The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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I am sorry it's come to this. I have many fantastic memories of Minecraft, it's been a comfort and a place of solace for many tough years of my life.
But you're not what you used to be. You don't believe in the same things.
You used to revel in every platform, every operating system, every identity you could reach. Now you play favorites; you toy with your club of No Homers.
You embraced every form of 3D you could reach, eagerly, aggressively - from red/blue tinted specs to cross-hatch "Magic Eye" patterns that barely work. Now you can't be arsed to release support for the first ever console VR helmet - even though you scrambled to support all the others to date.
It wouldn't even be that hard, and you know it.
You used to lap up player feedback, fixing and growing and changing to your own vision while always listening to your players. Now you break features, and never once look back. When is the minecart with furnace going to get repaired? The code has been dummied for you a hundred times now. It goes around a corner and its momentum stops. You broke it on some minor release change to entities. You said you would fix it, but then you didn't.
That's not to say you don't release updates - but instead you release skin packs. Map packs. Your paid, officialized content. I drew my ugly robot skin, pixel by pixel, painstakingly - and now I can't even use it, and there is no good reason why. Skins used to be free, and now you are monetizing it. Maps used to be free and now, you monetize them.
What next? Are world seeds going to cost money? A dollar for a ten-pack of seeds?
We used to sit together in my dirt house, you and I. I would copy great books, like Asimov's "I, Robot" and Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" and leave them in chests for others to discover. I would wander through endless landscapes, linking far-flung worlds through nether rails spanning miles. Building quirky machines that just barely run, painting texture packs one side at a time, and enjoying each sunrise as we grew together. Each day bringing something new and beautiful, with both of us seeking new horizons.
Now you've gone down a dark, lonely road. A road that leads to money and competition, to a battlefield between consoles. I don't want to follow.
I want a fairer sky. I want you to be happy in the life you've chosen, but in truth I think it will lead to your demise, your slow and lifeless rot into a decayed husk, leeching what is left of the hearts of others.
...
I can say thank you for beautiful memories. Thank you, for what you were.
Ok interesting read though i would like to add my two cents
There is no logical reason they would support the Playstation VR setup since sony does not want to support minecraft meaning they do not want cross play, minecraft market, or for any one to even use any thing unless it is playstation only.
I to have a complaint about not being able to use my own custom minecraft skin though i wouldn't blame minecraft as inappropriate and or copy righted content could be uploaded as a skin and cause problems for the console companies. Sucks but i can understand why we don't have custom skins.
Being charged textures,skins,and maps yea i can see why they charge us as pushing content to a console is not cheap but...
I do think that the quality of said content is not worth the prices they charge.
Alot of content we use to get for free on JAVA edition has been sold on minecraft market. Not a bad thing the folks that put all that work in get a more reliable source of income instead of hoping folks use there ad links to generate an income.
Mods was always a Java edition thing most of us knew that there was little to no chance of a console or heck any version other then java getting mods.
The furnace minecart sad to say has been used less and less on java edition so they are thinking about removing the furnace minecart from minecraft.
java edition has been and always will be minecrafts go to beta testing ground so what happens there can and will affect the players of the other versions of minecraft.
I am sorry it's come to this. I have many fantastic memories of Minecraft, it's been a comfort and a place of solace for many tough years of my life.
But you're not what you used to be. You don't believe in the same things.
You used to revel in every platform, every operating system, every identity you could reach. Now you play favorites; you toy with your club of No Homers.
You embraced every form of 3D you could reach, eagerly, aggressively - from red/blue tinted specs to cross-hatch "Magic Eye" patterns that barely work. Now you can't be arsed to release support for the first ever console VR helmet - even though you scrambled to support all the others to date.
It wouldn't even be that hard, and you know it.
You used to lap up player feedback, fixing and growing and changing to your own vision while always listening to your players. Now you break features, and never once look back. When is the minecart with furnace going to get repaired? The code has been dummied for you a hundred times now. It goes around a corner and its momentum stops. You broke it on some minor release change to entities. You said you would fix it, but then you didn't.
That's not to say you don't release updates - but instead you release skin packs. Map packs. Your paid, officialized content. I drew my ugly robot skin, pixel by pixel, painstakingly - and now I can't even use it, and there is no good reason why. Skins used to be free, and now you are monetizing it. Maps used to be free and now, you monetize them.
What next? Are world seeds going to cost money? A dollar for a ten-pack of seeds?
We used to sit together in my dirt house, you and I. I would copy great books, like Asimov's "I, Robot" and Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" and leave them in chests for others to discover. I would wander through endless landscapes, linking far-flung worlds through nether rails spanning miles. Building quirky machines that just barely run, painting texture packs one side at a time, and enjoying each sunrise as we grew together. Each day bringing something new and beautiful, with both of us seeking new horizons.
Now you've gone down a dark, lonely road. A road that leads to money and competition, to a battlefield between consoles. I don't want to follow.
I want a fairer sky. I want you to be happy in the life you've chosen, but in truth I think it will lead to your demise, your slow and lifeless rot into a decayed husk, leeching what is left of the hearts of others.
...
I can say thank you for beautiful memories. Thank you, for what you were.
But, I think you mean Leaching right?
I'd put something really fancy here, but I really don't have the energy to......do.....th'
You know what, just visit my blog at Mac's Opinion if you need more.
To "leech" and to "leach" are different words.
Something that is "leaching" is very slowly draining a liquid through porosity.
Something "leeching" is pulling fluid or other substance from a host being, like a leech.
I can see how either term might be applicable to the sentence, really. But no, I meant leeching.
Ok interesting read though i would like to add my two cents
There is no logical reason they would support the Playstation VR setup since sony does not want to support minecraft meaning they do not want cross play, minecraft market, or for any one to even use any thing unless it is playstation only.
I to have a complaint about not being able to use my own custom minecraft skin though i wouldn't blame minecraft as inappropriate and or copy righted content could be uploaded as a skin and cause problems for the console companies. Sucks but i can understand why we don't have custom skins.
Being charged textures,skins,and maps yea i can see why they charge us as pushing content to a console is not cheap but...
I do think that the quality of said content is not worth the prices they charge.
Alot of content we use to get for free on JAVA edition has been sold on minecraft market. Not a bad thing the folks that put all that work in get a more reliable source of income instead of hoping folks use there ad links to generate an income.
Mods was always a Java edition thing most of us knew that there was little to no chance of a console or heck any version other then java getting mods.
The furnace minecart sad to say has been used less and less on java edition so they are thinking about removing the furnace minecart from minecraft.
java edition has been and always will be minecrafts go to beta testing ground so what happens there can and will affect the players of the other versions of minecraft.