Minecraft "Windows 10 Edition" Announced

[owsf2000]

I guess it's beginning.

I don't even see the reason for this thing to exist personally, although one shill in the comments has posted multiple times the "pros and cons" of a Windows 10 Edition. The pros being things that Minecraft has not needed to become as popular as it is, and the cons being those very same things Minecraft doesn't have. (Meaning it's a very poor list of reasons, doubled up to make it look like he has a point.)

So anyway this Windows 10 edition will be free to anyone who already has PC Minecraft - or 10 dollars if you don't. And the new version will be based on the Pocket Minecraft edition. IE: Essentially one of the weakest editions available.

- No dedicated servers (Although they're hoping for that "later")
- Multiplayer limited to 7 players.

Apparently it's only advantage is that it will be able to interact/multiplay with all Windows sources (phone, tablet, Windows 10, and Xbox Live).

So we can see how they're aiming to pool everyone into the primarily-Windows-Only version they're creating, which will likely have difficulties with mods, etc. (Do you really expect them to allow Mods on this if it's going to be interacting with Xbox Live? Likely only if those are bought and paid for thorugh the store.) Then eventually after they reach "feature parity" with proper Minecraft PC, we'll likely start to see the new things added to Windows 10 first or perhaps only. Then when enough people are switched over to the Windows 10 edition (After all it's free, or 1/3 the price currently of PC Minecraft) they'll find little reason to keep the PC servers going using the excuse "anyone on PC minecraft can just download the free Windows 10 Edition and continue to play!"

Really not hard to see this coming, we'll see how it stands a year or two from now, and see I called it.

Comments

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Hell, I knew way back when Mojang first sold out to Microsoft that Microsoft was going to end up flushing Minecraft down the toilet, so this sort of thing is absolutely zero shock to me. My words, they were marked. (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/725727.html) Then again, it's not like it requires being frickin' Nostradamus or something to make such an easy, no-brainer prediction, of course. In any case, that's yet another reason for me to never touch the game again.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

As one of the comments says:

"Mojang say that Windows 10 Edition won't replace the current PC version of Minecraft both games will be supported equally."

Until MS realises that no-one's biting and stops support for the original version.

Yeah, just like they killed Scrolls (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/113873.html), they'll be killing dedicated servers for Minecraft before too long, I'm sure. Seriously, every time you hear about "Mojang" doing something these days, just mentally swap in "Microsoft" for "Mojang" and it'll all make much more sense. It's like how every time I hear about "BioWare" or "Maxis" or whoever doing anything nowadays (back before they actually killed Maxis (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/759472.html) [again]), I just mentally swap in "EA" instead.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Also, I wonder how long it will be before "Xbox Live ... will be supported, but won't be required" becomes "Xbox Live will be required (even for Win10 version)."

And all the people in the comments under the PC Gamer article saying "Oh, this makes sense, it's written in C++ and DirectX which will be much faster than the Java and OpenGL the original was built in" and so on and so forth blah blah... is Minecraft really that fucking slow? My five year old computer wasn't all that beefy even back when I first put it together, and it runs Minecraft at max settings perfectly fine, so... yeah, I don't see that as being all that big of a deal. All I see is "Oh, this makes sense, it's written in [proprietary Microsoft graphics API], which is better than [open source graphics API] it used to be built in." DirectX is not a fucking panacea, especially in a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" scenario like this one.

Yep, it's clear that the reputation management (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management) drones are out in force under this one, that's for sure.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Well, one of the new things with Windows 10, iirc, was that it was going to support Xbox Live (http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8175279/xbox-live-windows-10-free-multiplayer-gaming) yes? And by that I mean "baked into it". That'll probably be their excuse to make it required "Well, you should have it installed anyway since you have Win10 and it's 'free'."

It's pretty much a done deal that this shit is going to happen at any rate. I don't care what the reputation mangagement drones and fanboys want to say - microsoft does NOT spend 2.5 BILLION dollars for no reason whatsoever. They're going to milk this as much as they can, but before they can do that they have to oust the successful, freely mod-able PC version that made it all possible. Without that they won't be able to start charging for mods, etc the way they do on their console versions, etc. (Which shows the direction they really want to take it imo.)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Well, one of the new things with Windows 10, iirc, was that it was going to support Xbox Live (http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8175279/xbox-live-windows-10-free-multiplayer-gaming) yes? And by that I mean "baked into it".

Ah yes, I'd forgotten all about that. Yet another reason in a long list of reasons for me to not ever want to upgrade to Windows 10, I guess.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Of course, what with them abandoning mainstream support for Win7 (http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-7-support-what-happens-on-january-13-2015/) several months ago, they already seem to be well into the process of trying to shoo Windows 7 out the door in favor of Windows 10 anyway, so it'll probably be sooner than later when "upgrading" will essentially become required. I wonder if I'll be able to hold out until that January 2020 date, at least... ¬_¬ Long before that time gets here, though, most games and other software will likely be written in such a way that it will require Windows 10 anyway, so... *weary sigh*

That's actually a bit of a digression from the main subject of Minecraft Win10, I realize now after I typed it out, but eh...