hey sorry, has Minecraft seriously been holding votes on which mobs are added to the base game and then literally only adding the winner? in a game already starved with content? what
i don't follow development too close but i thought that whole thing with the glowsquid would be followed by the other 2 options being added later anyway but from what i can tell one was only added to a spinoff and the other to a now-retired AR game? am i getting this right?
again i may not be the most informed on this but there's gotta be like 5 times the manpower put into the wacky little teasers than into implementing the mobs themselves. Minecraft is a billion-dollar game this seems like a very strange development decision
i'd understand if these were massive game-changing features but adding a reskinned cow and a flower does not have a particularly heavy development footprint. the assets were already made even. is there something i'm not getting
i can only see one clear angle to this and it's "engage the community with polls and generate buzz and revenue" which is just depressing. this isn't game dev, this is merchandising
@Mossworm1 this is the only way i ever accomplish anything. i don't understand. there's so much time. why do i always have to make things happen with seconds to spare
with all that being said: pink capitalism is a thing and you should absolutely call out megacorps tossing cheap representation your way in an attempt to distract you from the horrible sh*t they get up to. looking at Blizzard here
@Velidae_ stay tuned to see if i'll do good on my promise to release something dungeon-related before the end of the year. like this goes for me too. i have no idea if i'll make it. my brain might let me or it might not. it's a surprise for everyone
@BullCityFats oh that's weird as hell, i'll look into it but the "only started happening in the last day or two" is alarming considering i haven't pushed any live updates in a few weeks. maybe some edge case resulting from some weird windows update interaction? added to my to-fix list