User blog comment:TheStudyOfTheUnknown/A meaningless picture from mojang/@comment-25333020-20150511035736/@comment-26222246-20150511061444

Not necassarily, we did not need to change banners, it was because of the fact that they gave capes to people who went to minecon which made it that they didn't want this. If capes were in mods people could just get the minecon capes.