Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25101089-20170524114315/@comment-31507215-20170524163127

I hae only been playing the mod/on this community for a couple months, so please take these thoughts with a grain of salt, but here is my opinion.

I have played Minecraft since beta, and have watched the progress of the game since then. In my opinion, 1.7 was the peak of its "evolution" (for lack of a better term). As Theoden pointed out, they really didn't add tons of good stuff past then. 1.8 - very good update, and added a lot of cool stuff, but changed everything. 1.9 - love dual wielding and elytra, detest almost everything else about it. (The mod did a much better job with combat.)  1.10 - magma blocks were cool, that was basically it. 1.11 - rocket propelled elytra flight is awesome, but not worth all the other junk that it added.

Looking into the future, 1.12 looks cool, but is gonna change EVEN MORE, and 1.13 just looks like Mojang/Microsoft is trying to kill modders. That is just my opinion, but it's my opinion nonetheless.

To be perfectly honest, I would still be playing Minecraft even if we just had 2 monsters, and a total of 5 different blocks. There was so much promise, but they decided to go for high-tech, cool, in stuff, and (I think) lost a lot of that promise.

As for the community, I have no clue how it's thriving, (not being an internet person) but, in my opinion, it's a lot better to have a smaller number of committed people who enjoy it for what it is, than to have hundreds of people who just want more, cooler stuff.

I would say leave it the way it is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

(Sorry if it got kinda sappy, but those are my thoughts.)