i can't believe mojang so lazy my god i told them to add funny Fart jokes to vanilla and they said no

I wonder why they don't take full advantage of snapshots? Theres millions of "playtesters" yet it seems like they wait for snapshots to be nearly finished

The main complaint of the fans was not that updates take too long, it's that they are bad and not worth the wait. If updates took too long the game would have died years ago.

"Recent updates" "Elytra flight" Uhh, I'm not sure I'd call that recent…

As a plugin and mod dev I really hate when people think that coding is just a “put some lines down and it works” EDIT: To everyone saying “that’s how it works”, you know full well what I meant

A developer at any major tech company needs like 1 month to fix a tiny bug… gotta go thru coding, unit test, human test (multiple levels), code review, test review, deployment… blah blah. So many stages. And with programming, there are some things you can’t speed up… if they hired 100 people to do code a game like Minecraft, updates would actually take longer! Development is like writing a book, not like unloading a truck. Imagine trying to write an essay with 100 people. You’d each have to write 1 sentence then figure out all together how to make the paper flow. It’d take forever to make everyone happy & that’s waste everyone’s time.

One thing the mojang team really needs to focus on more is optimization because Minecraft seems to be getting laggier every major update.

The best response I know to "why not hire more developers?" is that nine mothers can't make a baby in one month

This video is super important, and many players in the minecraft community need to know about this side of Mojang's development cycle. Great video as always, cam!

Love this Video... People just don't understand game development.. it takes a lot of time, effort & patience.. coding isn't just "voila, perfect!" And with vanilla Minecraft updates, Mojang have to first conceptualize ideas.. this can take a while. Because the features not only have to feel new, they have to make the game better in some way, shape or form. They (mostly) have to be game changing, while still keeping that "Minecraft -y" feeling in place. These game changing features can't change the game too much, but they also can't change the game too little... If Mojang were to add a feature that didn't feel Minecraft- y, new, game changing & interesting, people would be MAD... And as for modding, mods don't need to be new, game changing & Minecraft- y.. they could be whatever they want.. Hell, they could even be terrible, and people wouldn't get mad.. because there's no stakes involved. You can do whatever you want when making a mod without any deadlines or fear of not fitting Minecraft's asthetic. But with vanilla, it's the opposite... there's a lot of deadlines involved due to company and community expectations, features have to be new & interesting in some way while still fitting Minecraft and it's design principles, and the updates have to be good, stable and finished in some form... So no, Mojang isn't lazy, they just take their time implementing features because they want to excite as much people as possible for Minecraft and make them happy.. EDIT: This comment is dedicated to all the people who still say “Mojang is lazy” or “Modders do it better” even after watching this video..

I don't think they are lazy, I think they spend a lot of time and effort on updates that don't add much and become boring day one.

“Oh wow minecraft didn’t get an update in a month they left the game for dead” Team Fortress 2 hasn’t got a real update in 6, *6* years. The game has also loads and loads of hackers, and I still have fun on TF2. In like 3 years we got update Aquatic, Pillage and Village, Nether, Caves and Cliffs. Those are huge updates that changed the game

Installed Momentum on an SMP, and it's been working wonderfully. I like the insight on its development you give in this video, really gives a slice of how the devs at Mojang might feel.

Who would have known that developing games, like other forms of art, take actual time and effort.

the create mod is the perfect example of a mod that gets close to what is actually creating content for minecraft. Since the mod takes like 3 - 6 months to update and it has some strict design stuff that makes it one of the best mods available nowadays.

One of the big things that hold game development back is unintended consequences. For example, the new mountains looked amazing on their own, but when you took the whole landscape into account it looked horrid so that had to change the landscape. The last 2 updates have the name Caves and Cliffs but in reality, they changed almost every single aspect of the world generation.

I personally think Minecraft is updated quite quickly compared to all the other games I own, they drop snapshots with content quite quickly while in another game I play the sims 4 you have to wait a long time just for a bug fix patch

I honestly feel caves and cliffs part 1 was super underwhelming, I would have preferred to have just waited to have have full package, it's one of those scenarios where nothing is better than something in a way

7:14 Terraria actually has 4 different endgame armor sets: Solar (melee), Vortex (ranged), Nebula (magic), and Stardust (summon). While nearly everyone has a specific "class" that they prefer and aim for one armor set, there is no real "final set" in the game. Balancing statistics like armor, armor toughness, damage boost, reach, and other things may also break up the armor situation more.

a whole team vs fireflies

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I agree with everything said here, though I do wish Minecraft devs aren't so focused on game-changing features. I'd be happy to receive an update that only adds variety to existing features if it is finished quicker.

My main issue with Mojang's development isn't the speed or amount of content, but how they decide what gets added. Mojang's fear of wrongly portraying sharks to children shouldn't prevent additions that could make the game better when they could use their massive platform to _directly_ tell people what's up. Open the game with a warning that not all facets of nature are accurately represented, Minecraft is fiction. Provide links or directories to _actual_ educational platforms and websites. As for mob votes, players aren't game designers. They don't always know what choice is going to benefit the game the most. And of course, they're way too easy for major faces to influence. We all know about the Glowsquid situation. This undermines the validity of the voting process. Especially when people like Dream clearly illustrate they don't particularly care about the outcome, which can be frustrating for those that do, but obviously can't counterbalance this in any way. Then the losing mobs are thrown away when the vote ends. Potential ideas to benefit the game should never be outright discarded.

Im sure they REALLY pushed themselves hard making those... two plants for the Sniffer.

First person ever that actully gave good arguments to defend mojang.

minecraft players: *updates are taking a long time mojang must be getting lazy* valve fans: *first time?*

Imo a lot of the complaints come from the fact that instead of adding useful and fun things every once in a while, Mojang has added too many ambient, useless mobs. Bees were a good example of a mob update thats small and has plenty of use to make bees actually viable. Polar bears and pandas have almost no use outside of niche purposes. So I think people are upset that we get these “useless” things instead of something actually beneficial and useful, like bees were.

No lie the people who complain that modders can make minecraft “updates” faster than mojang are the same people who complain that every update “feels too modded”

I remember when my lecturer said that time in a development is mostly bug fixing. Writing new code is actually simple. To make sure said code works with all the other code however, is much more complicated. A seemingly simple code may cause existing code breaks. Heck, I even once break my project without even changing my code (it happens because unity debug engine) and that cost me a few days.

When he went into water in the nether I was so confused

In support of Mojang, Coding for Java is hard as hell or more so adding onto already established code is hard as hell and results in countless bugs and exploits that need to udner-go HUGE testing periods. One of Java's biggest weaknesses is memory leaks that have to be addressed and fixed manually by the developer among various other issues related to using Java as a base. It might seem easier because of modding capabilities but that just isn't the case.

Another big issue in Game development is 99% of the developers time goes into creating aspects you will only ever notice when they are done poorly and the great majority of these aspects, we don't actually notice. An example of this is "You only notice the design of the toilet seat when it's not comfortable", but that design took many iterations of testing for all the different variants of people. The reason Mods often look so amazing and impressive in *what you assume to have been a short amount of time* is because when you start playing a Mod or a Modpack, you will have picked exactly those that appeal specifically to you. Meaning the creator of that Modpack specifically focused on your type of player as target audience and didn't need to worry about all the others (the other 90% give or take). Mojang does not have that luxury and needs the update to contain content that appeals to nearly every single type of player. This means that rather than 1 type of player getting a lot of content, every single type of player gets a little bit of content. An example of this is Command Blocks. I have seen very few mods that actually properly link up to or can be influenced by command blocks and this in itself is a complex layer of code and design that is required to make any single feature fit well into Minecraft (For nearly everything Mojang makes Command blocks are now given support and the ability to run commands and influence the game mechanics). And this is only a single of dozens of said 'layer' examples. As a game developer I can tell you that the testing of this content does not only take exceedingly long and requires an extremely large datapool, but it is also in no way optional for a game like Minecraft because once the change has been added to the finalized update, there is no more fixing it. Snapshots actually do come out relatively frequently and new content in a last snapshot is rare because by then everything needs to have been tested by the community and then tweaked several times. Some people say Mojang should update the game in lots and lots of very small updates, but think about what that would do to the community. Nearly every new update means players need either plugins like Viaversion or simply won't be able to join servers or use worlds from different or previous updates. For every update your Client runs on (sometimes only slightly) different code. Lots of small updates would essentially shatter the entire minecraft community into tiny chunks of people playing in different versions. Even now there is a group of players who have never updated past 1.8 because of the combat mechanics, and as a result those players have never even played on a server beyond that version. Finally when people say Mojang has over 600 employees, they fail to take into account that Mojang has part of those employees working on different games, and an even smaller group of those employees that do work on Minecraft are actually involved in the physical creation of the game. A game design company is more than just the artists and programmers. In conclusion I notice that the great majority of people who actually have a decent understanding of how Game design and programming works aren't all that fed up with Mojang at all. The few flaws they do have, I can personally forgive them for as no single company has ever been or will ever be perfect.

I believe Mojang did not just take their time for the audience but for the game (for themselves) itself too. Like you can really feel that there's a caring development team behind the game. Their ideas are super unique and just works with the game which it's looks hard even from outside. I mean who can guess mobs like strider or warden, they're super basic but in the same time super unique which it's makes you more curious for the new stuff.

I've been playing Minecraft for 10 years now and I can't tell you how many times I've played a mod or mod(s) that try to backport a feature added in a recent or future version, only for it to be half-baked and incredibly lacking when compared to the actual mechanic released by mojang. I mean no disrespect to modders obviously since that's how I mostly play the game nowadays. Plus mods can be hard to make just by themselves with that difficulty dependent entirely on the dev's own scope.

One of the many reasons crunch culture is just a bunch of impatient people with no idea of what they're doing thinking developers "just aren't working hard enough"

I respect game devs who increase the release date of a game, dlc, update, etc. so that they have time to polish it out and debug the game and maybe even adding more stuff in it though out development and also the staff and employees can have their own time too because they deserve it. It’s like that old saying “you can’t rush art”

the momentum enchantments actually a really creative idea

Cameron Abnormals is my favorite Video Essay

I feel what you said about comparing mods to official updates can be said about comparing fanmade vs. official content for a lot of games and series. I don’t mean to disparage the creators of such projects, sometimes they are truly generally better than the official counterpart, and oftentimes very impressive for usually being made by a smaller team, but I often feel that people bring their expectations of scope and polish down a bit since they were made by a smaller team, perhaps subconsciously, then forget to adjust for that when making comparisons with what the main developers are doing, or ignore certain virtues of the official content because they’re somewhat subtle or were meant to appeal to a different portion of the game’s/series’ playerbase, portions they might not have even really considered the size or existence of, in some cases.

me when 1 pixel long mob (it took a lot of effort guys)

While it is true that design and implementation take time (I've been programming computers for more than three decades so I probably picked up at least one or two things), personally I feel you're spinning the tale more than it lends itself to.

Thing is though, with all that polish, they still usually miss the mark. Adding more stuff onto a problem instead of fixing it. One major problem is how building anything isn’t really incentivized, and that many aspects of the game are just disjointed in many regards. Things need to be more connected, but they completely forego that.

But I mean how long could it a big team of expert programmers truly take to add a swamp village in the update where the swamp gets upgraded when swamp villagers already exist?

Another thing about hiring new members is that having 1000+ employees can make communication hard so it actually could slow down productivity.

I agree but this isn't gonna stop me from laughing at the fact that the caves and cliffs update didn't have the caves and cliffs

they also gotta make sure that when they add a tree, it somehow isn't so poorly added in that your pc wants to shit itself

the process is usually 1. Drawing up concepts 2. Designing those concepts (in a game design sense, its actual implementation) 3. Rigorous testing of the concept in practice 1b. Ensuring it adheres to your design philosophy and doesn't conflict with pre-existing features or aligns with scrapped ideas (because you scrapped them for a reason and you shouldn't waste time and stuff you already ruled out) 2 and 3b. Iteration (marking down different iterations, revisions, and implementations, testing all of them and pitting them against each other) 2 and 3c. More iteration (taking your data and what you learned from it, drawing up new revisions and iterations and effectively repeating step 2-3b at least 5 or 6 times) 4. Scrap or Finalize (if you've gone nowhere with the concept, scrap it or shelve it if you really believe it has potential. If you're happy with the result after adequate iterations, it's time to finalize which includes making proper assets and implementations -full command functionality (as a part of the game), models, animations, sounds, textures, etc) this is for ONE feature. Updates in Minecraft often include a bunch of stuff all at once. There's likely dozens of features that don't make it, and hundreds upon hundreds of iterations collectively. PER update. Good design takes time. Especially when things like parity, and making everything fit with the game as is. It's why they never added obsidian boats or straight teleporters. No, you have striders and the nether. You have boats and very low friction ice. You don't have a jetpack or a plane, you have a glider and fireworks. You don't have a scuba suit, you have a Trident with riptide and a turtle shell helmet. There is so, *so* much that goes into game design and I'm kind of tired of people who don't know what they're talking about complaining about stuff taking time or not being what they expected or wanted. I see it in the Destiny community all the time and it's infuriating because it's complicated. Very complicated. Nothing is straight forward, everything breaks a million times then it works once, then it's broken again. You have to spend weeks just making sure the damn thing works as intended and chances are that once it goes live it's gonna be broken *AGAIN*. Communication is huge, and straightforward ideas almost never really work well with your game's aesthetic or needs and you'll spend more weeks banging your head on a wall trying to figure out SOMETHING that does what you really need it to. You'll spend more weeks iterating and scrapping ideas even if you really really love them for the sake of the game. You'll spend more weeks coming up with newer better concepts and more weeks iterating and more weeks testing and more weeks iterating and more weeks testing and more weeks bug fixing. And all the while the people you're doing this for do nothing but berate, scold, and harass your teams knowing jack fucking shit about what they're talking about. It's a painful, grueling, repetitive, and utterly thankless job. But they do it anyways.

You state that you’re addressing criticism that mojang is slower than mods of ‘comparable quality’, before then using mods with abysmal quality that aren’t at all representative of the modding scene as an example. Address things like Twilight Forest, Draconic evolution, Abyssalcraft.

Awesome video :D

Had i not got my coding course I would still call Mojang "lazy"

I've always had something of an idea of why it takes longer for game developers than modders, but I think you really put it into perspective for everyone.

i get that it takes time, but when an extremely small dev team (12 people) can overhaul the entire game in 5 or so years, adding 1000s of enemys, new bosses, and so many new items (Terraria, if you didnt catch on) meanwhile the 641 people at mojang are having troubles with coding bees, there is a problem.

Question: what Minecraft update would you consider the best? As in the that all (or atleast most) player types can enjoy. In my personal opinion, I'd say village and pillage is not only the best Minecraft update, but also one of the best updates ever for a game. It appeals to the adventure community with a new sub-biome, generated structures, and mobs and npcs like foxes and wandering traders. It appeals to builders with the abundance of new blocks and the new functional blocks (mostly the loom and especially the stonecutter). It's appeals to the combat community with new hostile mobs, a new wave to wave combat system, new minibosses, and even a brand new boss in general, the Ravager Jockey (well, I atleast consider them one). And it appeals to pvp players with the new weapon, the crossbow. Though this all just my thoughts.

While I do agree with everything here, there are some specific things that have been requested for ages that I'm not sure why they haven't implemented yet... for example... more *SELECTABLE* difficulty options. Something doesnt have to cater to everyone if it's an option, right?

I could make similar arguments in a comment section or message board, but I couldn’t make such a quality argument, such a well-worded case, or reach as many people. Thank you!

So, now, do you have anything to say about how the wild update has been handled? How is has taken them 2 years to add a mob and a biome? How they cancelled fireflies, a two pixel mob because frogs can’t eat them and they should have a purpose? And how making the swamps has taken more about 6-8 months of development even though the birch forest was cancelled and the concept art they showed was “not a commitment” even though Lady Agnes said they were updating the BIOME(S)?

This is what I keep telling people. Mods ARE easy (debatable) to create but a mod is still a mod; its not part of the game. The Mojang team needs to create a feature that will be part of the game. Everyone trying to defend mods have clearly forgotten how many bugs and glitches that are left unfixed from a mod. Remember, something that Mojang implements will be a part of the game forever unless removed. The amount of testing and troubleshooting required from the Mojang team is needed to keep player retention. Mojang listens to their fans, mod makers usually don't. "How does something interact with this? Will creating this introduce a bug, glitch or exploit? What will happen when we get this thing to this old feature?" All of these are questions that developers, not only gaming ones, need to brainstorm with a team without having to put in more work by fixing it. Mojang isn't lazy, Players are just impatient

When it comes to Java I definitely agree with you for the most part. However, Bedrock is a complete pile of mismanagement, bugs, and micro transactions. even before you go into the controversy of the console editions you have a version of minecraft that is extremely buggy and missing MANY features. sure all the main ones are there, but 100s to 1000's of tiny features like putting banners on shields, using banners as markers on maps, dual wielding all items, custom superflat, hard-core, spectator, and that is literally scratching the top of the long list iceberg. bedrock is lacking an extreme amount of polish to justify time for the updates. they constantly say they are working on these parity features but it's been 4 years now and almost NONE have been added. then you get to Console edition... Minecraft Console Edition which was developed by 4J studios was THE most bugfree version of minecraft and had a level of quality that debatedly surpassed Java. it kept up at least 2 major updates for 5+ years (granted for the first 4 they were catching up to Java but at an outstanding pace) and tons of amazing bonus features like built in high quality mini games (battle, tumble, glide) and special touches like the annual tutorial worlds and cat+dog. then out of nowhere mojang decided to cancel it and replace it with an extremely buggy mobile game. the game's quality went down dramatically as soon as the switch was made and the worse part was all the broken promises. mojang promised to get it in parity with console edition soon and that a special shades pack was coming to the xbox one X called super-duper graphics that everyone was extremely hyped and was even used as a selling point for the One X. however after a year of hearing nothing super duper was canceled and after 4 YEARS almost NO parity features have come from a version of minecraft that was still on 1.12! not only that but it seems that mojang has completely casted aside the console community in favor of their whales on mobile. Switch version is the buggies of all bedrock platforms, in order to sell series X's they decreased the Xbox One's render distance in half so now it's WORSE THEN MOBILE'S, And of course filled it jam packed full of new ways to squeeze money out of children. instead of developing hard-core mode, they developed emotes and minecoins. and possibly one of the most heinous things they did was their backstabbing of 4j studios. it could be argued that 4j studios could develop minecraft better than mojang. they often had ideas ahead of their time but mojang would turn them down for parity reasons (despite some of these features being a-ok to implement on bedrock) and 4J constantly delivered updates, textures, etc of the highest quality. when the last Console edition was put down Mojang assured that 4j would help them out with the console version of bedrock making it feel better and add some of the missing things from console edition (for example fans were hoping for a console exclusive crafting menu something that mobile was allowed to get, the minecraft console edition crafting menu was great for console but to this day mojang has refused and kept the pc menu despite it being much worse for controller play) however for the past 2 years 4j has been enslaved to making marketplace content that gets thrown away in favor of the 100th millionaire mansion or anime teens skinpack. And once again players got shafted while the team at Mojang for bedrock keeps on chugging on a version that only discontinued the iPhone 3g as a supported platform last year, and expects that to be a high quality pc and console game. I want to love Mojang again and I do when it comes to Java. but Mojang/Microsoft's treatment of all other sections of minecraft (even including things like Minecraft earth and dungeons) can be called anything but polished. (sorry for the rambling but too this day bedrock can cause me great frustration and hope this shows a side of the community that has been treated very poorly)

i would like to point out that people made a mod including the actual good parts of the caves and cliffs update faster than mojang could.

I actually like updates taking longer so that I can enjoy the features from a previous update before I get to play with more features in newer updates, although the huge development gap between 1.8 and 1.9 felt a bit TOO long, but I didn't care that much.

I want to make a fair argument here. Although I dislike everyone defending Mojang only for the sake of watching the video- it is no lie to say they have done things to upset the community. Sadly this irritation at Mojang doesn’t come out of thin air. Momentum: My only comment is I’m not sure if this mechanic can even mathematically work, it would by the numbers be either slower or faster. It would need a mechanic to make it stand out further, or perhaps it could be accessed at earlier and weaker enchantment levels to be a pseudo-efficiency. Iteration: This feels like a very very broad statement. “Most people”, “Most mods”, It really almost groups mods to have the cliche power creep (and yes there is many that do), but not all mods are like this. It was actually to mass criticism when mojang did this with netherite, as it is just literally direct upgrade, also (literally) replacing the diamond we knew as we have to layer a brick of netherite over it. This isn’t respecting the style of the game, nor does it add armor competition. Excluding netherite though- Also the armor meta is barely broken- yes utility exists, but really these past updates we have been more a change of footwear- rather than a change of armor competition. Development: I’ll say this- and I think both sides will agree- people in general can really really dislike how Mojang develops thing. It can be very stuttery, sometimes an idea being “half” added but never full implemented. On top of this when they add something it can be unpolished, and players strongly dislike having to wait for the next major update when these issues look so blatantly obvious at times, It frustrates people why they were added, or even not added- why put code effort and development time on something really mundane. People strongly believe and see that there is a certain weight somewhere in the development process that goes sometimes goes far then the difficulty of coding. Although Mojang has stated a part of this struggle is trying to keep a style to the game- I flat out believe that is not true. There is definitely a good range of mobs now that make little sense or have little application in the world of Minecraft. Community: For the most part I enjoy Mojang finally slowing down- they have heard only whispers of what the community wants and ended up displeasing too many people. This part-released update process has been the BEST thing they have done. Nothing can change my mind on that. It will be a major part of any process for any future updates. It is finally a good way to communicate with the devs beyond just polls. Conclusion: Minecraft has had a large playerbase for a while and and a cosmic appeal- I wouldnt give so much credit in saying it needs fuel to be alive or “fresh”- But of course updates are appreciated, the community just wants to see the progress of the game. We play this game and we enjoy it. We are no developers, but beyond playing, we do want to help anyway we can- we dislike having our input considered only after something wrong was done. We want real input- and im glad we are finally taking steps toward this. This is by no means a hate rant- just a criticism. I did agree with a good half of the video, and so did many people. Thank you if you took the time to read this.

Another point which makes the development slow is that the code is not well structured. As an example when the end was made they should refactor the nether portal logic into an interface to handle both. But now u have two code structures which handled differently. As a dev you always should consider to refactor old code, when adding new features. In our project we always refactor some code for every new feature. We mostly brainstorm before adding a new feature about tags which are similar to the feature we want to add and searching the code around it to find places where we probably should refactor. Ofc this is time consuming but for the health of the code you should consider refactoring. The nether example is just a small example ofc. But even things like this should be considered to refactor. Nice Video guys! I enjoyed it a lot

The truth is without a copyright monopoly on the game, Mojang won’t even be in the top ten of most significant contributors.

i like how people think they’ve been waiting like decades for updates and it’s only like a year lmao

Making a Minecraft “update” is easy, now making an update that fits in with Minecraft’s style and that doesn’t feel out of place or conflicts with other present things is what makes them take so long. People really need to understand that.

"why Minecraft updates take time" geometry dash players:

I feel like the: "everything must have a use" philosophy from mojang is nice but, I wouldn't mind more small pure cosmetic changes to some bioms. I have been playing on origin realms lately and they added small stuff like, fallen leaves, orange leaves (for some trees), clovers, pebbles (that work a bit like candles) more mushrooms ( for example on the side of trees), colorfull crystals in caves, crate blocks, food "blocks" (crates with food in it) and more. Almost all pure cosmetic, just some small changes and awesome for building or adding life to the bioms. I just think all of that is way better than using for example buttons as "pebbles" and it wouldn't be tons of work.

494 Employees 1.94 trillion dollar company 1-3 years for: 1 out of 3 new mobs, a few blocks, and modernized world generation. I won't hear any excuses

Great work, The Cameron, I soon hope to see a video explaining the deep metaphors that slabfish and their mechanics withhold.

Finally, I was waiting for a video like this one foe quite a while now whenever somebody says that Mojang is "lazy" we can just link this video to them.

Right now I think they are doing very well with updates and keeping a consistent schedule. Back in 2015, we got ABSOLUTELY NO major updates to the game. 1.8 was the longest lasting version from Sep 2014 to Feb 2016. Granted that was a wierd time for Mojang having been bough by Microsoft. But still, it was a miserable wait for 1.9

Game development is like 30%= figuring how will make the game 30%=facing problems and solving them 40%=actually making the game/content Hiring people have 3 downsides 1. Now you have pay them 2. They are humans too and get stuck with problems when faced in doing the task, it just takes time either way 3. Their style of content in case of textures, models etc can look different and sometimes not fit into the environment of the game. Till now everything in Minecraft feels original and within its environment. I think another point is Minecraft is versatile and encourages players to create their own content in the form of mods even if not everyone can, some do and the rest enjoy it.

I've never had issues with the length between MC Updates because I understand that they take time to actually feel good and fit the game. My issue with 1.17 is that it honestly feels like it killed part of the hype. Now, instead of getting an entirely new cave system with new blocks, ore textures, etc, we're basically just going to get new shapes of caves. I don't want to sound ungrateful, this update is actually pretty good, but I personally would have liked if 1.17 WAS Caves and Cliffs, even if we had to wait longer for new content. I'm sure they released 1.17 and 18 separately so we wouldn't have to wait so long for any new content, but now we have new content early as a result of some hype being lost.

This is a great video. Me and my friend are making a mod but it’s more of a Vanilla+ thing just adding a few small and large things. So we’ve had to make sure that everything fits the game and doesn’t feel to different while also making it unique and recognizable. We’ve had to go back and forth on one item at least 5 times before we settled on what it would be and how good it should be. Things such as armor and swords have definitely been the hardest because we didn’t want to make it to OP but also didn’t want you to just skip it so we settled on it giving you effects when you wear a full set of it, such as resistance or jump boost. It’s quite easy to get the base ideas in the game but it takes way longer to balance and make them fit the game. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

"Why Minecraft Updates Take Time" Geometry Dash updates are longer than Minecraft, we've waiting for more than 4 years and no major updates...

Other games like No Mans Sky and Terraria can release updates so much faster than minecraft and they have smaller teams and far more complex games rather than 8x8 pixel block game.

Ngl when they announced they would split the Cave and Cliff update I kinda thought that. But just seeing all the content they added in this part of the update and how well it fits in the game, I completely take that back

This is so important, a friend of mine questioned this topic the other day, but I wasn't fully prepared to tackle it head on (I don't know that much about Mojangs development cycle). It's important for people to realise that actual, proper game design takes a lot of effort and work.

Your custom enchantment and mod seem really interesting, and I love you process and general way of thinking. Good job man

There are mods that I would argue are higher quality then existing content like alex's mod or environmental

still its really intersting how mojang takes a year to implement a new tree color and a animal

With the reveal of game-changing terrain generation today as of the first experimental snapshot of 1.18, this video is head-on.

We really did have high hopes for *Fallout Battlefield 2077* when it first came out.

I've seen so many people explain how Mojang is bad because modders can do it faster with more content, but they always fail to understand that Minecraft carefully selects everything put into the game. They want to make sure it's balanced, fits the theme, and a lot of other factors, and most of the people angry at Mojang take that for granted

People are disappointed because we used to get multiple updates a year, and now it's only two if we're lucky. Caves and Cliffs does seem like the best update since 1.7 though, maybe even beta 1.8. Really happy too cause the caves are actually interesting now, and mountains finally look good.

The big issue here is you keep comparing mojang's development to mod development. Of course mods are going to be developed quicker, almost nobody is suprised by that. I think the part that confuses some people is why mojang takes so long to develop updates for minecraft compared to most other games, especially when you consider that the art is so much simpler. I would have liked you to compare that a lot more directly and, even though a lot of the same arguments you make here could be applied to that as well, I think it would made a lot more sense and added a lot more context to how different mojang works compared to other studios.

I created a discord bot and that took weeks of work and testing to get it send the right gif when greeted etc. I even created custom gifs for it which upped it to months. So minecraft, a giant game, can take as much time as it wants. I've played it since 2011 and can wait more

A very synthetic yet informative analysis of a wide subject, and I especially like how you implemented plenty of expamples such as the Momentum enchant to point out some subtleties of game design and balancing, and communication in a team (as the pinned comment pointed out). And the way the reasoning unfolds is also neat! With questions and answers brought intuitively... That's a really good video, and I'm sure it'll contribute a lot to helping more players understand the nuances of improving the game Minecraft became, but also game design in general! (By the way I love this quote at the end, Shigeru Miyamoto summoned at this instant on this topic was such a perfect move)

I'm going to be honest, I really want to see the development of the warden. Perhaps the concept art for the warden will be really strange

16:55 this clip of the vanilla amethyst vs the mod one sums it all up

My dude the modding community created tekkit and galaticraft which has great quality and I can build nuclear power plants and go to the moon

What I wouldn't give for TF2 to be updated as frequently as Minecraft is...

This video is a callout post directed at me specifically and you know what it’s justified because I was a dweeb for saying mojang is lazy

Also, Minecraft isn't a game with fixed worlds, its worlds generate randomly, and it takes time to make sure the world generation would be done right.

I have a good grasp of reasons why minecraft takes time to update. What frustrates me is the game's failure to make in game concepts make sense. There are so so many little things within crafting and game design in general in Minecraft that I would do a serious overhaul of. I've been playing with my best friend again after years at the start if this year and every time I sit down to play it I see at least once glaring flaw and it's extremely irritating. I could make such a long list of shit that Minecraft should have or do better.

rename this to "Why The Minecraft Community is Impatient Children"

My frustration with Mojang was due to them stating a date for release far before they were ready, knowing that they couldnt handle developing it as fast as they stated. An update release date should only be announced when the update is properly done. Not to say that Mojang shouldnt communicate with the fanbase about the updates..

I hope the combat updates does stuff to the mobs too, especially in harder difficulties to make combat more interesting and especially survival.

Still waiting for Mojang to give us an update with all them slabs, stairs, fences, and walls for all the blocks. No new code is required...