User blog comment:LOTRMod/Why hasn't the mod updated to 1.8 yet?/@comment-68.188.198.195-20180801155425/@comment-36663065-20180821092829

Dear A FANDOM user:

Please remember the stylism used for this mod. LOTR's thematic sense in no way fits with any of the newly introduced blocks from 1.12.2. And, as from above, what content, related to modding is added in 1.12.2 relative to 1.7.10? Either way, LOTR is more designed at least in its current form, as a standalone rather than with other 'major' mods. Also, can you state what genre those 'major mods' of yours are for? Do they in any way correlate with LOTR(and no, stuff like Thaumcraft does not count)? It would be more effort than it is worth to update LOTR into 1.12.2. Even then, Mojang updates Minecraft versions every so often - is Mevans supposed to spend a straight month every year to update to the newest, 'best' version of Minecraft?

Also, quote: "This also applies to 1.9 and any other future versions, since updating to them would mean going through 1.8. If I do ever update to 1.8, it certainly won't be any time soon. And as always: pestering me to do it won't make it happen faster."

Besides, the new versions themselves don't even add that much content. 1.9's PVP changes? We had them ages ago. Different horse movements? LOTR has its own horses. New commands? What use are they? New mobs? We have those in spades. "Oh no LOTR is losing players"? What do you mean by losing players? On ToS? If so, most of the major ones are still around, at least to some degree.

See, the problem with the internet today is that we expect others to give us their time and energy because we want them to. I'm guilty of it too- I take plenty of people for granted, every day. We expect Mevans to update the mod past 1.7.10, not only forcing him to reduce other features to work on the update, and force him to spend time coding, but trying to force him to spend his time on something he doesn't want to do. See, LOTR isn't a right, it's a privilege. And that's something everyone here needs to understand.

PS: I have no idea how this turned into philosophy.