Call me ignorant, if this happened and it brought a new golden era of modding (1.7.10) style golden era where everyone’s playing the same version I’d be maybe the happiest player ever.
Modders backporting content wouldn’t be nothing new, hell, they even brought the mobs that didn’t make the cut from those stupid mob votes to life. Let modding become the new updates, fuck it.
Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 21 hours agoThe monkeypaw says they will stop updates for the java edition or release a new version that doesn’t work on the java edition.
They probably see how many sales are generated from the free work done by modders though. If someone wants to come along and do for free the thing you might have to actually pay designers, developers, artists and all the support staff for and they still need to pay you to play it, you’d be foolish not to encourage the exploitation of free labor.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Young generations and mobile players are on bedrock
Everyone else plays Java where you can easily self-host a server
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
They already do that for bedrock.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I was thinking the same thing. If the de-obfuscation tools are already out there, it might cost them more money to keep that layer. Their developers also have to use it to read the crash logs and the like from the sounds of it. Less layers = less maintenance = less cost. More mods = keeps the game relevant.