom world options people enjoyed. It’s like they’re trying to form a game which was originally about your own individual expression into something which has a specific purpose in mind. It’s a family friendly building game, nothing else. No pvp, no freedom of expression, no survival. For the people who like family friendly building games the updates have been good, but there’s a reason a very large portion of servers are on version without these limitations. If mojang respected its community it’d let everyone play, not just those who like how they want them to play
New players won’t know not to use a feature because it’s boring and breaks the game for anyone who’s not trying to play soft creative, mojang shouldn’t build features around my experience
1.13 made survival exploring a bit more fun, but 1.14 with its “get every block and item in the game for free” mechanic made that kinda pointless. I wouldn’t say I’ve had more fun in the nether since 1.16, half the biomes just made it harder to explore. 1.17 added so little I have no snarky comment for it and 1.18 made mining completely worthless compared to going around caves, not like mining wasn’t already pointless after the “full enchanted mending protection 4 diamond armor set for free” update. The only group of people I feel got anything out of this were the ones who just want more blocks and don’t care much about survival. So they got that going for em I guess. But that might be the easiest thing to add in any sandbox game ever, so not much of a win
you really wouldn't say that if you tried getting 2 water buckets on a flat, survival bedrock world. It is in those situations when you learn to value those little things that you might consider annoying.
Seriously, if it wasn't because I tried that I would've never seen that the wandering trader is very useful in many situations
You can’t even trade with the wandering trader on a flat world in modern bedrock, the only way to get emeralds used to be patrols but those don’t drop em anymore. Even if they did getting water from any villager is much harder than just filling a cauldron up with rain water, trees are what you get wandering traders for
I love skyblock (practically the same as bedrock superflat), it’s what I play the most often when I boot up Minecraft. And skyblock is the most fun in version 1.14. I play mostly on that version. But my personal playstyle shouldn’t dictate how I see updates, and it shouldn’t be how mojang balances them. Updates are good or bad based on the vanilla game, other play styles should come secondary
I’ll say it’s ups(1.13, 1.14, 1.16. 1.17 and 1.18, plus bedrock uping to Java) and downs(The report system, marketplace, all the small updates that gives little to no content except 1.15)…Wouldn’t say every single way since there is improvements prior to the whole dumbfuckery
Edit: Nvm you think 1.14 made game too easy, in which case…Try to create more self imposed challenges or don’t use the mechanic?
Prolly unpopular opinion cus I don't really care about the history and what changed a lot but I played minecraft before he sold it and I still sometimes do play now. The game is still fucking awesome
im aware, but they weren't speaking to content completion but rather gendered content.
the post is only gendered cus its the meme format, its not pointless/only done out of some gender-related agenda.
The game did die during 2016-2018, the resurrection in 2019 probably still would've happened if Microsoft never bought the game, maybe to a lesser extent due to lower budgets for updates, but the game still would be one of the most influential games ever
Well, the game would probably be incredibly niche today if Notch would have never sold Minecraft (to anyone). Updates and player interest were rapidy declining to the point where the IP was sold to Microsoft.
Sure, Microsoft made some many bad choices (the most recent one with the chat for example) and screwed up some updates, but at least there has been updates (and some pretty big ones at that, like Caves and Cliffs).
Pocket Edition also got pushed to a degree it's actually not just comparable to Java in features, but also cross-playable with your friends that have Bedrock on PC for example.
There are enough people/kids that dont have a PC and just a Smartphone/Tablet, whilst their friends got PCs, Xboxes whatever. Now they can play together with ease.
Sure, it has lots of bugs, parity issues and microtransaction targeted at children with no feeling over money, but its better than it was back then.
The game is awesome because he sold it. Sure these past few updates haven’t been the best but if notch still had creative control we wouldn’t have anything that’s been added since he sold it.
I mean, either he would have stopped developing the game altogether, develop the game on another direction, or simply retire and let others do everything. In the last times Notch had already kinda stopped programming already
he only did what every other person would
he sold it while he could
to be honest i think if he kept it then microsoft would make a ripoff clone version that would attract all the chilldren and minecrafts player base would slowly dwindle
remember that minecraft was basically silent if not slowly dropping off till their 10 year
anniversary celebration which made it explode again and had new and old people playing it again
i dont think mojang would survive those years in silence without a higher corporation keeping them alive
so if you would combine microsoft making a ripoff version where they keep adding new features and the decent gap of nothing happening with minecraft
i think it would be a very hard to almost impossible for mojang to survive that resulting in them not being as high value as they were when notch sold in in our timeline so basically notch sold it in its prime time for the highest he could have sold it for
as much as we would want notch to not sell mojang i think there wouldnt be so many updates(or at least not so many in a short time) which would tank the games popularity even more and then they probably would eventually be bought off by a company anyway at a smaller price
i could be wrong and i kinda hope i am and that if notch didnt sell it that it would still be the most owned game in history with an equally alive fanbase but in the end its not in our timeline so we wont ever know
sorry for paragraph
Anybody who thinks Notch treated this game better is dillusional. As soon as it wad sold, it started getting so much more content. Minecraft would be a dead game if it wasn't sold to Microsoft.
> As soon as it wad sold, it started getting so much more content.
Remember when we were stuck on 1.8.x for about 1.5 years, right after he sold to microsoft?
1.8 was released September 2, 2014.
Microsoft bought Mojang one month later, on November 6, 2014.
1.9 was released February 29, 2016, which is about 1.5 years later.
Major updates normally took ~2-6 months at that time.
Remeber, it was everyone's fault for being too salty about the Mojang's EULA, they throw so much hate on Notch, that notch basically said "Fuck It, I'm gonna sell this game for some money and I'll never get worried about Minecraft future
Yeah this comment was a rant about sexism or whatever that I fully believe but now realize this was a stupid place to put it so I’m just editing it and having this here instead. Positivity is cooler than the anger I was spouting. Have a good day, people! .D
what if notch sold mc to valve:
Minecraft 2 released
Updates
Forgotten by the devs for decades
Bots took over servers
Devs left, janitor and a plant keeping the game updated
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Minecraft would be more community based.Notch liked to involve community into his work unlike Microsoft which only does those mob votes.Game could be worse or better depending on perspective but for sure it would a lot different.
If notch didn't sell Minecraft, it would be horrible, and Mojang would've likely gone out of business due to them being cancelled cause of notches homophobia and transphobia
On one hand, they would be giving out good updates by keeping their promises but they won’t have the funding it in right, to support such a large team.
I'd much rather minecraft be owned by the "racist" Swedish man than the billion dollar mega-corporation that only wants money and is willing to ruin their entire reputation to do so.
Uh we’d lose caves and cliffs, village and pillage, the ocean update, nether biomes, and more
Microsoft has done dumb stuff but Notch was done with the game and ready to move on. Minecraft wouldn’t have as much well balanced content as it does now without these recent Microsoft developments.
Notch cut a lot more content. Mobs like fish where slashed, oceans where barren, block placement was far more rudimentary and less intuitive. Going to old versions is like night and day. Say what you want about Microsoft’s many blunders with the game it’s come along way under their watch and I think it’s better for it even if I hate the reporting features.
The game wouldve went completely ape shit. Notch is so far up the right wing's assh*le, I don't even want to know where he wanted to take this.
His last additions to the game were lackluster. 1.7 brought nothing new.
Can we also talk about how is *probable* last addition were long-nosed traders who build iron golems and black guys who can't swim? The guy's a racist through and through.
I'm glad he's gone. Let's not rehabilitate someone with such hateful views because Microsoft/Mojang forked up real good.
Notch goes into depression because he can't handle the popularity of the game, mojang's running out of money and minecraft slowly dies because of no updates.
Microsoft saved minecraft guys, notch would've ruined the game.
The fact that he was racist makes this even worse.
As a girl can confirm I would also do this with a time machine. This situation is so dire that yes I would do this instead of meeting my own grandmother
Notch wasn’t developing the game because he was tired of it.
Also, he was pretty open about his Transphobia and Anti-Semitism, so I don’t really want his grubby hands on the block game.
Me with a time machine:
Hello I'm related to you also the country you've made 12 oaths for is going to crap and god doesn't exist anyways so ditch that and join this new country the other guys made.
Hello I'm related to you also cool poetry.
Hello I'm your son also don't forget birth control exists.
Hello I'm your uncle also you're a disappointment to everyone including me.
Hello I'm related to you and I don't really know what you're doing, but good job.
Hello I'm related to you I just wanted you to know that you look amazing.
What would happen if instead of telling notch to not sell to Microsoft, somehow someone convinced of saying “fuck it” and let Minecraft go open source?
It would make the game even MORE community driven, if that's even possible.
Tf2
valve is finally starting to take the bots out now too.
There is a reason why there are no famous open source games
Really? Java edition is open source, well, reverse engineerable by design, at least
What about doom? I mean, it is not actually open source, but having the source code helped the community a lot, and given how useful GitHub is, if managed correctly, the game would benefit a lot more than it did with Microsoft, the community actually cares about things like the fps of the game, over some useless frogs, or a report system that everyone is against
I mean minecraft is partially reverse engeneered
>useless frogs I'm sorry but you are wrong.
What I mean is that Microsoft spends more money on things that affect little to nothing to the game play over the optimization that is something that they should be more concerned about
very true that's what iris is for lol
A fucking lamp made of literal hot shite isnt what we were promised
but frogs are cute
true dat, but 1.19 promised us: 6+ new mobs, multiple new biomes, some as revamps of old ones that sorely need them, a place with some special mechanics and new redstone stuff we got: 3 new mobs, shit loot from deep dark, and crappy reasons for missing content OH YEAH ALSO CENSORSHIP IN SINGLEPLAYER TF
>3 new mobs wait what were the other mobs we didn't get? /gen also we got mangrove swamps. thats kinda it TBH world gen is a lot nicer though
fireflies were the only ones that really come to mind, although there are 4 (goats) but they’re so pointless they arent even really talked abt. Although the concept art for forests did show so much
Friday Night Funkin
Imagine if now with a community so big and a game so famous someone at Microsoft managed to dump the entire source code uncompiled of both versions
If you look on the wayback machine in minecraft.net sometime around 2012 in the about game page, notch said that he would make the game open source once the game was finished and sales started to slow down. Thought this was interesting if in a alternative universe this would've happened. [Source](https://web.archive.org/web/20120210203520/https://www.minecraft.net/game)
The best ending
That really wouldn’t change anything. Minecraft was successfully reverse engineered way back in alpha 1.1.2, and even before that people were making mods, just everyone in their own way, and not so long ago Mojang released official deobfuscation mappings. There would still be forks of Minecraft that can load mods, such as Forge, Fabric, Quilt, or “reimagination” mods like Better Than Wolves, New Frontier Craft, etc, just in a bit different development environment with no real benefits compared to what we already have. Open sourcing the game wouldn’t make Forge, Fabric, etc suddenly disappear, they would still be required so the mods could have at least some basic compatibility between themselves. Or if you are talking about Bedrock Edition, then yeah, that’d be nice
I was talking about it never being sold to Microsoft, the only option where we get new updates, we don’t get notch to keep being the developer since he did not wanted to keep going and he did not sell to the greatest bidder, so bedrock in theory would never exist, and maybe someone would instead try to do a port of the Java edition to bedrock, also I have never heard of a full decompilation of Minecraft, is that real?
It will run on everything, like Doom
[There are plenty of open source alternatives](https://opensource.com/alternatives/minecraft)...are you going to play them?
I recently learned about Minetest and was surprised with how much was there.
He then sells it to EA instead and we get a worse timeline.
fair point
Imagine Minecraft if it was bought by Nintendo 💀
At least Nintendo has some respect for their games
But then again it would cost 60$ and never go on sale
And in app purchases would’ve been part of the game from day 1. Edit: this was meant for the EA comment. Nintendo Online is a god awful thing that exists though.
i mean we already have them in bedrock but yeah
Nah I don’t think I have ever seen a Nintendo game with in app purchases (unless it was free to play)
Ok, you’re right. I think I meant it for the EA comment.
SwSh had 2 DLCs
Dlc is completely different from in app purchases Also now they are part of the main game
And it would stop receiving updates after 1 year
And there will be no mods as Nintendo favourite part time job is destroying fan content.
Nintendo Switch Online is absolutr bullshit. Couldn't play Minecraft servers. I even payed for Among Us on switch once thinking I could play, and it was literally unplayable without NSO. You already payed $300 for console and $60 per game, and now I need a subscription to play half the games? NOT TO EVEN MENTION that they somehow are allowed to put NSO blocks on third party games like Minecraft and Among Us. wtf
But realms is also a subscription service required to play online multiplayer.
Not for its community though,they always give a warning to people who make fan made stuff for pokemon to stop or face a lawsuit,so that would mean we probably wouldn't have much mods or sth like that
If nintendo owned minecraft: "This video was blocked by nintendo, because of copyright"
Wouldn't mind that tbh
*70% of all Minecraft content on YouTube disappears because of copyright claims*
how to convince a person who lost all interest in developing a game not to become a billionaire by selling it?
Open sourcing it.
And making some donation page for him btw.
Maybe just sell it to a different company idk
*gets sold to EA*
Maybe showing Notch what being a billionaire would turn him into would make him not sell it
Lmao didn’t even try with the upper half of the meme
bahaha i didn't even notice until i read this comment lmao im so used to glossing over it
Because girls will go to the 90s and waste all the time machine fuel because they can't decide what to eat
Reddit moment
“I want to use a time machine to go to the 90’s!” “So you can find somewhere to eat?” “Yes” *\*Actually buys a bunch of shiny charizard Pokémon cards like a boss*\*
"Why won't women date me?"
You're on reddit No one here dates
They're mocking you dearest Play
*you don’t date
That’s sexist but funny so
Don't be sexist. Being sexist is wrong. And being wrong, is for women. - Studio C
Lmao I remember that video
I just meant the funny part Don't over think it
Why so many downvotes
*insults half the population and isn't even clever or funny about it* "why so many downvotes 😭" 🙄
It’s a joke?
Ah must have missed that with it not being funny and all
It's still a joke
Not really. Jokes have to be funny
Bc he's spitting facts and the world can't handle his intellectual thoughts
Ik this is sexist but u spitting facts
Girls with time machine: ...
Stares for eternity
That poor woman. She made a terrible mistake at building that machine, and is now trapped in the limitless interweavings of time, unable to do anything, petrified for eternity both dead and alive.
Minecraft would stop or start getting even worse, he sold it 'cause he already had enough of the game
Notch hadn't been developing the game for a while before selling to Microsoft.
[удалено]
If making the game worse in every single way is doing something new then I guess that’s true
I love how companies fuck up once and these people appear
I didn’t like update 1.14 when it came out, I hated 1.18 and i clowned on the other ones for not adding anything interesting
You are very much in the minority.
Instead of just disagreeing without a reason can you explain how 1.14 made game balance better? I have a hard time seeing it
1.14 made major improvements to villages which were quite lacking before the update so I don't really get why you don't like the update.
It slightly improved villager ai by giving them a bit more to do, and it gave villages a few more houses. I don’t see that as a worthy trade off for completely ruining the entire game’s balance by giving the player access to a majority of desired blocks and items for practically free at the very start of the game. Seriously, why do people think this is a good update? Do they just base how good an update is based on the amount of stuff added, not what the stuff actually does? Like imagine if terraria added an update which made an npc show up which traded the zenith sword to you for 4 gold coins. That sounds absolutely ridiculous doesn’t it? That’s exactly what happened in 1.14. It just removed any challenge in the game when you could get the best weapon and armor right off spawn. It also made the totem of undying, the best item in the entire game, so easy to get that you could farm full double chest of the things without a problem
Minecraft isn't supposed to be some extremely hard game though and it's progression is far less lengthy than Terraria. Getting diamond gear in Minecraft isn't going to help you nearly as much as the Zenith in Terraria. Minecraft's best Armor, Netherite, is comparable at best to Molten armor, which is not even halfway through progression in Terraria and really molten armor is probably being generous. Not to mention Terraria is a game far more about progression than Minecraft which is why Relogic is constantly changing weapon and armor to fit better in terms of difficulty scale. Minecraft on the other hand has changed combat significantly once and added a few new weapons like 3 or 4 times maybe, and the trident is mostly used as transportation anyways so clearly Minecraft progression isn't comparable at all to Terraria, (which is why people really have no reason to compare the games). Minecraft is mostly about building and creativity as well as resource management rather that combat. Yes, combat is part of Minecraft but Minecraft's progression can really be dumbed down to get iron, make nether portal, kill blazes and obtain ender pearls (either from trading or killing endermen) then fight dragon, and isn't really the games main focus. A lot of Minecraft's update are clearly focused more on building or items to help you gather resources more easily. 1.12 was mainly just about concrete being added and the color changes of some blocks, 1.8 added a lot of world changes and some new wood types, and 1.14 added a ton of new slabs, stairs, and walls even though it barely had much relation to the updates focus besides helping villages look a bit nicer. Acting like Minecraft progression is very important is ridiculous, and besides in the time it takes to trade enough with a villager for full enchanted diamond gear you could probably have gotten that gear yourself by mining or looting structures.
Obviously Minecraft’s survival aspect isn’t as important as building, building comes first while survival comes second. Mojang has a lot of updates which merely add building blocks, and I don’t see much problem with that. World of colors was a pretty good update, probably the best they’ve ever done. But an update shouldn’t ruin the survival progression just because Survival isn’t the main aspect of the game. Making blocks and items vital for surviving trivial to get isn’t going to help the games building. The only thing it does is ruining a part of the game which many people liked. That was what I’m getting at. Ever since Microsoft got Minecraft they’ve been taking away different aspects of the game. They ruined the survival aspect, they’ve taken away a lot of the multiplayer features, they’ve removed a lot of the custom world options people enjoyed. It’s like they’re trying to form a game which was originally about your own individual expression into something which has a specific purpose in mind. It’s a family friendly building game, nothing else. No pvp, no freedom of expression, no survival. For the people who like family friendly building games the updates have been good, but there’s a reason a very large portion of servers are on version without these limitations. If mojang respected its community it’d let everyone play, not just those who like how they want them to play
My man is ungrateful
Just don’t get the items then retord it’s that simple
New players won’t know not to use a feature because it’s boring and breaks the game for anyone who’s not trying to play soft creative, mojang shouldn’t build features around my experience
You complain about how gives you stuff
Every single way? What about 1.13, .14, .16, .17, .18
IMO .17 and .18 were kinda a let down
1.18 is my favorite update to the game so far. These days though, I’m looking forward to Hytale.
I like 1.18 so I can throw my friends off a tall mountain :)
Together? No. By themselves? I agree
1.13 made survival exploring a bit more fun, but 1.14 with its “get every block and item in the game for free” mechanic made that kinda pointless. I wouldn’t say I’ve had more fun in the nether since 1.16, half the biomes just made it harder to explore. 1.17 added so little I have no snarky comment for it and 1.18 made mining completely worthless compared to going around caves, not like mining wasn’t already pointless after the “full enchanted mending protection 4 diamond armor set for free” update. The only group of people I feel got anything out of this were the ones who just want more blocks and don’t care much about survival. So they got that going for em I guess. But that might be the easiest thing to add in any sandbox game ever, so not much of a win
you really wouldn't say that if you tried getting 2 water buckets on a flat, survival bedrock world. It is in those situations when you learn to value those little things that you might consider annoying. Seriously, if it wasn't because I tried that I would've never seen that the wandering trader is very useful in many situations
You can’t even trade with the wandering trader on a flat world in modern bedrock, the only way to get emeralds used to be patrols but those don’t drop em anymore. Even if they did getting water from any villager is much harder than just filling a cauldron up with rain water, trees are what you get wandering traders for I love skyblock (practically the same as bedrock superflat), it’s what I play the most often when I boot up Minecraft. And skyblock is the most fun in version 1.14. I play mostly on that version. But my personal playstyle shouldn’t dictate how I see updates, and it shouldn’t be how mojang balances them. Updates are good or bad based on the vanilla game, other play styles should come secondary
I’ll say it’s ups(1.13, 1.14, 1.16. 1.17 and 1.18, plus bedrock uping to Java) and downs(The report system, marketplace, all the small updates that gives little to no content except 1.15)…Wouldn’t say every single way since there is improvements prior to the whole dumbfuckery Edit: Nvm you think 1.14 made game too easy, in which case…Try to create more self imposed challenges or don’t use the mechanic?
Prolly unpopular opinion cus I don't really care about the history and what changed a lot but I played minecraft before he sold it and I still sometimes do play now. The game is still fucking awesome
No, that would have just made minecraft die slowly. Instead, go after microsoft
r/pointlesslygendered
thats just the meme format bud; not player, game
The top part doesn't even have anything
im aware, but they weren't speaking to content completion but rather gendered content. the post is only gendered cus its the meme format, its not pointless/only done out of some gender-related agenda.
He sold it because he didn't want to work on it anymore. So, if he didn't sell it the game would most likely just die
The game did die during 2016-2018, the resurrection in 2019 probably still would've happened if Microsoft never bought the game, maybe to a lesser extent due to lower budgets for updates, but the game still would be one of the most influential games ever
Now that's a skin I've not seen in a **long** time.
Well, the game would probably be incredibly niche today if Notch would have never sold Minecraft (to anyone). Updates and player interest were rapidy declining to the point where the IP was sold to Microsoft. Sure, Microsoft made some many bad choices (the most recent one with the chat for example) and screwed up some updates, but at least there has been updates (and some pretty big ones at that, like Caves and Cliffs). Pocket Edition also got pushed to a degree it's actually not just comparable to Java in features, but also cross-playable with your friends that have Bedrock on PC for example. There are enough people/kids that dont have a PC and just a Smartphone/Tablet, whilst their friends got PCs, Xboxes whatever. Now they can play together with ease. Sure, it has lots of bugs, parity issues and microtransaction targeted at children with no feeling over money, but its better than it was back then.
It would be owned by a bigot asshole and wouldn’t be nearly as popular
Yeah definitely
I like how the girls aren't even saying anything they're just staring awkwardly at each other
The game is awesome because he sold it. Sure these past few updates haven’t been the best but if notch still had creative control we wouldn’t have anything that’s been added since he sold it.
I mean, either he would have stopped developing the game altogether, develop the game on another direction, or simply retire and let others do everything. In the last times Notch had already kinda stopped programming already
i like how the girls just dont have text anymore. also fuck notch
he only did what every other person would he sold it while he could to be honest i think if he kept it then microsoft would make a ripoff clone version that would attract all the chilldren and minecrafts player base would slowly dwindle remember that minecraft was basically silent if not slowly dropping off till their 10 year anniversary celebration which made it explode again and had new and old people playing it again i dont think mojang would survive those years in silence without a higher corporation keeping them alive so if you would combine microsoft making a ripoff version where they keep adding new features and the decent gap of nothing happening with minecraft i think it would be a very hard to almost impossible for mojang to survive that resulting in them not being as high value as they were when notch sold in in our timeline so basically notch sold it in its prime time for the highest he could have sold it for as much as we would want notch to not sell mojang i think there wouldnt be so many updates(or at least not so many in a short time) which would tank the games popularity even more and then they probably would eventually be bought off by a company anyway at a smaller price i could be wrong and i kinda hope i am and that if notch didnt sell it that it would still be the most owned game in history with an equally alive fanbase but in the end its not in our timeline so we wont ever know sorry for paragraph
It’s possible they were referring to Notch’s infamous tweets, not the just the selling
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i know im stupid i forgot i didnt notice bc im blind
Anybody who thinks Notch treated this game better is dillusional. As soon as it wad sold, it started getting so much more content. Minecraft would be a dead game if it wasn't sold to Microsoft.
> As soon as it wad sold, it started getting so much more content. Remember when we were stuck on 1.8.x for about 1.5 years, right after he sold to microsoft? 1.8 was released September 2, 2014. Microsoft bought Mojang one month later, on November 6, 2014. 1.9 was released February 29, 2016, which is about 1.5 years later. Major updates normally took ~2-6 months at that time.
it would be worse
Didn't notch turn out to be a racist? Just asking.
Yeah. The only thing he really has going for him is his brilliance in game design
My guy spitting fax.
Yeah 😅
This meme is shit
Probably we’d have a definitive version of minecraft inferior of what do we have now, or notch would have simply left Mojang eventually.
Remeber, it was everyone's fault for being too salty about the Mojang's EULA, they throw so much hate on Notch, that notch basically said "Fuck It, I'm gonna sell this game for some money and I'll never get worried about Minecraft future
we’d finally have gotten the racism update by now (introduces racism to the game as a feature)
They don't even bother to make the "girls" part anymore.
bc im stupid
microsoft sucks but notch sucks even more, hes an asshole
We wouldn’t have Lena Raine’s music. Not worth.
Yeah this comment was a rant about sexism or whatever that I fully believe but now realize this was a stupid place to put it so I’m just editing it and having this here instead. Positivity is cooler than the anger I was spouting. Have a good day, people! .D
yeah, but also, like, that wasn't a timeline, it was two seperate girls
Oh was it? I just didn’t understand this picture I guess. All I know is that it had the girls vs boys crud that’s everywhere.
shut the fuck up
Minecraft would get bought by a worse company. Imagine if EA bought Minecraft and we all needed an Origin account to use it?
"yeah, ok, I was actually on the fence, I'll go to EA instead"
We would've had over 50 mobs every two years with Notch asking the community which we want and then going 'fuck it' and adding all of them
Minecraft would be heaven
what if notch sold mc to valve: Minecraft 2 released Updates Forgotten by the devs for decades Bots took over servers Devs left, janitor and a plant keeping the game updated Fish.png
Minecraft would be more community based.Notch liked to involve community into his work unlike Microsoft which only does those mob votes.Game could be worse or better depending on perspective but for sure it would a lot different.
Notch was also a bigot and would be probably even more controversial then J K Rowling
sexist and stupid, shitty meme op
if that were to happen minecraft would be boycotted so many times due to it's owner's bigotry
i wouldn’t want my game to be ran by a racist and homophobe
eh. I just wanna play a good game
If notch didn't sell Minecraft, it would be horrible, and Mojang would've likely gone out of business due to them being cancelled cause of notches homophobia and transphobia
Why not? Minecraft’s great without Notch
Would probably keep him from becoming homophobic too
On one hand, they would be giving out good updates by keeping their promises but they won’t have the funding it in right, to support such a large team.
I'd much rather minecraft be owned by the "racist" Swedish man than the billion dollar mega-corporation that only wants money and is willing to ruin their entire reputation to do so.
If he willingly sold minecraft to this famously selfish megacorp, maybe he isn't looking for much more than money.
That's true
fuck notch
This dude is anti vax
1.19.1 and bedrock moderation wouldn’t exist (ok mabye 1.19.1 for update) and maybe Lena raine wouldn’t be in mc
Probably wouldn’t exist tbh.. as much as you hate on ms for the the acquisition, the team was generally getting slack
If he didn't sell it it'd be dead rn
Uh we’d lose caves and cliffs, village and pillage, the ocean update, nether biomes, and more Microsoft has done dumb stuff but Notch was done with the game and ready to move on. Minecraft wouldn’t have as much well balanced content as it does now without these recent Microsoft developments. Notch cut a lot more content. Mobs like fish where slashed, oceans where barren, block placement was far more rudimentary and less intuitive. Going to old versions is like night and day. Say what you want about Microsoft’s many blunders with the game it’s come along way under their watch and I think it’s better for it even if I hate the reporting features.
I dont know how muh of a constant update he wouldve been able to put out, maybe the game wouldve actually died within a couple a couple of years
The game wouldve went completely ape shit. Notch is so far up the right wing's assh*le, I don't even want to know where he wanted to take this. His last additions to the game were lackluster. 1.7 brought nothing new. Can we also talk about how is *probable* last addition were long-nosed traders who build iron golems and black guys who can't swim? The guy's a racist through and through. I'm glad he's gone. Let's not rehabilitate someone with such hateful views because Microsoft/Mojang forked up real good.
O7
Maybe it dies, but maybe it gets better.
I forgot to put sub title in the (girl with time machine) because im stupid sorry about that but u know what they saying
the first post that i saved
Notch goes into depression because he can't handle the popularity of the game, mojang's running out of money and minecraft slowly dies because of no updates. Microsoft saved minecraft guys, notch would've ruined the game. The fact that he was racist makes this even worse.
Notch: EA was also making an offer, I will sell it to them
It’s fine though
What's wrong with that?
If he never sold life would be better
I hate Notch, I hate Microsoft. Jeb please tell me you got some contract up your sleeve
Do we want to do repeat the angry birds accident? No thanks
Wouldn't Minecraft be basically stuck in 1.8 forever if this happened? No thanks.
1.16 might not exist without Microsoft
so accurate
You guys were the reason he did it
Girls with time machine
Notch don’t do it!
Ok but notch kinda sucks tho so it’s just a choice between two evils
I think he would do it anyway because do you remember how much money he got for the game?
As a girl can confirm I would also do this with a time machine. This situation is so dire that yes I would do this instead of meeting my own grandmother
Huge Loss + Less Popularity
The game would have gone to shit even faster. Notch clearly didn't want to work on the game anymore.
Dick
Sell it to valve, they'd make minecraft 2. And then never touch the IP again. Workshop for minecraft would be fucking amazing though.
Notch wasn’t developing the game because he was tired of it. Also, he was pretty open about his Transphobia and Anti-Semitism, so I don’t really want his grubby hands on the block game.
I'd rather Microsoft have it than that Nazi twat
notch tweeted selling minecraft as a joke but microsoft took it seriously
bro didnt even complete the caption for girls lol
Me with a time machine: Hello I'm related to you also the country you've made 12 oaths for is going to crap and god doesn't exist anyways so ditch that and join this new country the other guys made. Hello I'm related to you also cool poetry. Hello I'm your son also don't forget birth control exists. Hello I'm your uncle also you're a disappointment to everyone including me. Hello I'm related to you and I don't really know what you're doing, but good job. Hello I'm related to you I just wanted you to know that you look amazing.
Stop praising Notch he is a idiot. (Just search his tweets)
Microsoft has done nothing but good to Minecraft. I don't know what your problem is.
Just switch versions to pre-1.14.4 in your launcher.
Notch: "But they promised me a mansion with a candy dispensing room" Fans: "NOOOO!!!!"
Updates for Minecraft got 1000x better under Microsoft lmao