Minecraft Megathread; yeah its update 1.12 big whoop what about it

[otto-san]

there's absolutely nothing that would prevent someone who got a larger share for some reason from giving some of theirs to the other people to split it fairly

there's nothing that prevents it, but it's their money lol

yeah it's be nice if they were generous enough to spread the wealth evenly but it's like "why doesn't mcdonalds spend money on starving children other than advertisement jeez..." (p weak allusion but i'm reminded of the scenario)

you can talk about what's supposedly fair but it's kinda idealistic and goofy in this case. i don't have the specific words to explain since i'm not an expert in economics but it's p standard. you say if they got a larger share "for some reason"; notch has p good reason to own majority share in a company he essentially fortified with his bearhands

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[Oasis]

there's absolutely nothing that would prevent someone who got a larger share for some reason from giving some of theirs to the other people to split it fairly

I see your point, and its not without precedence as Notch split the first bit of dividend Mojang made among the team, but that was less than a dozen people and a one time thing, I'd assume.

You have to understand, Notch won't be making any more money after this deal unless he actually does something for it, as opposed to sitting back and reaping the profits of Mojang. While the majority of the employees will probably keep their jobs and continue to make money.

Also, not every one of those employees was incredibly important towards that valuation of 2.5 billion, so realistically they should get nothing besides the satisfaction of still having a job.


Overall its speculation.

[Jubel]

[blueblur121]

Will you guys stop with the whole "Microsoft is going to ruin the game" thing? It's not like they're going to replace all of the developers with their own. The same team will be working on it as before.

[Ninja Decoy]

Damn thats an old version used.

[Menen]

Will you guys stop with the whole "Microsoft is going to ruin the game" thing? It's not like they're going to replace all of the developers with their own. The same team will be working on it as before.

Doesnt matter who the devs are it matters what Microsoft wants to do with the game. And Microsoft doesnt understand what a good thing is

[Ninja Decoy]

Holy stuff just wait and see what happens instead of speculating and only looking at the absolute negatives, most of which wont happen.

If anything, look at any potential positives for once. Thats what i try to do whenever something changes.

[bloody jumper]

Holy stuff just wait and see what happens instead of speculating and only looking at the absolute negatives, most of which wont happen.

If anything, look at any potential positives for once. Thats what i try to do whenever something changes.

This man speaks the truth, or something I agree with. Whichever comes first!

[SquartleTurtle]

You know, it would be kinda cool if they rewrote the entire code into something more stable. I dont know much about code, but i do know that java isnt the greatest.

yeah it would be good if it didnt consume so much loving ram

[BlockoCrafter]

yeah it would be good if it didnt consume so much loving ram

It doesn't even consume it; it just says "oh you need more ram for this game haha" and once you put it to 4GB or something like that, it only uses 5-8% of that memory.

[blueblur121]

I think it'll stay Java based, because if it didn't, then all of the mods that work with the current version will also need to be rewritten, or maybe mods won't be a thing at all. Remember guys, this is Microsoft. If they want to completely remake a game from scratch they will ditch everything that's not profitable and replace it with something else.

[Trifax]

Holy stuff just wait and see what happens instead of speculating and only looking at the absolute negatives, most of which wont happen.

If anything, look at any potential positives for once. Thats what i try to do whenever something changes.

These "absolute negatives" are based on preceding instances of corporate acquisition. It most often turns out to be extremely profitable for the purchasing company, and cripplingly dominative of the acquired entity.  There are countless instances supporting that this would be a bad thing, and Microsoft doesn't exactly have a stellar background working with a game studio quite like Mojang.

I, personally, would rather anticipate the worst and be pleasantly surprised if things turn out better. If I imagine everything to work out fine, I'm going to be heartily disappointed when the worst comes to fruition. But by all means, you're welcome to feel however you'd like.

yeah it would be good if it didnt consume so much loving ram

You can allocate more ram to Minecraft rather easily, especially since the official launcher added the ability to modify startup conditions. I think it's good that the program doesn't assume and automatically hog TOO MUCH ram. It runs on the bare minimum, and you can setup your profiles to always start with more if you would like to do so. Problem solved.

[BlockoCrafter]

I think it'll stay Java based, because if it didn't, then all of the mods that work with the current version will also need to be rewritten, or maybe mods won't be a thing at all. Remember guys, this is Microsoft. If they want to completely remake a game from scratch they will ditch everything that's not profitable and replace it with something else.

Mods already are constantly being rewrote when major updates or code changes occur. In the case of a language change though, unless the mods authors are actually competent and can work off of languages other than Java, it would take a lot longer to remake mods.

[blueblur121]

I, personally, would rather anticipate the worst and be pleasantly surprised if things turn out better. If I imagine everything to work out fine, I'm going to be heartily disappointed when the worst comes to fruition. But by all means, you're welcome to feel however you'd like.

Let's assume the worst because maybe it will seem better if the worst doesn't happen.

I mean, I see where you're coming from, but to me it just seems like pessimism.

Mods already are constantly being rewrote when major updates or code changes occur. In the case of a language change though, unless the mods authors are actually competent and can work off of languages other than Java, it would take a lot longer to remake mods.

If they were competent then they would use their skills to make something that is not a Minecraft mod. Switching languages would just make nearly everyone in the modding community give up on their projects or only develop mods for outdated versions (which would be easily doable with all of those modpack launchers).

[BlockoCrafter]

If they were competent then they would use their skills to make something that is not a Minecraft mod.

Ehhhh I don't know. There are many experienced programmers that like making Minecraft mods in their free-time because it's adding on to a game they like to play.
I mean, look at Thaumcraft 4. You can't say it's poorly programmed or mediocre.