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So, what's the catch? Surely Microsoft and Mojang didn't just suddenly become good?
The 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.
Call me ignorant, if this happened and it brought a new golden era of modding (1.7.10 style) where everyone's playing the same version I'd be maybe the happiest player ever.
Modders backporting content is 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. At this point they'd likely be better realised than Microsoft's efforts.
Y'all can try and pull it from my cold, dead hands.
I should boot up the ol modpack and see what it do---oh, right, it crashes 🥹
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.
Young generations and mobile players are on bedrock
Everyone else plays Java where you can easily self-host a server
Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.
They already do that for bedrock.
I guess it just doesn't make sense to obfuscate it when mods in general runs the Minecraft community in turn making more profit to Mojang/Microsoft. My other suspicion is potential competition. There is this game called Vintage Story which kinda directly competes with Minecraft seems gaining ground and was built to be moddable from the start.
Exactly. Community bindings do exist and are used over the official bindings already, and I think the source code obfuscation is just an annoyance by now.
Havent they been making changes to help mod/datapack development for a while?
Modding is such a big part of the game, helping it would get more people playing the game
They made "datapack" which is a way of playing with mods without having to use third-party mod loaders like Forge and Fabric but (don't quote me on this as I'm not a mod developer) it's not as powerful compare to the mod loaders.
Yup. Mods can change basically EVERYTHING, compared to datapacks being able to change only what mojang wants.
Not sure if it's just what they want, it's mostly that Minecraft's spaghetti code had a lot of things hardcoded. Lately they've been changing a lot of things to be data-driven, and able to be changed by datapacks
Luanti eating on their turf.
I doubt microsoft even knows what luanti is
Whats that?
It's the platform that used to be MineTest, apparently
Lol no
I wonder how good AI is at deobfuscating code. It seems like the kind of thing it might be good at.
With how bad it is at writing it, I'm guessing similarly bad. It'll do something, but odds are it introduces a ton of errors that you then have to track down. That's the best case. Worst case, it just creates something totally different that looks similar to the input but doesn't do the same thing.
I said basically the same thing and got downvoted for it.
Hopefully the catch is nothing, but you can never be too sure.
I would advance: trying to keep the brand alive against the hidden giant of Roblox.
It’s a 20 year old game going into abandonware mode. This is the nicest way for them to do that.
Its 16, not 20, the earliest version "Cave Game Tech Test" was in May 2009.
They're still actively pushing updates, a really big one is scheduled for the holiday season. Additional biomes and mini-bosses were added last year with structures hinting at development plans for a 4th dimension. The lighting engine is being actively redone.
Minecraft is absolutely not gearing down into abandonware mode.
And they finally added copper items 😂