With minecraft xbla often it is quite hard to find people and pre made maps to play on. The idea is that on the main menu of minecraft for xbla there would be another choice saying "minecraft live" (or something along those lines) that would show a bunch of constantly ran servers by 4j that have been created by the community. The maps could be survival, PvP, adventure, creative, spleef or whatever people create. For the maps that are chosen the community could send their map file, with a short description, to 4j. The community would be able to play the maps and this would filter inappropriate and mediocre maps by reporting, voting or give it hits, if the map gets enough hits (or good votes) 4j studios would decide to post it or not. THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE A PAY EXTRA FEATURE, IF ONE HAS XBOX LIVE GOLD IT SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE. Please comment if you can add further on or if you see problems, please answer the poll too. Thank you
Rent servers maybe but I am not sure we would ever see open hosted servers as described above on the xbox (any console) for a game like minecraft. I could be wrong here but I would think that if they implement certain servers as game features like this they would be more liable for the content of the maps. i.e. someone writes out a dirty word in blocks and suddenly 3 million moms are calling to complain. As it is now I would assume the answer to these types of complaints is "not our problem, you should submit a complaint on so-and-so's gamertag to microsoft" who in turn might ban the offender to satisfy the masses. My guess is this is also why we don't have the option to host servers publicly on xbla, because it minimizes the amount of people who could encounter "inappropriate" content, but it's pure speculation on my part so don't take it for facts.
This has been brought up many times and it is a great idea. However, I can see people taking abuse of it as always. Like mentioned above, inappropriate content or do this and get a achivement and stuff like that. *sigh*. Why can't we have a world where people follow the rules?
Rent servers maybe but I am not sure we would ever see open hosted servers as described above on the xbox (any console) for a game like minecraft. I could be wrong here but I would think that if they implement certain servers as game features like this they would be more liable for the content of the maps. i.e. someone writes out a dirty word in blocks and suddenly 3 million moms are calling to complain. As it is now I would assume the answer to these types of complaints is "not our problem, you should submit a complaint on so-and-so's gamertag to microsoft" who in turn might ban the offender to satisfy the masses. My guess is this is also why we don't have the option to host servers publicly on xbla, because it minimizes the amount of people who could encounter "inappropriate" content, but it's pure speculation on my part so don't take it for facts.
If the indie game rip offs of Minecraft can have open servers that anyone can join, Minecraft can have it too. There is no technical challenge or legal issues that need to be gotten around. It's perfectly doable, but would require a lot of work on 4J's part.
Well what I was suggesting was that it goes through a filtering process where either 4j and/or the community vote, report and flag the maps so the "rule breaker maps do not show up. Just the fun and best maps show; Therefore no rules should be broken. With the filtering I suggest that there should be a button to try the possible maps and you review after. If the map gets enough hits 4j has the final word. This reduces the amount of work 4j would have to do and keeps the game to it's true meaning.
Well what I was suggesting was that it goes through a filtering process where either 4j and/or the community vote, report and flag the maps so the "rule breaker maps do not show up. Just the fun and best maps show; Therefore no rules should be broken. With the filtering I suggest that there should be a button to try the possible maps and you review after. If the map gets enough hits 4j has the final word. This reduces the amount of work 4j would have to do and keeps the game to it's true meaning.
I disagree. Everyone should be allowed to have their world open to everyone else if they are going to implement such a feature.
It's simple. When you start a world, there should be an option to make your world open to everyone, open to friends only, or private/offline/closed. After that, there should be a large server list that lists every single world that is open to everyone. Then you can join whichever one you like. There could also be a sort of quick match thing where the game just drops you into someones world.
Obviously they could add a filter so the list only shows Creative worlds, Survival Worlds, Peaceful Worlds, Normal Worlds, Hard Worlds, etc, etc.
It's how the numerous Minecraft knock offs have it set up, and it works perfectly fine. If they ever add something like that to Minecraft, that is how I would want it done. To those saying it's marketed towards kids, the rating system does say that online interactions are not rated by the ESRB. It would be up to the parents to make sure their child is playing on a clean world with nice people. But that would require actual parenting and I'm sure that is out of the question.
I expect the challenge with MCX360 is the game is marketed at kids and Microsoft want to tightly control a clean image for it. The game sold 5 million copies. If added map sharing or server support was of interest to them, they could have done it.
The idea of paying for Gold for the privilege of playing the games I've bought, then also paying more for a server rental, doesn't really sit well with me. I'd sooner have map sharing.
I do not want to pay extra for this fearture, Like Call of Duty the game itself would be setting up and paying for the servers. I think 4J would imply this into the game if they could but at the moment it seems their focus is on being up to date with the PC version, if we get their attention would could make it arrive sooner. Also 4J should not make the players pay for this feature because all it will do is increase the amount of copies sold thus they make more money.
I disagree. Everyone should be allowed to have their world open to everyone else if they are going to implement such a feature.
It's simple. When you start a world, there should be an option to make your world open to everyone, open to friends only, or private/offline/closed. After that, there should be a large server list that lists every single world that is open to everyone. Then you can join whichever one you like. There could also be a sort of quick match thing where the game just drops you into someones world.
Obviously they could add a filter so the list only shows Creative worlds, Survival Worlds, Peaceful Worlds, Normal Worlds, Hard Worlds, etc, etc.
It's how the numerous Minecraft knock offs have it set up, and it works perfectly fine. If they ever add something like that to Minecraft, that is how I would want it done. To those saying it's marketed towards kids, the rating system does say that online interactions are not rated by the ESRB. It would be up to the parents to make sure their child is playing on a clean world with nice people. But that would require actual parenting and I'm sure that is out of the question.
Very True with how ESRB cannot dictate what a player experiences online (I never even thought of that protocol) But if not have Map sharing available so one can join anyone's running server map, and a different section (such as Team Fortess 2's matchmaking) where people join the game mode on a set map that the developers made / choose so gamemode's would be fluid and just like matchmaking its for fun, but the maps are made by the people (what is the community's consensus) and 4J chooses which ones are for the specific gamemodes they host.
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It's simple. When you start a world, there should be an option to make your world open to everyone, open to friends only, or private/offline/closed. After that, there should be a large server list that lists every single world that is open to everyone. Then you can join whichever one you like. There could also be a sort of quick match thing where the game just drops you into someones world.
Obviously they could add a filter so the list only shows Creative worlds, Survival Worlds, Peaceful Worlds, Normal Worlds, Hard Worlds, etc, etc.
It's how the numerous Minecraft knock offs have it set up, and it works perfectly fine. If they ever add something like that to Minecraft, that is how I would want it done. To those saying it's marketed towards kids, the rating system does say that online interactions are not rated by the ESRB. It would be up to the parents to make sure their child is playing on a clean world with nice people. But that would require actual parenting and I'm sure that is out of the question.
I do not want to pay extra for this fearture, Like Call of Duty the game itself would be setting up and paying for the servers. I think 4J would imply this into the game if they could but at the moment it seems their focus is on being up to date with the PC version, if we get their attention would could make it arrive sooner. Also 4J should not make the players pay for this feature because all it will do is increase the amount of copies sold thus they make more money.
Very True with how ESRB cannot dictate what a player experiences online (I never even thought of that protocol) But if not have Map sharing available so one can join anyone's running server map, and a different section (such as Team Fortess 2's matchmaking) where people join the game mode on a set map that the developers made / choose so gamemode's would be fluid and just like matchmaking its for fun, but the maps are made by the people (what is the community's consensus) and 4J chooses which ones are for the specific gamemodes they host.