An interview with Jeb_ by PC gamer just confirmed that Minecraft will be a completely new game after 1.5, probaly turning into Terraria with no more updates. He said that after the ENTIRE code is rewritten, they will stop adding things and leave it to modders, like Flowerchild, but also turning it into an open source game.
There's a lot of misinformation and confusion here.
We have no plans to stop updating the game itself. Ever. While this isn't "we will always be updating the game, even 500 years from now", it's absolutely not "we're gonna make the api and that's the end".
We're splitting features into separate components, or plugins. This is an architectural thing, for sanity sake. We'll keep adding onto the vanilla game as always, but those new things will *technically* be plugins. The only difference between that and being integrated deeper is that you can turn them off if you don't like them, or replace them with something else.
In regards to servers: Nothing about server hosting yourselves or elsewhere will change. Yeah you can have servers with 20 people on still, yeah you can have servers with 500 people on (if you really want to).
An interview with Jeb_ by PC gamer just confirmed that Minecraft will be a completely new game after 1.5, probaly turning into Terraria with no more updates. He said that after the ENTIRE code is rewritten, they will stop adding things and leave it to modders, like Flowerchild, but also turning it into an open source game.
Three things:
1.He never said any of those things.
2.There was no such interview.
3.I can't actually say the third thing due to forum rules. I think it's fair to say it can be extrapolated based on that, however.
Yes. please. if you give a source it is more likely you will be believed.
He said it was on PC Gamer. There are currently three articles under the tag of "Jens Bergensten". This alleged article/interview isn't one of them. It would have had that as a tag. it's absence is easy to explain because it doesn't exist.
A Newcomer to commentating. Mine aren't top notch yet, but I think I do a pretty good jeb. Sometimes my vides are jonk and a carn fest. My name isn't Kris or Marc IRL, it's Top Secret. I had a few YT accounts b4, but they were junk. That is all.
But though modders will dominate Minecraft’s future, for the short term at least, Mojang will continue to release weekly ‘snapshots’, optional downloads of unfinalised content, which continue to extend the game in unusual ways – or, more accurately, enable the players to do so.
It's unclear exactly what this means: whether updates will continue until the mod API is released and then stop, or whether we will see non-content updates continue after the mod API is released.
Personally, I'm not too worried about not seeing any more brand new content from Mojang. However, I am hoping that they will continue the bug fixes, as Minecraft is still a very buggy game. It would also be nice if they completed some of the incomplete elements in the game, although that's not as important to me as bug fixes.
Bottom line: I would be fine with getting new content from mods as long as Mojang continue to fix bugs in the core game.
I think that the problem is that Jeb doesn't play it for fun, don't rage at me even though he would not update for months, Notch who had fun playing it, or Dinnerbone. Don't say that the community does the same, the community doesn't have a degree in programming and cannot create a game from the ground up.
They have over 8 million downloads. So people obviously like (and some of use love) the game as it is now. they may have a degree in programming. But do they think of sales. I know if this happened i would probably not play anymore, and i am sure a lot of us would float in the same boat as me. This could drop sales a ton for minecraft.
This is no small task, however. Radical changes cannot be made to the game’s API after launch, so getting it (mostly) right first time is important. And getting it right means changing a lot of Minecraft’s basic infrastructure.
“We’re rewriting the rendering – basically rewriting the client side of Minecraft from scratch,” says Nathan ‘Dinnerbone’ Adams, who was hired from the community for his work on Bukkit, the most popular of Minecraft’s unofficial modding toolsets. “I think it’ll be a couple of months before we see the initial versions of the API.”
Well at least they're going to try to release something decent. And maybe they'll finally fix the poor performance.
“We want to make it easier for families and people with little knowledge of computers to create persistent servers,” says Jeb. “So we’ll integrate our own server provider in the game. We mentioned this before and I got a lot of emails from server provider companies scared that we would force them out of business. I can understand it might look that way, but our target audience is not the same. Our hosting service will probably be too simple for the hardcore who buy servers now; we’ll aim for servers with eight-to-ten people max.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” — Albert Einstein
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
But though modders will dominate Minecraft’s future, for the short term at least, Mojang will continue to release weekly ‘snapshots’, optional downloads of unfinalised content, which continue to extend the game in unusual ways – or, more accurately, enable the players to do so.
It's unclear exactly what this means: whether updates will continue until the mod API is released and then stop, or whether we will see non-content updates continue after the mod API is released.
Personally, I'm not too worried about not seeing any more brand new content from Mojang. However, I am hoping that they will continue the bug fixes, as Minecraft is still a very buggy game. It would also be nice if they completed some of the incomplete elements in the game, although that's not as important to me as bug fixes.
Bottom line: I would be fine with getting new content from mods as long as Mojang continue to fix bugs in the core game.
Suho1004 quoted the key portion. This was actually already known, I believe from the interviews at PAX. The key here is the Modding API. Basically Mojang isn't going to release patches like they do now. They will release patches as optional content that will work through the API the same as a modders mod will.
Well, there goes every single large server, Hermitcraft, Mindcrack, ect.
Ho so? There's no reason why they can't continue.
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To be honest, I kinda expected this. Eventually, they(mojang) are going to run out of ideas to add into the game.
Though I'm not sure if they are stopping updates to the game altogether or they are giving it to someone else to continue the updates; It could be either.
But regardless, there's still mods; the game won't get that boring that quickly.
I am ninja'd far too often.
Three things:
1.He never said any of those things.
2.There was no such interview.
3.I can't actually say the third thing due to forum rules. I think it's fair to say it can be extrapolated based on that, however.
Yes. please. if you give a source it is more likely you will be believed.
He said it was on PC Gamer. There are currently three articles under the tag of "Jens Bergensten". This alleged article/interview isn't one of them. It would have had that as a tag. it's absence is easy to explain because it doesn't exist.
The source.
I am ninja'd far too often.
Maybe Dinnerbone will start to develop it by himself. Lecterns,Colored lights, some BTW stuff, ect.
It's unclear exactly what this means: whether updates will continue until the mod API is released and then stop, or whether we will see non-content updates continue after the mod API is released.
Personally, I'm not too worried about not seeing any more brand new content from Mojang. However, I am hoping that they will continue the bug fixes, as Minecraft is still a very buggy game. It would also be nice if they completed some of the incomplete elements in the game, although that's not as important to me as bug fixes.
Bottom line: I would be fine with getting new content from mods as long as Mojang continue to fix bugs in the core game.
Well at least they're going to try to release something decent. And maybe they'll finally fix the poor performance.
EWW! NO! BAD MOJANG!
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
Suho1004 quoted the key portion. This was actually already known, I believe from the interviews at PAX. The key here is the Modding API. Basically Mojang isn't going to release patches like they do now. They will release patches as optional content that will work through the API the same as a modders mod will.
We talked about it a bit in this thread quite awhile ago:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1479550-mod-api-is-14-right/page__hl__ api__st__40
See the second post by Cadika.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
Ho so? There's no reason why they can't continue.
Though I'm not sure if they are stopping updates to the game altogether or they are giving it to someone else to continue the updates; It could be either.
But regardless, there's still mods; the game won't get that boring that quickly.
Because of the 8-10 people on a server thing.
They have like 20 people.