Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25376906-20181001161243/@comment-31507215-20181028052051

Also, considering some earlier comments, my main frustration with the new updates (and I wouldn't be surprised if others shared it) is that it is getting less and less like the Minecraft it was when it first came out. Minecraft used to be a small, relatively obscure game. It had enough stuff to make you want to play it and to allow you to play for hours on end. It didn't have any big boss fights or super cool enemies, but it had lots of blocks, a virtually infinite number of things you could do with it, and it didn't require any sort of powerful computer.

Now, over the years, it has become incredibly popular. I don't grudge it that at all, and I think it rightly deserves recognition, but Minecraft is everywhere you look nowadays. I think it is probably mainly because of Microsoft, but, in my opinion, Minecraft has been merchandised into oblivion.

Now, after many updates, there are many, many blocks, and many, many monsters, as well as boss fights and goals, but I think they all move the point further away from simply being a sandbox game.

Now, after many alterations, Minecraft requires a a computer with decent gaming capabilities. The old Windows XP laptop we have that used to run Minecraft easily, is now almost obsolete. I needed to make a resource pack to stop all of the ocean animations before we could cross three ocean chunks in without lagging out (after 1.13).

Now, instead of having everything close to arms reach, you are required to travel thousands of blocks to find certain blocks and objects - in some cases, you even have to restart your world after updates if you want to find this stuff.

I don't think anyone should simply hate the new updates, but I think a pretty good argument can be made that the continually increasing number of additions and changes have made Minecraft lose some of the magic it once had.

(I don't know if everyone has been playing since Beta, but I think the point still stands.)

/endrant