Comment by norman784
4 days ago
TBH Mojang should have the resources to do that on his own, Minecraft is the best selling game of all times btw.
4 days ago
TBH Mojang should have the resources to do that on his own, Minecraft is the best selling game of all times btw.
Minecraft is extremely mismanaged, the fact that the java version is still the ”main” version after all these years is just crazy
Why is it crazy? Any rewrite that would be as flexible wrt mods would be shaped similarly.
Java garbage collection gets out of control when cramming 100+ poorly optimized mods together. The bedrock edition is great in theory but the proper mod API never appeared. Regardless, people have accomplished some really impressive stuff with commands, but it is an exercise in pain.
The other issue with bedrock is it is far from feature parity with java. If these two things were hit then java could be reasonably retired. However we are decades too late in it being acceptable to introduce a breaking change to mod loading. So it's java forever.
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You're right. Hytale is certainly shaped similarly in that regard.
Have you played Bedrock? It sucks.
I imagine it's far from the best-earning, though. It's a one-time purchase.
Skins, media packs, servers, hosted realms, upsales through all consoles, multiple copies for multiplayer with/between your kids… also a mass revolving shit tumbler of account stuff on the backend that invalidated lots of old accounts…
I bought during the beta for a lifetime of goodies, had to buy it again after the buyout, then again after an update to MS accounts wasn’t acted on, and then for the Switch. I’ve bought Minecraft 4 times, with another on the horizon if it keeps popular.
I don't know what you mean by media packs, but the server software is free, and I believe all of the skins and maps released by Mojang itself on Bedrock's marketplace are also free. It's the third-party stuff that costs money, although I assume Mojang takes their cut.
all of that except realms is bedrock edition, not the java one. I'm honestly pleasantly surprised they haven't killed the java version
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They do have a bunch of add-ons now with Realms notably, but I wonder if this revenue goes to Mojang or to another Microsoft branch for tax reasons. To say nothing of derived media, plushies, Legos etc.
Fair, I completely forgot about Realms. I didn't know you could buy addons for them, though.
My kids have minecraft caps, tshirts, pants, pajamas, hoodies, lego, pencils, toys and probably other 100 things I do not remember right now
So no. It is not one time purchase.
You don't buy in-game money like GTA5, sure.
Then again, you'll never see a group of pre-schoolers wearing GTA5 hoodies and hats and backpacks, and you can't watch the GTA film in cinemas.
You need subscription for multiplayer
I don't think that's right. A Realms sub gives you a private server to play on but you don't need that. You can host your own for free.
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Nah, only if you're not willing to self host.
I run a 6 person server on an Intel NUC, without major issue.