I just don't understand the entitlement present. It's a 10-year-old game. To receive any update should be lauded by the community. To dictate the development cycle of those updates is... pretty odd to me, especially from a hn reader.
Entitlement is something that could perhaps be leveraged at the "drama" around the initial release of 1.19, with the removal of two fairly prominent "promised" features in the eyes of the community (a birch forest rework, and an ambient firefly mob) and reasons given were..
subpar in the community's eyes ("concept art is not a guarantee", while true, was worded quite poorly. And the firefly's removed because some IRL are poisonous to frogs, a mob also added in the update.. they had this same issue with chocolate cookies and parrots years back, and both of those are in the game and done in a way to educate players.. they could have just made them not eat them, and give players who search for why a mini biology lesson, as they seem to want to do extracurricular stuff about mangrove swamps already..)
And I did not dictate development cycle... I discussed how they had had issues with the preceding updates to chat reporting, compared to before caves and cliffs where feature creep/scope had not exceeded their capacity to deliver. This was certainly before chat reporting, the main gripe and meme of the community (wild update being memed as caves and cliffs part 3... Etc etc)
And then pointed out the rather concerning, expedited release schedule, for a feature was both poorly communicated, and poorly implemented both in policy vagueness and security issues. Fake security is worse than no security as it induces complacency.
> To receive any update should be lauded by the community.
Patently false, if I worked at Roblox, and updated it to mine crypto, or access the webcam so marketing could run facial emotion analysis on the players... Well that's an update to a game, why are you looking so angry?? It was a free update.
There was a para/social contract between the community and mojang, it was strained by external forces before the chat report update, and broken by it.
We see the fallout of it with the latest update, mojang are much more quiet about features than previously until they are practically finalised.
Not all updates are good. If it seems like a company is going to publish an update which will break the product for a lot of people, there's nothing wrong with pushing back against it. There is no moral imperative to be thankful that a product is receiving updates regardless of the content of the updates.
